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Harrison denies the allegations, his attorney said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the man’s attorney, Joseph George, the alleged abuse happened over the course of a year from 1992 to 1993 while the man was living at the rectory of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Firebaugh.[aside tag='sexual-abuse-by-priests' label='The Catholic Church in California'] Harrison worked as a priest at St. Joseph from 1992 to 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The man said that Harrison would inspect his genitals each night when he returned home under the pretext of checking to see if the teen had used drugs. He was 16 and 17 years old at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1998, the man filed a report about the alleged abuse with the Firebaugh Police Department and the case was referred to the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, George said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesman for the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office said Harrison was questioned but not arrested. The sheriff’s office ultimately declared the allegation “unsubstantiated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A case against Craig Harrison was submitted to the Fresno County District Attorney’s Office’s sexual assault unit that same year, according to a spokesperson, but no charges were filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four years later, the man went to the Fresno Diocese to again report the alleged abuse. Diocesan administrative officials interviewed him at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The interview is curious to say the least,” George said, referring to a transcript he said his client received from diocesan staff when they recently met with him in his home. “It’s biased.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the interview, George said, the former director of human resources and former chancellor of the Fresno Diocese questioned the man and described his allegations as “harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also pointed out that the man’s parents had given their son permission to live in the rectory and that Harrison had spoken to the man’s parents. According to the transcript, the man replied that his parents only spoke Spanish, George said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He felt put off,” George said, “and said, ‘at some point I think I’m gonna read about this in The Fresno Bee when other people come forward. […] This happened to others. I’m sure I’m not alone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California law requires that clergy and church records custodians report suspected abuse or neglect of children to law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no way that the information that was conveyed to the diocese in 2002 would not create a reasonable suspicion of child abuse,” George said.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nGeorge said the man also provided diocesan personnel with the names of other potential victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He said he never — capital ‘N’ — heard back from the diocese until this current flurry of reported allegations,” George said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since mid-April, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744376/prosecutors-to-audit-fresno-catholic-diocese-files-for-potential-sex-abuse-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">three other men\u003c/a> have come forward alleging Harrison touched them inappropriately or engaged in other sexual misconduct with them as teenagers. Two allege Harrison inspected their genitals under similar circumstances. Another alleges Harrison pinned him against a wall and rubbed his erect penis against his body through clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of the allegations were reported to have occurred in Firebaugh, Merced and Bakersfield, cities where Harrison worked as a priest at different points in time since the late 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the victims came from low-income, Latino families, according to George.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>‘I believe him’\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The diocesan review board is now reconsidering the allegation first reported in 1998 and again in 2002, along with an unknown number of \u003ca href=\"https://dioceseoffresno.org/stories/diocese-of-fresno-moves-forward-with-first-phase-of-independent-review/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">other claims\u003c/a> of sexual abuse by Fresno Diocese clergy dating back to 1922.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno Diocese chancellor and spokeswoman Teresa Dominguez said she recently visited the man at his home to apologize.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I personally expressed my concern for him; told him that I believe him, and apologized for the pain this matter has caused him. I told him that I will support him and be an advocate for him in any way that I can,” said Dominguez in an email.[pullquote size='medium' align='right' citation='Fresno Diocese chancellor Teresa Dominguez']‘[I] told him that I believe him, and apologized for the pain this matter has caused him. I told him that I will support him and be an advocate in any way that I can.’[/pullquote]Dominguez said current diocesan administrative staff only recently became aware of the man’s allegation from 2002. She said that she was working in a different capacity at a church in Hanford and had no knowledge of the allegation at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison’s attorney, Kyle Humphrey, questioned the credibility of the man who alleged the abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This allegation, if it is the one that was previously reported to Firebaugh, was unfounded by the Firebaugh Police Department originally and afterwards,” Humphrey said. “And if it is the same person, we believe we are in possession of interviews that, again, if it is the same person, we believe will establish a complete lack of credibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Humphrey also criticized the Fresno Diocese for talking publicly about the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that a member of the diocese would come out and place my client in a false light, and essentially accuse my client of sexual offense, just shows me how little regard this diocese has for priests. Somebody has to stand up for the priest,” Humphrey said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Charges Never Filed\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear what made the Fresno County Sheriff’s Office and prosecutors conclude the allegations made in 1998 were unsubstantiated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='catholic-church-sexual-abuse' label='a Sexual abuse epidemic']“I can’t say why the claim was unsubstantiated because I simply don’t know,” sheriff’s spokesman Tony Botti said, pointing to an absence of information in the report made two decades ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe the evidence didn’t support the claim? There is always a chance that the victim chose to withdraw their claim or refused to testify. 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Becerra asked the dioceses to preserve all records relating to child sexual abuse, including those in “secret archives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='sexual-abuse-by-priests' label='Catholic clerical sex abuse crisis']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joey Piscitelli, from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (\u003ca href=\"http://www.snapnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNAP\u003c/a>), welcomes the Attorney General’s action. He says asking the diocese to self-report, which has been the protocol until now, hasn’t been working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s necessary for the Attorney General to take these steps, so they can be investigated more,” Piscitelli said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Piscitelli says he and other survivors had a meeting with Becerra and district attorneys across the state last fall. He said they were looking for information on bishops who may have covered up sexual abuse allegations. Becerra’s office confirmed the meeting but not the details of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The State Attorney General’s action comes on the heels of a similar action taken by district attorneys in the Central Valley. At least seven county district attorney offices have banded together to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11744376/prosecutors-to-audit-fresno-catholic-diocese-files-for-potential-sex-abuse-cases\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">audit\u003c/a> the Catholic Diocese of Fresno’s archive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, the Fresno Dioceses said it would \u003ca href=\"https://dioceseoffresno.org/stories/diocese-of-fresno-moves-forward-with-first-phase-of-independent-review/\">review its records\u003c/a> for cases of possible sexual abuse. 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According to her \u003ca href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathleen-mcchesney-33439414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn profile\u003c/a>, she also worked at the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in the early 2000s, where she served as executive director of the Office of Child and Youth Protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='fresno' label='More on Fresno']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorneys remain skeptical of how transparent the process will be. Madera County DA Sally Moreno, who took office in January, said she sped up the timeline to review church records, after recent allegations were made against a longtime Bakersfield priest Monsignor Craig Harrison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, two men\u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article229812029.html\"> accused Harrison of sexual misconduct\u003c/a> when they were teenagers in the 1980s and 1990s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harrison served as pastor at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Bakersfield for nearly two decades. He is also the chaplain for the Bakersfield Police Department and Kern County Sheriff’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a diocese press release, one man said Harrison had inappropriately touched him when he was between 14 and 16 years old. \u003ca href=\"https://ewscripps.brightspotcdn.com/53/ff/38eede904c468a0bab9d713de3ee/press-release-19-0003160-1.pdf\">According to police\u003c/a>, the abuse allegedly occurred in Firebaugh, where Harrison worked as a priest from 1992-1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also in April, Father Hector David Mendoza-Vela, the pastor of Corpus Christi Parish in Fremont,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11736849/fremont-priest-arrested-accused-of-30-counts-of-child-sexual-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> told police\u003c/a> that he touched the genitals of a teenage boy over his pants at least 20 times over an 18-month period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the moment, Becerra’s request for church records is voluntary. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]W[/dropcap]hen Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725616/gov-gavin-newsom-gives-first-state-of-the-state-address\">announced\u003c/a> in February that, as currently planned, the state's full high-speed rail project would take too long to build and cost too much, farm bookkeeper Joanna Spence was relieved. For her, that acknowledgement was long overdue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As I drive up and down (Highway) 99, I just see bits and pieces, nothing happening,” Spence said. “It’s been totally graffiti’d.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bullet train has long been a difficult subject at Parichan Farms, a large almond ranch in Madera County that sits directly in the path of the high-speed rail line. Late owner Harold Parichan \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-harold-parichan-20160103-story.html\">fought\u003c/a> the project’s encroachment on his thousands of acres of almonds and other crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" citation=\"Joanna Spence, Parichan Farms\"]'Why would I ride it to Merced? Even Modesto. ... And when I get there, what am I gonna have to do? First I’ve had to pay for a train ticket. Now I’m gonna have to rent a car or an Uber.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several years ago, around 50 acres were cleared to make way for the trains' right of way. There’s now a diagonal path straight through the orchard outside Spence’s office, where she’s worked for over 20 years. In one area of the farm, the contractor for the bullet train project is building a $2.5 million underpass so farm crews will be able to get from one side to the other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, Spence said, much of the cleared land has gone to weeds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We could have been farming those trees, and making more money for the ranch,” Spence said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immediately after Newsom made his announcement in February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11725636/state-of-the-state-newsom-pulls-plug-on-s-f-to-l-a-high-speed-rail-project\">he tried to clarify\u003c/a> his administration's plans for the project: The initial focus will be to get the bullet train running on the 170-mile route from Merced to Bakersfield during the next decade while finishing environmental studies of the full \"Phase One\" line from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Phase One would still be built at some unspecified point in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news angered Spence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why would I ride it to Merced? Even Modesto. I could be there in 45 minutes,” she said. “And when I get there, what am I gonna have to do? First I’ve had to pay for a train ticket. Now I’m gonna have to rent a car or an Uber.