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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom also announced $2.2 billion in new funding from Proposition 1, which voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980254/proposition-1-narrowly-approved-by-voters\">narrowly approved in March\u003c/a>, that will be available this summer to build permanent supportive housing for veterans and people with mental health or substance use issues, who also are at risk of becoming homeless.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new program, dubbed \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/grants-and-funding/homekey-plus\">Homekey+\u003c/a>, builds on the existing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877000/californias-homekey-is-revolutionizing-homeless-housing-but-can-it-last\">Homekey motel-conversion\u003c/a> model developed during the pandemic. Like its namesake, the new program will channel funding to cities and counties to buy or rehabilitate buildings, such as motels, that can be swiftly transformed into permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Do you have questions about housing? Or a tip or story you’d like to share with housing reporters at KQED? \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?usp=sf_link\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Submit those questions, tips and more here. \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the governor’s office, HomeKey+ will create more than 4,000 new permanent housing units, plus supportive services. Half of these homes will be reserved for veterans with behavioral health needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom singled out the city of Huntington Beach for its ongoing efforts to stymie new housing production, saying he’d use a newly signed law, SB 1037, to enforce steep fines of up to $50,000 a month against it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who turn their backs on this crisis, we’re turning up the heat,” Newsom said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill gives the attorney general more power to seek penalties against local governments that refuse to adopt a compliant housing element or break housing law, money that would go toward developing affordable housing within the community where the violation occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s one of two bills Attorney General Rob Bonta sponsored. Together, the legislation provides greater incentives, encouragement and clarity to help locals meet their housing obligations, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe that all of our incredible, good faith-acting cities … will help us get to where we need to go when it comes to creating what we all know we need — an affordable California,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Assemblymember Buffy Wicks authored a bill that updates the state’s “builder’s remedy” provision, in place since 1990, that gets triggered when a local government fails to pass a housing plan that meets state requirements and limits local government’s ability to reject certain affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wicks’ legislation, AB 1893, makes more projects eligible for that streamlined approval and gives city planners clarity about the application requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Inertia and the status quo are no longer acceptable in California,” Wicks said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom said over 70 housing-related bills made it to his desk this year. He signed 32 today. Here are some of them:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Preventing and ending homelessness\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 799 by Assemblymember Luz Rivas: Aims to enhance the coordination and transparency of efforts to address homelessness in California.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1395 by Sen. Josh Becker: Encourages the construction of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988728/should-california-double-down-on-building-tiny-homes-for-people-experiencing-homelessness\">tiny homes and other interim housing\u003c/a> by streamlining zoning and CEQA requirements.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>Accountability\u003c/h2>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>AB 1893 by Assemblymember Wicks: Updates the original \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11945744/california-building-boom-a-new-law-promised-big-but-has-yet-to-deliver-in-the-bay-area\">Builder’s Remedy law\u003c/a> to reduce the amount of affordable housing required, among other changes.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>SB 1037 by Sen. 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The state had 631,000 acres conserved between April of that year and May 2023 and has added 861,000 acres since then, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12003410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12003410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/Estero-de-San-Antonio-2_David-Dines-Western-Rivers-Conservancy-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dillon Beach Ranch area, including the 1.5-mile Estero de San Antonio, are within the ancestral homelands of the Coast Miwok, and their descendants are still present there today. \u003ccite>(Courtesy David Dines/Western Rivers Conservancy)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While the increase includes acres that are newly conserved, it also includes land where the state previously lacked data about levels of protection and management for biodiversity. Through “painstaking and ongoing work,” officials tracked down conserved and protected land across 52 counties to show that these areas meet California’s 30×30 definition, according to the progress report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the biggest recent gains were the expansion of two national monuments — the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984763/biden-expands-2-national-monuments-in-california-significant-to-tribal-nations\">San Gabriel Mountains National Monument\u003c/a> in Southern California and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/107169/berryessa-snow-mountain-becomes-californias-newest-national-monument\">Bay Area’s Berryessa-Snow Mountain National Monument\u003c/a> — which enhanced protections for about 120,000 acres of federal lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12003399 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/DillonBeach1-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also made progress toward the goal through its first-ever \u003ca href=\"https://resources.ca.gov/Initiatives/Tribalaffairs/Tribal-Nature-Based-Solutions-Program\">ancestral land return effort\u003c/a>, which provided $100 million in grant funding for the return of roughly 38,950 acres to Indigenous communities. Among the recent recipients were the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who received funding to help reacquire \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003399/lush-marin-county-coastal-land-returned-to-graton-rancheria\">466 acres of their lands\u003c/a> in the North Bay that were privately owned until 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As community leaders globally look for ways to increase biodiversity conservation, California’s plan is paving the way for similar efforts at the national level, with states such as Nevada, South Carolina, Hawaii, Maine and New York now working toward their own 30×30 goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January 2021, the Biden administration issued an \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2021/01/27/executive-order-on-tackling-the-climate-crisis-at-home-and-abroad/\">executive order\u003c/a> to tackle the climate crisis and committed the United States to 30×30 through