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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,100 people at the Fresno County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19 since the pandemic began. The running tally of infections at the county-run complex actually surpasses those at all but two state prisons in California. But unlike the state’s careful tracking and reporting of cases at prisons and nursing homes, data on COVID-19 infections in county jails have not been consistently collected or made readily available to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the hundreds of thousands of people who pass through jails in California each year could be a vector for spreading the virus, each of the state’s 58 counties run their facilities independently, with varying approaches to tracking or reporting COVID-19 infections among inmates and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the lack of transparency around the COVID-19 outbreak in Fresno and other county-run jails obscures a serious public health risk not only for inmates and staff but also for the people in their communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fresno County Jail Outbreak\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The outbreak at the Fresno County Jail was discovered in mid-June, not by the sheriff’s office, but by state prison officials who were screening a group of inmates being transferred to Wasco State Prison near Bakersfield and found 13 who tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After that, Fresno County jail officials began widespread testing of inmates in two of the downtown Fresno jail’s three buildings, and the case count there exploded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since June, at least 1,115 inmates and 76 employees have tested positive, according to an Aug. 25 email from Fresno County Sheriff’s Office Public Information Officer Tony Botti. Of those, 21 inmates were at one time hospitalized. The agency has reported no deaths.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Aug. 25, 111 inmates were in quarantine, down from a peak of 901 earlier in the summer. However, the department has been unable to say how many of those were considered active cases at any given time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have a breakdown of how many are still … potentially infectious. We just lump them all together in quarantine and release them … once they clear their 13-day period,” Botti wrote in an earlier email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the number of potentially contagious inmates has dropped precipitously since the outbreak’s peak, cumulative case counts are a consistent measure of the scale of outbreaks among facilities and agencies. They also represent the total number of people associated with a particular outbreak who could become a vector for transmitting the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>How Fresno Compares\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The New York Times now ranks the outbreak in Fresno as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html\">12th largest cluster of cases\u003c/a> — including both inmates and staff — at a single facility in the country, but it’s not clear how other jails in California rank when not all counties are consistently reporting this information to public health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Kathleen Guneratne, senior staff attorney, ACLU of Northern California\"]'We have an extreme vacuum of information in the county jail system. The public needs to know about the risks jails are exposing members of their community to so they can protect themselves and those members.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) collects information on jails from county health officials, but won’t publish it because it is often “incomplete,” according to an Aug. 3 email from a spokesperson, who attributed the problem to the high volume of cases and inadequate resources for counties to report\u003cbr>\nthem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CDPH shares a wide variety of data about COVID-19 with the public to help general understanding about how the virus is impacting our communities,” the spokesperson wrote. “In considering which data to make available … CDPH considers the reliability and completeness of available data.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apparently, jail data has not made the cut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One agency that does make COVID-19 data readily available is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/covid19/population-status-tracking/\">California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation\u003c/a>, which oversees the state’s prison system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently the largest outbreak is at San Quentin State Prison, where more than 2,200 inmates have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began, according to the agency's website. The next largest outbreak is rapidly expanding at Avenal State Prison, where more than 1,700 inmates were found to have COVID-19 —175 of whom were diagnosed in just the last two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the Fresno County Jail were a prison, its cumulative number of cases during the pandemic among inmates would rank it the third largest outbreak — larger than 33 of California’s prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"cdcr\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘Substantial Vectors’ of COVID-19\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Unlike prisons, where inmates can be housed for decades as they serve out their sentences, jails typically hold people convicted of lesser crimes for a few months on average. Many people in jails are still awaiting trial and have yet to be convicted. The frequent turnover, combined with close quarters, can make jails hotbeds for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lucia Tian, Chief Analytics Officer of the American Civil Liberties Union, was part of a data team that put together a report in April warning that outbreaks in jails could lead to \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/aclu_covid19-jail-report_2020-8_1.pdf\">tens to hundreds of thousands more deaths\u003c/a> than forecasters had predicted early on in the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jails are a really substantial vector for the spread of COVID-19,” Tian said, referring to jails as the “revolving doors of incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, nearly 800,000 people were booked into California jails, according to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/californias-incarcerated-population-plunges-to-new-low-during-covid-19/\">analysis\u003c/a> by the Public Policy Institute of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the lack of information on COVID-19 at county jails could compromise safety both inside and outside of the facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a public health issue all the way around,” said Elizabeth Diaz, Fresno County’s Public Defender. “Whether someone is incarcerated or is not, it affects the community as a whole.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz said she is concerned not only about the safety of inmates, but also of her staff — the public defenders who meet their clients in the jail and in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kathleen Guneratne, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, said data on COVID-19 in jails is critical to ensuring an adequate public health response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have an extreme vacuum of information in the county jail system,” Guneratne said. “The public needs to know about the risks jails are exposing members of their community to so they can protect themselves and those members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Some Jails Providing Data\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Despite the lack of centralized data, some jail systems have reported large outbreaks on their websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As of Aug. 25, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department \u003ca href=\"https://lasd.org/covid19updates/\">reported\u003c/a> 3,133 COVID-19 infections among inmates and 826 among staff; the Orange County Sheriff’s Department \u003ca href=\"https://www.ocsd.org/about_ocsd/covid_19\">confirmed\u003c/a> in excess of 529 cases among the incarcerated and 166 positive tests among employees; and the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://www.alamedacountysheriff.org/admin_covid19.php\">reported\u003c/a> that 240 inmates and 53 employees tested positive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corresponding by email on Aug. 25, Santa Clara County officials stated that 173 people incarcerated in the jails and 39 employees had tested positive for the virus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, which does not make COVID-19 data available on its website, initially sent out press releases about the quarantine and outbreak but later stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stirs up hysteria when things become so data driven,” spokesman Botti wrote in a July 21 email to media outlets. \"Once we reach the point of where our mass quarantine has ended, we will make an announcement.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Public Defender Diaz said the Sheriff’s Office provides her office with information about COVID-19 cases at Fresno's Jail when prompted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We ask the question and we get the answers. It’s not necessarily forthcoming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about transparency, Botti said, “I don’t agree that we have not been transparent with our COVID situation in the jail. We have regularly released numbers upon request to media members. We also proactively announced when we went into a large quarantine at the North Annex Jail due to a dozen inmates testing positive after a transfer to Wasco State Prison. We continued to provide regular updates of quarantine numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Botti said his office does not intend to publish COVID-19 numbers on its website, but that it will provide new jail-related numbers, on a weekly basis, upon request by media members.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Advocates Call for State Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After months of pressure from advocacy groups, California’s Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) launched \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/kstevens#!/vizhome/BSCCCOVID-19inDetentionFacilitiesDashboard/Instructions\">a dashboard\u003c/a> on July 31 of COVID-19 data in local detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the community has a great interest in this information,” said Linda Penner, who chairs the oversight board. “You'll be able to look at a county and, you know, with the click of a mouse, you'll be able to look at what happened last week and the week before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say it does not illustrate the full scope of jail outbreaks in the state. The data does not include infections that occurred during the first four months of the pandemic, making it impossible to see the full size of each facility’s outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asking officials to provide virus data stretching back months “was a big lift for the counties when they are dealing with so many challenges related to the COVID-19 response,” wrote BSCC Director of Communications Tracie Cone in an Aug. 3 email. “Getting the cumulative numbers to date raised some concerns, specifically about accuracy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But without the total counts, advocates say, the dashboard is inadequate. Brian Goldstein, Director of Policy with the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice says it’s the wrong decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians should be outraged,” Goldstein said. “The Board of State and Community Corrections remains willfully ignorant of conditions within jails and juvenile facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Guneratne agreed. “It does not give us a very full picture of what is happening at the county levels to address the risk of contagion,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after the dashboard’s launch, three counties — Amador, Sacramento, and Tehama — have yet to contribute to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fresno County Ramps Up Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said her department’s response to the outbreak has been limited by space and the number of individual cells available for isolating inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some jails have the ability to isolate inmates and quarantine them before they’re put into the general population. We don’t have that ability,” Mims said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County’s jail has employed a system that quarantines groups of inmates together by color code — yellow for those with symptoms, orange for those known to have been exposed and red for those who tested positive — and then allows people to join the general population after 10 days of quarantine and three days of no symptoms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims\"]'Some jails have the ability to isolate inmates and quarantine them before they’re put into the general population. We don’t have that ability.