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not even the ones who wanted it. It was the people who commute,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that some critics will say this is a 'train to nowhere,' \" Newsom told legislators in his State of the State. “But that’s wrong and offensive. The people of the Central Valley endure the worst air pollution in America, as well as some of the longest commutes. And they have suffered too many years of neglect from policymakers here in Sacramento. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Newsom did not acknowledge is that when it comes to high-speed rail, some of the most disillusioned and skeptical Californians are Central Valley residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/big-valley/article223441880.html\">themselves\u003c/a>. While some dream of the opportunities a bullet train could bring, others see it as a misuse of funds and believe that it will never be built — or that if it ever is, no one will ride it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>'A Commitment to the Central Valley'\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>When voters approved a \u003ca href=\"https://vig.cdn.sos.ca.gov/2008/general/pdf-guide/suppl-complete-guide.pdf#prop1a\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> in 2008 to fund high-speed rail, they were told it could be running between Los Angeles and the Bay Area in little more than a decade and cost about $34 billion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its most recent estimate, the California High-Speed Rail Authority said the link between San Francisco and the L.A. area would be finished in 2033. That's \u003cem>if\u003c/em> the authority can locate the tens of billions of dollars more needed to pay for the project, now priced at around \u003ca href=\"http://www.hsr.ca.gov/docs/about/business_plans/2018_BusinessPlan.pdf\">$77 billion\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, about 2,600 construction workers are working on 119 miles of the route between Madera and Wasco, the latter a town just north of Bakersfield, by the end of 2022. That deadline is part of the rail agency's agreement for $3.5 billion in federal funding — money that the Trump administration is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11727539/feds-battle-with-california-over-bullet-train-funding-may-be-just-beginning\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trying to take back\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11740351\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740351\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/04/RS36529_IMG_4681-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Morgan Doizaki stands beside a fence that was recently erected across the street from Central Fish Co, which he manages. Doizaki says the fence has cut off foot traffic between downtown Fresno and Chinatown, and he worries about how that will impact the business. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Annie Parker, a spokeswoman with the bullet train agency, said service from Madera to Bakersfield could start by the end of 2027, with passengers riding from Bakersfield to Merced a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is more of a commitment to the Central Valley,” Parker told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for connecting the rail to San Jose and elsewhere, Parker said, \"It’s not on hold. We will work to get to those regions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area and Los Angeles, the high-speed rail agency has helped fund infrastructure that could someday be part of a bullet train system. In the Bay Area, those projects include the Transbay Transit Center and Caltrain's electrification project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But actual development of high-speed trains in the state's two biggest metro areas?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have the funds in hand to build Phase One, to build San Francisco to Los Angeles,\" Parker said, adding that the agency is \"working to establish a full funding package for the delivery of the high-speed rail project.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch4>‘The Biggest Challenge Is Surviving’\u003c/h4>\n\u003cp>Even though trains might not run for years, residents are already feeling the effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, at least 230 businesses in Fresno have relocated to make way for construction, according to the rail authority.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Central Fish Co., a seafood market and Asian grocery in Fresno's Chinatown neighborhood, has been able to stay in its current location, unlike other businesses that once surrounded it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve been dealing with this for a few years now and we’re just trying to hang in there,” said Morgan Doizaki, general manager of Central Fish Co.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Doizaki supports high-speed rail. He just wants it to get built — sooner rather than later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fresno needs something big like this,” Doizaki said. In the meantime, \"the biggest challenge is surviving.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" citation=\"Lee Ann Eager, Fresno County Economic Development Corp.\"]'I think there's a lot of people, if they actually ever ride on one they'll have a different opinion. ... We don't want to sit on freeways for three and four hours to get just from one city to another. This is that option to get us out of that rut. But it might just take another generation to do that.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A fence built recently between high-speed rail's right of way and the existing Union Pacific line has cut off foot traffic between an already isolated Chinatown and downtown Fresno’s popular baseball stadium, Chukchansi Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every year, we kind of wait till the baseball season starts,” Doizaki said, “And everyone gets a little bit busier, but this is the first year we’re gonna have no foot traffic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some businesses, Doizaki noted, have done well since relocating, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/living/food-drink/article92735407.html\">Cosmopolitan restaurant\u003c/a> that was once in Chinatown but has since moved a few blocks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnoedc.com/\">Economic Development Corp.\u003c/a> has been assisting businesses along the rail line alignment or otherwise impacted by road closures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked about Newsom’s plan to focus on finishing what the authority has started in the Central Valley first, EDC President and CEO Lee Ann Eager said the policy does not signify a huge shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that's the fallacy now, that somehow (Newsom’s) speech stopped high-speed rail, and nobody is doing the work anymore — and that's not the case,\" Eager said. \"I think all he said was we're going to do it in stages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager said she is aware of the criticism coming from Central Valley residents who think no one will ride the train if it does not connect to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That has really always been an issue with us here is that we had expected the entire Central Valley to understand what those opportunities would mean for us,” Eager said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there's a lot of people (that) if they actually ever ride on one they'll have a different opinion,\" Eager said. \"Because we don't want to be in cars, we don't want to have the bad air quality and we don't want to sit on freeways for three and four hours to get just from one city to another. 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It was the people who commute,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know that some critics will say this is a 'train to nowhere,' \" Newsom told legislators in his State of the State. “But that’s wrong and offensive. The people of the Central Valley endure the worst air pollution in America, as well as some of the longest commutes. And they have suffered too many years of neglect from policymakers here in Sacramento. They deserve better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Newsom did not acknowledge is that when it comes to high-speed rail, some of the most disillusioned and skeptical Californians are Central Valley residents \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/state/california/big-valley/article223441880.html\">themselves\u003c/a>. 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Doizaki says the fence has cut off foot traffic between downtown Fresno and Chinatown, and he worries about how that will impact the business. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Annie Parker, a spokeswoman with the bullet train agency, said service from Madera to Bakersfield could start by the end of 2027, with passengers riding from Bakersfield to Merced a year later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is more of a commitment to the Central Valley,” Parker told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for connecting the rail to San Jose and elsewhere, Parker said, \"It’s not on hold. We will work to get to those regions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Bay Area and Los Angeles, the high-speed rail agency has helped fund infrastructure that could someday be part of a bullet train system. 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Like many others in Fresno, the columnist expected Dyer and other city leaders to face tough questions about what they did and didn’t know. As Dyer walked into the courtroom that spring day, the city’s eyes were on him, waiting to see how he would answer for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strangely, Dyer hadn’t been called as a witness for the prosecution. He was there on behalf of Foster’s defense. When one of the prosecutors asked him to explain how he felt when he learned of Foster’s arrest, he described emotions — shock, hurt and a sense of betrayal — in a flat tone that belied such feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, he repeated that Foster had always had his full trust, right up to the day the deputy chief was hit with a seven-count federal indictment after he was pulled over by federal agents as he left his nephew’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As prosecutors continued their questioning of Dyer, they might have delved into why the police chief had missed or chosen to ignore flagrant signs of trouble. But prosecutors never asked the chief about Foster’s finances, which had long ago spiraled out of control. He’d lost his house to foreclosure. He’d been hit with an IRS lien and his wages had been garnished after repeated failures to pay alimony and child support. All the while, according to his ex-wife, he lived a “lavish lifestyle,” complete with furs, jewelry and expensive clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t ask Dyer why he maintained his trust in Foster even as the deputy chief was accused on two occasions of spousal and child abuse. Neither did prosecutors ask about accusations from two women that Foster had sexually harassed and sexually assaulted them. All of this information was readily available in court documents open to the public. The only noteworthy testimony elicited by the feds from Dyer had to do with Foster’s main line of defense: that he was working on the city’s heroin problem and that’s why he had repeated contacts with a major heroin dealer. Dyer told the jury that if Foster was working in such a capacity, he never produced a report on his findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was pretty much all the duress the police chief of Fresno faced. As he walked out of the federal courthouse into the sunshine, no probing questions came at him from the local media either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One TV station \u003ca href=\"https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/fresno-police-chief-jerry-dyer-testifies-in-keith-foster-trial/716083041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described\u003c/a> it as a “difficult day” for Dyer that “left him reeling” because of the disappointment he felt at seeing his former deputy chief on trial. Another broadcast a segment in which Dyer \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/news/fresno-police-chief-jerry-dyer-takes-the-stand-in-keith-foster-trial/2006320/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained\u003c/a> that “whether the allegations turn out to be true or not, the fact is, this investigation occurred, and Keith was arrested, and as a result I felt a sense of betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody asked him why it took federal agents to catch a man that Dyer himself saw every day, a man who, according to a co-conspirator, had been trafficking drugs for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Dyer is still the chief. And within the department, he says, “Keith Foster’s not on anybody’s mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time Dyer escaped any real ramifications for problems in his department. Over the years, he’s faced remarkably little scrutiny for someone who spends so much time in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A billboard featuring Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A billboard featuring Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer. \u003ccite>(Alexandria Fuller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>In Politics, a Police Chief Who Seems Beyond Criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Fresno, Jerry Dyer seems to be everywhere: church services, neighborhood barbecues, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/latest-news/article211291469.