its America the Beautiful initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, California Secretary of Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot sat down with KQED to explain the state’s goal to transform more than \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1992481/californias-plans-for-slowing-climate-change-through-nature-based-solutions\">half of its land acres\u003c/a> to sequester carbon and fight climate change. This effort will help reach the 30×30 goal, Crawfoot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those targets, known as nature-based solutions, include millions of acres that will be managed to reduce wildfire risk, protect water supplies and enhance biodiversity, among other outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conservation activists have celebrated the gains as positive progress, some have responded to the state’s announcement with calls for even greater investment and action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“\u003ca href=\"https://www.iucncongress2020.org/motion/101\">Scientists worldwide agre\u003c/a>e that in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change on people and help protect wildlife at risk of extinction, we must — at a minimum — protect 30% of our lands and coastal waters by 2030,” Juan Altamirano, director of government affairs at the Trust for Public Land, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California is making progress towards 30×30, but there is much work remaining. Nearly five million acres of lands and coastal waters still must be conserved in less than six years. To meet this moment, we are calling for accelerated action, the designation of three national monuments, and the passage of Proposition 4 in November,” Altamirano said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/ballot/2024/prop4-110524.pdf\">Proposition 4\u003c/a> would authorize a $10 billion bond to spend on environmental and climate projects, with the biggest chunk, $1.9 billion, for drinking water improvements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups and renewable energy advocates have been clamoring for increased spending on climate change and the environment in recent years, particularly after Newsom and the Legislature approved a $54.3 billion spending package called the California Climate Commitment in 2022, only to scale it back to $44.6 billion this budget-plagued year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gavin-newsom\">Gavin Newsom\u003c/a> on Tuesday signed two bills intended to ease California’s housing and homelessness crisis amid increased pressure from voters to address the growing number of unhoused people across the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One bill makes it easier for people experiencing homelessness to stay longer at a hotel or motel that has been converted into a shelter, and the other streamlines the approval process for smaller accessory dwelling units — often called “granny flats” or “in-law” apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The homelessness crisis demands immediate and innovative action, not the status quo,” Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/08/27/governor-newsom-signs-new-laws-to-help-communities-further-address-homelessness/\">said in a statement\u003c/a>. “With these new laws, local governments have even more tools to provide housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the pandemic, many hotels and motels were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921155/last-days-at-the-radisson-as-state-shelter-program-shutters-formerly-unhoused-residents-in-oakland-brace-for-next-steps\">transformed into temporary shelters\u003c/a> for people experiencing homelessness. Although \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11877000/californias-homekey-is-revolutionizing-homeless-housing-but-can-it-last\">Newsom’s Homekey grant program \u003c/a>converted some of those shelters into permanent housing, some cities have continued to use the hotels and motels as temporary housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One problem: When people stay at these types of shelters for longer than 30 days, they could be considered tenants and afforded certain rights under landlord-tenant law. To avoid that, building owners then shuffle people staying there every four weeks, which can be disruptive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB2835/id/2957405\">AB 2835\u003c/a>, introduced by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), would allow these shelters to continue providing services for longer than 30 days without the landlord-tenant laws kicking in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11991885 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-1252545130-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“The homelessness crisis demands immediate and innovative action, not the status quo,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said in a statement on Tuesday. “With these new laws, local governments have even more tools to provide housing.” \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We need solutions to our homelessness crisis that are both compassionate and effective,” he said. “AB 2835 will deliver on both fronts by providing much-needed stability to kids and families experiencing homelessness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the supply side of housing politics, Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB3057/id/2932367\">AB 3057\u003c/a>, which would streamline the permit and approval process for junior accessory dwelling units, smaller versions of the increasingly popular granny flat or in-law unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12001621 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/006_KQED_AlamedaAffordableHousing_01122023_qed-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granny flats have allowed cities to add a new option for homeowners to build housing, but they can cost \u003ca href=\"https://boxconstructioncorp.com/how-much-does-an-adu-cost-in-california/\">$500,000 or more\u003c/a> to build. Junior ADUs are much smaller — \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/docs/faqsadujr.pdf\">only a maximum of 500 square feet by state law\u003c/a>, as opposed to an ADU’s 1,200 square foot size — making them cheaper to construct and a potentially more affordable option for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junior ADUs have to include a kitchen, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/docs/faqsadujr.pdf\">not necessarily a bathroom\u003c/a> or parking. And many local ordinances governing junior ADUs require the owner to live on the property, unlike with granny flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Fairfield), AB 3057 would exempt junior ADUs from the California Environmental Quality Act, a controversial law that some argue blocks new developments from being added to the state’s housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessory dwelling units are exempt from this law due to their small size and construction on a property that already has housing on it, but state law does not specifically exempt junior ADUs from CEQA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AB 3057 represents a small but significant technical change that offers Californians more accessible and efficient options to build affordable housing solutions,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Granny flats have allowed cities to add a new option for homeowners to build housing, but they can cost \u003ca href=\"https://boxconstructioncorp.com/how-much-does-an-adu-cost-in-california/\">$500,000 or more\u003c/a> to build. Junior ADUs are much smaller — \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/docs/faqsadujr.pdf\">only a maximum of 500 square feet by state law\u003c/a>, as opposed to an ADU’s 1,200 square foot size — making them cheaper to construct and a potentially more affordable option for renters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Junior ADUs have to include a kitchen, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.hcd.ca.gov/policy-research/docs/faqsadujr.pdf\">not necessarily a bathroom\u003c/a> or parking. And many local ordinances governing junior ADUs require the owner to live on the property, unlike with granny flats.