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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The arraignment of a man accused of punching an Oakland police officer in an unprovoked attack last week was called off after he refused to appear in court on Wednesday for the reading of his charges, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a> district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawrence Holley, 48, was arrested Friday afternoon near 104th Avenue and International Boulevard on suspicion of assaulting an Oakland police officer, who was sitting in his patrol vehicle when Holley came up to his window and began repeatedly punching him, prosecutors say. Holley was taken to Santa Rita Jail with bail set at $150,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Holley, who was on felony probation at the time of the attack, is charged with felony assault likely to cause great bodily injury, resisting a police officer and causing injury, according to Alameda County \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson\u003c/a> — charges that drew praise from the Oakland police officers union. His arraignment was rescheduled for Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we are asking the police to protect us, then we must also protect them when they are the victim of an unprovoked assault,” Jones Dickson, who campaigned on a promise to improve public safety, said in a statement on Tuesday. “Today, we have filed felony assault charges that reflect the outrageous nature and seriousness of the case.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huy Nguyen, president of the Oakland Police Officers Association, said Jones Dickson is showing people that “there is a new district attorney in the county.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027613 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The attack reveals some of the more serious safety concerns facing law enforcement in the city, Nguyen said. The Oakland Police Department is understaffed and lacks sufficient support from city leaders, he noted, adding that the relationship between OPD and Oakland residents is strained because the city is not investing in public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland is facing a $130 million budget deficit, and efforts to mitigate the shortfall have resulted in sweeping cuts to city services, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017244/oaklands-budget-crisis-forcing-police-fire-cuts-more-will-be-needed\">Police Department\u003c/a>. Last year, the city announced that it would be laying off several non-sworn Police Department employees, curbing overtime spending and closing two police academies for the remainder of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>OPD has contracted from more than 800 officers a few years ago to 675, and because more than 100 officers are out on leave, the number that can actually respond to calls for service is much lower, Nguyen said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The Police Department continues to shrink, and it creates a much more challenging work environment for our officers,” he said. “We’re unable to respond to calls from community members. That’s an issue that we need to fix, especially if we want to gain their trust.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officers fail to respond to calls or respond too late, the tension between residents and officers only gets worse, Nguyen said, adding that last week’s attack suggests that people are less concerned about being held accountable for their actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The situation is dire for both residents and officers who might be targeted amid mounting frustrations, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland’s violent crime rate, which includes homicide, aggravated assault, rape and robbery, was nearly 20% lower last year than the year prior, falling from 7,900 violent crimes to 6,361, according to OPD’s \u003ca href=\"https://cityofoakland2.app.box.com/s/sjiq7usfy27gy9dfe51hp8arz5l1ixad/file/1743494392012\">end-of-year crime report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Nguyen said that comparing crime rates to record highs is not an indicator that public safety is improving. The focus instead should be on making Oakland a place where people feel safe and comfortable, and that is not the case, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our community members don’t see what our officers are facing, but we also understand the challenges our community members are facing,” Nguyen said. “I understand the frustration when they call, and we don’t respond in a timely manner.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">\u003cem>Brian Krans\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Victoria Mannah has loved being on stage since fourth grade choir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been my whole life at this point,” she said. “My dad is a choir teacher, and so I grew up, and I always wanted to be on stage and sing with my dad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mannah is in her final semester at Cal State East Bay, where she’s studied theater and arts since 2023. She plans to graduate this spring, but she’s worried that other students won’t be able to do the same if the department is shut down due to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025961/sonoma-state-1st-csu-slash-programs-likely-wont-be-last\">campus budget cuts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were informed by almost every teacher in the department that they were concerned about the department being dissolved,” she told KQED. “They were encouraging students to start looking for other schools to complete their degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> system is facing an 8% funding reduction from the state, and some Bay Area campuses have struggled to maintain enrollment, bringing revenue down further. Cal State East Bay is facing a budget deficit that totaled about $14 million in the fall. And after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">major athletics and degree program cuts\u003c/a> — including to dance and theater arts — were announced at nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State\u003c/a> in January, many in the East Bay program are on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabelle Lorenzo, 20, right, a theater major with a concentration of tech and design, joins other students at California State University East Bay in a march across campus on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a dozen students working toward theater degrees climbed the spiraling stairs to University President Cathy Sandeen’s office, hand-delivering a petition signed by more than 900 CSU East Bay students, faculty and community members to her staff. Chanting “East Bay arts,” they urged Sandeen to continue funding the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school said that as of now, “the theatre and dance program remains intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be speculation on my part to talk about what cuts could be made to account for the budget deficit next year or when we might release more information,” university spokesperson Kimberly Hawkins said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State University East Bay students march across campus in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the university said it has been able to save about $10 million throughout this budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Olmsted, head of the Department of Theatre and Dance, is worried about the small-but-mighty program’s odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted said the program graduates 14 to 20 students a year on four separate degree tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever it’s numbers they’re looking at, we’re never going to look good on that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is losing a lecturer, one of its four faculty members, at the end of the semester, and Olmsted is worried the department as a whole is on a list of under-enrolled programs currently eyed for discontinuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Mannah, 28, center, gathers students in a theater room for a protest against proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department at California State University East Bay, in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Sandeen sent a message to the university community saying that CSU East Bay was preparing to form a new advisory committee to “continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were suspended in the fall, and over the last 18 months, 165 lecturers who taught part-time or up to four classes a semester lost their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theatre and Dance has proposed merging with the Music Department to consolidate resources, according to Olmsted, but he isn’t sure what will happen at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12030322 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20230822-SFSU-45-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to look good on any spreadsheet ever. Our value comes from other metrics,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted believes that the Theatre and Dance Department provides a path for some students to get their bachelor’s degree who might not otherwise. It also gives students who might not be eligible to study in other performing arts programs a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a super competitive theater and dance program,” he told KQED. “We include everybody in our auditions, in our plays, and we really try to find jobs that are appropriate for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We open our auditions to everyone — faculty, staff, students in any department. We’ve had all of those people in our shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s accessibility helped George Amaras come back to the university in the fall. Amaras originally enrolled in theater at Cal State East Bay in 2014 but took a break before their senior year to focus on mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, the pandemic happened, so that kind of added on to the break, and I was really trying to find healing before I came back,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay speak to staff at the Office of the President at CSUEB in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amaras joined one of the department’s dance troupes open to alums and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to find my ground and see where the campus was currently standing,” they said. “Since then, I started back in school this spring, and I’m here to finish now. I should be walking [at graduation] in the spring of 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras said theater is a way to filter through their emotions and be creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my break, I was trying to just live and struggle with the economy and rent, but I came back because it’s something that I enjoy, and it’s more fulfilling than just a paycheck,” Amaras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras, like most of the students in the department, hopes to continue performing after school — even if it isn’t professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just job training students to work in theater or performing arts,” Olmsted said, adding that the department has alumni working full-time in the arts — from the Bay Area’s theatre circuit to Broadway — but it also produces students who go into all fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leadership, at East Bay and elsewhere, has said they are prioritizing high-demand and career-focused majors. Arts programs are often the first to go, despite Olmsted’s assertion that the degrees do prepare students for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay exit the Office of the President at CSUEB in protest of proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We teach students how to work on creative projects together, how to research material, how to present themselves and their ideas,” he said. “All of these really good, soft skills that will help them throughout their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in this limbo period, he doesn’t know what to say to students, whether they are currently enrolled at the school or considering attending in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a number of prospective students that I’ve talked with, and it’s really hard to just say, ‘Come on over here, it’s going to be great,’” he told KQED. “I used to be full-throated — ‘You’ll do well here, we’ll make sure of that.’ Now, I’m hesitant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were informed by almost every teacher in the department that they were concerned about the department being dissolved,” she told KQED. “They were encouraging students to start looking for other schools to complete their degree.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The entire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State University\u003c/a> system is facing an 8% funding reduction from the state, and some Bay Area campuses have struggled to maintain enrollment, bringing revenue down further. Cal State East Bay is facing a budget deficit that totaled about $14 million in the fall. And after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024772/angry-sonoma-state-university-community-protests-wide-cuts\">major athletics and degree program cuts\u003c/a> — including to dance and theater arts — were announced at nearby \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/sonoma-state\">Sonoma State\u003c/a> in January, many in the East Bay program are on edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033435\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033435\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00005-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Isabelle Lorenzo, 20, right, a theater major with a concentration of tech and design, joins other students at California State University East Bay in a march across campus on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, a dozen students working toward theater degrees climbed the spiraling stairs to University President Cathy Sandeen’s office, hand-delivering a petition signed by more than 900 CSU East Bay students, faculty and community members to her staff. Chanting “East Bay arts,” they urged Sandeen to continue funding the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school said that as of now, “the theatre and dance program remains intact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be speculation on my part to talk about what cuts could be made to account for the budget deficit next year or when we might release more information,” university spokesperson Kimberly Hawkins said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033436\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033436\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00008-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California State University East Bay students march across campus in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So far, the university said it has been able to save about $10 million throughout this budget year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Olmsted, head of the Department of Theatre and Dance, is worried about the small-but-mighty program’s odds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted said the program graduates 14 to 20 students a year on four separate degree tracks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever it’s numbers they’re looking at, we’re never going to look good on that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program is losing a lecturer, one of its four faculty members, at the end of the semester, and Olmsted is worried the department as a whole is on a list of under-enrolled programs currently eyed for discontinuation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00002-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Mannah, 28, center, gathers students in a theater room for a protest against proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department at California State University East Bay, in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In February, Sandeen sent a message to the university community saying that CSU East Bay was preparing to form a new advisory committee to “continue to closely review all degree programs, minors, and concentrations that have consistently low enrollments, and we will recommend a path forward for those programs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven degree programs were suspended in the fall, and over the last 18 months, 165 lecturers who taught part-time or up to four classes a semester lost their appointments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theatre and Dance has proposed merging with the Music Department to consolidate resources, according to Olmsted, but he isn’t sure what will happen at the end of the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to look good on any spreadsheet ever. Our value comes from other metrics,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Olmsted believes that the Theatre and Dance Department provides a path for some students to get their bachelor’s degree who might not otherwise. It also gives students who might not be eligible to study in other performing arts programs a shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not a super competitive theater and dance program,” he told KQED. “We include everybody in our auditions, in our plays, and we really try to find jobs that are appropriate for people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He continued: “We open our auditions to everyone — faculty, staff, students in any department. We’ve had all of those people in our shows.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department’s accessibility helped George Amaras come back to the university in the fall. Amaras originally enrolled in theater at Cal State East Bay in 2014 but took a break before their senior year to focus on mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After that, the pandemic happened, so that kind of added on to the break, and I was really trying to find healing before I came back,” they told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00028-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay speak to staff at the Office of the President at CSUEB in Hayward on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last fall, Amaras joined one of the department’s dance troupes open to alums and community members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was trying to find my ground and see where the campus was currently standing,” they said. “Since then, I started back in school this spring, and I’m here to finish now. I should be walking [at graduation] in the spring of 2026.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras said theater is a way to filter through their emotions and be creative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During my break, I was trying to just live and struggle with the economy and rent, but I came back because it’s something that I enjoy, and it’s more fulfilling than just a paycheck,” Amaras said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amaras, like most of the students in the department, hopes to continue performing after school — even if it isn’t professionally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not just job training students to work in theater or performing arts,” Olmsted said, adding that the department has alumni working full-time in the arts — from the Bay Area’s theatre circuit to Broadway — but it also produces students who go into all fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CSU leadership, at East Bay and elsewhere, has said they are prioritizing high-demand and career-focused majors. Arts programs are often the first to go, despite Olmsted’s assertion that the degrees do prepare students for the workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12033440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12033440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250326_CSUEB-Protest_EG_00031-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students at California State University East Bay exit the Office of the President at CSUEB in protest of proposed cuts to the school’s theater and dance department in Hayward, on Tuesday, March 27, 2025. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We teach students how to work on creative projects together, how to research material, how to present themselves and their ideas,” he said. “All of these really good, soft skills that will help them throughout their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that in this limbo period, he doesn’t know what to say to students, whether they are currently enrolled at the school or considering attending in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve had a number of prospective students that I’ve talked with, and it’s really hard to just say, ‘Come on over here, it’s going to be great,’” he told KQED. “I used to be full-throated — ‘You’ll do well here, we’ll make sure of that.’ Now, I’m hesitant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning: This story contains graphic language and descriptions of sexual violence.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">Darrell Wayne Smith\u003c/a> had a reputation as a correctional officer at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/fci-dublin\">FCI Dublin\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Women incarcerated at the East Bay federal prison said he patrolled housing units wearing a cowboy hat and boots, often leaving his shirts unbuttoned with nothing underneath. When he wasn’t making rounds, they said, he sat back in his chair at the officer’s desk, kicking his feet up and leering at women as they walked by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He made passing sexual comments and locked women in cells when they broke the rules, ordering them to flash him to get out or to be awarded special privileges, women testified in federal court in Oakland this week. Whenever new women arrived at the prison, they said they were warned about Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were known for several things, but he was the officer that walked around with his shirt open, kind of cowboy style, not professional at all,” said one woman, who remembers learning his nickname, “Dirty Dick Smith,” soon after she arrived at Dublin in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He carried himself in a different way than other officers,” she said. “He was always talking to the girls in inappropriate ways or trying to get with all the girls. Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. One day, he called her over as he was locking up at the end of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith watching as a witness gives testimony against him in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking down at a clipboard in his hands, he asked her quietly what she might need when she was released, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said a job, I said a car,” the woman testified. “He said he’d get one for me if I’d be with him at night,” gesturing toward his groin as he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said she shook her head and walked away, upset, but Smith’s actions only escalated. He started to comment on her feet when she wore slides to the shower, tried to touch her, and came into her cell when she was alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In early 2020, the woman said, she was beading on her bed when Smith showed up in her doorway. He ordered her to grab a stack of books on top of her white metal storage locker across the cell.[aside postID=news_12031584 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1181905632_qed-1020x680.jpg']“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. I never thought I was going to go through things like that, but he made me uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-800x489.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1920x1173.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listen as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson is questioning her, and District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sits on the bench. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started calling her over to the officer’s station, where he would tell her about his trips to Tijuana and ask about her family, she said. He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.