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full uniform\u003c/a> at a Snoop Dogg concert. He can be seen \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/politics/new-billboard-campaign-aims-to-reduce-traffic-fatalities/3150483/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smiling down\u003c/a> from billboards reminding Fresnans to drive safely. He appeared in uniform on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article168979932.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national TV ad\u003c/a> for home-security company ADT, saying the company may have saved a Fresno woman. He even has \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/a-jerry-dyer-bobble-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his own bobblehead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer, the 59-year-old son of a Fresno police officer, has amassed the kind of behind-the-scenes power that few police chiefs achieve. When he was elected head of the California Police Chiefs Association in 2008, he held a three-day party in downtown Fresno featuring armored personnel carriers parading through the streets in what local activists described as a “coronation.” Eight years later, celebrating 15 years on the job, he was feted by local politicians and celebrities at a black-tie event, with all three mayors he had served under praising him effusively, even as some 60 people gathered outside to protest the police killing of unarmed teenager Dylan Noble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, three months after Foster’s arrest, a Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-fresno-police-focus-on-building-relationships-not-making-arrests/2015/05/06/3c396f04-eab9-11e4-9a6a-c1ab95a0600b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eed239c2aeb5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile\u003c/a> lauded his commitment to community policing and highlighted his department’s practice of holding barbecues in an effort to connect with citizens. Dyer touts a laundry list of accomplishments, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article210808774.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling crime rates\u003c/a> to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresno.gov/police/chiefs-message/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduction\u003c/a> in traffic fatalities during his tenure. Fresno gangs are his bête noire, and he scored a major victory last year as leaders of the notoriously violent Dog Pound gang \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article213544924.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to a wide range of federal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno politics, Dyer seems to be beyond criticism. A review of articles in the local paper, the Fresno Bee, showed that no current City Council member has criticized Dyer in print, not even mildly (a former City Council president did once accuse him of being “arrogant”). And the city has rewarded him handsomely for his service: He \u003ca href=\"https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Jerry%20Dyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made over $247,000\u003c/a> in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/nyregion/scrutiny-of-incoming-police-commissioner-begins-with-his-suits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than\u003c/a> the police commissioner in New York City. No, Jerry Dyer is not a typical big-city police chief. Then again, Fresno is not a typical big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘God’s Forgiven Me. My Wife’s Forgiven Me. This Department’s Forgiven Me’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fresno began as little more than a railroad stop in California’s Central Valley. The Central Pacific Railroad Co. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresno.gov/darm/historic-preservation/history-of-fresno/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded\u003c/a> the town in 1872. It was incorporated 13 years later and soon grew into an agricultural powerhouse. The figure who casts the longest shadow on Fresno today is undoubtedly Hank Morton, the high-water mark of corrupt police chiefs in a town with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-06-mn-3568-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no shortage of them\u003c/a>. During Prohibition, federal agents considered Fresno County the wettest in the nation, and the local police ran the booze. But it was Morton, ruling the department from the ‘50s through the ‘70s, who elevated corruption to an art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing Chief Ray Wallace, who was sentenced to prison in 1950 for using his office to amass 1,700 acres of land, Morton quickly took control of the area’s brothels, marrying Fresno’s top madam. He consolidated power (and avoided prosecution) using a vast intelligence apparatus inside the Police Department dedicated to gathering blackmail material on political leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Morton’s retirement, three separate federal organized crime task forces investigated the Fresno police, leading to a reform period in the department that lasted for two decades. That era ended with the appointment of Dyer’s predecessor, Ed Winchester, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-16-me-64135-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepped down in disgrace\u003c/a> in 2001 amid compounding scandals, including the disappearance of 11 pounds of cocaine and $200,000 in cash from the evidence room. Jerry Dyer was born at the height of Morton’s reign, in May 1959, and rose to department leadership under Winchester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer joined the force on May 1, 1979, just two days before his 20th birthday. His sister, Diane, also became a cop, and served on the Fresno force until 2011. Being a cop was in his blood, but he wasn’t content to remain a patrol officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His appointment as chief was, perhaps, inevitable. His first major step was a two-year stint as public information officer, from 1995 to 1997. The name recognition he earned from frequent TV appearances helped him launch the defining project of his pre-chief years, the Skywatch helicopter program. He raised private donations to buy the department its first helicopters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one other key piece of Dyer’s rise, something that might not be expected to influence a career in government service: his identity as a born-again Christian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s a frequent guest at many Fresno-area churches, and is often spotted at prayer breakfasts and other public religious gatherings. In Dyer’s telling, the story goes like this: In his 20s, he began drinking heavily, cheating on his wife and breaking police department rules (which rules, he won’t say, but he does acknowledge being the subject of internal affairs probes while a beat cop.) In 2005, he \u003ca href=\"https://hanfordsentinel.com/community/kingsburg_recorder/news/fresno-police-chief-relies-on-god-for-inspiaration/article_2f70a795-0ea2-5d5b-9075-494a126d9230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told a crowd\u003c/a> that as a young man he was “dishonest, egotistical, proud, arrogant and disobedient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a revelation at the age of 32, when a friend suggested he go to church. In what Dyer sees as a sign from on high, the pastor spoke about the two problems plaguing his life: alcohol and adultery. He said he attended services the next two Sundays, and on the third Sunday, he experienced a rebirth, turning himself over to God and pledging to change his ways. He has an exact date for his spiritual awakening: Sept. 15, 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department leadership quickly noticed his newfound commitment to God — and, stemming from that, his commitment to doing the right thing and working to help others. He rose quickly through the ranks and was named chief just under 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer has used his faith as cover to protect him from potentially damaging stories from his pre-religious past. He got his first chance to test his story’s value almost immediately after he was appointed chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='large' align='right' citation='Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer']‘All I can tell you is that the relationships that I have had outside of my marriage, when I was a young man, have been dealt with. God’s forgiven me. My wife’s forgiven me. This department’s forgiven me and looked into a lot of things in my past.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s then-city manager, Dan Hobbs, announced Dyer’s appointment on July 18, 2001. Four days later, a front-page story in the Fresno Bee proclaimed: “Cops twice probed allegations Dyer had affair with girl, 16.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer reportedly had sex with a 16-year-old girl when he was a 26-year-old officer in 1985. The accusation was investigated shortly after it was alleged to have occurred, and again in response to a citizen complaint after Dyer became department spokesman in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee article was based on interviews with unnamed police sources who were privy to the investigations, as well as family members of the alleged victim, although the alleged victim herself would not confirm or deny the allegations. Contacted for this article, she declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer refused to deny the story, instead relying on his born-again image to excuse his past behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is that the relationships that I have had outside of my marriage, when I was a young man, have been dealt with,” he told the Bee. “God’s forgiven me. My wife’s forgiven me. This department’s forgiven me and looked into a lot of things in my past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer took his oath as police chief on Aug. 2, less than two weeks after the story came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 18 years later, even with the wave of powerful men felled by the #MeToo movement, no reporter or city leader has publicly asked him about it since the original article was published. And he still has not publicly denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He faced another public scandal just a few years later when a lieutenant named Jose Moralez was found dead, shot in the chest just 200 feet from Dyer’s house. The chief was reportedly considering firing Moralez for lying. The shooting was ultimately ruled a suicide. But it’s become something of an urban legend in Fresno and another bizarre chapter in the chief’s lengthy career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer relied on his religiosity to build faith among his own officers, as well. In a 2005 department-wide memo, Dyer apologized for unspecified offensive comments he made, and he pledged to improve his performance at home, at work and at church. As part of his penance, he told his officers, “I will view teaching Sunday school as an opportunity to help and serve others and not as an obligation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bias Allegations Leveled Against Department From Within\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Institutional racism has long plagued Fresno. Its majority-black 93706 ZIP code is the poorest urban ZIP code in the entire state. A person born just 10 miles away, in wealthy Northeast Fresno, has a life expectancy 20 years longer than a person born in the 93706.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer himself is not immune to the racism endemic in the city. In 2011, two deputy chiefs, Robert Nevarez and Sharon Shaffer, sued Dyer personally, alleging he had created a hostile work environment in the Fresno Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When referring to African-American individuals, including employees, DYER sings the antebellum slave song ‘Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin bread,’ ” according to Shaffer and Nevarez’s complaint. The deputy chiefs accused Dyer of many other racially and sexually charged comments, including referring to an Asian-American employee as his “little geisha girl,” making inappropriate comments about a subordinate’s breasts and joking that it’s OK to punch African-Americans in the face because they “don’t have bones in their noses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno City Hall eventually settled their lawsuit, paying $100,000 each to Shaffer and Nevarez, plus $100,000 in fees and costs to their lawyer. But not before racking up $820,000 in legal fees, according to the Fresno Bee, and exposing the chief’s behind-the-scenes behavior to public scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevarez and Shaffer’s lawsuit didn’t mark the first time Dyer had run into trouble for what he had said at work. Years later, in response to the 2011 lawsuit, Dyer’s attorneys admitted he had made racially charged and sexually suggestive comments at staff meetings. They repeatedly relied on Foster’s status as an African-American as a shield against allegations Dyer’s remarks were racist. The Nevarez/Shaffer suit also shed light on another aspect of the department: Dyer’s close relationship with Foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the September 9 Meeting, a Fresno Bee article was discussed. This article quoted Captain Al Maroney calling Deputy Chief Keith Foster, Chief Dyer’s ‘pet,’ ” according to a filing by his lawyers. “Chief Dyer said to Deputy Chief Keith Foster, ‘If you are my pet, then you’re my Chia Pet’ and sang the first lines of the ‘Chia Pet song.