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Authored by Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Fairfield), AB 3057 would exempt junior ADUs from the California Environmental Quality Act, a controversial law that some argue blocks new developments from being added to the state’s housing stock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Accessory dwelling units are exempt from this law due to their small size and construction on a property that already has housing on it, but state law does not specifically exempt junior ADUs from CEQA.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“AB 3057 represents a small but significant technical change that offers Californians more accessible and efficient options to build affordable housing solutions,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Lawmakers and advocates say Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is making inflated estimates about the cost of legislation, with some suggesting his subordinates have been trying to kill the bills without making the governor politically accountable for the outcome.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While people are dying on the streets from a lack of access to behavioral health care treatment, state agencies continue to fabricate exorbitant cost estimates,” Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/dave-cortese-164699\">Dave Cortese\u003c/a>, a Democrat from Campbell, told CalMatters after one of his mental health proposals died recently in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/scott-wiener-100936\">Scott Wiener\u003c/a>, a Democrat from San Francisco who authored another mental health bill that died recently, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258192?t=295&f=a2f15a64e9e6ef40221b60296d414495\">said in a public hearing last month\u003c/a> that the administration’s cost estimate of his bill was “extreme and outrageous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pointed accusations from Democratic lawmakers and health care advocates who tend to be friendly with the Democratic governor are extraordinary because such criticism is rarely made in public. The examples also stand out because they challenge the administration’s response to one of the governor’s top priorities, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/mental-health/\">mental health\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The administration did not accept an interview request with CalMatters and would not provide more detail — to CalMatters or to lawmakers — to explain the cost estimates. By email, however, a spokesperson insisted the costs were accurate and rejected the idea that they were intentionally inflated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous and inaccurate for anyone to suggest these numbers are fabricated or artificially inflated,” Rodger Butler, a spokesperson for Newsom’s Health and Human Services Agency, said in an email. “Legislative fiscal analyses from state government departments are informed by real-world, on-the-ground experience implementing legislative mandates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the motivations, four health care bills with controversial cost estimates died quietly earlier this month in the Senate and Assembly Appropriations committees even after each had advanced without a single “no” vote from a Democratic legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04.jpg\" alt=\"Three women dressed in orange, pink and green jackets and a man wearing a dark business suit sit in green chairs with the United States and California flags behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly lawmakers meet during a Suspense File hearing at the Capitol Annex Swing Space on O Street in Sacramento on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Appropriations Committees are focused on the cost of legislation, especially in a year when the state is struggling with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-budget/\">budget deficit\u003c/a>. The four bills were moved to the committees’ “suspense files,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/california-laws-legislature-suspense-file/\">along with 263 other controversial or costly bills\u003c/a>. Each committee then killed the bills in their respective suspense file with a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Gatto, a former Democratic lawmaker from Los Angeles who chaired the Assembly Appropriations Committee, said inflated cost estimates from a governor’s administration are nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an executive branch agency provides “a significantly exaggerated cost” on a piece of legislation, “it’s generally a big flashing light that the administration dislikes the bill and that the governor would likely veto it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be advantageous for the governor when legislators quietly kill those bills, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the appropriations committee there to kill it and to take the arrows (of criticism), that is a tremendous benefit politically for any governor,” Gatto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatto has a hand-written note framed on his wall that former Gov. Jerry Brown gave him expressing Brown’s appreciation for keeping bills from reaching the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a corner of the note are two words: “Keep holding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Thad Kousser, a former legislative staffer who’s now a professor of political science at UC San Diego, said the integrity of the legislative process is jeopardized if cost estimates are not accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to have reasonable and realistic estimates that are not part of a political strategy in order for everyone to make informed decisions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year alone, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">according to the Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>, lawmakers considered 2,522 bills, many of them with large potential costs to taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democrat calls costs ‘extreme and outrageous’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Wiener’s legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb294?slug=CA_202320240SB294\">Senate Bill 294\u003c/a>, would have required an automatic review of cases in which commercial health plans denied children and young people mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, the chair of the Senate’s mental health caucus, said in the public hearing last month that the measure “does nothing more than require health plans to provide the coverage that they’re required to provide and stop denying covered behavioral health care treatment to children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he said it was “outrageous” when the \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25074843/sb-294-2024.pdf\">Department of Managed Health Care estimated\u003c/a> that the bill would cost $87.6 million per year by 2028 and would require 340 new employees. That’s a 55% increase over the\u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/reference/2024-PositionVacancyReport.pdf\"> 610 positions in the department’s budget for the 2022–23 fiscal year.