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates argue that containing the virus should also involve strategies for reducing jail populations like releasing pretrial offenders who pose no significant risk of harm to others or of fleeing and eliminating outstanding warrants for offenses like failing to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the ACLU report on jails and COVID-19, Fresno County’s jail system at the beginning of the pandemic was the country’s 20th largest. Since March, however, Mims said the jail population had dropped from roughly 3,000 to 2,100 inmates, thanks largely to an emergency order from the state’s Judicial Council setting \u003ca href=\"https://newsroom.courts.ca.gov/news/judicial-council-adopts-new-rules-to-lower-jail-population-suspend-evictions-and-foreclosures\">bail at $0\u003c/a> for misdemeanors and lower-level felonies that was issued statewide in April and renewed locally in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reduction in the incarcerated population made the jail’s color-coded quarantine system easier to carry out, Mims said, but she warned that the policy could backfire when it comes to public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had plenty of those offenders re-offend, and they came back to the jail after being arrested again,” she said. “So it’s a two-sided coin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff’s office has committed to testing all inmates for the disease weekly, as well as testing all new arrivals upon intake, according to Botti. All employees, 20 of whom were isolating at home as of last week, can also be tested weekly on a voluntary basis.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It’s not necessarily forthcoming,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about transparency, Botti said, “I don’t agree that we have not been transparent with our COVID situation in the jail. We have regularly released numbers upon request to media members. We also proactively announced when we went into a large quarantine at the North Annex Jail due to a dozen inmates testing positive after a transfer to Wasco State Prison. We continued to provide regular updates of quarantine numbers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Botti said his office does not intend to publish COVID-19 numbers on its website, but that it will provide new jail-related numbers, on a weekly basis, upon request by media members.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Advocates Call for State Oversight\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>After months of pressure from advocacy groups, California’s Board of State and Community Corrections (BSCC) launched \u003ca href=\"https://public.tableau.com/profile/kstevens#!/vizhome/BSCCCOVID-19inDetentionFacilitiesDashboard/Instructions\">a dashboard\u003c/a> on July 31 of COVID-19 data in local detention facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that the community has a great interest in this information,” said Linda Penner, who chairs the oversight board. “You'll be able to look at a county and, you know, with the click of a mouse, you'll be able to look at what happened last week and the week before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates say it does not illustrate the full scope of jail outbreaks in the state. 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Brian Goldstein, Director of Policy with the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice says it’s the wrong decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Californians should be outraged,” Goldstein said. “The Board of State and Community Corrections remains willfully ignorant of conditions within jails and juvenile facilities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ACLU’s Guneratne agreed. “It does not give us a very full picture of what is happening at the county levels to address the risk of contagion,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A month after the dashboard’s launch, three counties — Amador, Sacramento, and Tehama — have yet to contribute to it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fresno County Ramps Up Testing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims said her department’s response to the outbreak has been limited by space and the number of individual cells available for isolating inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some jails have the ability to isolate inmates and quarantine them before they’re put into the general population. 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There, he was president of Fresno State Black Students United. He studied theatre arts as part of the school's Black Theater Contingent and graduated in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He reached out to D’Aungillique Jackson, president of the Fresno State chapter of the NAACP and a close friend. While they were strategizing, they came across social media postings for planned protests. They started reaching out to the organizers to see how they could help and found that while many were people of color, none of them were Black.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We were feeling a sense of just, frustration because the danger of labeling it as a Black Lives Matter march and something happens and like there's no Black people involved ... we would still be the ones that would get kind of like the bad rap.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824316\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11824316\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/BLM-Fresno-800x514.jpg\" alt=\"A crowd of about 3,000 gathered in Fresno for a peaceful protest against police violence on May 31, 2020.\" width=\"800\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/BLM-Fresno-800x514.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/BLM-Fresno-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/BLM-Fresno-1020x655.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/BLM-Fresno.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd of about 3,000 gathered in Fresno for a peaceful protest against police violence on May 31, 2020. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They held a video meeting with the organizers and expressed their concerns, and the groups joined forces. Slack said there's a lot of frustration among folks in the Central Valley when it comes to injustice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[It's] very agricultural country,” said Slack. “Topics like Black Lives Matter or topics like racial injustice are really kind of pushed to the sideline … you don't talk about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slack pointed to the Fresno Police Department’s track record, including former police chief Jerry Dyer being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736095/the-chief-the-remarkable-sometimes-shocking-career-of-fresnos-top-cop\">sued multiple times\u003c/a> for discrimination. The city paid $300,000 to settle a discrimination lawsuit alleging Dyer sang the plantation song “shortnin’ bread” when referring to Black officers. The department has also been repeatedly sued by family members of people shot and killed by officers. Dyer was recently elected mayor of Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"george-floyd\" label=\"related coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, it's just such a bizarre, bizarre experience,” said Slack. “It feels like that we are literally in a police state at this point. I'm trying not to get too angry because this is such a dominating force and almost suffocating the life out of the minority groups out here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slack said that the police presence in Fresno often feels suffocating — and is overlooked due to Fresno’s rural location. “You can't go anywhere or do anything without them there,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They're continuously getting funding. Our tax dollars are going towards that. It's a cycle that needs to just be broken,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slack and the other organizers of the Fresno protests have issued a set of demands, including firing racist police officers and establishing a council where Black and Latinx people have a say in hiring the next police chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FS_NAACP/status/1267720833415254017?s=20\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slack first noticed this absence of diversity when his family moved to the Central Valley from Virginia when he was ten years old. His mother was with the Coast Guard and was stationed in Lemoore, where only 5% of the population is Black. Slack said it was a shock to go from a place where there were many other people who looked like him, to a place where he was one of the few Black children in his school — and the only one with an afro or braids. The curriculum was different, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had learned so much about Black history growing up there and when I came out to Lemoore, it felt almost as if that had been watered down,\" he said. \"I was losing a sense of my identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His father, a film professor, noticed his son struggling with his identity and began showing him movies that reflected the Black experience, culture and history. Slack recalls one of the first was Alex Haley's classic miniseries, \"Roots.\" “I was kind of being exposed to a different side of history than I was being taught. A more graphic version of it,” said Slack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then came Spike Lee’s biopic, \"Malcolm X,\" starring Denzel Washington — another chapter in history Slack didn’t learn about in school. Knowing he was interested in acting, Slack's father also showed him the 1963 film \"Lilies of the Field,\" starring Sydney Poitier, as an example of a Black actor of historical significance. He said those three films hold special significance for him, and watching films with his dad inspired him to become an actor and \u003ca href=\"https://www.jslackimages.com/\">photographer\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11824287\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 666px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11824287\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Joshua-Portrait.jpg\" alt=\"A portrait of photographer, actor and activist Joshua Slack.\" width=\"666\" height=\"674\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Joshua-Portrait.jpg 666w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/Joshua-Portrait-160x162.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 666px) 100vw, 666px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of photographer, actor and activist Joshua Slack. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Joshua Slack)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When shelter-in-place restrictions ease, Slack said he plans to return to acting school in Los Angeles. 