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit asserted that the reference to Chia Pets was a racial remark referring to stereotypes about African-Americans’ hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deputy Chief Keith Foster was not offended by the term ‘Chia pet’ at the September 9 Meeting,” Dyer’s lawyers wrote. Not every officer took Foster’s sanguine view. In an internal survey of officers’ attitudes in 2015, almost 20 percent said racial and gender bias was a “severe or serious problem” in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Did you have confidence in him?’ ‘I did.’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The voice crackled through the courtroom speaker with the characteristic pops and hisses of a recorded phone call. “They want one of them?” And the reply, from a deeper, older voice: “Yeah, what’s the ticket?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends, how, how good of color they want?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean they, they, the very, very best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very, very best?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736121\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11736121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/keith-foster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/keith-foster.jpg 317w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/keith-foster-160x236.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Fresno Deputy Police Chief Keith Foster. \u003ccite>(Fresno Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yeah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh shit, shit, Unc, the very best right there is going at least seven. Not right now, at my cost now they’ll say about a rack for the best. We’re talking about some China white though, you know what I mean?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey man, hey, hey, hey you ain’t got to go, you ain’t got to go into all the det-. Hey meet me Friday and we’ll, and we, we gonna talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in some ways a typical conversation between two drug dealers, complete with coded language — “ticket” meaning price, “a rack” meaning a thousand, “China white” referring to high-grade heroin — and an admonition not to go into detail on the phone. But one of the voices on the line, the one the younger man called “Unc,” was Deputy Chief Keith Foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents on the stand told a winding story, interspersed with headline-grabbing audio recordings like the conversation about “China white.” The story had three main threads, each about a different drug. Foster, they said, had gone into business with one nephew to sell marijuana. He had been prescribed 100 pills a month of oxycodone, which they charged he was selling to another nephew (the jury hung on the oxycodone charges, perhaps because Foster wasn’t heard on wiretaps explicitly talking about the pills.) Finally, he had agreed to purchase heroin for a female friend of his and then tried to buy it from a young man he had previously mentored in a gang-violence prevention program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer contended that he didn’t know about any of this. While it’s true that Foster had never before been found guilty of wrongdoing, he had been accused of it on numerous occasions. And Dyer certainly knew about the history of troubling allegations. There was the wife of a captain who had accused Foster of sexual battery at a concert. The child abuse claims his department had investigated and rejected, although a doctor had laid blame at Foster. And there were the money problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, the sexual battery and child abuse allegations were investigated by the department and rejected. And money problems don’t necessarily mean a longtime, trusted officer will suddenly break bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But taken together, they might have prompted a deeper review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer made no mention of any of this when asked under oath if Foster ever had disciplinary problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you have confidence in him?” asked Foster’s defense attorney, Marshall Hodgkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did,” Dyer answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Have a Clear Heart and a Clear Conscience, 100 Percent’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The chief was not entirely unscathed by the Foster saga. Despite ongoing statements of confidence in him from the city’s political leadership, his own department was shaken by the trial. A half-dozen current and former officers interviewed for this article, most of whom did not want to be named for fear of retaliation, uniformly said they were stunned that Dyer didn’t face sustained scrutiny after Foster’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the 54-year-old Foster was sentenced to four years in federal prison. In January last year, he surrendered himself to U.S. marshals to begin his term, which he is serving in Florence, Colorado, while drawing his full $93,000-a-year police pension. A week after his arrest, Foster was allowed to retire from the department. He’s appealing the conviction. In an email from prison, Foster maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"police-records\" label=\"Unsealed: California's Secret Police Files\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, Dyer has not said if the department investigated past cases that may have been compromised by Foster’s involvement. And he hasn’t offered any public comments about a deeper probe of his force, despite the fact prosecutors mentioned other officers who Foster tried to enlist to help his nephews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other large cities around the state and country have done major reviews of their police departments after corruption scandals. The feds spent only four months looking into Foster who, according to one nephew, was helping deal marijuana for about seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer, upset by public records requests filed during the reporting of this story, refused to speak to this reporter. He called the requests “a slap in my face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have a clear heart and a clear conscience, 100 percent,” Dyer told editors of this story. He said he’s interested in looking forward, not back. He wants to make it to 40 years in the department, which will happen this year, when he’s technically required to step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer said he hasn’t emotionally recovered from the pain of seeing his deputy and friend on trial. “Quite frankly, I haven’t gotten over it,” Dyer said. “It’s kind of like, you’re married and your wife betrays you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer said that California’s Peace Officers Bill of Rights, granting broad labor protections to officers, ties his hands. The law, however, does not prevent him from checking into whether his officers had been accused of a crime. Nor is he barred from looking at publicly available documents, such as the divorce files, liens and child-support orders by the district attorney, to get a picture of an officer’s personal life. But in Foster’s case, he said, he had no reason to look deeper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has changed the way he reviews new hires and promotions, he said. He now asks them if there is anything in their personal life or finances that might affect their suitability for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer acknowledged that many of his actions may seem suspicious from an outside perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I were in Berkeley, I would be saying, that chief’s probably corrupt, he’s probably Teflon, he’s untouchable,” he said. “That’s not me. … I try to live a godly life and a good life. I have a calling, a passion, and things happen along the way that are out of your control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Andrew Beale is a reporter for The Press Democrat in Santa Rosa. He completed this article at the Investigative Reporting Program, part of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Robert Lewis contributed research for this article.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His 16-year tenure as chief had made him one of the longest-serving leaders of a big-city police department in modern California history. He had remained the chief by escaping scandal time and again — from front-page revelations that he had been investigated for sex with a minor to the bizarre case of one of his high-ranking officers and good friends turning up dead in front of Dyer’s home under mysterious circumstances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case before the federal court now raised questions so troubling — about his administration of the police department, about his supervision of his right-hand man — that Dyer’s conduct itself might have been on trial. His second-in-command, Keith Foster, had been charged as the kingpin of his own drug-trafficking organization. The two men had spent their careers side by side as Foster followed Dyer in every promotion. His office was the only one Dyer passed every day on the way to his own.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Foster’s arrest on charges of conspiring to distribute heroin, marijuana and oxycodone had surprised even jaded City Hall watchers who had seen the FBI in the 1990s arrest dozens of local developers and politicians in a lengthy probe dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1998-feb-21-mn-21438-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Operation Rezone\u003c/a>. But federal authorities accusing a top official in a major city of running a drug ring was different. So stunning was Foster’s arrest that a top columnist in the city compared it to \u003ca href=\"http://www.cvobserver.com/crime/brand-pab-escalated-quickly-foster-trial/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the shock of the Pearl Harbor attack\u003c/a>. Like many others in Fresno, the columnist expected Dyer and other city leaders to face tough questions about what they did and didn’t know. As Dyer walked into the courtroom that spring day, the city’s eyes were on him, waiting to see how he would answer for himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strangely, Dyer hadn’t been called as a witness for the prosecution. He was there on behalf of Foster’s defense. When one of the prosecutors asked him to explain how he felt when he learned of Foster’s arrest, he described emotions — shock, hurt and a sense of betrayal — in a flat tone that belied such feelings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over and over, he repeated that Foster had always had his full trust, right up to the day the deputy chief was hit with a seven-count federal indictment after he was pulled over by federal agents as he left his nephew’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As prosecutors continued their questioning of Dyer, they might have delved into why the police chief had missed or chosen to ignore flagrant signs of trouble. But prosecutors never asked the chief about Foster’s finances, which had long ago spiraled out of control. He’d lost his house to foreclosure. He’d been hit with an IRS lien and his wages had been garnished after repeated failures to pay alimony and child support. All the while, according to his ex-wife, he lived a “lavish lifestyle,” complete with furs, jewelry and expensive clothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They didn’t ask Dyer why he maintained his trust in Foster even as the deputy chief was accused on two occasions of spousal and child abuse. Neither did prosecutors ask about accusations from two women that Foster had sexually harassed and sexually assaulted them. All of this information was readily available in court documents open to the public. The only noteworthy testimony elicited by the feds from Dyer had to do with Foster’s main line of defense: that he was working on the city’s heroin problem and that’s why he had repeated contacts with a major heroin dealer. Dyer told the jury that if Foster was working in such a capacity, he never produced a report on his findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And that was pretty much all the duress the police chief of Fresno faced. As he walked out of the federal courthouse into the sunshine, no probing questions came at him from the local media either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One TV station \u003ca href=\"https://www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/fresno-police-chief-jerry-dyer-testifies-in-keith-foster-trial/716083041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described\u003c/a> it as a “difficult day” for Dyer that “left him reeling” because of the disappointment he felt at seeing his former deputy chief on trial. Another broadcast a segment in which Dyer \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/news/fresno-police-chief-jerry-dyer-takes-the-stand-in-keith-foster-trial/2006320/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained\u003c/a> that “whether the allegations turn out to be true or not, the fact is, this investigation occurred, and Keith was arrested, and as a result I felt a sense of betrayal.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nobody asked him why it took federal agents to catch a man that Dyer himself saw every day, a man who, according to a co-conspirator, had been trafficking drugs for seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years later, Dyer is still the chief. And within the department, he says, “Keith Foster’s not on anybody’s mind.