\u003c/a> A separate state office, the Department of Insurance, also said the bill would require it to hire an additional five positions by 2026 for $1.2 million. There is no description in the cost estimate about how the departments arrived at the estimate or what jobs the new positions would perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/FM6KA/9/\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The estimate also was a surprise to supporters of Wiener’s bill. In June, they sent a three-page memo to the chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/buffy-wicks-165044\">Buffy Wicks\u003c/a> from Oakland, saying that a similar bill that failed last year had a significantly lower cost estimate. They also noted that the pending bill was more narrow in scope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lishaun Francis, director of behavioral health for the advocacy group Children Now, told CalMatters the Department of Managed Health Care, which is intended to protect consumers, inflated the cost of Wiener’s bill, presumably to try to kill it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not an analysis in good faith,” she said. “The unfortunate thing here is that DMHC has fallen into a trap where they are trying to be here for consumers while also inflating costs to make sure bills don’t get to the governor when there is a tight budget year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the bill died, it passed the Senate and an Assembly committee without any Democrats voting against it, according to the Digital Democracy database.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there ‘multiple layers of fiscal review?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Department of Managed Health Care, which issued the cost estimates, is part of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CalHHS-Organizational-Chart_AUG24.pdf\">Health and Human Services Agency\u003c/a>. Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly, a Newsom appointee, oversees the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters requested an interview with Ghaly or another top official to talk about the cost estimates, but the administration would not talk beyond providing the emailed statement from Butler at the Health and Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to note there are multiple layers of fiscal review throughout the process,” he said, citing the policy and appropriations committees in the Legislature and the governor’s Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer told CalMatters, “We rely principally on (agencies and departments) to provide us with the personnel and fiscal estimates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing dark business suits stand behind two flags. The man on the left stands in front of a podium with a microphone and gestures with his right hand.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, listens as Joe Stephenshaw, director of the Department of Finance, speaks during a press conference unveiling Newsom’s revised 2024–25 budget proposal at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policy committees, meanwhile, don’t evaluate the costs of bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that policy committees vetted the finances of a bill is almost uniformly incorrect,” said Gatto, the former Assembly Appropriations chair. “Policy committees don’t do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That independent fiscal review is supposed to happen at the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees, whose staffers are widely regarded as some of the smartest people in the Capitol. Their job is to independently vet the administration estimate and provide their own cost estimates for bills, Kousser and Gatto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are professionals,” Kousser said. “They’re trying to get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet when it came to these four disputed bills, the analysis written by the staffs of the Appropriations Committees described the administration cost estimates and nothing more. Each of the four analysis included \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb999?slug=CA_202320240SB999\">language similar to SB 999\u003c/a>, which said only: “The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) reports the total costs of this bill as follows:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Quinonez, chief of staff for Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/anna-caballero-101330\">Anna Caballero\u003c/a> of Merced, who chairs the Senate’s Appropriations Committee, declined to discuss specific bills other than to say the committee’s consultants perform their own analyses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for Assemblymember Wicks, who chairs the Assembly Appropriations Committee, did not return messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another Democrat calls costs ‘exorbitant’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regarding his mental health bill, Sen. Cortese said in an email he has “serious concerns about how the health care agencies are coming up with these cost projections.” \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb999?slug=CA_202320240SB999\">Senate Bill 999 \u003c/a>would have required health insurers to make sure they have mental health and addiction experts review claims for treatment, something advocates say is already required under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the second time Cortese introduced the bill. A previous version made it through the Legislature in 2022 before Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SB-999-VETO.pdf\">vetoed it\u003c/a>, saying the issue could be addressed by new regulations that would be issued soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he felt draft regulations last year were inadequate, Cortese introduced a pared-down version of the 2022 bill. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">However, advocates were surprised to see the \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25074841/sb-999-2024-analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">department’s cost estimate \u003c/a>increase significantly to $18 million over five years and about $4 million annually after 2028 to pay for 13 permanent positions.\u003c/span> The estimate does not explain how the department determined the number of positions needed or what jobs they would perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Advocacy groups supporting the bill noted that, in recent years, budget allocations, the Department of Managed Health Care already received \u003ca href=\"https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/2122/FY2122_ORG4150_BCP4308.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millions of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/2223/FY2223_ORG4150_BCP5107.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dollars \u003c/a>to cover some of the costs of implementing the proposed rules, so it didn’t make sense that the costs would be so high.