[aside postID=news_12031908 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250303-ANTIOCHPOLICE-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']“He would touch me, spank me, rub my back when I was sleeping,” she testified. “He told me to get up and look pretty for [him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her that if she didn’t cooperate, he would take away her mail or her telephone and commissary privileges. Once, he ripped up a letter of hers in front of her, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2020, he came by her cell in the evening. He told her that if she met him in the laundry room after curfew, he would give her a cellphone to call her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to walk in, and he started touching me,” she said. “I started pushing him away and saying I just wanted to see my kids. He said I needed to earn it. I wasn’t ready for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith assaulted her three times in the laundry room, sticking his fingers into her anus and vagina and exposing his penis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just closed my eyes and just lost it,” she said. “I felt so disgusted, I felt powerless. I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to do something, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything. Who was I going to ask for help, who was I going to tell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Smith assaulted her was in the winter of 2020, she said. This time, he told her to go to the janitor’s closet, which was down the dark, sterile hallway from the laundry room she had grown accustomed to meeting him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she knew “he wanted more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t want to finger me or play with me or just interact with me no more,” she said. “He wanted to hurt me by getting what he wanted, to use me, to have sex with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith waited for her at the entrance to the hallway that led to the closet and followed behind her, walking slowly in his jeans and cowboy boots, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just walked toward me and told me to turn around. I wanted to push him away, but I guess he was tired of me, my actions, my mouth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed into a wall of tall black lockers, she said, she turned around and bent over. He forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nothing,” she said quietly in court, pausing as she spoke. “I had no say. I couldn’t defend myself toward somebody who was there to do right for us. Instead of helping, he had done all the wrongs and really hurt me, really damaged me and showed me that I had no way of getting out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after that, Smith moved on to a new “girlfriend” but continued to harass her. She reported his abuse in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she remained in Dublin until it was abruptly shuttered last April, when she was transferred to a federal prison in Florida. She was also party to a civil suit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">settled in December\u003c/a> and has had her sentence shortened by seven years as part of a compassionate release deal. Smith’s defense pointed out that she was undocumented when she was arrested and will likely be granted a U-visa — which is set aside for victims of certain crimes — for aiding the government in Smith’s trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, Smith’s “abuse broke me, it finished me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money, there’s no visa that would change anything. Not even me looking at my kids would change the damage that he cost me,” she said. “It is more painful than anything, and I don’t think I can recover from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Officers were known for several things, but he was the officer that walked around with his shirt open, kind of cowboy style, not professional at all,” said one woman, who remembers learning his nickname, “Dirty Dick Smith,” soon after she arrived at Dublin in 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He carried himself in a different way than other officers,” she said. “He was always talking to the girls in inappropriate ways or trying to get with all the girls. Kind of flirtatious.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I heard rumors about him,” another woman told the jury. “But I never thought I was going to go through things like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-3A-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of a witness giving testimony under questioning by Assistant U.S. Attorney Sailaja Paidipaty in the trial of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They are among eight women who have testified that Smith’s harassment went much further. Although they used their first names in court, KQED does not identify survivors of sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith is charged with 15 counts of sexual abuse and related crimes against five women who were incarcerated at FCI Dublin between 2016 and 2021. The low-security women’s prison was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982973/feds-abruptly-close-east-bay-womens-prison-following-sexual-abuse-scandals\">shut down last year\u003c/a> after a sprawling federal investigation revealed a culture of abuse, retaliation and cover-ups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight officers were charged in the fallout. Smith, whose \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031584/east-bay-prison-sex-abuse-trial-opens-account-guards-ultimate-control\">trial began Monday\u003c/a> and will continue next week, is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031367/for-years-abuse-plagued-an-east-bay-prison-dubbed-the-rape-club-one-trial-remains\">last to be tried\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three women named in Smith’s case have testified against him so far. This is what they say they endured under his watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘He thought it was a joke’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first woman who took the stand on Monday, wrapped in an oversized black coat with her long dark hair pulled tightly into a bun, recalled meeting Smith while picking up her mail. She had just arrived at FCI Dublin and said he tried to connect with her about her Native heritage and told her about his home in Florida and his marital problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, she said, he began to invite her to the small desk and office that formed the officer’s station at the center of the housing unit, where he would ask her invasive questions about her sexuality and told her he liked small breasts. One day, he called her over as he was locking up at the end of his shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1310\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-800x524.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1020x668.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1536x1006.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-2B-KQED-1920x1258.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith watching as a witness gives testimony against him in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Looking down at a clipboard in his hands, he asked her quietly what she might need when she was released, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said a job, I said a car,” the woman testified. “He said he’d get one for me if I’d be with him at night,” gesturing toward his groin as he responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said she shook her head and walked away, upset, but Smith’s actions only escalated. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When I reached up, he took off one of my socks and he pointed to my foot. He said, ‘That’s nice,’ and I stood there,” she said. “Then he cupped my butt underneath and in between my legs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next year, the woman said, Smith kissed her, stuck his fingers into her vagina and anus on multiple occasions, and once forced her to touch his penis. She started asking to be transferred to a different prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just wanted a change,” she told attorneys when they questioned why.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The final time Smith assaulted her, she said, was in the spring of 2021. She was kneeling, facing out to the window at the back of her cell, when he rushed in and stuck his hands down her pants, touching her buttocks, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He laughed and walked away. He thought it was a joke, and I was playing with him,” she testified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later that day, she said, he came back. She was standing with her back to the closed door, mixing instant coffee into hot water at her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002795\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240408-FCIDublin-009-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He came in very fast. He had my arm with his arm, and at the same time, he was trying to put his hands down my pants,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She swatted and tried to push him off, but Smith backed her against a wall, she said. Pinning her by her wrist, she said, Smith reached into her pants and inserted his finger into her anus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept trying to fight him off of me,” she testified through tears, looking down as Smith sat across the courtroom. “I was scared, and it brought back flashbacks of other times I had been assaulted.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Smith left her room, she said, she heard another woman in the hallway ask him what he had been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘I’m trying to help her get transferred,’” the woman said, wiping her nose with a tissue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Smith continued to harass her but did not touch her again, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For months, she feared she would be sent to a solitary housing unit or face a retaliatory investigation if she reported him, but she eventually did so in March 2022. Shortly after, she was transferred to a facility in Minnesota. Two weeks ago, she was released to a reentry center, multiple years before her sentence was set to end, after being granted compassionate release because of the abuse she endured at Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘That was his unit’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The second woman who Smith is charged with abusing said her interactions with him started when she was moved to Housing Unit C during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was his unit,” she said Tuesday, looking out toward Smith, who sat next to his defense team in a blue button-down shirt. “He bid for the unit and worked doubles. I think he got a lot of attention from that unit, and he liked it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031931\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031931\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1B-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch of former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, watching as a witness cries while giving testimony against him on March 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She said Smith started coming by her cell for a few minutes every now and then while she was reading in bed or making food by her locker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would comment about my body if he thought I looked nice,” she said. “He told me I had the nicest ass he had ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman told Smith that she was dating another woman in the unit, thinking it would get him to stop pursuing her. She said Smith responded by asking if he could watch them have sex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few months after she had moved into Housing Unit C, the woman said she went to the officer’s station to confront Smith.