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t the first time Dyer escaped any real ramifications for problems in his department. Over the years, he’s faced remarkably little scrutiny for someone who spends so much time in the public eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736347\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11736347\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A billboard featuring Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/jerry-dyer-billboard.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A billboard featuring Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer. \u003ccite>(Alexandria Fuller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>In Politics, a Police Chief Who Seems Beyond Criticism\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Fresno, Jerry Dyer seems to be everywhere: church services, neighborhood barbecues, in \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/latest-news/article211291469.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full uniform\u003c/a> at a Snoop Dogg concert. He can be seen \u003ca href=\"https://abc30.com/politics/new-billboard-campaign-aims-to-reduce-traffic-fatalities/3150483/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smiling down\u003c/a> from billboards reminding Fresnans to drive safely. He appeared in uniform on a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article168979932.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">national TV ad\u003c/a> for home-security company ADT, saying the company may have saved a Fresno woman. He even has \u003ca href=\"https://kmph.com/news/local/a-jerry-dyer-bobble-head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his own bobblehead\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer, the 59-year-old son of a Fresno police officer, has amassed the kind of behind-the-scenes power that few police chiefs achieve. When he was elected head of the California Police Chiefs Association in 2008, he held a three-day party in downtown Fresno featuring armored personnel carriers parading through the streets in what local activists described as a “coronation.” Eight years later, celebrating 15 years on the job, he was feted by local politicians and celebrities at a black-tie event, with all three mayors he had served under praising him effusively, even as some 60 people gathered outside to protest the police killing of unarmed teenager Dylan Noble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2015, three months after Foster’s arrest, a Washington Post \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-fresno-police-focus-on-building-relationships-not-making-arrests/2015/05/06/3c396f04-eab9-11e4-9a6a-c1ab95a0600b_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.eed239c2aeb5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">profile\u003c/a> lauded his commitment to community policing and highlighted his department’s practice of holding barbecues in an effort to connect with citizens. Dyer touts a laundry list of accomplishments, from \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article210808774.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falling crime rates\u003c/a> to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresno.gov/police/chiefs-message/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduction\u003c/a> in traffic fatalities during his tenure. Fresno gangs are his bête noire, and he scored a major victory last year as leaders of the notoriously violent Dog Pound gang \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/crime/article213544924.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded guilty\u003c/a> to a wide range of federal charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno politics, Dyer seems to be beyond criticism. A review of articles in the local paper, the Fresno Bee, showed that no current City Council member has criticized Dyer in print, not even mildly (a former City Council president did once accuse him of being “arrogant”). And the city has rewarded him handsomely for his service: He \u003ca href=\"https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?q=Jerry%20Dyer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made over $247,000\u003c/a> in 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/06/nyregion/scrutiny-of-incoming-police-commissioner-begins-with-his-suits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than\u003c/a> the police commissioner in New York City. No, Jerry Dyer is not a typical big-city police chief. Then again, Fresno is not a typical big city.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘God’s Forgiven Me. My Wife’s Forgiven Me. This Department’s Forgiven Me’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Fresno began as little more than a railroad stop in California’s Central Valley. The Central Pacific Railroad Co. \u003ca href=\"https://www.fresno.gov/darm/historic-preservation/history-of-fresno/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded\u003c/a> the town in 1872. It was incorporated 13 years later and soon grew into an agricultural powerhouse. The figure who casts the longest shadow on Fresno today is undoubtedly Hank Morton, the high-water mark of corrupt police chiefs in a town with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-06-mn-3568-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">no shortage of them\u003c/a>. During Prohibition, federal agents considered Fresno County the wettest in the nation, and the local police ran the booze. But it was Morton, ruling the department from the ‘50s through the ‘70s, who elevated corruption to an art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Replacing Chief Ray Wallace, who was sentenced to prison in 1950 for using his office to amass 1,700 acres of land, Morton quickly took control of the area’s brothels, marrying Fresno’s top madam. He consolidated power (and avoided prosecution) using a vast intelligence apparatus inside the Police Department dedicated to gathering blackmail material on political leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Morton’s retirement, three separate federal organized crime task forces investigated the Fresno police, leading to a reform period in the department that lasted for two decades. That era ended with the appointment of Dyer’s predecessor, Ed Winchester, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-may-16-me-64135-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">stepped down in disgrace\u003c/a> in 2001 amid compounding scandals, including the disappearance of 11 pounds of cocaine and $200,000 in cash from the evidence room. Jerry Dyer was born at the height of Morton’s reign, in May 1959, and rose to department leadership under Winchester.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer joined the force on May 1, 1979, just two days before his 20th birthday. His sister, Diane, also became a cop, and served on the Fresno force until 2011. Being a cop was in his blood, but he wasn’t content to remain a patrol officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His appointment as chief was, perhaps, inevitable. His first major step was a two-year stint as public information officer, from 1995 to 1997. The name recognition he earned from frequent TV appearances helped him launch the defining project of his pre-chief years, the Skywatch helicopter program. He raised private donations to buy the department its first helicopters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was one other key piece of Dyer’s rise, something that might not be expected to influence a career in government service: his identity as a born-again Christian.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s a frequent guest at many Fresno-area churches, and is often spotted at prayer breakfasts and other public religious gatherings. In Dyer’s telling, the story goes like this: In his 20s, he began drinking heavily, cheating on his wife and breaking police department rules (which rules, he won’t say, but he does acknowledge being the subject of internal affairs probes while a beat cop.) In 2005, he \u003ca href=\"https://hanfordsentinel.com/community/kingsburg_recorder/news/fresno-police-chief-relies-on-god-for-inspiaration/article_2f70a795-0ea2-5d5b-9075-494a126d9230.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told a crowd\u003c/a> that as a young man he was “dishonest, egotistical, proud, arrogant and disobedient.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had a revelation at the age of 32, when a friend suggested he go to church. In what Dyer sees as a sign from on high, the pastor spoke about the two problems plaguing his life: alcohol and adultery. He said he attended services the next two Sundays, and on the third Sunday, he experienced a rebirth, turning himself over to God and pledging to change his ways. He has an exact date for his spiritual awakening: Sept. 15, 1991.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department leadership quickly noticed his newfound commitment to God — and, stemming from that, his commitment to doing the right thing and working to help others. He rose quickly through the ranks and was named chief just under 10 years later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer has used his faith as cover to protect him from potentially damaging stories from his pre-religious past. He got his first chance to test his story’s value almost immediately after he was appointed chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno’s then-city manager, Dan Hobbs, announced Dyer’s appointment on July 18, 2001. Four days later, a front-page story in the Fresno Bee proclaimed: “Cops twice probed allegations Dyer had affair with girl, 16.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer reportedly had sex with a 16-year-old girl when he was a 26-year-old officer in 1985. The accusation was investigated shortly after it was alleged to have occurred, and again in response to a citizen complaint after Dyer became department spokesman in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bee article was based on interviews with unnamed police sources who were privy to the investigations, as well as family members of the alleged victim, although the alleged victim herself would not confirm or deny the allegations. Contacted for this article, she declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer refused to deny the story, instead relying on his born-again image to excuse his past behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I can tell you is that the relationships that I have had outside of my marriage, when I was a young man, have been dealt with,” he told the Bee. “God’s forgiven me. My wife’s forgiven me. This department’s forgiven me and looked into a lot of things in my past.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer took his oath as police chief on Aug. 2, less than two weeks after the story came out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 18 years later, even with the wave of powerful men felled by the #MeToo movement, no reporter or city leader has publicly asked him about it since the original article was published. And he still has not publicly denied the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He faced another public scandal just a few years later when a lieutenant named Jose Moralez was found dead, shot in the chest just 200 feet from Dyer’s house. The chief was reportedly considering firing Moralez for lying. The shooting was ultimately ruled a suicide. But it’s become something of an urban legend in Fresno and another bizarre chapter in the chief’s lengthy career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer relied on his religiosity to build faith among his own officers, as well. In a 2005 department-wide memo, Dyer apologized for unspecified offensive comments he made, and he pledged to improve his performance at home, at work and at church. As part of his penance, he told his officers, “I will view teaching Sunday school as an opportunity to help and serve others and not as an obligation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bias Allegations Leveled Against Department From Within\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Institutional racism has long plagued Fresno. Its majority-black 93706 ZIP code is the poorest urban ZIP code in the entire state. A person born just 10 miles away, in wealthy Northeast Fresno, has a life expectancy 20 years longer than a person born in the 93706.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer himself is not immune to the racism endemic in the city. In 2011, two deputy chiefs, Robert Nevarez and Sharon Shaffer, sued Dyer personally, alleging he had created a hostile work environment in the Fresno Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When referring to African-American individuals, including employees, DYER sings the antebellum slave song ‘Mammy’s little baby loves short’nin bread,’ ” according to Shaffer and Nevarez’s complaint. The deputy chiefs accused Dyer of many other racially and sexually charged comments, including referring to an Asian-American employee as his “little geisha girl,” making inappropriate comments about a subordinate’s breasts and joking that it’s OK to punch African-Americans in the face because they “don’t have bones in their noses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno City Hall eventually settled their lawsuit, paying $100,000 each to Shaffer and Nevarez, plus $100,000 in fees and costs to their lawyer. But not before racking up $820,000 in legal fees, according to the Fresno Bee, and exposing the chief’s behind-the-scenes behavior to public scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevarez and Shaffer’s lawsuit didn’t mark the first time Dyer had run into trouble for what he had said at work. Years later, in response to the 2011 lawsuit, Dyer’s attorneys admitted he had made racially charged and sexually suggestive comments at staff meetings. They repeatedly relied on Foster’s status as an African-American as a shield against allegations Dyer’s remarks were racist. The Nevarez/Shaffer suit also shed light on another aspect of the department: Dyer’s close relationship with Foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the September 9 Meeting, a Fresno Bee article was discussed. This article quoted Captain Al Maroney calling Deputy Chief Keith Foster, Chief Dyer’s ‘pet,’ ” according to a filing by his lawyers. “Chief Dyer said to Deputy Chief Keith Foster, ‘If you are my pet, then you’re my Chia Pet’ and sang the first lines of the ‘Chia Pet song.