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad to see some of these good faith efforts by advocates to try to bring accountability to the system kind of fall under the weight of a cost estimate that we don’t have a lot of insight into from the department,” said Lauren Finke, policy director for The Kennedy Forum, one of the bill’s sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a black jacket and grey shirt looks at a woman wearing a red jacket that has her back turned to the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, a Santa Cruz Democrat, convenes with legislators during a session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/gail-pellerin-149519\">Gail Pellerin\u003c/a> similarly couldn’t understand why there was such a high cost associated with her \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab3260?slug=CA_202320240AB3260\">Assembly Bill 3260\u003c/a>, which would have required health insurers to expedite reviews of mental health claims that doctors deem urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25074842/ab-3260-analysis.pdf\">Department of Managed Health Care estimated\u003c/a> the bill would cost nearly $140 million in the first five years and $32 million annually after 2029 to pay 144 new positions — a 23% increase in staff size, Pellerin said in an interview. The estimate, which also includes an additional $238,000 annually for the Department of Insurance, does not provide any further description of the need for the positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which supported the bill, said in an email that his organization reached out to agency officials to ask for an explanation of the cost analysis, “but they declined to engage with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven other states, plus Washington, D.C., have already adopted similar laws, he said, with no evidence that those laws resulted in a major increase in workload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pellerin said she and her staff also couldn’t get an answer from the department about how it came up with what she called “inflated” numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this taxpayer-funded state department doing the job it is required to do?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pellerin, the issue is personal. She knows firsthand how an urgent mental health crisis can spiral out of control. Her husband died by suicide in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family, we’ve experienced this kind of situation,” she told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are agencies not showing their work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for Health Access California also were frustrated by the cost estimates associated with \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab236?_gl=1*ip5o3s*_gcl_au*MTQyNDUxODAyMS4xNzIzNTY4MzM1*_ga*OTk2OTcyMDkyLjE2OTk5MTE3MzA.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcyNDM2MDMwNi43MjEuMS4xNzI0MzYwNDYwLjU3LjAuMA..*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTcyNDM2MDMwNi4xNjUuMS4xNzI0MzYwNDU3LjAuMC4w*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcyNDM2MDQ1Ny41OTguMC4xNzI0MzYwNDU3LjAuMC4w\">Assembly Bill 236\u003c/a> by Pasadena Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/chris-holden-78\">Chris Holden\u003c/a>. The bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/ghost-network-doctor-referrals/\">would have given state regulators\u003c/a> the authority to fine health insurers if their publicly available lists of in-network doctors and specialists aren’t accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In testimony supporting the bill’s promises to crack down on so-called “ghost networks,” \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258106?t=469&f=723bb83d8559a8dceb9316c055b8b3b2&_gl=1*6kjdh0*_gcl_au*MTQyNDUxODAyMS4xNzIzNTY4MzM1*_ga*OTk2OTcyMDkyLjE2OTk5MTE3MzA.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcyNDM1NTkxNS43MjAuMS4xNzI0MzU2NDQ2LjU5LjAuMA..*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTcyNDM1NTkxNS4xNjQuMS4xNzI0MzU2NDQ1LjAuMC4w*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcyNDM1NjQ0NS41OTcuMC4xNzI0MzU2NDQ1LjAuMC4w\">a therapist described\u003c/a> having a patient end up in the emergency room from a suicide attempt after she called through a list of 50 mental health providers and couldn’t find one who’d see her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would have added teeth to a law that insurers and doctors are already supposed to follow and that state regulators are supposed to monitor.[aside postID=\"news_11981977,news_11999996,news_12000706\" label=\"Related Stories\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Managed Health Care \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25074840/ab-236-2024.pdf\">estimated its cost\u003c/a> to be $3.5 million annually after 2029 for 14 new positions. In its one-sentence description, the Department of Health Care Services said its cost for the bill would be “approximately” $24 million. In an email, the department told CalMatters the bill would lead to “increased costs in the Medi-Cal managed care and behavioral health delivery systems and staffing requirements.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This $24 million is just mind-blowing,” said Rachel Linn Gish, a spokesperson for Health Access. “We do not understand how they came up with this number.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Genest spent four years as Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s director of the Department of Finance. At CalMatters’ request, he reviewed the cost estimates of the four bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he could expect high costs for Wiener’s and Pellerin’s bills, but he said it wasn’t possible for him to independently evaluate the figures without more detail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, he said the other two estimates definitely seemed out of line based on the information the administration and the committees provided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said it wouldn’t surprise him if the agencies were inflating the projected costs of the bills to try to get more money to backfill their budgets — or if top officials in Newsom’s administration had told departments to oppose bills that weren’t the governor’s priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Either way, he said the agencies should do a better job of explaining their cost projections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s poor practice,” he said. “It’s not a good thing that they’re not showing the detail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genest worked in the Capitol when Willie Brown was Assembly speaker and when John Burton was president of the Senate. He said those leaders, known for their aggressive leadership styles, would never let the governor’s administration get away with blowing off lawmakers’ concerns. Back then, he said, lawmakers would have threatened to cut the departments’ budgets if they felt they were getting the runaround.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a member was disrespected to that extent by a member of the bureaucracy,” he said, “there would be consequences.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s outrageous and inaccurate for anyone to suggest these numbers are fabricated or artificially inflated,” Rodger Butler, a spokesperson for Newsom’s Health and Human Services Agency, said in an email. “Legislative fiscal analyses from state government departments are informed by real-world, on-the-ground experience implementing legislative mandates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whatever the motivations, four health care bills with controversial cost estimates died quietly earlier this month in the Senate and Assembly Appropriations committees even after each had advanced without a single “no” vote from a Democratic legislator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002025\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002025\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04.jpg\" alt=\"Three women dressed in orange, pink and green jackets and a man wearing a dark business suit sit in green chairs with the United States and California flags behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081524-Suspense-File-FG-CM-04-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assembly lawmakers meet during a Suspense File hearing at the Capitol Annex Swing Space on O Street in Sacramento on Aug. 