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I told him to leave me alone and said he was causing problems in my relationships,” she told the court. He dismissed her, and she went back upstairs to her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972312\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972312\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"FCI Dublin Women's Prison in Dublin on Aug. 16, 2023.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240111-FCI-DUBLIN-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, a women’s prison in the East Bay, on Aug. 16, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t even make it to the back of the cell before he was in the room, closing the door behind him,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she had just walked past the room’s toilet and was standing in front of the lockers squeezed into the corner opposite her bed when “he told me to take my clothes off.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, “to lean over the locker. He put his fingers inside me,” she said. “I felt violated. I was in pain because he was rough. It didn’t feel like a sexual thing, it was an ‘I run shit’ thing … ‘This is my house, and I am going to do what I want.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith pulled back after that. Sometimes, he would stand in her way, forcing her to brush up against him when she passed, she said, but he left her mostly alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was really relieved and hoping that would be the end of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one morning, in the fall or winter of 2020, she said, she was starting the early load on her new job as a laundry orderly for her unit when Smith came into the room behind her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to bend over, and he again put his fingers in my vagina,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was one of the few positions that gave women permission to leave their cells during COVID-19 restrictions. Every morning, she would roll out of bed just after 4 a.m. and drag the first load of dirty uniforms down the dark hallway to the laundry room. She said she would be half-asleep as she started the washing machine and stumbled back to her cell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few months, the woman said, Smith followed her into the laundry room again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I felt like, ‘When is this going to end?’” she said. “Before he even did it [the second time], I thought he was going to. I heard his keys coming down the hall, and he just said, ‘Bend over.’ It was almost like a routine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after the two incidents in the laundry room, she wasn’t assaulted by Smith again. She filed a Prison Rape Elimination Act report against him at the end of 2022 and was released from prison in May, 18 months early, through a compassionate release agreement based on her abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt like I couldn’t do anything’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The third of Smith’s victims who testified this week was also transferred to Housing Unit C in the early days of the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said, ‘Welcome to my unit,’” the woman recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He started being nice to me, getting close to me, talking to me at the balcony outside my room,” she said. “I heard rumors about him. I never thought I was going to go through things like that, but he made me uncomfortable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031939\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031939\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-800x489.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1020x623.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-160x98.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1536x938.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250318-FCI-DUBLIN-VB-1-KQED-1-1920x1173.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A courtroom sketch shows former FCI Dublin correctional officer Darrell Wayne Smith, right, listen as a witness testifies in federal court in Oakland on March 18, 2025. Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Paulson is questioning her, and District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers sits on the bench. \u003ccite>(Vicki Behringer for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He started calling her over to the officer’s station, where he would tell her about his trips to Tijuana and ask about her family, she said. He told her he was attracted to Hispanic women with long hair, like her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she was lying on her bed when she was supposed to line up for a count or have gotten up for the day, she said Smith would come in her room and spank her, saying she needed to “get ready for him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He began to call her his girlfriend, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I said he was crazy and that I didn’t want to be part of it, I was not his girlfriend,” she told the jury. “He said I would come around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith started withholding mail her husband had sent, she said, shaking the physical letters over her head while he motioned for her to lift up her shirt. On multiple occasions, he would pull back her shower curtain and stare.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“He would touch me, spank me, rub my back when I was sleeping,” she testified. “He told me to get up and look pretty for [him].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said he told her that if she didn’t cooperate, he would take away her mail or her telephone and commissary privileges. Once, he ripped up a letter of hers in front of her, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in September 2020, he came by her cell in the evening. He told her that if she met him in the laundry room after curfew, he would give her a cellphone to call her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He told me to walk in, and he started touching me,” she said. “I started pushing him away and saying I just wanted to see my kids. He said I needed to earn it. I wasn’t ready for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said Smith assaulted her three times in the laundry room, sticking his fingers into her anus and vagina and exposing his penis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just closed my eyes and just lost it,” she said. “I felt so disgusted, I felt powerless. I wanted to defend myself. I wanted to do something, and I felt like I couldn’t do anything. Who was I going to ask for help, who was I going to tell?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time Smith assaulted her was in the winter of 2020, she said. This time, he told her to go to the janitor’s closet, which was down the dark, sterile hallway from the laundry room she had grown accustomed to meeting him in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that she knew “he wanted more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t want to finger me or play with me or just interact with me no more,” she said. “He wanted to hurt me by getting what he wanted, to use me, to have sex with me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith waited for her at the entrance to the hallway that led to the closet and followed behind her, walking slowly in his jeans and cowboy boots, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He just walked toward me and told me to turn around. I wanted to push him away, but I guess he was tired of me, my actions, my mouth,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11997597\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11997597\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240408-FCIDublin-012-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for the Federal Correctional Institution, Dublin, a prison for women, in Dublin on April 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Backed into a wall of tall black lockers, she said, she turned around and bent over. He forced her to have sex with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was nothing,” she said quietly in court, pausing as she spoke. “I had no say. I couldn’t defend myself toward somebody who was there to do right for us. Instead of helping, he had done all the wrongs and really hurt me, really damaged me and showed me that I had no way of getting out of it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The woman said that after that, Smith moved on to a new “girlfriend” but continued to harass her. She reported his abuse in December 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she remained in Dublin until it was abruptly shuttered last April, when she was transferred to a federal prison in Florida. She was also party to a civil suit that was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018828/prison-sex-abuse-survivor-speaks-on-fci-dublins-cultural-rot-after-record-settlement\">settled in December\u003c/a> and has had her sentence shortened by seven years as part of a compassionate release deal. Smith’s defense pointed out that she was undocumented when she was arrested and will likely be granted a U-visa — which is set aside for victims of certain crimes — for aiding the government in Smith’s trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she said, Smith’s “abuse broke me, it finished me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no money, there’s no visa that would change anything. Not even me looking at my kids would change the damage that he cost me,” she said. “It is more painful than anything, and I don’t think I can recover from it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The administration appealed that ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump’s actions and the barrage of litigation by employers threatening the agency’s existence could make it more challenging for workers to assert their rights to organize, according to Wilma Liebman, who chaired the NLRB during President Obama’s administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12032232 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-2201544551-1020x729.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very volatile period in the law and in government that, I think, doesn’t bode well for the enforcement of workers’ rights,” said Liebman, an adjunct law professor at New York University who also served on the NLRB under Presidents Bush and Clinton. “Hopefully, the system works well enough that a case like this [on REI] can proceed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Samuel Wirt, who works at the REI Berkeley store helping customers select camping and climbing gear, said he hopes the complaint by the agency’s investigators pressures the company to live up to its co-op values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unionized employees are asking customer members to reject candidates to REI’s board, which oversees executive decisions, in protest, Wirt said. 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"content": "\u003cp>David Anderson has a knack for fixing computers. He’s gotten a lot of practice at McClymonds High School in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/west-oakland\">West Oakland\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, the 17-year-old junior quickly replaced a screen. There were laptops from all over the school district marked with sticky notes with messages such as “charger not working” or “screen cracked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ You get to learn the layout of a computer and how they work,” Anderson said. “It gives people the skills to actually repair their own things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is one of three paid student interns at McClymonds High School who help repair and maintain the 41,000 Chromebooks used by more than 33,000 Oakland Unified School District students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, called OUSD Tech Repair Hub, started in the summer of 2021 as the district navigated remote learning in response to COVID-19, which the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864254/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed\">declared a global pandemic\u003c/a> five years ago Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Anderson, a junior at McClymonds High School, works through a stack of broken Chromebooks at his job as one of three paid interns at his high school under Oakland Unified’s student-led Chromebook repair program, where students are hired to repair the devices during the school year. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The district maintains 41,000 Chromebooks, many of them repaired by students. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chromebook with a removed bezel is ready to be repaired by one of the students who work up to eight hours a week during the school year and receive $18/hr. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s Technology Services teach the student interns, who are paid $18 an hour, to repair keyboards, screens and batteries. The program also relies heavily on peer-to-peer education, with more experienced students teaching those who are new to the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SDnOjqusgA\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students at McClymonds work during their free periods for up to eight hours a week during the school year. The district also operates repair hubs at Oakland High School and Fremont High School. According to OUSD, the hubs have repaired over 800 devices so far this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns David Anderson and Gavin Armstrong, along with Colleen Piper, a college readiness manager, and Samantha Nuñez, an IT program manager, organize stacks of Chromebooks that need to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns and high school juniors Gavin Armstrong and David Anderson look at a broken Chromebook during their free period. This internship programs helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint in addition to saving the district money with each repair. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the summer, the program employs 15 interns who work 30 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We always thought that this was something that students would be able to do, and it frees up OUSD’s Tech Services to do more complicated repairs,” said Sam Berg, OUSD’s computer science coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg estimates the program saves OUSD about $240 for every Chromebook repair. The program also helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint. When a Chromebook breaks, the interns harvest reusable parts to be used to keep other Chromebooks in service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028960 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California is one of several states that have passed “right-to-repair” legislation in recent years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson says his internship with the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OUSD Tech Repair Hub\u003c/span> “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gives people the skills to actually repair their own things.”\u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last June, California joined a small but growing list of states that have passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976367/bay-areas-fix-it-culture-thrives-as-right-to-repair-law-takes-effect-soon\">“right-to-repair” legislation\u003c/a>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anderson is one of three paid student interns at McClymonds High School who help repair and maintain the 41,000 Chromebooks used by more than 33,000 Oakland Unified School District students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program, called OUSD Tech Repair Hub, started in the summer of 2021 as the district navigated remote learning in response to COVID-19, which the World Health Organization \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11864254/march-11-2020-the-day-everything-changed\">declared a global pandemic\u003c/a> five years ago Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028942\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028942\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">David Anderson, a junior at McClymonds High School, works through a stack of broken Chromebooks at his job as one of three paid interns at his high school under Oakland Unified’s student-led Chromebook repair program, where students are hired to repair the devices during the school year. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-29_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The district maintains 41,000 Chromebooks, many of them repaired by students. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028933\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-7-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Chromebook with a removed bezel is ready to be repaired by one of the students who work up to eight hours a week during the school year and receive $18/hr. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OUSD’s Technology Services teach the student interns, who are paid $18 an hour, to repair keyboards, screens and batteries. The program also relies heavily on peer-to-peer education, with more experienced students teaching those who are new to the program.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4SDnOjqusgA'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4SDnOjqusgA'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>The students at McClymonds work during their free periods for up to eight hours a week during the school year. The district also operates repair hubs at Oakland High School and Fremont High School. According to OUSD, the hubs have repaired over 800 devices so far this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028943\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028943\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-11-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns David Anderson and Gavin Armstrong, along with Colleen Piper, a college readiness manager, and Samantha Nuñez, an IT program manager, organize stacks of Chromebooks that need to be repaired. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, interns and high school juniors Gavin Armstrong and David Anderson look at a broken Chromebook during their free period. This internship programs helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint in addition to saving the district money with each repair. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the summer, the program employs 15 interns who work 30 hours a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ We always thought that this was something that students would be able to do, and it frees up OUSD’s Tech Services to do more complicated repairs,” said Sam Berg, OUSD’s computer science coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berg estimates the program saves OUSD about $240 for every Chromebook repair. The program also helps reduce OUSD’s carbon footprint. When a Chromebook breaks, the interns harvest reusable parts to be used to keep other Chromebooks in service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028960\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12028960 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1235\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-800x494.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1020x630.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-160x99.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1536x948.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250211_OUSDChromebooks_GC-14_duo-1920x1186.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California is one of several states that have passed “right-to-repair” legislation in recent years. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12028936\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12028936\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250206_OUSDChromebooks_GC-19-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anderson says his internship with the \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OUSD Tech Repair Hub\u003c/span> “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gives people the skills to actually repair their own things.”\u003c/span> \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last June, California joined a small but growing list of states that have passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976367/bay-areas-fix-it-culture-thrives-as-right-to-repair-law-takes-effect-soon\">“right-to-repair” legislation\u003c/a>. The law is boosting programs like OUSD’s by requiring manufacturers of appliances and electronics to provide consumers with parts, tools, and information needed for repairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nehemiah Cody, a senior at McClymonds, will be the school’s eighth intern to graduate from the program. He said the internship has inspired him to consider pursuing biomedical engineering in college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This internship opened a lot of doors for me,” Cody, 17, said. “ Anytime I see something broken, I feel like I can fix it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated at 4:08 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal jury returned a split verdict \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030621/police-corruption-trial-of-ex-antioch-officer-goes-to-jury-deliberations\">against former Antioch police officer Morteza Amiri\u003c/a> on Friday afternoon, finding him guilty of violating one person’s rights and falsifying a police report but acquitting him of a broader charge that he and other officers engaged in a systemic conspiracy to use excessive force repeatedly over a three-year period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Morteza Amiri violated the oath he swore to protect the people of Antioch,” said acting U.S. District Attorney Patrick D. Robbins in a statement. “As today’s jury verdict makes clear, officers who put themselves above the law will be held accountable.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case against Amiri stems from a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11958522/fbi-arrests-antioch-pittsburg-police-officers-following-indictments\">police corruption scandal\u003c/a> that became public in 2023 and implicated members of both the Antioch and Pittsburg police departments for exchanging violently racist text messages, falsifying college coursework to bump their pay and allegedly distributing steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri and two other former Antioch officers initially faced what may have been the most serious criminal charges to emerge in the case. But one officer took a plea deal, another case ended in a mistrial, and Amiri’s conviction was far more limited than the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030325/dog-bites-foam-bullets-and-fear-victims-testify-to-ex-antioch-officers-excessive-force\">broad conspiracy prosecutors had set out to prove\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s sentencing on the two guilty counts is set for June, according to his attorney, Paul Goyette. He said the jury “got it right” when it found Amiri not guilty of conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had presented to the jury volumes of offensive text messages as evidence that Amiri and other officers were conspiring and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">encouraging one another to use excessive force\u003c/a>. Goyette called those texts “trash talking” among numerous colleagues in a dangerous profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Romo testifies 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>“What the text messages weren’t — they weren’t evidence of an agreement between Mr. Amiri and anybody to go out and violate anybody’s rights,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Antioch officer Eric Rombough pleaded guilty shortly before the trial began, and he was a prominent witness in the prosecution’s case, as was another former Antioch and Pittsburg officer who pleaded guilty to charges in a separate federal case — Timothy Manly-Williams. The trial took a surprising turn two weeks ago when the judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">declared a mistrial\u003c/a> against Amiri’s co-defendant, Devon Christopher Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough testified for the prosecution that he and Amiri encouraged each other to violently punish suspects. He testified that he lost respect for the civil rights of the people he was policing and felt “a huge sense of shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single use of force for which Amiri was convicted Friday of deprivation of rights and falsifying records came on July 24, 2019, when Manly-Williams was on a ride-along with Amiri, his roommate at the time. Amiri started a conflict with a man on a bicycle, and Manly-Williams released the police dog to maul the bicyclist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029173 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/Sacramento-Shove_Horiz.00_00_09_16.Still005-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri texted colleagues that it was a “stretch” of a resisting arrest case, that he’d left information out of his official report and joked while referencing a “piece of the suspect’s flesh” hanging from the jaws of his K9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The split verdict comes after about two days of jury deliberations, which started Wednesday. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030621/police-corruption-trial-of-ex-antioch-officer-goes-to-jury-deliberations\">closing arguments\u003c/a>, the prosecution and defense presented two very different pictures of Amiri’s time at the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Amiri showed a pattern of repeated excessive force, aided by his police K9, Purcy, and studded with celebrations of violent incidents in private text messages with other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette argued that the vulgar messages were cherry-picked to make his client look bad and depicted the “rough” way officers speak to each other in a stressful and desensitizing work environment. Goyette also attempted to discredit many of the prosecution’s witnesses, including people who were unhoused when they were arrested and had criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">convicted last year\u003c/a>, along with five other officers, in a scheme to obtain fraudulent college degrees for a raise in pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have not indicated whether they will bring Wenger to trial again on civil rights charges. He still faces separate charges of illegally distributing steroids. A jury trial on the steroid charges is set for late April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri’s sentencing on the two guilty counts is set for June, according to his attorney, Paul Goyette. He said the jury “got it right” when it found Amiri not guilty of conspiracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors had presented to the jury volumes of offensive text messages as evidence that Amiri and other officers were conspiring and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11985781/antioch-police-targeted-black-people-with-dogs-and-40mm-launchers-suit-alleges\">encouraging one another to use excessive force\u003c/a>. Goyette called those texts “trash talking” among numerous colleagues in a dangerous profession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029521\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5882-KQED-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniel Romo testifies 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>“What the text messages weren’t — they weren’t evidence of an agreement between Mr. Amiri and anybody to go out and violate anybody’s rights,” Goyette said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Antioch officer Eric Rombough pleaded guilty shortly before the trial began, and he was a prominent witness in the prosecution’s case, as was another former Antioch and Pittsburg officer who pleaded guilty to charges in a separate federal case — Timothy Manly-Williams. The trial took a surprising turn two weeks ago when the judge \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029643/bay-area-police-conspiracy-trial-shaken-up-by-mistrial-for-1-of-2-former-officers\">declared a mistrial\u003c/a> against Amiri’s co-defendant, Devon Christopher Wenger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rombough testified for the prosecution that he and Amiri encouraged each other to violently punish suspects. He testified that he lost respect for the civil rights of the people he was policing and felt “a huge sense of shame.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The single use of force for which Amiri was convicted Friday of deprivation of rights and falsifying records came on July 24, 2019, when Manly-Williams was on a ride-along with Amiri, his roommate at the time. Amiri started a conflict with a man on a bicycle, and Manly-Williams released the police dog to maul the bicyclist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri texted colleagues that it was a “stretch” of a resisting arrest case, that he’d left information out of his official report and joked while referencing a “piece of the suspect’s flesh” hanging from the jaws of his K9.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The split verdict comes after about two days of jury deliberations, which started Wednesday. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030621/police-corruption-trial-of-ex-antioch-officer-goes-to-jury-deliberations\">closing arguments\u003c/a>, the prosecution and defense presented two very different pictures of Amiri’s time at the Antioch Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prosecution argued that Amiri showed a pattern of repeated excessive force, aided by his police K9, Purcy, and studded with celebrations of violent incidents in private text messages with other officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Goyette argued that the vulgar messages were cherry-picked to make his client look bad and depicted the “rough” way officers speak to each other in a stressful and desensitizing work environment. Goyette also attempted to discredit many of the prosecution’s witnesses, including people who were unhoused when they were arrested and had criminal records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amiri was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/antioch-police-officer-convicted-federal-jury-conspiracy-and-wire-fraud\">convicted last year\u003c/a>, along with five other officers, in a scheme to obtain fraudulent college degrees for a raise in pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors have not indicated whether they will bring Wenger to trial again on civil rights charges. He still faces separate charges of illegally distributing steroids. A jury trial on the steroid charges is set for late April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/kdebenedetti\">\u003cem>Katie DeBenedetti\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The former head of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-oakland\">East Oakland\u003c/a> youth boxing program stole significantly more money than the roughly $100,000 that prosecutors accused him of embezzling, according to its acting director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s substantially more than that. Substantially,” said Dawna Williams, the interim executive director of the East Oakland Boxing Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams, who declined to provide the exact amount, said the EOBA \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029450/steph-curry-surprised-oakland-youth-gym-with-50000-its-leader-kept-the-cash-feds-say\">reported the theft\u003c/a> to the Internal Revenue Service more than two years ago and that the $100,000 figure cited in the complaint was based on the most direct evidence of impropriety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Solomon Howard, who served as the EOBA’s executive director from 2017-2021, is accused of using the East Oakland Boxing Association’s debit cards to make personal Amazon purchases — including a queen-size bed and a memory foam mattress — and falsely reporting them as “program supplies” and other generic descriptions, according to \u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/SolomonHowardCharges.pdf\">charges filed in February\u003c/a> in an Oakland federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Howard pleaded not guilty last week in Oakland federal court to mail fraud and tax evasion, following accusations that he embezzled funds from the organization — including a $50,000 donation that Stephen and Ayesha Curry presented to him in 2019 on an episode Ellen DeGeneres’ show, “Ellen’s Greatest Night of Giveaways.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams was on the organization’s board of directors in 2021 when she said board members began noticing numerous accounting irregularities. When the board questioned Howard, he was suspiciously evasive, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were met with lots of excuses and things like that,” she said, noting that he “had the gift of gab.” “And that was just like, ‘Oh no, something’s not right here. Something is really off.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the board continued questioning Howard, he abruptly laid off his entire staff of about nine people and then resigned, Williams, who became interim director in March 2024, said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He terminated everyone to kind of cover his tracks, I think,” she said. “We hired an independent accounting expert to come in and review our books because he had also terminated the bookkeeper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like a DOGE moment here,” she added, referring to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The evidence became irrefutable, Williams said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that we could not allow somebody to do this to the kids and do this to the people who trusted us with this funding,” she said, noting that the IRS ultimately referred the case to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. “We knew that we had to find justice here. 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That makes it that much harder to understand how “somebody [could] take it from them, what somebody entrusted us with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2019 episode of DeGeneres’ show, Howard described the organization as an after-school program “focused on keeping young folks off the streets and engaged in more holistic wellness activity.” He said it serves kids in “essentially kind of the forgotten part of Oakland, where a lot of poverty, crime, violence and negative activities happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the episode, the Currys delivered a box-truck full of supplies and revealed a surprise $50,000 donation from the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hopefully, it goes a long way, man,” Steph Curry told Howard as the two men hugged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors allege that Howard subsequently deposited that entire donation into his own personal account without the knowledge of EOBA staff or its board members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted of the charges, Howard faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, as well as restitution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He needs to have his day in court. 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"title": "‘Like Family’: Japanese American Seniors and Caregivers Say Goodbye to J-Sei Home",