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit asserted that the reference to Chia Pets was a racial remark referring to stereotypes about African-Americans’ hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Deputy Chief Keith Foster was not offended by the term ‘Chia pet’ at the September 9 Meeting,” Dyer’s lawyers wrote. Not every officer took Foster’s sanguine view. In an internal survey of officers’ attitudes in 2015, almost 20 percent said racial and gender bias was a “severe or serious problem” in the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Did you have confidence in him?’ ‘I did.’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The voice crackled through the courtroom speaker with the characteristic pops and hisses of a recorded phone call. “They want one of them?” And the reply, from a deeper, older voice: “Yeah, what’s the ticket?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It depends, how, how good of color they want?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean they, they, the very, very best.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The very, very best?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11736121\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 317px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11736121\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/keith-foster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/keith-foster.jpg 317w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/keith-foster-160x236.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Fresno Deputy Police Chief Keith Foster. \u003ccite>(Fresno Police Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Yeah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oh shit, shit, Unc, the very best right there is going at least seven. Not right now, at my cost now they’ll say about a rack for the best. We’re talking about some China white though, you know what I mean?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hey man, hey, hey, hey you ain’t got to go, you ain’t got to go into all the det-. Hey meet me Friday and we’ll, and we, we gonna talk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was in some ways a typical conversation between two drug dealers, complete with coded language — “ticket” meaning price, “a rack” meaning a thousand, “China white” referring to high-grade heroin — and an admonition not to go into detail on the phone. But one of the voices on the line, the one the younger man called “Unc,” was Deputy Chief Keith Foster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal agents on the stand told a winding story, interspersed with headline-grabbing audio recordings like the conversation about “China white.” The story had three main threads, each about a different drug. Foster, they said, had gone into business with one nephew to sell marijuana. He had been prescribed 100 pills a month of oxycodone, which they charged he was selling to another nephew (the jury hung on the oxycodone charges, perhaps because Foster wasn’t heard on wiretaps explicitly talking about the pills.) Finally, he had agreed to purchase heroin for a female friend of his and then tried to buy it from a young man he had previously mentored in a gang-violence prevention program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer contended that he didn’t know about any of this. While it’s true that Foster had never before been found guilty of wrongdoing, he had been accused of it on numerous occasions. And Dyer certainly knew about the history of troubling allegations. There was the wife of a captain who had accused Foster of sexual battery at a concert. The child abuse claims his department had investigated and rejected, although a doctor had laid blame at Foster. And there were the money problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yes, the sexual battery and child abuse allegations were investigated by the department and rejected. And money problems don’t necessarily mean a longtime, trusted officer will suddenly break bad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But taken together, they might have prompted a deeper review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyer made no mention of any of this when asked under oath if Foster ever had disciplinary problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Did you have confidence in him?” asked Foster’s defense attorney, Marshall Hodgkins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did,” Dyer answered.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I Have a Clear Heart and a Clear Conscience, 100 Percent’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The chief was not entirely unscathed by the Foster saga. Despite ongoing statements of confidence in him from the city’s political leadership, his own department was shaken by the trial. A half-dozen current and former officers interviewed for this article, most of whom did not want to be named for fear of retaliation, uniformly said they were stunned that Dyer didn’t face sustained scrutiny after Foster’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the end, the 54-year-old Foster was sentenced to four years in federal prison. In January last year, he surrendered himself to U.S. marshals to begin his term, which he is serving in Florence, Colorado, while drawing his full $93,000-a-year police pension. A week after his arrest, Foster was allowed to retire from the department. He’s appealing the conviction. In an email from prison, Foster maintained his innocence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Her 11 goats, who had been staying on a friend’s land in the nearby town of Easton, vanished in the middle of the night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Honestly, for the first seven days I couldn’t sleep because I was so concerned,” said Picquette, who has raised goats for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734450\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11734450\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/5312808060278312982_IMG_0327-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"Fresno Sheriff's Department spokesman Tony Botti said the goats have primarily been taken from this area, between Riverdale and Easton. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresno Sheriff’s Department spokesman Tony Botti said the goats have primarily been taken from an area between the towns of Riverdale and Easton. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Detectives on the Fresno County Sheriff’s Agriculture Task Force say they’ve been working overtime on the case but haven’t made much headway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve searched some pastures we thought could be connected with our case, but we’ve come up empty on those leads,” said Tony Botti, a sheriff’s office spokesman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re really at the point where we’re hoping the public has maybe heard something,” he said. “Maybe they’ve been approached by someone trying to sell them goats, and then that word could get back to us and we can really break this case open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few weeks ago, four of Kristy’s goats were found on the side of the road, more than 20 miles from where they were taken. All of them were sick.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Detectives searched the area but didn’t find any clues. Her seven other goats are still missing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734604\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11734604\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/2690664589348736594_IMG_0334-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"The Picquette's goat, Baby Bell. "I wish they could talk so they could tell us where their moms are!" said Picquette.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picquette’s goat, Baby Bell. “I wish they could talk so they could tell us where their moms are,” she said. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Three of her recovered goats — Baby Bell, Princess and Brownie — are home and being kept under close watch. 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In the meantime, she has set up a \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/stolen-kingsburg-goats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Go Fund Me\u003c/a> to help start a new herd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11734608\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11734608\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/03/3243523269606609630_IMG_0339-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Kristy Picquette with her goat, Princess.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Picquette with her goat, Princess. \u003ccite>(Michelle Wiley/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some of Picquette’s the stolen goats belong to her two sons who take care of them through their participation in a local 4-H agricultural program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My kids have raised and bred the goats throughout the years,” said Picquette. “They paid the vet bill if they got sick. 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But also, as she noted, most of these students are probably older than she is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At age 20, Hurtado is balancing motherhood, city council and a part-time job, while still pursuing her own degree. But she wouldn’t have it any other way: She tells the students she wants to have a say in the community where her son is growing up, and she wants to give a platform to unheard voices, like her own as a young Latina mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s funny to see me — Jewel, brown, city council — in a Swedish village, but it’s about representation and that is why I ran,” she told the students. Today, around a third of the Central Valley city’s residents, including Hurtado, identify as Latinx but Swedish immigrants settled Kingsburg, and echoes of this history are everywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Strong Female Mentors & Public Service in Her Blood\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>One of Hurtado’s early mentors — and now her colleague — is Kingsburg Mayor Michelle Roman, the city’s first female mayor. She helped spark Hurtado’s interest in community politics when she came to speak at her high school a few years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Hurtado was 18, she asked Roman how she could get involved, and Roman appointed her as a youth commissioner to the city’s Community Services Commission. Hurtado now oversees this commission as one of her council assignments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get asked about Jewel — ‘How do you feel about having a 20-year-old on your city council?’ — and, well, I think it’s great, because she’s inspiring that next generation,” Roman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado’s skeptics have questioned her credentials because of her age, but politics and community organizing run in her blood. 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When Hurtado was growing up, Flores-Rivera toted her to union rallies and places she felt were historically and politically significant, like the room where Chavez did his hunger strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had thought, maybe the day I retire I’m going to run for city council, and then [Jewel] says, ‘Nonni, I’m gonna be running for city council,’ and I go, ‘Well, I guess there goes my idea out the window! Yes, mija! Yes! We need young people out there.’ I was so happy!” Flores-Rivera said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size='small' align='right' citation='Kingsburg Mayor Michelle Roman']‘I get asked about Jewel — ‘How do you feel about having a 20-year-old on your city council?’ — and, well, I think it’s great, because she’s inspiring that next generation.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hurtado said she ran on community, voices and values: “That’s not typical appearing in a campaign, I feel like, because usually we’re talking about jobs, or business or public safety, but all of those things fall under community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the enthusiastic support from family and friends, the campaign was a grueling one for Hurtado. She schlepped door-to-door with infant Anthony in the blistering heat of the Central Valley summer. And when she wasn’t campaigning, she was working weekend shifts at Victoria’s Secret in Fresno and going to class at Fresno City College, where she’s majoring in political science.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She and her fiancé, Anthony Jr., were also on opposite schedules while they were still figuring out parenting. 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It’s a rare multisystem disorder that can cause tumors in different parts of the body, and Anthony’s are in his brain. He has monthly MRIs and EEG brain scans to monitor them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='the-long-run' label='The Long Run']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I knew that my son was not OK throughout my campaign,” Hurtado said, noting many people chalked up her concern to being a new, young mother. Anthony is doing much better now that they know what’s going on and they’re taking the right precautions, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of critics doubting both her capability as a candidate — and her instincts as a mother — Hurtado fought through to a victory by a margin of eight votes. Her supporters reached as far as the \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jewelhurtado_/status/1070163827608567808\">U.S. Congress\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that she’s in office, Hurtado sees the future through her young son’s eyes. 