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"content": "\u003cp>Maricruz Ladino spends long nights in a freezing lettuce cooler, inspecting and packaging pre-washed salad mixes. She usually starts her shift around 4 p.m., after the pickers are done in the fields, working until at least 2 or 3 in the morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine, what happens if one of us gets sick and we still have to work?” asked Ladino in Spanish. She worries about getting exposed to the coronavirus at the packing plant where she stands on a line only about a foot apart from other workers. They come into even closer contact when passing off packages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although farming and food production are considered “essential businesses” exempt from California’s statewide shelter-in-place order, agricultural employers are having a hard time navigating guidance from public health officials on how to keep workers safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ladino said her boss held a meeting recently to remind workers to wash their hands more frequently. They need to wear gloves and a hair net as usual, but now they’re also wearing masks over their noses and mouths. Ladino said the truck drivers who transport the produce can’t come into the plant directly anymore but must wait outside in their trucks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘If They Get Sick … The Whole Country’s Going to Suffer’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s farm belt pumps out more than a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts every year. But during the COVID-19 pandemic, employers who manage the state’s orchards, packing sheds and fields of row crops are faced with a dilemma: continue operating and hope that workers don’t get sick or shutter their doors, forcing workers to file for unemployment and putting the country’s food supply at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.fda.gov/food/food-safety-during-emergencies/food-safety-and-coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19\">Food and Drug Administration is reassuring\u003c/a> consumers that there’s no evidence of COVID-19 transmission through food or food packaging. Another question, however, is how to keep farmworkers safe from exposure on the job when social distancing is often difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Miguel Arias, Fresno City Council president\"]“My biggest concern with the undocumented residents is that they’re going to be scared to come in and be checked and ask for a test, even though we know that they’re sick.”[/pullquote]\u003cbr>\nLupe Sandoval, managing director of the California Farm Labor Contractor Association, said guidelines released by agencies like the state’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health, the California Department of Public Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention so far have been generic and lack the specific guidance agricultural employers need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many industries do you see where the employer provides group transportation?” Sandoval said. “Ag is a little different. A lot of workers will get together in vans to drive to the job site. Or an employer will be registered with the federal government to bus workers to the job site. When you have 20-25 workers in a bus, or fewer in a van, it makes it difficult for social distancing and would entail more extensive disinfecting of common surfaces in vehicles before and after rides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers also often share drinking water dispensers in the fields and sometimes work in close proximity to one another, which can make social distancing a challenge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Frank Polizzi, a spokesperson for the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), said the agency recently began working on industry-specific guidance for agricultural workers, after receiving questions from employers. DIR plans to publish the guidance in English this week and in Spanish soon after, Polizzi said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erica Rosasco, an agricultural employment attorney in Roseville, said she has received a flood of calls from employers with questions about how to comply with labor laws during the coronavirus outbreak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to know how to deal with the virus and how to deal with sick employees. I have had some clients whose employees are sick and they believe they do have the virus,” Rosasco said. “So, what are their responsibilities, what are their obligations, what’s best practice?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11808286\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-800x437.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworkers harvest strawberries at a farm in Carlsbad, California, in April 2006.\" width=\"800\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-800x437.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-1020x558.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS407_farmlabor20120427-1920x1050.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworkers harvest strawberries at a farm in Carlsbad, California, in April 2006. \u003ccite>(Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least workers are unlikely to be laid off, Rosasco said. She said she is advising employers to move forward with agricultural work and give workers assurance they will continue to have a job during the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because [workers are] nervous about the idea of the shelter-in-place orders, what’s going to happen to them? They live paycheck to paycheck. They’re worried about it,” Rosasco said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s part of the supply chain. If our ag workers don’t keep working, we’re not going to have fruits and veggies in the markets,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, Fresno City Council President Miguel Arias said he’s worried about undocumented farmworkers who lack health care coverage and might wait as long as possible before seeking treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My biggest concern with the undocumented residents is that they’re going to be scared to come in and be checked and ask for a test, even though we know that they’re sick,” Arias said. “They’re so used to going to work, irrespective of their health conditions or whether they’re under the weather and running a fever, that once they begin to use our health care system for the coronavirus, our health care system will be overwhelmed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, Fresno City Councilman Luis Chavez sent a letter to Democratic Fresno congressman Jim Costa requesting additional federal funding for protective gear for health workers and support for rural clinics to help treat a “potential overflow of patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That needs to be a part of this conversation as we’re preparing a response — to have [farmworkers] be prioritized,” Chavez said. “Because if they get sick and they’re not there, the whole country’s going to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"coronavirus\" label=\"more coronavirus coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Workplace Benefits\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State labor officials said they are committed to enforcing California law when it comes to protections for low-wage workers, including farmworkers who may be undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The current public health crisis has really highlighted the differences between those workers who have ‘Cadillac’ operations and have protections and paid benefits, versus the majority of workers in California who do not have those protections or privileges,” said Lilia Garcia-Brower, California’s labor commissioner. Her staff of 700 investigates and adjudicates workplace violations ranging from unpaid wages to retaliation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia-Brower said her office is trying to “ensure that we reach the most vulnerable workers, those workers providing critical services, and that everyone understands that regardless of your immigration status, you do have basic protections for unpaid time, for paid sick leave and \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/2019-Novel-Coronavirus.htm\">other protections in the labor code.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law mandates three days of sick leave. Beyond that, workers can also apply for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806938/how-to-file-for-unemployment-in-california-during-the-coronavirus-pandemic\">disability and paid family leave\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But undocumented workers cannot collect unemployment. To qualify, workers must show legal work authorization and immigration status, said a spokesperson for California’s Economic Development Department (EDD) in an email. EDD also confirmed that it verifies immigration status with the Department of Homeland Security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Facebook poll conducted in early March by the United Farm Workers union found over 90% of roughly 270 respondents — the majority from California, Washington and Oregon — said they had not received any information about the coronavirus from their employer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UFW has \u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVID-19-2020-Open-Letter-from-UFW-FINAL.pdf\">called on employers\u003c/a> to extend worker sick pay to 40 hours or more and to eliminate the 90-day waiting period for new employees to be eligible for sick pay, among other changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/UFWupdates/status/1241726492717076482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kqed.org%2Fnews%2F11808267%2F11808267-autosave-v1\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>‘I’ll Pay for the Test’\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether farmworkers get sick, have to stay home and care for children or can’t get a visa to work in the U.S., the coronavirus could threaten the country’s supply of farm labor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. farms have become \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11778033/can-a-costly-guest-worker-program-meet-californias-need-for-farm-labor\">increasingly reliant\u003c/a> on the H-2A program over the years, which allows workers to come to the U.S. to plant, prune and harvest crops on a seasonal basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, U.S. consulates in Mexico \u003ca href=\"https://mx.usembassy.gov/status-of-u-s-consular-operations-in-mexico-in-light-of-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2GCu9JbyZaV8Gj2jDnz_ZuXcu44so90R90tKNG1zUU_z5tfPKKpgkH6Rs\">announced\u003c/a> they would scale back their operations to maintain social distancing while prioritizing applications for returning H-2A guest workers who are eligible for an interview waiver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, a spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the agency is “directly engaged with the State Department and working diligently to ensure minimal disruption in H-2A visa applications,” and that the Trump administration is “doing everything possible” to keep the program going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re all scared to death,” said Ileana Arvizu, a farm labor contractor and president of ISA Contracting Services based in Firebaugh, west of Fresno. “We need those workers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arvizu said she would be willing to pay for H-2A workers to be tested for the coronavirus if it meant the workers would arrive in the U.S. in time for the season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they decide that they want to make sure that they’re clear and safe, [that] they’re not coming in with the virus, I’ll pay for the test. Whether it’s in Mexico, before they actually depart, or at any point,” Arvizu said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11780792\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11780792\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS18893_GettyImages-453973236-800x531.jpg\" alt=\"A worker harvests cantaloupes on a farm near Firebaugh, California, on August 22, 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker harvests cantaloupes on a farm near Firebaugh, California, on Aug. 22, 2014. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The degree of impact a loss of workers will have depends on how long the current restrictions stay in place, said Daniel Costa (no relation to Rep. Jim Costa), director of immigration law and policy research at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank based in a Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/coronavirus-and-farmworkers-h-2a/\">report\u003c/a> out Tuesday, Costa and UC Davis professor Philip Martin project that if only returning H-2A workers are processed for the next two months, the impact will likely be minor because farm employment in March and April is typically low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But if this practice stays in place for six months or more, during which no new applicants for H-2A visas can enter the United States,” Costa and Martin write, “the impact could be significant.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If fewer guest workers are allowed into the U.S. and domestic farm workers get sick or have to stay home to care for children, farms will either have to pay overtime or recruit new workers. That means U.S.-born workers could be recruited to work in agriculture, Daniel Costa said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Maricruz Ladino, farmworker\"]“This crisis is going to touch all of us. It’s a time for reflecting, re-evaluating what’s important.”[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s obviously the big question,” he said. “In California, there’s about to be 1.6 million unemployed workers. Will those workers take those jobs? It’s an experiment that’s about to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But farm labor contractor Jasmine Quintanilla said she thinks that’s unlikely, even if many people are out of a job due to the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quintanilla said she tried hiring U.S.-born workers during past labor shortages, but they quit on their own after just a couple of hours. Workers who are new to agriculture lack experience, which presents a problem for labor contractors under pressure to work quickly and meet the expectations of growers, Quintanilla said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t really afford new people … inexperienced people,” Quintanilla said. “People that have never worked in the field, they won’t even come out there. They’ll be like, ‘Heck no, this is too hard.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Uncertainty in the Fields\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many farms are scrambling to send more produce to supermarkets these days, farmworker Maricruz Ladino says her shifts at the packing house have become more irregular over the last week. Sometimes, there’s only a few hours of work, or workers are told to stand by to see if there will be shifts at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do see some hiccups … given the restaurant shutdowns across the country. Those orders have suddenly stopped,” said Dave Puglia, president and CEO of \u003ca href=\"https://www.wga.com/\">Western Growers\u003c/a>, representing fresh produce growers in California and Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You would think that we could simply redirect those fresh produce crops into the retail sector, especially because we have shortages in stores. But it unfortunately isn’t that simple,” Puglia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because farms have to work out new contracts, Puglia said, and figure out the capacity of shipping companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11808285\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11808285\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS5166_5Maricruz-sfi.jpg\" alt=\"Maricruz Ladino inspecting lettuce at a Salinas packing plant. \" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS5166_5Maricruz-sfi.jpg 540w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/RS5166_5Maricruz-sfi-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maricruz Ladino inspecting lettuce at a Salinas packing plant. \u003ccite>(Andres Cediel/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ladino earns about $16 an hour as a supervisor in the packing cooler. Her rent on the one-bedroom she shares with her daughter in Salinas is $1,600. Every hour she’s not paid to work, she’s farther from making rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could get really tough. Work is how we feed our families. If things change, it’s so uncertain. How will we ever get ahead?” Ladino said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A formerly undocumented immigrant, Ladino is also worried that the coronavirus will stall immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This crisis is going to touch all of us,” Ladino said. “It’s a time for reflecting, re-evaluating what’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s The California Report first profiled Ladino in 2013 for “Rape in the Fields,” a \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/rape-in-the-fields/\">Frontline film\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10341215/farmworkers-face-rape-and-a-system-that-doesnt-aid-them\">radio series\u003c/a> about farmworkers facing sexual harassment and assault, which was produced in collaboration with the Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley and the Center for Investigative Reporting.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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She grabbed the box and tugged, but her glove was stuck underneath it, and as she pulled, her hand stayed in place, straining her wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She recently stopped receiving workers’ compensation payments and doesn’t qualify for any available jobs, Amazon or otherwise, from nurse’s assistant to retail cashier, because she can’t lift even a gallon of milk. The family now depends on her husband’s income as a security guard, help from their family and food stamps. Despite weeks of physical therapy, it’s unclear when her wrist will heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caballero’s injury was one of 307 injuries and illnesses recorded at the Fresno fulfillment center between June 2018, when it opened, and May 2019, according to federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2018, the Fresno warehouse’s rate of serious injuries — those that require job restrictions or days off work — was nearly 12 injuries per 100 workers, almost three times the national warehouse industry average last year, and more than double the statewide industry average, according to OSHA records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The injury rate in Fresno\u003ca href=\"https://www.revealnews.org/article/find-out-what-injuries-are-like-at-the-amazon-warehouse-that-handled-your-packages/\"> ranked 10th among 28 Amazon warehouses\u003c/a> nationwide in 2018 for which Reveal, from The Center for Investigative Reporting, obtained records. It ranked third among California’s Amazon warehouses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center, among the top corporate employers in the county, employs more than 2,500 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"amazon\"]The Fresno Bee spoke with more than a dozen Amazon workers, four of whom were injured and agreed to go on the record. They said the job was great, as were the pay and benefits. But they said injuries at Amazon were crippling in more ways than one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers described a stressful environment, where they had to keep a breakneck pace or face write-ups from supervisors. They feared taking bathroom breaks or time off due to injuries or illnesses because they said they felt doing so would put their jobs at risk. They also said they feared or were discouraged from filing injury reports, which indicates that official rates may be undercounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of injuries were described on OSHA reports as sprains and strains to the back, wrist, shoulder and ankles. The remaining workers sustained bruises, fractures or smash injuries, like crushed toes or skin irritations. The workers interviewed reported mostly sprains and strains due to repetitive motions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were made to stretch before work and lunch, and “microstretch” throughout the day, employees said repeating the same motion over and over wore on their muscles and ligaments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some who were hurt on the job said they struggled to get and keep workers’ compensation, and still feel the physical effects of their injuries months after their benefits ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Amazon Responds\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to The Bee, an Amazon spokesperson said its injury rates appear high because the company is aggressive about recording injuries, regardless of whether they are work related. Amazon said they believe others in the industry dramatically underreport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re seeing this in the rates because we take an abundance of caution in not placing employees with work restrictions back at work before they are ready,” the spokesperson said in the email. “We know that by making a conservative choice to not place an injured associate back into a job before permitted by their work restrictions, we are increasing lost time as a company, but with the intent to benefit the associate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company added that training and protocols to ensure safety are ubiquitous at Amazon. The company has spent over $55 million on capital investments specific to safety improvements, it wrote. For example, supervisors are supposed to track and audit progress on reducing physical risk, and every associate is asked to fill out a monthly safety survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/AMAZON-photo-2-e1579646896870.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/AMAZON-photo-2-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon process assistant Ivan Agcaoili works at his station. The center, among the top corporate employers in Fresno County, employs more than 2,500 people. \u003ccite>(Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caballero doesn’t blame Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was the best one she’s had, and a rigorous set of safety guidelines existed, including mandated daily stretching. But she believes supervisors were under such high pressure to meet quotas, they encouraged workers to do anything for the job, regardless of the physical toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew what was happening and they just let it happen,” Caballero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon said they have never heard of supervisors encouraging teams to bypass safety guidelines to meet quotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like most companies, we have performance expectations for every Amazonian — be it corporate employee or fulfillment center associate and we measure actual performance against those expectations,” the spokesperson wrote. “Associate performance is measured and evaluated over a long period of time as we know that a variety of things could impact the ability to meet expectations in any given day or hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Big Win for Fresno\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At 855,000 square feet, Amazon’s fulfillment center in Fresno spans about 14 football fields. It runs 24 hours a day and utilizes hundreds of robots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A machine illuminates for workers like Caballero what items to grab from cubbies or bins, and where to place them. Robots resembling automatic vacuum cleaners underneath shelves whisk items across the floor. More than 10 miles of conveyors whisk packages from one end of the warehouse to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city spent nearly a year in negotiations with Amazon to secure the state-of-the-art warehouse. Mayor Lee Brand’s Economic Expansion Act, approved by the City Council in 2016, calls for Fresno to rebate 90% of the city’s share of property taxes as well as the city’s entire share of sales, and use taxes paid by the company on purchases it makes in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city spent more than $1 million in broadband installation, expanded roads leading to the warehouse and modified bus routes, according to Councilman Luis Chavez, a vocal supporter of the city’s Amazon deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify for the incentives, hard-capped at $30 million over 30 years, Amazon agreed to provide 750 new full-time jobs at the center throughout that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon also committed to a $53 million investment in the city, county and Fresno Unified School District over 30 years. Since opening, the company has has donated $15,000 to the Fresno Unified School District to support STEM and robotics education for more than 600 local students and $25,000 to the nonprofit WestCare Homeless Alleviation, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to a $15 minimum wage, Amazon offers employees comprehensive medical, vision and dental benefits, as well as a 401(k) plan with a 50% company match. Employees can receive up to 20 weeks of paid family leave. Amazon also offers nearly full tuition for employees to go back to school in high-demand fields, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez said Amazon’s presence has forced other warehouses, like Kraft and OK Produce, to raise hourly wages by $2 or $3 in order to compete. It also put Fresno on the map for other companies, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that Amazon and Ulta [a cosmetics supplier] came, there’s been a lot of interest in other companies coming to Fresno, and I think that’s been a big plus for the city of Fresno to provide more jobs for the community,” Chavez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he added the city needs to dig deeper to learn why the injury rate is “abnormally high.