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"headTitle": "‘Like Family’: Japanese American Seniors and Caregivers Say Goodbye to J-Sei Home | KQED",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cstrong>[This is the first story of a two-part project that explores the influence and importance of culture in end-of-life care. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025613/j-sei-home-closes-after-30-years-leaving-bay-area-japanese-seniors-in-need\">Part two will be published Monday\u003c/a>.] \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>J-Sei Home was a 14-bed residential care facility for the elderly geared toward \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/japanese-americans\">Japanese Americans\u003c/a> in Hayward, California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residents ate Japanese meals, walked through the Japanese garden, watched Japanese TV programs, celebrated Japanese holidays and spoke Japanese with the staff. Residents were embraced by the tight-knit community of caregivers and staff, whether they lived there for seven years or nine months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In October 2024, J-Sei Home announced that it was closing because of financial instability. Families had five months to find new facilities for their loved ones. By the end of January, J-Sei Home was empty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photographer \u003ca href=\"https://www.julianayamada.com/\">Juliana Yamada\u003c/a> spent 13 months documenting the lives of the facility’s residents and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grace Aikawa, 96\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027417 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Aikawa poses for a portrait in the garden at J-Sei Home in Hayward, California, last October. That month, the board announced they were closing the facility due to financial instability. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grace Aikawa was born in 1928 in San José, California, but grew up more than 100 miles north in the town of Loomis, a commercial and cultural center for Japanese families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Executive Order 9066 was signed during World War II, Aikawa and her family were forcibly relocated, and she spent her high school years at the Granada War Relocation Center, commonly known as Camp Amache, in eastern Colorado. Aikawa and her husband raised four children in the Oakland hills, where she lived until moving to J-Sei Home in March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027416 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Administrator Ron Salvador shows new resident Grace Aikawa the view from her room as she moves into J-Sei Home in Hayward, California, on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aikawa quickly made friends at J-Sei Home and settled into her activities and habits. She and her next-door neighbor Emiko Roaden, 93, took walks in the yard together after each meal, feeding the stray cats kibble and scraps of meat or fish. Aikawa spent days working on puzzles or crocheting in front of the TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spent most evenings with fellow resident Sawako Issacs, watching \u003cem>Jeopardy\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Wheel of Fortune\u003c/em> while the rest of the house got ready for bed. Aikawa’s daughter, Kim Aikawa-Olin, said her mom loved living in the community and was fortunate to move into the same new facility as Roaden — once again as next-door neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Caregivers Nida Maagma, left, and Imelda Merritt, center, cry as resident Aikawa, right, moves out of J-Sei Home in December 2024. Aikawa lived at J-Sei Home for only about nine months. (Right) Aikawa’s family helps move her into her new care facility in the Castro Valley. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Karen Aikawa-Simkover, Kim Aikawa-Olin and Mark Aikawa prepare to move the final boxes of their mother’s belongings out of J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027412 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aikawa holds hands with her friend and neighbor Sawako Issacs, 91, as they watch TV together for the last time before Aikawa moved out of J-Sei Home. The two watched TV together nightly, often being the last two residents awake. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kazue Granich, 101\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caregiver Amparo Chow helps Kazue Granich, 101, eat lunch at J-Sei Home on Friday, March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kazue Granich was J-Sei Home’s oldest resident and, possibly, the shortest at just shy of 5 feet tall. She lived there for over seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, Granich obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii before earning a master’s degree at Columbia University. She and her husband, Michael, had three children and moved to the Bay Area in the early 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caregiver Rose Velasco, left, and son Charles Granich, right, help Kazue Granich to the car as she moves out of J-Sei Home in December 2024. Granich lived at J-Sei Home for seven years but had to find a new home when the facility announced its closure. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Granich was a special education teacher for the majority of her career and loved teaching and learning new arts and crafts. She was an avid swimmer at the Berkeley YMCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at J-Sei Home, Granich was normally in her designated recliner in the living room, watching the other residents or resting. In the past few years, she has become less conversational. However, she would become instantly animated during visits with her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027425\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kazi Okamoto, 9, and Momo Okamoto, 8, play with a recliner chair next to Granich in the living room at J-Sei Home. The Okamotos’ mother, Hiroko, is one of the caregivers at J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Granich isn’t a woman of many words, she was J-Sei Home’s loudest karaoke singer. Once or twice a week, caregiver Fumi Tsuchiya would lead the residents in karaoke through the J-Sei songbook. Granich would belt the lyrics to “You are My Sunshine” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027422 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Caregiver Fumi Tsuchiya sings karaoke with Granich at J-Sei Home last year. Granich preferred singing karaoke to conversations most days. (Right) Granich is helped into the car by caregiver Hiroko Okamoto, left, and her son Charles, right, as she moves out of J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027423 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Granich, right, sits with her mother, Kazue Granich, at RN Loving Care Home in El Cerrito, California, in January 2025. Her mother has been less engaged and talkative since leaving J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Emiko Roaden, 93\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027429 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Clockwise from top left) Emiko Roaden’s old photos are displayed in her room. Roaden holds a photo of her younger self, wearing a dress she made. Roaden was a skilled seamstress, making many clothes for herself throughout her life. Photos from Roaden’s past are on display on a wooden shelf. A wedding day photograph of Roaden and her late husband Don circa 1963. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emiko Roaden was the fashionista of J-Sei Home. Originally from Hakata, a ward in Fukuoka, Japan, Roaden moved to the United States in 1938.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12021919 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250115_JapaneseAmericanActivism_GC-47-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1963, she married her husband, Don, and they bought a house in San Leandro, where they lived for more than 50 years. Roaden was a skilled seamstress and homemaker, keeping a meticulous home and garden, according to Craig Wenger, her best friend’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved to J-Sei Home in 2023 after Don passed away. Her closet was filled with sweaters she had knitted and crocheted and a jewelry collection that spanned decades, much of which her husband had carved and polished. Photos from her life decorated her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was always proud to show photos of her husband and her younger self, including photographs showcasing her handmade clothing. Roaden loved taking walks in the yard at J-Sei Home and was thrilled to gain a walking partner when Grace Aikawa moved in. She and Aikawa became close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When J-Sei Home announced its closure, the two were lucky enough to move into a new care facility together in Castro Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ruth Fukuchi, 90\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027444 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Ruth Fukuchi, 90, poses for a portrait at J-Sei Home in October 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Fukuchi was 8 when her family was incarcerated at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II. Fukuchi earned a degree in microbiology from UC Berkeley, becoming a successful microbiologist in Berkeley and Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband, Tak, raised two children, Cathy Fukuchi-Wong and Matt Fukuchi. Fukuchi developed vascular dementia in her later years and eventually needed more care than her family could offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Cathy Fukuchi-Wong speaks to her mother, Ruth Fukuchi, during a visit at J Sei Home in May 2024. Fukuchi-Wong drove from Marin almost every day to visit her mother because she said she knew she wasn’t “getting more days with her, but less.” (Right) Fukuchi flips through a book of tulips at J-Sei Home. While other residents watch TV, Fukuchi often reads newspapers, magazines and books. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>J-Sei Home was an obvious choice for Fukuchi’s children, as their family has been involved with the organization for generations. Fukuchi moved to J-Sei Home in 2021 and remained there until her death on Dec. 29, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The caregivers and staff compassionately helped Fukuchi with her basic needs. Fukuchi-Wong said the care meant everything to their family. “I don’t think you can get this sort of family feeling anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027442\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J-Sei Home caregiver Fumi Tsuchiya helps Ruth Fukuchi out of her wheelchair before bed on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. Fukuchi relied completely on the J-Sei staff for daily tasks. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Sonata Hospice licensed vocational nurse Danilo Valle changes a dressing on Fukuchi’s leg at J-Sei Home. (Right) Tsuchiya helps Fukuchi brush her teeth after dinner. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027441\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027441\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241225-JSEI-JY-058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241225-JSEI-JY-058.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241225-JSEI-JY-058-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241225-JSEI-JY-058-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241225-JSEI-JY-058-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241225-JSEI-JY-058-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241225-JSEI-JY-058-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fukuchi-Wong offers her mom tea as she lies in bed at J-Sei Home on Christmas Day 2024. In Fukuchi’s final days, she only wanted to eat Japanese arare, rice crackers, beef donburi or rice bowls, and drink green tea. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027440\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027440\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1742.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1742.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1742-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1742-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1742-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1742-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1742-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mourners lined up to offer flowers and pay their respects to Fukuchi and her family at Sycamore Congregational Church in El Cerrito in January. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027439\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027439\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1708.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1708-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1708-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1708-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1708-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-1708-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A “Dear Grammy” sash decorates a wreath of flowers at the memorial service. Fukuchi is survived by three grandchildren: Lauren, Rex and Vanessa. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This piece was made possible by the help of \u003ca href=\"https://www.womenphotograph.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women Photograph\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Grace Aikawa, 96\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027417 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_278-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grace Aikawa poses for a portrait in the garden at J-Sei Home in Hayward, California, last October. That month, the board announced they were closing the facility due to financial instability. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Grace Aikawa was born in 1928 in San José, California, but grew up more than 100 miles north in the town of Loomis, a commercial and cultural center for Japanese families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Executive Order 9066 was signed during World War II, Aikawa and her family were forcibly relocated, and she spent her high school years at the Granada War Relocation Center, commonly known as Camp Amache, in eastern Colorado. Aikawa and her husband raised four children in the Oakland hills, where she lived until moving to J-Sei Home in March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027416 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_147-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Administrator Ron Salvador shows new resident Grace Aikawa the view from her room as she moves into J-Sei Home in Hayward, California, on Wednesday, March 27, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Aikawa quickly made friends at J-Sei Home and settled into her activities and habits. She and her next-door neighbor Emiko Roaden, 93, took walks in the yard together after each meal, feeding the stray cats kibble and scraps of meat or fish. Aikawa spent days working on puzzles or crocheting in front of the TV.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She spent most evenings with fellow resident Sawako Issacs, watching \u003cem>Jeopardy\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Wheel of Fortune\u003c/em> while the rest of the house got ready for bed. Aikawa’s daughter, Kim Aikawa-Olin, said her mom loved living in the community and was fortunate to move into the same new facility as Roaden — once again as next-door neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-966_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Caregivers Nida Maagma, left, and Imelda Merritt, center, cry as resident Aikawa, right, moves out of J-Sei Home in December 2024. Aikawa lived at J-Sei Home for only about nine months. (Right) Aikawa’s family helps move her into her new care facility in the Castro Valley. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027411\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027411\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-026-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right: Karen Aikawa-Simkover, Kim Aikawa-Olin and Mark Aikawa prepare to move the final boxes of their mother’s belongings out of J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027412 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241215-JSEI-JY-528.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aikawa holds hands with her friend and neighbor Sawako Issacs, 91, as they watch TV together for the last time before Aikawa moved out of J-Sei Home. The two watched TV together nightly, often being the last two residents awake. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Kazue Granich, 101\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027424\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_126-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caregiver Amparo Chow helps Kazue Granich, 101, eat lunch at J-Sei Home on Friday, March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kazue Granich was J-Sei Home’s oldest resident and, possibly, the shortest at just shy of 5 feet tall. She lived there for over seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, Granich obtained her bachelor’s degree from the University of Hawaii before earning a master’s degree at Columbia University. She and her husband, Michael, had three children and moved to the Bay Area in the early 1950s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027426\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027426\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20241219-JSEI-JY-130-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caregiver Rose Velasco, left, and son Charles Granich, right, help Kazue Granich to the car as she moves out of J-Sei Home in December 2024. Granich lived at J-Sei Home for seven years but had to find a new home when the facility announced its closure. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Granich was a special education teacher for the majority of her career and loved teaching and learning new arts and crafts. She was an avid swimmer at the Berkeley YMCA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While at J-Sei Home, Granich was normally in her designated recliner in the living room, watching the other residents or resting. In the past few years, she has become less conversational. However, she would become instantly animated during visits with her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027425\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027425\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_133-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kazi Okamoto, 9, and Momo Okamoto, 8, play with a recliner chair next to Granich in the living room at J-Sei Home. The Okamotos’ mother, Hiroko, is one of the caregivers at J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While Granich isn’t a woman of many words, she was J-Sei Home’s loudest karaoke singer. Once or twice a week, caregiver Fumi Tsuchiya would lead the residents in karaoke through the J-Sei songbook. Granich would belt the lyrics to “You are My Sunshine” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027422\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027422 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_173_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Caregiver Fumi Tsuchiya sings karaoke with Granich at J-Sei Home last year. Granich preferred singing karaoke to conversations most days. (Right) Granich is helped into the car by caregiver Hiroko Okamoto, left, and her son Charles, right, as she moves out of J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027423\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027423 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250130-JSeiHome-JY-711-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Granich, right, sits with her mother, Kazue Granich, at RN Loving Care Home in El Cerrito, California, in January 2025. Her mother has been less engaged and talkative since leaving J-Sei Home. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Emiko Roaden, 93\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027429 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1339\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-800x536.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-1020x683.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-1536x1028.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_195_duo-1920x1285.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Clockwise from top left) Emiko Roaden’s old photos are displayed in her room. Roaden holds a photo of her younger self, wearing a dress she made. Roaden was a skilled seamstress, making many clothes for herself throughout her life. Photos from Roaden’s past are on display on a wooden shelf. A wedding day photograph of Roaden and her late husband Don circa 1963. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Emiko Roaden was the fashionista of J-Sei Home. Originally from Hakata, a ward in Fukuoka, Japan, Roaden moved to the United States in 1938.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1963, she married her husband, Don, and they bought a house in San Leandro, where they lived for more than 50 years. Roaden was a skilled seamstress and homemaker, keeping a meticulous home and garden, according to Craig Wenger, her best friend’s son.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She moved to J-Sei Home in 2023 after Don passed away. Her closet was filled with sweaters she had knitted and crocheted and a jewelry collection that spanned decades, much of which her husband had carved and polished. Photos from her life decorated her room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was always proud to show photos of her husband and her younger self, including photographs showcasing her handmade clothing. Roaden loved taking walks in the yard at J-Sei Home and was thrilled to gain a walking partner when Grace Aikawa moved in. She and Aikawa became close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When J-Sei Home announced its closure, the two were lucky enough to move into a new care facility together in Castro Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Ruth Fukuchi, 90\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027444\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12027444 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_270-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resident Ruth Fukuchi, 90, poses for a portrait at J-Sei Home in October 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ruth Fukuchi was 8 when her family was incarcerated at the Poston War Relocation Center in Arizona during World War II. Fukuchi earned a degree in microbiology from UC Berkeley, becoming a successful microbiologist in Berkeley and Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her husband, Tak, raised two children, Cathy Fukuchi-Wong and Matt Fukuchi. Fukuchi developed vascular dementia in her later years and eventually needed more care than her family could offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027438\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027438\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_167_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Cathy Fukuchi-Wong speaks to her mother, Ruth Fukuchi, during a visit at J Sei Home in May 2024. Fukuchi-Wong drove from Marin almost every day to visit her mother because she said she knew she wasn’t “getting more days with her, but less.” (Right) Fukuchi flips through a book of tulips at J-Sei Home. While other residents watch TV, Fukuchi often reads newspapers, magazines and books. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>J-Sei Home was an obvious choice for Fukuchi’s children, as their family has been involved with the organization for generations. Fukuchi moved to J-Sei Home in 2021 and remained there until her death on Dec. 29, 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The caregivers and staff compassionately helped Fukuchi with her basic needs. Fukuchi-Wong said the care meant everything to their family. “I don’t think you can get this sort of family feeling anywhere else.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027442\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027442\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_223-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">J-Sei Home caregiver Fumi Tsuchiya helps Ruth Fukuchi out of her wheelchair before bed on Friday, Aug. 9, 2024. Fukuchi relied completely on the J-Sei staff for daily tasks. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027437\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027437\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"845\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-800x264.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-1020x337.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-160x53.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-1536x507.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-2048x676.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/jsei_JY_212_duo-1920x634.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Sonata Hospice licensed vocational nurse Danilo Valle changes a dressing on Fukuchi’s leg at J-Sei Home. 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