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Appropriations Committees are focused on the cost of legislation, especially in a year when the state is struggling with a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/tag/california-budget/\">budget deficit\u003c/a>. The four bills were moved to the committees’ “suspense files,” \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2024/08/california-laws-legislature-suspense-file/\">along with 263 other controversial or costly bills\u003c/a>. Each committee then killed the bills in their respective suspense file with a single vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Gatto, a former Democratic lawmaker from Los Angeles who chaired the Assembly Appropriations Committee, said inflated cost estimates from a governor’s administration are nothing new.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When an executive branch agency provides “a significantly exaggerated cost” on a piece of legislation, “it’s generally a big flashing light that the administration dislikes the bill and that the governor would likely veto it,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It can be advantageous for the governor when legislators quietly kill those bills, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having the appropriations committee there to kill it and to take the arrows (of criticism), that is a tremendous benefit politically for any governor,” Gatto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gatto has a hand-written note framed on his wall that former Gov. Jerry Brown gave him expressing Brown’s appreciation for keeping bills from reaching the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a corner of the note are two words: “Keep holding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Thad Kousser, a former legislative staffer who’s now a professor of political science at UC San Diego, said the integrity of the legislative process is jeopardized if cost estimates are not accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got to have reasonable and realistic estimates that are not part of a political strategy in order for everyone to make informed decisions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year alone, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/\">according to the Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>, lawmakers considered 2,522 bills, many of them with large potential costs to taxpayers.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Democrat calls costs ‘extreme and outrageous’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Sen. Wiener’s legislation, \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb294?slug=CA_202320240SB294\">Senate Bill 294\u003c/a>, would have required an automatic review of cases in which commercial health plans denied children and young people mental health treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiener, the chair of the Senate’s mental health caucus, said in the public hearing last month that the measure “does nothing more than require health plans to provide the coverage that they’re required to provide and stop denying covered behavioral health care treatment to children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So he said it was “outrageous” when the \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25074843/sb-294-2024.pdf\">Department of Managed Health Care estimated\u003c/a> that the bill would cost $87.6 million per year by 2028 and would require 340 new employees. That’s a 55% increase over the\u003ca href=\"https://ebudget.ca.gov/reference/2024-PositionVacancyReport.pdf\"> 610 positions in the department’s budget for the 2022–23 fiscal year.\u003c/a> A separate state office, the Department of Insurance, also said the bill would require it to hire an additional five positions by 2026 for $1.2 million. There is no description in the cost estimate about how the departments arrived at the estimate or what jobs the new positions would perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/FM6KA/9/\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The estimate also was a surprise to supporters of Wiener’s bill. In June, they sent a three-page memo to the chair of the Assembly Appropriations Committee, Democrat \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/buffy-wicks-165044\">Buffy Wicks\u003c/a> from Oakland, saying that a similar bill that failed last year had a significantly lower cost estimate. They also noted that the pending bill was more narrow in scope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lishaun Francis, director of behavioral health for the advocacy group Children Now, told CalMatters the Department of Managed Health Care, which is intended to protect consumers, inflated the cost of Wiener’s bill, presumably to try to kill it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not an analysis in good faith,” she said. “The unfortunate thing here is that DMHC has fallen into a trap where they are trying to be here for consumers while also inflating costs to make sure bills don’t get to the governor when there is a tight budget year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the bill died, it passed the Senate and an Assembly committee without any Democrats voting against it, according to the Digital Democracy database.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there ‘multiple layers of fiscal review?’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Department of Managed Health Care, which issued the cost estimates, is part of the state’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.chhs.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/CalHHS-Organizational-Chart_AUG24.pdf\">Health and Human Services Agency\u003c/a>. Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly, a Newsom appointee, oversees the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CalMatters requested an interview with Ghaly or another top official to talk about the cost estimates, but the administration would not talk beyond providing the emailed statement from Butler at the Health and Human Services Agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important to note there are multiple layers of fiscal review throughout the process,” he said, citing the policy and appropriations committees in the Legislature and the governor’s Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Department of Finance spokesman H.D. Palmer told CalMatters, “We rely principally on (agencies and departments) to provide us with the personnel and fiscal estimates.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002024\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002024\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33.jpg\" alt=\"Two men wearing dark business suits stand behind two flags. The man on the left stands in front of a podium with a microphone and gestures with his right hand.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/051024_Newsom-Budget_FG_CM_33-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom, left, listens as Joe Stephenshaw, director of the Department of Finance, speaks during a press conference unveiling Newsom’s revised 2024–25 budget proposal at the Capitol Annex Swing Space in Sacramento on May 10, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Policy committees, meanwhile, don’t evaluate the costs of bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To say that policy committees vetted the finances of a bill is almost uniformly incorrect,” said Gatto, the former Assembly Appropriations chair. “Policy committees don’t do that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That independent fiscal review is supposed to happen at the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees, whose staffers are widely regarded as some of the smartest people in the Capitol. Their job is to independently vet the administration estimate and provide their own cost estimates for bills, Kousser and Gatto said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These people are professionals,” Kousser said. “They’re trying to get it right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet when it came to these four disputed bills, the analysis written by the staffs of the Appropriations Committees described the administration cost estimates and nothing more. Each of the four analysis included \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb999?slug=CA_202320240SB999\">language similar to SB 999\u003c/a>, which said only: “The Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) reports the total costs of this bill as follows:”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luis Quinonez, chief of staff for Sen. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/anna-caballero-101330\">Anna Caballero\u003c/a> of Merced, who chairs the Senate’s Appropriations Committee, declined to discuss specific bills other than to say the committee’s consultants perform their own analyses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Representatives for Assemblymember Wicks, who chairs the Assembly Appropriations Committee, did not return messages.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another Democrat calls costs ‘exorbitant’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regarding his mental health bill, Sen. Cortese said in an email he has “serious concerns about how the health care agencies are coming up with these cost projections.” \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb999?slug=CA_202320240SB999\">Senate Bill 999 \u003c/a>would have required health insurers to make sure they have mental health and addiction experts review claims for treatment, something advocates say is already required under state law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the second time Cortese introduced the bill. A previous version made it through the Legislature in 2022 before Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/SB-999-VETO.pdf\">vetoed it\u003c/a>, saying the issue could be addressed by new regulations that would be issued soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After he felt draft regulations last year were inadequate, Cortese introduced a pared-down version of the 2022 bill. \u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">However, advocates were surprised to see the \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25074841/sb-999-2024-analysis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">department’s cost estimate \u003c/a>increase significantly to $18 million over five years and about $4 million annually after 2028 to pay for 13 permanent positions.\u003c/span> The estimate does not explain how the department determined the number of positions needed or what jobs they would perform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px\">Advocacy groups supporting the bill noted that, in recent years, budget allocations, the Department of Managed Health Care already received \u003ca href=\"https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/2122/FY2122_ORG4150_BCP4308.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">millions of\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://bcp.dof.ca.gov/2223/FY2223_ORG4150_BCP5107.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">dollars \u003c/a>to cover some of the costs of implementing the proposed rules, so it didn’t make sense that the costs would be so high.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s sad to see some of these good faith efforts by advocates to try to bring accountability to the system kind of fall under the weight of a cost estimate that we don’t have a lot of insight into from the department,” said Lauren Finke, policy director for The Kennedy Forum, one of the bill’s sponsors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002026\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002026\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman wearing a black jacket and grey shirt looks at a woman wearing a red jacket that has her back turned to the camera.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/01192023_Assembly-Chamber_RL_CM_03-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, a Santa Cruz Democrat, convenes with legislators during a session at the state Capitol in Sacramento on Jan. 19, 2023. \u003ccite>(Rahul Lal / CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/gail-pellerin-149519\">Gail Pellerin\u003c/a> similarly couldn’t understand why there was such a high cost associated with her \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab3260?slug=CA_202320240AB3260\">Assembly Bill 3260\u003c/a>, which would have required health insurers to expedite reviews of mental health claims that doctors deem urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25074842/ab-3260-analysis.pdf\">Department of Managed Health Care estimated\u003c/a> the bill would cost nearly $140 million in the first five years and $32 million annually after 2029 to pay 144 new positions — a 23% increase in staff size, Pellerin said in an interview. The estimate, which also includes an additional $238,000 annually for the Department of Insurance, does not provide any further description of the need for the positions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sal Rosselli, president emeritus of the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which supported the bill, said in an email that his organization reached out to agency officials to ask for an explanation of the cost analysis, “but they declined to engage with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven other states, plus Washington, D.C., have already adopted similar laws, he said, with no evidence that those laws resulted in a major increase in workload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pellerin said she and her staff also couldn’t get an answer from the department about how it came up with what she called “inflated” numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this taxpayer-funded state department doing the job it is required to do?” she asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Pellerin, the issue is personal. She knows firsthand how an urgent mental health crisis can spiral out of control. Her husband died by suicide in 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family, we’ve experienced this kind of situation,” she told CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are agencies not showing their work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Advocates for Health Access California also were frustrated by the cost estimates associated with \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab236?_gl=1*ip5o3s*_gcl_au*MTQyNDUxODAyMS4xNzIzNTY4MzM1*_ga*OTk2OTcyMDkyLjE2OTk5MTE3MzA.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcyNDM2MDMwNi43MjEuMS4xNzI0MzYwNDYwLjU3LjAuMA..*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTcyNDM2MDMwNi4xNjUuMS4xNzI0MzYwNDU3LjAuMC4w*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcyNDM2MDQ1Ny41OTguMC4xNzI0MzYwNDU3LjAuMC4w\">Assembly Bill 236\u003c/a> by Pasadena Democratic Assemblymember \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/legislators/chris-holden-78\">Chris Holden\u003c/a>. The bill \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/07/ghost-network-doctor-referrals/\">would have given state regulators\u003c/a> the authority to fine health insurers if their publicly available lists of in-network doctors and specialists aren’t accurate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In testimony supporting the bill’s promises to crack down on so-called “ghost networks,” \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/hearings/258106?t=469&f=723bb83d8559a8dceb9316c055b8b3b2&_gl=1*6kjdh0*_gcl_au*MTQyNDUxODAyMS4xNzIzNTY4MzM1*_ga*OTk2OTcyMDkyLjE2OTk5MTE3MzA.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTcyNDM1NTkxNS43MjAuMS4xNzI0MzU2NDQ2LjU5LjAuMA..