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"content": "\u003cp>Three women janitors from Fresno have filed a lawsuit claiming that the nation’s largest janitorial company, ABM, fostered a sexually hostile work environment, emboldening supervisors to sexually harass and assault employees. The allegations against supervisors include making lewd sexual remarks, exposing genitals, displaying pornography, assault and attempted rape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM provides janitorial services across the country. It was a focal point of KQED's groundbreaking 2015 investigation \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\">“Rape on the Night Shift,\u003c/a>” produced in collaboration with Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, PBS Frontline, Univision and UC Berkeley’s Investigative Reporting Program. 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She says he frequently grabbed her by the back of her head and tried to force her to her knees so that she would give him oral sex. The lawsuit details an incident in which he called her to his truck under guise of getting cleaning supplies, but would instead watch pornography and begin masturbating, as well as another incident where he drove her to an orchard and attempted to rape her.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch3>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read KQED's Coverage of 'Rape on the Night Shift'\u003c/a>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/night-shift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/09/CITY_06.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003c/a>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“He made me feel like a piece of trash, like I wasn’t worth anything,” said Sanchez, standing outside Fresno County Superior Court, where the suit was filed. “Twice, he threatened me that if I told anyone, he would kill me. I felt like I didn’t have any rights. The company never told us we had any rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez, who cannot read or write in English or Spanish, claims she was required to sign company documents without any explanation of what they meant. The complaint alleges there were documents in her personnel file that contained signatures of her name, but were not actually signed by her, including one detailing policies against harassment in the workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit also alleges that the supervisor forced her to work off the clock, laundering her cleaning mop-heads and rags, and failed to reimburse her for the cost of using a laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another plaintiff, Maria Paramo, claims that the same supervisor repeatedly grabbed her breasts and, at one point, digitally raped her by forcing his fingers into her vagina. Years later, the suit alleges he demanded oral sex in exchange for assigning her a full eight-hour shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company should be responsible. They can’t be blind or mute about what we say is happening to us,” Paramo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11726147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11726147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2019/02/RS35264_IMG_2974-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Paramo says the same supervisor who harassed Sanchez harassed her repeatedly and eventually assaulted her on the job. \u003ccite>(Alex Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>ABM has been sued by the federal government three times for failing to protect workers from sexual harassment. Each time it agreed to improvements. As recently as 2013, the company was subject to a consent decree stemming from the federal lawsuit in the Central Valley. That decree spelled out specific steps to protect janitors from harassment on the job in Fresno and surrounding areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ABM also \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/sexual-abuse-claims-to-face-outside-review-at-nations-biggest-janitorial-firm/\">agreed to follow other steps\u003c/a> after a 2015 settlement in another case against ABM involving a female janitor who said she was raped by her supervisor at the San Francisco Ferry Building. As part of the terms of that case, ABM agreed to hire an outside neutral female investigator when it receives a complaint. The latest lawsuit alleges that when ABM did investigate the Fresno women’s case, it hired an investigator who had previously defended ABM against claims of sexual harassment in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The company has broken its promises in numerous ways for many years,” said attorney Jennifer Reisch of Equal Rights Advocates in San Francisco, who’s representing the women in this new case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the first or the second or the fifth time that this company has been sued by janitors who’ve been raped, sexually assaulted and harassed on the night shift,” Reisch said. “But I really, really hope that this the last.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reisch said the company could be taking easy steps, like checking in with supervisors to make sure they’re not violating policies, and making it more clear where women can go to report harassment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ABM spokeswoman declined to comment on the Fresno lawsuit before deadline. 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"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n the west side of Fresno, there’s an empty lot near the train tracks where thousands of people are buried anonymously. There are no tombstones to mark the location of the graves, just strips of concrete with numbers stamped in them. It’s a potter’s field, a mass burial site for the remains of the abandoned and indigent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fresno County started burying people in mass graves in the late 1800s, when the city was founded. In September, the county sheriff’s office held a ceremony for nearly 800 people — the ones buried there most recently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Underneath gazebos erected by sheriffs deputies, funeral attendees sat in plastic white chairs set up on a stretch of AstroTurf. Behind the podium were two coffins wedged into freshly turned soil holding small stacked boxes of cremated ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One by one, leaders of different faiths came up to a podium framed by flowers. Though their specific words varied, each conveyed roughly the same message: \"Everyone deserves a dignified burial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the attendees knew the deceased. They were friends or old coworkers. Others were simply members of the public who'd come to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, both donning leather motorcycle vests and dark shades, said they'd come to remember a man named Raymond Mata, who took his own life nearly six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raymond was a young man with a lot of energy and a lot of thought for other people,” said Simpson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11708772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan at the potter's field in Fresno where their friend and former coworker Raymond Mata was buried. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simpson is an iron worker, as was Mata. The two worked on tall buildings together, risking their lives side by side, and developed a close friendship. They also rode motorcycles together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A bunch of things kinda came down on him,” Simpson said of his friend. “[He was] unable to cope with it I guess, and we didn’t know his history in the past, that he had had situations like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever Raymond was battling, Simpson says, he kept it to himself. He was always laughing and making other people laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was one of the happiest guys you’ve ever met. He’s not somebody you forget” added Morgan, also an iron worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that’s what the whole point of living is, somebody remembers you, right?” Morgan said. “That you’ve made a good enough impression with other people that they remember you when you’re gone.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>People can end up in a potter’s field — or common grave — for a variety of reasons. Some lose touch with loved ones, or are the oldest surviving member of their families. Others have families who can’t afford the hundreds of dollars it costs to collect ashes from the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mata wasn’t homeless. He had a job and a family. He was even planning to get married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-800x457.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond Mata's fiance at the time of his death, Vira Flores, and his friends Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, stand next to the mass grave where Mata was buried in Fresno. 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Mata died in a suicide in 2013 and was buried on September 13, 2018. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leonard Pelagio, Mata's cousin, said he was loved. When they were kids, he taught Raymond how to break dance and took him to competitions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden you come out with two little five-, six- or seven-year-olds doin’ head spins, like boom! Gotcha!\" Pelagio recalled, laughing. \"Every competition we were in, we took first place,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two kept in touch as adults, and Pelagio said he had started noticing some troubling signs, including indications that Mata had been hurting himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn't know about it until I saw his neck,” Pelagio said. “When I visited him one time I was like, 'Hey what's that on your neck?' He’s like, 'Nothin'.' I’m like, 'Nothin'? Don’t give me that nothing.' You know, he promised he would never do it again and I told him to reach out to me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly afterwards, Mata hung himself with an electrical cord. He was 34.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After his death, Mata's family had him cremated. But there was a huge fight over who had ownership of his remains, and members of his family stopped talking to each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As next of kin, Raymond’s daughter was legally entitled to his ashes, but other members of his family said she never picked them up from the funeral home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The daughter didn't respond to requests for an interview for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were told in 30 days if nobody claimed Raymond’s ashes it was considered abandonment,” his mother, Diana Mata, said. “And then when we keep on trying — I have letters. I have emails — but we still couldn’t do anything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Mata died, the funeral home refused to release his ashes to his mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mata's ashes are buried in a seemingly empty lot framed by railroad tracks, cinder blocks and barbed wire. There’s no grass. The podium, gazebos and chairs set up for the memorial service have all been removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent Saturday morning, his mother, Diana, drove from her home in Los Angeles to visit her son's gravesite. Sitting in a folding chair, next to a photo of Mata in his iron workers vest and his motorcycle, Diana explained that she did not want her son to be buried here. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He had never been abandoned, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He was loved,” Diana Mata said. “I’m the one who gave birth to him. Even though he was 34, he was my baby.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she couldn’t get her son’s ashes, Mata held a service for him in Los Angeles, using just photos. 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Behind the podium were two coffins wedged into freshly turned soil holding small stacked boxes of cremated ashes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One by one, leaders of different faiths came up to a podium framed by flowers. Though their specific words varied, each conveyed roughly the same message: \"Everyone deserves a dignified burial.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the attendees knew the deceased. They were friends or old coworkers. Others were simply members of the public who'd come to pay their respects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, both donning leather motorcycle vests and dark shades, said they'd come to remember a man named Raymond Mata, who took his own life nearly six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Raymond was a young man with a lot of energy and a lot of thought for other people,” said Simpson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11708772\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11708772\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-160x90.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-800x449.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-1020x573.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/RS34114_IMG_1910-qut-1200x674.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan at the potter's field in Fresno where their friend and former coworker Raymond Mata was buried. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Simpson is an iron worker, as was Mata. 