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To have 12 out of 100 employees to be injured in that span is really high,” Chavez said. “Our goal should not be the state or the national average, it should be well below that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to The Bee, Mayor Brand said he couldn’t speak about the company’s workplace injuries, but said worker safety in general was a basic expectation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since their e-commerce center opened in 2018, Amazon has had a positive effect on our community as well as our economy, providing thousands of good paying jobs that helped Fresno achieve record low unemployment and bring opportunity and advancement for Fresno families,” Brand said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that regulatory agencies like Cal/OSHA closely monitor and enforce worker safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I expect every business in Fresno to not only comply with worker safety laws, but also to value their employees,” he said. “Given what Amazon has done for their employees with benefits and education incentives, I expect that they also take workplace safety very seriously.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Fear of Reporting Injuries\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Most of the workers The Bee interviewed said they were scared to report injuries to their supervisors. When they did, they said they felt discouraged from filing formal injury reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Tambra Recek, Amazon warehouse worker\"]‘You still have to go fast and it’s hard when you’re in a lot of pain.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Caballero feared reporting her injury because she had heard from her coworkers that it could result in being passed up for a promotion. She told her manager anyway, when she could no longer work with her right hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t really want to have a report written for my injury and get treated differently,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tambra Recek, 33, said she injured her back lifting boxes at the warehouse and the pain drove her to tears. At AmCare, the in-house first aid facility, she said she was told she would have to clock out to see a doctor, something she still hasn’t done because she has doesn’t have health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t afford to not get paid. I have kids,” Recek said. “Finally I said, ‘You know what, I’m fine. I’m fine.’ They asked, ‘Do you want to drop the case?’ So I signed those papers saying that you don’t want to go further. But you still have to pack. You still have to go fast and it’s hard when you’re in a lot of pain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Hoffman, a 40-year-old mother of four, said she was injured three times before she reported it because she was scared of losing her livelihood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, she said, a box fell on her shoulder. Then she pulled a muscle reaching for a box in a cubby. In January, her wrists began aching, but she said she only let her supervisors know months later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her husband, Keith, who also works at the fulfillment center, said that in July, he was picking up a flat of energy drinks from a bin to scan and put into a tray when he felt his back pop. When a manager took him to the AmCare facility during a break, he urged her to come along because she kept rubbing her wrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In their emailed response, Amazon officials said the health and safety of associates is their top priority and they “support employees when they have personal obligations, health matters or other life events that require support.” The company declined to discuss individual complaints to respect the privacy of employees, but said they have zero tolerance for retaliation against employees who raise concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/AMAZON-photo-3-e1579646991923.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/AMAZON-photo-3-800x537.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon process assistant Ivan Agcaoili looks to his computer monitor as he sorts packages. \u003ccite>(Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Seeking Care\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly Hoffman had her wrist wrapped and returned to work. She went to the doctor the next day, and learned that the tightly wrapped bandage was constricting her nerves, worsening the injury. She was diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome in both wrists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Patient may have a baseline narrowed canal, which was aggravated by the repeated work she does at Amazon,” her medical records say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keith Hoffman, 43, was sent to the doctor, who later found a mild disc bulge and a narrowing between two of his vertebrae, his records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both were taken out of work and put on workers’ compensation, receiving around $800 every two weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They said there was no ibuprofen at the clinic or in the vending machine in the break room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always gone because everyone goes to work sick there because you never have time,” Keith said. “I can’t tell you how many times I saw somebody throwing up in a garbage can there because they don’t want to get fired for missing work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Amazon declined to comment on specific incidents, the company said onsite medical representatives “follow clear, established company guidelines for first aid treatment in accordance with local, state, and federal regulations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It added that no associate should ever be discouraged from seeking care. Employees receive up to five weeks of time off a year and full health benefits starting on day one, it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>A Stressful Work Environment\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Recek, the mother of two who threw out her back in March, remembers being under constant stress. The loud machinery and fans buzzed in her ears during her 10-hour shifts, with no respite. (Phones are not allowed on the floor.) She said she always felt watched by supervisors who stood on elevated platforms overlooking work stations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If she went to the bathroom, which was about half a block and two flights of stairs from her station, she would be asked why she had taken so long off task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon countered that every employee has quick, easy access to bathrooms and is allowed to use them freely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April 2019, Recek broke down while packing boxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what triggered it,” she said. “I was standing there. Somebody was talking to me and I blacked out. I was bent over the counter and I just was stuck. They said they were talking to me and I wasn’t replying. My manager came over and said, ‘What happened?’ I said, ’Huh?’ I didn’t remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After what she called an anxiety attack, Recek took a leave of absence. She didn’t qualify for workers’ compensation, so she received disability payments from the state until her fund ran out in December. But she said she hasn’t been able to afford medication to treat her anxiety and depression because her benefits ended in October. She has been doing food delivery through apps like Postmates to keep up with bills, but she said her back is in constant pain from the injury she never formally reported. She has no medical documents to support the reason for her leave of absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoffman and her husband also lost their health insurance, with no prior notice, when their short-term disability ended in December. They both suffer from high blood pressure, and had three kids on their insurance, so they worry about what they will do when they run out of medicine or their kids need to see their eye doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We busted our butts for these people and that’s the pay we get, is losing our benefits — while we’re injured — because of them,” Keith Hoffman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>‘I Would Do it Again’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In spite of high injury rates, most of the workers interviewed said they enjoyed their jobs and would go back if they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The opportunities are endless when it comes to working with Amazon,” said Ivan Agcaoili, a process assistant at Amazon who has not suffered any injuries. “As long as you keep your head down, you work hard, you learn the process to understand everything, you’re good to go. It’s kind of a contagious thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Hoffmans said they could barely make it outside for a cigarette on their breaks, so they still feel grateful the job helped them quit smoking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would do it again. I really would,” Keith said. “But it’s really strenuous work so it does wear on you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story by Fresno Bee journalist Manuela Tobias was completed with information from Reveal’s Reporting Networks.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>It is part of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/divide/\">\u003cem>The California Divide\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a collaboration among newsrooms examining income inequity and economic survival in California.