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Some lose touch with loved ones, or are the oldest surviving member of their families. Others have families who can’t afford the hundreds of dollars it costs to collect ashes from the morgue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mata wasn’t homeless. He had a job and a family. He was even planning to get married.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11709450\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/11/MataFlowers-800x457.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond Mata's fiance at the time of his death, Vira Flores, and his friends Mike Simpson and Skip Morgan, stand next to the mass grave where Mata was buried in Fresno. 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"content": "\u003cp>All summer, 19-year-old Valeria Mena has been working to register young people to vote in her hometown of Fresno. She just finished her first year as an undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz. For her, leaving the Central Valley to go to college was like a political awakening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before that, no one had ever talked to her about politics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Personally, my parents are undocumented, and because of that they’re unable to vote. We didn’t really have those kinds of conversations,\" Mena says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an art installation and get-out-the-vote event organized by the civic engagement group \u003ca href=\"https://powercalifornia.org/team/\">Power California\u003c/a> and global art project \u003ca href=\"http://www.insideoutproject.net/vote/\">InsideOut/Vote\u003c/a> in downtown Fresno, the 19-year-old with curly dark hair and round, bookish glasses explains to two students from nearby UC Merced how to carefully fill out voter registration forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She warns them that if they make any mistakes, the elections office won’t accept the form. One of the students, Miguel, writes in the wrong address, and suddenly changes his mind. He says he’d prefer to fill out the form online.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one that got away,\" Mena jokes, slightly disappointed. \"Which sucks, but hopefully he ends up doing it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Mena wants to get Latino voters engaged, she has her work cut out for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/race-and-voting-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>, Latinos make up 34 percent of the adult population in California, but only 21 percent are considered likely to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Latinos in this region have low rates of voting, not because they don't care about politics, but because they have been systematically excluded and never welcomed with open arms into the political system.'\u003ccite>Matt A. Barreto, UCLA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If you gave me a magic wand and said, 'Make one change in the Latino voting population in order to get them to [have] higher turnout,' I would just make them all 10 years older,” says Paul Mitchell, vice president of the bipartisan voter data company \u003ca href=\"https://www.politicaldata.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Data, Inc\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the Latino population is relatively young, and that makes them less likely to vote. Likely voters tend to be U.S.-born, older and affluent. Home ownership also often correlates with civic participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people — including Latinos — are also mobile, often moving for school or work. And they’re less financially stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Age is not the only factor at play when it comes to low participation. UCLA political science and Chicana/o studies professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.polisci.ucla.edu/people/matthew-a-barreto\">Matt A. Barreto\u003c/a> says it's the product of 50 years of neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Latino and farmworker community has been neglected, ignored, harassed and scapegoated in [the] Central Valley,\" Barreto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one single voter mobilization program will be able to counter decades of neglect and hostility. Latinos in this region have low rates of voting, not because they don't care about politics, but because they have been systematically excluded and never welcomed with open arms into the political system,\" Barreto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped political campaigns and parties from targeting Latinos in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Valeria Mena (L) works the voter registration table at an art installation and Get Out the Vote event in downtown Fresno. Mena has been volunteering all summer to boost youth voter engagement in the Central Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-1200x824.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valeria Mena (L) works the voter registration table at an art installation and a Get Out the Vote event in downtown Fresno. Mena has been volunteering all summer to boost youth voter engagement in the Central Valley. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent millions on \u003ca href=\"https://dccc.org/english-espanol-dccc-exposes-jeff-denhams-record-supporting-trumps-anti-immigrant-agenda-new-spanish-language-ad/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish-language television ads\u003c/a> to boost Latino turnout in key California districts such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q57Qk0IHJ00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">District 10\u003c/a> (which includes Modesto), where Democrat Josh Harder is running to unseat Republican Congressman Jeff Denham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's very much a correlation between race and income in California, and as a result there's also a correlation between race and voting behavior,” says Republican political consultant Mike Madrid, who is working to \u003ca href=\"http://www.civicalatino.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boost Latino turnout\u003c/a> in the Midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says to motivate Latinos to vote, you have to be more than just anti-Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I feel like they just need motivation to want to learn about their community, and want to change it.'\u003ccite>Valeria Mena\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It's not enough to be against something. You have to be for something in order to get people to show up and be involved in government,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s against these odds that Valeria Mena is working to get young people like herself involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she wishes someone would have talked to her about politics and voting when she was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A good amount of people that I know that are Latinos... people don’t talk about these problems with them. So they just kind of look up to their parents or work in the farm fields like they do, or [work as a] \u003cem>empacadoras\u003c/em>, which is packing the fruits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Mena is working to break that cycle, helping students register and talking to them about the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like they just need motivation to want to learn about their community and want to change it so they could vote for policies that will really affect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The one that got away,\" Mena jokes, slightly disappointed. \"Which sucks, but hopefully he ends up doing it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Mena wants to get Latino voters engaged, she has her work cut out for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ppic.org/publication/race-and-voting-in-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Policy Institute of California\u003c/a>, Latinos make up 34 percent of the adult population in California, but only 21 percent are considered likely to vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Latinos in this region have low rates of voting, not because they don't care about politics, but because they have been systematically excluded and never welcomed with open arms into the political system.'\u003ccite>Matt A. Barreto, UCLA\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"If you gave me a magic wand and said, 'Make one change in the Latino voting population in order to get them to [have] higher turnout,' I would just make them all 10 years older,” says Paul Mitchell, vice president of the bipartisan voter data company \u003ca href=\"https://www.politicaldata.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Political Data, Inc\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because the Latino population is relatively young, and that makes them less likely to vote. Likely voters tend to be U.S.-born, older and affluent. Home ownership also often correlates with civic participation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Young people — including Latinos — are also mobile, often moving for school or work. And they’re less financially stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Age is not the only factor at play when it comes to low participation. UCLA political science and Chicana/o studies professor \u003ca href=\"https://www.polisci.ucla.edu/people/matthew-a-barreto\">Matt A. Barreto\u003c/a> says it's the product of 50 years of neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The Latino and farmworker community has been neglected, ignored, harassed and scapegoated in [the] Central Valley,\" Barreto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one single voter mobilization program will be able to counter decades of neglect and hostility. Latinos in this region have low rates of voting, not because they don't care about politics, but because they have been systematically excluded and never welcomed with open arms into the political system,\" Barreto says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t stopped political campaigns and parties from targeting Latinos in the Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11697674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11697674\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-800x550.jpg\" alt=\"Valeria Mena (L) works the voter registration table at an art installation and Get Out the Vote event in downtown Fresno. Mena has been volunteering all summer to boost youth voter engagement in the Central Valley.\" width=\"800\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-800x550.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-160x110.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-1020x701.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-1200x824.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-1180x811.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-960x660.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-240x165.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-375x258.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2018/10/MenaAtTable-520x357.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valeria Mena (L) works the voter registration table at an art installation and a Get Out the Vote event in downtown Fresno. Mena has been volunteering all summer to boost youth voter engagement in the Central Valley. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee spent millions on \u003ca href=\"https://dccc.org/english-espanol-dccc-exposes-jeff-denhams-record-supporting-trumps-anti-immigrant-agenda-new-spanish-language-ad/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spanish-language television ads\u003c/a> to boost Latino turnout in key California districts such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q57Qk0IHJ00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">District 10\u003c/a> (which includes Modesto), where Democrat Josh Harder is running to unseat Republican Congressman Jeff Denham.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There's very much a correlation between race and income in California, and as a result there's also a correlation between race and voting behavior,” says Republican political consultant Mike Madrid, who is working to \u003ca href=\"http://www.civicalatino.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">boost Latino turnout\u003c/a> in the Midterms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Madrid says to motivate Latinos to vote, you have to be more than just anti-Trump.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'I feel like they just need motivation to want to learn about their community, and want to change it.'\u003ccite>Valeria Mena\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It's not enough to be against something. You have to be for something in order to get people to show up and be involved in government,” says Madrid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s against these odds that Valeria Mena is working to get young people like herself involved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she wishes someone would have talked to her about politics and voting when she was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A good amount of people that I know that are Latinos... people don’t talk about these problems with them. So they just kind of look up to their parents or work in the farm fields like they do, or [work as a] \u003cem>empacadoras\u003c/em>, which is packing the fruits.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now Mena is working to break that cycle, helping students register and talking to them about the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like they just need motivation to want to learn about their community and want to change it so they could vote for policies that will really affect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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