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The Fresno Bee spoke with more than a dozen Amazon workers, four of whom were injured and agreed to go on the record. They said the job was great, as were the pay and benefits. But they said injuries at Amazon were crippling in more ways than one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The workers described a stressful environment, where they had to keep a breakneck pace or face write-ups from supervisors. They feared taking bathroom breaks or time off due to injuries or illnesses because they said they felt doing so would put their jobs at risk. They also said they feared or were discouraged from filing injury reports, which indicates that official rates may be undercounted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of injuries were described on OSHA reports as sprains and strains to the back, wrist, shoulder and ankles. The remaining workers sustained bruises, fractures or smash injuries, like crushed toes or skin irritations. The workers interviewed reported mostly sprains and strains due to repetitive motions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they were made to stretch before work and lunch, and “microstretch” throughout the day, employees said repeating the same motion over and over wore on their muscles and ligaments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some who were hurt on the job said they struggled to get and keep workers’ compensation, and still feel the physical effects of their injuries months after their benefits ended.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Amazon Responds\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>In an emailed statement to The Bee, an Amazon spokesperson said its injury rates appear high because the company is aggressive about recording injuries, regardless of whether they are work related. Amazon said they believe others in the industry dramatically underreport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re seeing this in the rates because we take an abundance of caution in not placing employees with work restrictions back at work before they are ready,” the spokesperson said in the email. “We know that by making a conservative choice to not place an injured associate back into a job before permitted by their work restrictions, we are increasing lost time as a company, but with the intent to benefit the associate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company added that training and protocols to ensure safety are ubiquitous at Amazon. The company has spent over $55 million on capital investments specific to safety improvements, it wrote. For example, supervisors are supposed to track and audit progress on reducing physical risk, and every associate is asked to fill out a monthly safety survey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11797128\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/AMAZON-photo-2-e1579646896870.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11797128\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/AMAZON-photo-2-800x536.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"536\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amazon process assistant Ivan Agcaoili works at his station. The center, among the top corporate employers in Fresno County, employs more than 2,500 people. \u003ccite>(Eric Paul Zamora/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Caballero doesn’t blame Amazon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The job was the best one she’s had, and a rigorous set of safety guidelines existed, including mandated daily stretching. But she believes supervisors were under such high pressure to meet quotas, they encouraged workers to do anything for the job, regardless of the physical toll.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They knew what was happening and they just let it happen,” Caballero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon said they have never heard of supervisors encouraging teams to bypass safety guidelines to meet quotas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like most companies, we have performance expectations for every Amazonian — be it corporate employee or fulfillment center associate and we measure actual performance against those expectations,” the spokesperson wrote. “Associate performance is measured and evaluated over a long period of time as we know that a variety of things could impact the ability to meet expectations in any given day or hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>A Big Win for Fresno\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>At 855,000 square feet, Amazon’s fulfillment center in Fresno spans about 14 football fields. It runs 24 hours a day and utilizes hundreds of robots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A machine illuminates for workers like Caballero what items to grab from cubbies or bins, and where to place them. Robots resembling automatic vacuum cleaners underneath shelves whisk items across the floor. More than 10 miles of conveyors whisk packages from one end of the warehouse to another.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city spent nearly a year in negotiations with Amazon to secure the state-of-the-art warehouse. Mayor Lee Brand’s Economic Expansion Act, approved by the City Council in 2016, calls for Fresno to rebate 90% of the city’s share of property taxes as well as the city’s entire share of sales, and use taxes paid by the company on purchases it makes in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city spent more than $1 million in broadband installation, expanded roads leading to the warehouse and modified bus routes, according to Councilman Luis Chavez, a vocal supporter of the city’s Amazon deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To qualify for the incentives, hard-capped at $30 million over 30 years, Amazon agreed to provide 750 new full-time jobs at the center throughout that time period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amazon also committed to a $53 million investment in the city, county and Fresno Unified School District over 30 years. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:05 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>FRESNO — Police searched Monday for two assailants who sneaked into a backyard party in Fresno and opened fire while a small crowd watched football on television. Four people were killed and six wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house where a group of Hmong family and friends had gathered was deliberately targeted on Sunday evening, but the shooters fired at random once they saw men in the yard watching football, police said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They fired randomly into the crowd. It does not appear that they were targeting any individuals, and once they fired, they fled,” Fresno Police Chief Andrew Hall said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hall said there was no immediate word on a motive, and so far there was no indication that any of the victims knew their attackers, though most could not see them, describing seeing only flashes when the semiautomatic pistols were fired. Officers went door-to-door looking for surveillance video that might help them track down suspects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The party “was not described as being out of control in any way. It was just a family event,” Hall said. The chief said the shooting scene was graphic and that officers are making the case a priority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve got a single focus within the organization, and this is not going to be tolerated in the Southeast (Asian) community or any other community in Fresno,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has the nation’s highest population of Hmong, a Southeast Asian ethnic minority, and Fresno has the second-highest population in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The men who died ranged in age from 21 to 40, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three were found dead when emergency crews arrived. A fourth person died at a hospital. 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"content": "\u003cp>A former Anglican priest accused of sexually abusing some of his adult immigrant parishioners in Fresno, under the guise of a supposed spiritual healing ritual, will stand trial, a judge ruled Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna walked out of the courtroom flanked by his supporters, who hugged him in the hallway as he left. Fresno County Superior Court Judge Jane A. Cardoza ruled the case will go to trial on all charges. Castañeda has been charged with 22 counts of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempt to dissuade a witness from prosecuting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='A man who accused Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna of sexual abuse']'You start confusing God and a human being and you have trouble making the distinction between what’s good and what’s bad.'[/pullquote]Cardoza’s ruling came after nine days of testimony by nine alleged victims, most of them adult men who said the priest massaged their genitals under the pretext of a “prayer” or “healing” ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The court finds that the witnesses were authentic and credible,\" said Cardoza. \"Indeed, I was taken by the tone of their testimony, being humbled, quite baffled by the defendant's actions and ultimately disillusioned by him.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda, through his attorney, has maintained his innocence. Defense attorney Ralph Torres said the alleged sexual abuse never happened and he thought they would prevail at trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This type of healing massage happens all over Latin America, Mexico and in the United States. Nothing unusual about that,\" he said after Cardoza's ruling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The alleged victims described visiting Castañeda’s office to receive healing for physical ailments and personal issues such as drug or alcohol abuse, separation from a spouse, or the death of a child. Most said they were referred by other congregants who claimed the priest possessed spiritual gifts and the ability to heal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the eight men and one woman who testified, Castañeda told them that they had been cursed by previous wives or girlfriends, or were possessed by a demon and needed spiritual healing. (The witnesses were named in court, but KQED is not disclosing their identities because they are alleged victims of sexual abuse.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witnesses said Castañeda instructed them to strip down to their underwear, lay on a bench or massage table, and receive “healing” or “prayer” massages that they described as very painful. One man reported he had visible bruises for days after the massages. Prosecutor Kelly Smith presented photos showing the man’s neck with red marks, which the witness said a family member took after one of the prayer massages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The massages often ended in the priest touching parishioners’ genitals, the witnesses testified. In some cases, they described a grazing that could have been accidental. In others, they said, Castañeda grabbed their penis or testicles through their underwear or attempted to masturbate them. Sometimes the priest claimed to have removed a black or yellow substance from their penis, the men said. The woman said Castañeda touched her breasts while making the sign of the cross on her chest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782043\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10232019_Castaneda3_crop-qut-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna preaches to parishioners of his new church, Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, or Holy Spirit Church. Castañeda has been charged with 22 counts of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempt to prevent a witness/victim from prosecuting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10232019_Castaneda3_crop-qut-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10232019_Castaneda3_crop-qut-160x116.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10232019_Castaneda3_crop-qut-1020x741.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10232019_Castaneda3_crop-qut-1200x871.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/10232019_Castaneda3_crop-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna preaches to parishioners of his new church, Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, or Holy Spirit Church. Castañeda has been charged with 22 counts of battery, sexual battery, attempted sexual battery and attempt to prevent a witness/victim from prosecuting. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The alleged victims described leaving the meetings shocked, ashamed and confused. Some said the events forever altered their trust in priests. The witnesses said the meetings took place at different times in recent years: The first accounts of the abuse date back to 2014 and the most recent to 2017.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Bruce Taylor, U.S.-based archbishop of the World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches']'This is not some banana republic. This is the United States of America. We have due process. And everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.'[/pullquote]One man alleged Castañeda told him the priest needed to see his semen to determine how he should be treated. Another man said Castañeda yanked on his penis so abruptly that he heard a popping noise and urinated blood for two to three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another witness said one prayer massage ended with Castañeda masturbating him and telling him that he was in love with him. The man, who was a parishioner and church volunteer, said the experience led him to attempt suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You start confusing God and a human being and you have trouble making the distinction between what’s good and what’s bad,” the man testified in Spanish through an interpreter. “And you realize that what’s happening to you isn’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When defense attorney Torres asked the same man whether he reported the alleged sexual touching to the priest's superiors at the church, the witness replied: “This isn’t something you can just talk about. Because there’s going to be some people who believe you, there’s going to be some people who do not believe you, and I couldn’t talk about it at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The offices of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Fresno, where witnesses testified in court that some of the healing massages took place. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another witness testified that following an incident in which he said Castañeda attempted to masturbate him, he saw the priest at church. The witness said Castañeda patted him on the back and warned, “You better not tell anyone. You know the consequences.” The witness said he took the comment to be a threat that the priest could report his parents to immigration officials if he spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witnesses faced Castañeda in court, along with his many supporters, all churchgoers who followed the priest after he was removed from the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin because of the allegations, to his new congregation — Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, or Holy Spirit Church in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At different points during the testimony, the priest’s supporters scoffed and chuckled, or glared at witnesses when they exited the courtroom. Others talked under their breath, and smirked or laughed in response to the witness testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at Castañeda's new church before the preliminary hearing began, a supporter of the priest said: \"What they have said is not believable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the father asked me to touch myself ... as an adult I would say, you know what father, this isn't normal,\" said Carolina Perea. \"You can't do this, I won't do it. Because we're not talking about kids here. These are adults.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Judge Cardoza stopped the hearing to chide members of the audience who were making audible noises, telling them they could not interrupt the proceedings. “I can hear you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Bishop Eric Menees of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin']'I essentially let him know that the allegations had been made. I did not say who the allegations were from. And his immediate response was to say ‘Yes, I learned this healing ministry in India.''[/pullquote]Defense attorney Torres questioned the alleged victims, asking them if they had applied for U visa, a visa for victims of crimes who cooperate with law enforcement in investigating or prosecuting a criminal case. Defenders of the priest have argued Castañeda's alleged victims are making accusations in an attempt to obtain legal status in the United States. The immigration status of the witnesses isn't clear, but one man said he got help applying for a U visa. Others said they didn’t know about the visa or had not applied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda led Latino parishioners in Fresno for nearly a decade before allegations surfaced that he had sexually abused parishioners. At the time, Castañeda was pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a Spanish-language congregation of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2017, Bishop Eric Menees of the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin said three men reported to him that Castañeda had a healing ministry where he told parishioners if he anointed their genitals, he could heal them of their sexual sins. The bishop, who said he considered the allegations to be credible, confronted Castañeda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I essentially let him know that the allegations had been made. I did not say who the allegations were from. And his immediate response was to say ‘Yes, I learned this healing ministry in India,’ ” Menees said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And I just said, ‘No you didn’t. ... that’s just a lie. It certainly wasn’t a Christian healing ministry,' \" Menees told KQED at his office in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bishop Menees contacted Fresno police in October 2017 and removed Castañeda from his post at the Anglican church the next month. Fresno police began investigating the priest and arrested Castañeda in February 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To date, nine alleged victims have joined the criminal case. Over 40 people told church officials that they or a family member or friend were abused, Menees said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11781960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-11781960 size-medium\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cowiche-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cowiche-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cowiche-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cowiche-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cowiche-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/Cowiche.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Juan Diego Parish in Cowiche, Washington. Castañeda was the pastor of the church in 2005, when an unidentified man has alleged the priest touched him inappropriately. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>An Earlier Allegation\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Carolina Perea, a supporter of Jesús Antonio Castañeda Serna']'If the father asked me to touch myself ... as an adult I would say, you know what father, this isn't normal. You can't do this, I won't do it. Because we're not talking about kids here. These are adults.'[/pullquote]The allegations in Fresno are not the first to have been lodged against the priest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From 1997-2005, Castañeda was a priest with the Catholic Diocese of Yakima in Washington. In December 2005, he was suspended from the ministry due to allegations he violated the seal of confession, Yakima Diocese Chancellor Msgr. Robert Siler told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Castañeda’s request, Siler said, he was laicized in December 2007.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Records show that in 2009, the Yakima Diocese notified the Anglican Diocese in Fresno that the priest had allegedly touched the genitals of a young adult man under his care several years earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked whether the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin, or the bishop at the time, notified parishioners of Our Lady of Guadalupe of the Yakima allegation, Bishop Menees said Tuesday that, due to the pending criminal and civil proceedings, counsel had advised him not to make any additional comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Menees became the bishop in 2011. The previous head of the diocese, Bishop John-David Schofield, said in a September 2009 letter to the Yakima Diocese that “it appears to me Fr. Antonio has been wrongly accused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='sexual-assault' label='Related Coverage']Court documents show the man, who said he made the allegation in 2005, was interviewed by a Fresno police detective but did not want to come forward as a victim. In an in-person interview with KQED, the man said he hoped and prayed there would be justice for the alleged victims in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is quite similar, what happened to me, what they are describing,” the man said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a tragedy … that he was able to abuse his power in ministry for 10 years,” Msgr. Siler said. “How do we stop that? I don’t know. I can’t imagine the Diocese of Yakima having the resources to follow him around with a sign, for example, saying, ‘Don’t go near this man.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since his removal from the Anglican church, Castañeda has been re-ordained by the \u003ca href=\"http://www.celticconvergencechurch.org/\">World Communion of Christian Celtic Convergence Churches\u003c/a>, headquartered in the United Kingdom. The U.S.-based archbishop of the church, Bruce Taylor, said he believes Castañeda is innocent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not some banana republic. This is the United States of America,” Taylor said. “We have due process. And everyone is presumed innocent until proven guilty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about the allegations stemming from Castañeda’s time in Yakima, Taylor said he was unaware of them. Defense attorney Torres said the Yakima allegation has no relevance to the Fresno case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If convicted, Castañeda faces up to 23½ years in prison.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One man alleged Castañeda told him the priest needed to see his semen to determine how he should be treated. Another man said Castañeda yanked on his penis so abruptly that he heard a popping noise and urinated blood for two to three days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another witness said one prayer massage ended with Castañeda masturbating him and telling him that he was in love with him. The man, who was a parishioner and church volunteer, said the experience led him to attempt suicide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You start confusing God and a human being and you have trouble making the distinction between what’s good and what’s bad,” the man testified in Spanish through an interpreter. “And you realize that what’s happening to you isn’t right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When defense attorney Torres asked the same man whether he reported the alleged sexual touching to the priest's superiors at the church, the witness replied: “This isn’t something you can just talk about. Because there’s going to be some people who believe you, there’s going to be some people who do not believe you, and I couldn’t talk about it at the time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11782022\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11782022\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/10/RS39697_Shaw-office-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The offices of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Fresno, where witnesses testified in court that some of the healing massages took place. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another witness testified that following an incident in which he said Castañeda attempted to masturbate him, he saw the priest at church. The witness said Castañeda patted him on the back and warned, “You better not tell anyone. You know the consequences.” The witness said he took the comment to be a threat that the priest could report his parents to immigration officials if he spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The witnesses faced Castañeda in court, along with his many supporters, all churchgoers who followed the priest after he was removed from the Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin because of the allegations, to his new congregation — Iglesia del Espíritu Santo, or Holy Spirit Church in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At different points during the testimony, the priest’s supporters scoffed and chuckled, or glared at witnesses when they exited the courtroom. Others talked under their breath, and smirked or laughed in response to the witness testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview at Castañeda's new church before the preliminary hearing began, a supporter of the priest said: \"What they have said is not believable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If the father asked me to touch myself ... as an adult I would say, you know what father, this isn't normal,\" said Carolina Perea. \"You can't do this, I won't do it. Because we're not talking about kids here. These are adults.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, Judge Cardoza stopped the hearing to chide members of the audience who were making audible noises, telling them they could not interrupt the proceedings. “I can hear you,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As California struggles with a crisis in affordable housing, state lawmakers are trying to improve a severe shortage of housing available to renters who have federal Section 8 vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vouchers allow tenants to pay only 30% of their income toward rent with federal assistance to pay the rest. But most landlords do not accept tenants who pay with vouchers, saying they are too burdensome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Reina Richter, disabled Fresno resident who has been unable to find housing with her Section 8 voucher\"]'That ‘No’ is powerful. It’s a struggle ... If I lose my voucher, [I don't know] what I’m going to do.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, applicants can wait years to qualify for the Section 8 vouchers and, when they do, they often can’t find housing before the vouchers expire, usually within 60 days. Last year in Fresno, roughly 17% of the 21,000 people who applied for a voucher got one. But less than half who did found a place before the clock ran out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s billed as a golden ticket,” said Alexander Harnden, a policy advocate for the Western Center on Law and Poverty. “At this point, I describe it as a ticket to last summer’s movie. If you can find where it’s playing, that’s great. Otherwise it’s just a piece of paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Preston Prince, executive director of Fresno’s housing authority, attributed the trouble in securing housing to multiple factors: rising housing costs, poor credit scores and renting histories, and landlords who refuse to accept Section 8 vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State lawmakers are weighing two very different remedies to the problem in a state with an intensifying housing crisis that has become a pillar of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first-year agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB521\">One of the bills,\u003c/a> introduced by Sen. Anthony Portantino, a La Cañada Flintridge Democrat, would give landlords more incentive to accept Section 8 tenants by providing a tax break equal to 3% of the voucher’s value. The bill is estimated to cost the state $48.5 million over the next three years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB329\">The other bill\u003c/a> from Sen. Holly Mitchell, a Los Angeles Democrat, would make it illegal for landlords to discriminate against tenants who receive federal housing vouchers or local housing assistance. Current law prohibits landlords from several categories of discrimination including income. Mitchell’s bill would expand the law to require that landlords consider tenants equally regardless of whether housing assistance is one of their sources of income. Landlords believed to discriminate would risk lawsuits from the state Department of Fair Employment and Housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both bills are scheduled to be considered Friday in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Section 8 in California\" tag=\"section-8\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside “no smoking” and “no pets,” California landlords often write “No Section 8” in their rental ads on websites like Craigslist and Zillow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A recent search on Zumper.com, a rental website that includes a Section 8 filter, found fewer than 1% of the more than 16,500 rental postings for Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramento, San Jose, Fresno and Oakland combined accepted Section 8 vouchers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The search is even more difficult for units that are priced within the limits of Section 8 vouchers. Voucher holders must find apartments priced within the standard set by their local housing authority, which ranges from 90% to 110% of the Fair Market Rent, a county-wide number set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across those same cities, a Zumper search found just one Oakland unit and two Fresno units that accepted Section 8 vouchers among a total of 770 two-bedroom listings that had monthly rents below each city’s Fair Market Rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the last two months, Fresno resident Reina Richter has spent upwards of five hours browsing the internet, calling landlords, and visiting apartment complexes, three to four days a week, to find someone who will take her voucher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That ‘No’ is powerful,” said Richter. “It’s detouring. It’s a struggle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richter, who has dwarfism and diabetes, receives disability and supplemental security income from the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t even know how someone would have a full time job and try to find a place,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation=\"Leah Simon-Weisberg, Centro Legal de la Raza\"]'In the same way it’s unacceptable to say ‘No Jews’…, it has to be equally unacceptable to say ‘No Section 8.' '[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She worries about what will happen if she can’t find an apartment in time, before her voucher expires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would end up homeless. Or maybe I move in with a family member ... I don’t know at that point, if I lose my voucher, what I’m going to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nicknamed after Section 8 of the federal Housing Act, the Housing Choice Voucher program is the country’s largest low-income housing assistance program, helping about 2.2 million households secure housing in the private rental market. The program was created in the 1970s as an alternative to public housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, advocates for the poor say that landlords often reject Section 8 tenants based on racist or class stereotypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s gotten so bad that it’s almost completely undermined the initial purpose of the Section 8 program in that it was supposed to allow people that were financially disadvantaged to live in high-resource communities,” said Leah Simon-Weisberg, who leads the tenants rights program at Centro Legal de la Raza in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the same way it’s unacceptable to say ‘No Jews’…, it has to be equally unacceptable to say ‘No Section 8.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11771041\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Section-8-photo-text-body-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"Reina Richter says applicants far outnumber the available housing in Fresno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11771041\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Section-8-photo-text-body-800x500.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Section-8-photo-text-body-160x100.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Section-8-photo-text-body-1020x637.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Section-8-photo-text-body-1200x749.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/08/Section-8-photo-text-body.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Reina Richter says applicants far outnumber the available housing in Fresno. \u003ccite>(Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Landlord and real estate lobbies oppose Mitchell’s bill because they say the red tape required to work with federal agencies is burdensome and can cost money through vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Greg Terzakis, senior vice president of the California Apartment Association, said it can take weeks to get inspections, which are required before units can qualify for Section 8 vouchers. He also said the federal money is sometimes late. Plus, Section 8 requires a one-year lease while some landlords prefer month-to-month contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Normally, renters give you an application, you run a background check, credit, say yes or no and you’re done,” he said. “But with Section 8, there’s an additional paperwork packet. You have to take it to the housing authority, once it’s reviewed they have to send you a letter telling you when the inspection is going to be.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s Housing Authority acknowledged the process can be difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There may be some inconsistencies on our part. Those are things we are working on through monitoring and training. We hear them,” said Angie Nguyen, chief of staff at the Fresno Housing Authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Affordable Housing\" tag=\"affordable-housing\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portantino’s bill attempts to address landlords’ concerns. If passed together, the two pending bills could represent a comprehensive solution, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Section 8 — It’s real money, it’s valid resources,” he said. “There’s really no reason not to take it. I think reminding the landlords that there’s no reason not to take it and then providing them an incentive for taking it, that’s a complementary approach.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A handful of local governments have seen improvement after passing incentives similar to those proposed by Portantino’s bill, sometimes in conjunction with discrimination bans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, Marin County offered up to $3,000 to protect landlords from income loss due to vacancies or property damage related to Section 8 tenants, and passed a ban on voucher discrimination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rate at which Marin voucher holders found rentals before their vouchers expired nearly doubled, from 30% in 2015 to 60% in 2018. Costs have been a problem, however, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/em/winter19/highlight3.html\">HUD report\u003c/a> published this year. And rent increases in the area have prevented the housing authority from issuing \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinhousing.org/waitlist.html\">any new vouchers\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several local governments have also approved bans on voucher discrimination similar to the state proposal in Mitchell’s bill including Santa Clara County, San Francisco, San Diego and Berkeley. \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-section-8-discrimination-20190618-story.html\">Los Angeles\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/08/13/san-jose-considers-new-law-barring-section-8-voucher-discrimination/\">San Jose\u003c/a> passed similar protections this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Berkeley ban, passed in 2017 has had little impact because the city didn’t invest in landlord education or enforcement, according to Simon-Weisberg, who also serves on the Berkeley housing advisory commission. 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