*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTcyNDM1NTkxNS4xNjQuMS4xNzI0MzU2NDQ1LjAuMC4w*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTcyNDM1NjQ0NS41OTcuMC4xNzI0MzU2NDQ1LjAuMC4w\">a therapist described\u003c/a> having a patient end up in the emergency room from a suicide attempt after she called through a list of 50 mental health providers and couldn’t find one who’d see her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would have added teeth to a law that insurers and doctors are already supposed to follow and that state regulators are supposed to monitor.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The Newsom administration, news publishers and major tech players, most notably Google and OpenAI, have reached a deal that will kill two state bills that would have forced tech platforms to share ad revenues with news organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The $250 million agreement promises to provide funding over the next five years to newsrooms across California and launch a “National AI Innovation Accelerator.” The accelerator would provide financial resources “and other support” to enable newsrooms to experiment with AI to bolster their work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Gov. Gavin Newsom wrote the agreement leverages “substantial tech industry resources without imposing new taxes on Californians.” As part of the deal, the Newsom administration is committing $70 million from the state’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, politics is about the art of the possible,” said Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Oakland), whose bill, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB886\">AB 886\u003c/a>, would have forced large tech platforms to pay California newsrooms a portion of their online advertising revenues in exchange for using their content. \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1327\">SB 1327\u003c/a>, by state Sen. Steve Glazer (D-East Bay), would have levied a 7.25% tax on digital advertising revenue to create a tax credit for newsrooms. This deal effectively tables both bills less than two weeks before the deadline for both to make it to the governor’s desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I did not want to do something that was going to spend five years in the courts being litigated,” Wicks told KQED. “I’ve taken on tech before, and I’ve had other bills sit in court cases for a long time and in the court system.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the state of California is losing newsrooms “every single day. We don’t have time for that. This really, I think, will enable us to get resources into newsrooms quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Glazer was less conciliatory. “This agreement, unfortunately, seriously undercuts our work toward a long term solution to rescue independent journalism,” he wrote in a statement. “There is a stark absence in this announcement of any support for journalism from Meta and Amazon. These platforms have captured the intimate data from Californians without paying for it. Their use of that data in advertising is the harm to news outlets that this agreement should mitigate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “News Transformation Fund” established by the deal will be administered by the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, which would distribute funding to California-based state and local news organizations, particularly those serving “news deserts” and underserved and underrepresented communities. “The University and specifically the UC Berkeley School of Journalism stand ready to support this endeavor,” UC President Michael V. Drake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first year, Google will deposit $15 million into the new journalism fund, $5 million into the AI accelerator and $10 million toward existing journalism grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kent Walker, president of global affairs and chief legal officer for Alphabet, the umbrella company that owns Google, wrote, “California lawmakers have worked with the tech and news sectors to develop a collaborative framework to accelerate AI innovation and support local and national businesses and nonprofit organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google ran an aggressive lobbying campaign against both bills in Sacramento and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983333/why-is-google-removing-news-links-for-some-californians\"> even temporarily removed news links\u003c/a> from its search engine in California in reaction to AB 886.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company made similar threats in both \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-news-canada-0c12334603bad9d150e6a7ade7002eb1\">Canada\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673#\">Australia\u003c/a> before coming to agreements to contribute to news organizations in both countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta followed through on threats to remove news links in both Australia and Canada in response to specific legislative actions in order to influence the terms of legislation. Meta did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement has the support of the California News Publishers Association, which represents 700-plus member newsrooms. “This is a first step toward what we hope will become a comprehensive program to sustain local news in the long term, and we will push to see it grow in future years,” CEO Chuck Champion and Board Chair Julie Makinen wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the deal has critics, including Free Press Action Co-CEO Jessica J. Gonzàlez, who wrote: “We are disappointed in this outcome and this process. Good policy is made out in the open, where people can see and participate in the democratic process.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the agreement fails to address the harms Silicon Valley has done to journalism in California, noting that “Since 2004, the state has lost 25 percent of its newspapers, total news circulation has plummeted more than 50 percent, and many ethnic media outlets and nonprofit newsrooms have struggled to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work will begin immediately to set up the AI accelerator and the UC Berkeley-administered fund, with plans to go live in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She added that the state of California is losing newsrooms “every single day. We don’t have time for that. This really, I think, will enable us to get resources into newsrooms quickly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Glazer was less conciliatory. “This agreement, unfortunately, seriously undercuts our work toward a long term solution to rescue independent journalism,” he wrote in a statement. “There is a stark absence in this announcement of any support for journalism from Meta and Amazon. These platforms have captured the intimate data from Californians without paying for it. Their use of that data in advertising is the harm to news outlets that this agreement should mitigate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The “News Transformation Fund” established by the deal will be administered by the UC Berkeley School of Journalism, which would distribute funding to California-based state and local news organizations, particularly those serving “news deserts” and underserved and underrepresented communities. “The University and specifically the UC Berkeley School of Journalism stand ready to support this endeavor,” UC President Michael V. Drake said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first year, Google will deposit $15 million into the new journalism fund, $5 million into the AI accelerator and $10 million toward existing journalism grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Kent Walker, president of global affairs and chief legal officer for Alphabet, the umbrella company that owns Google, wrote, “California lawmakers have worked with the tech and news sectors to develop a collaborative framework to accelerate AI innovation and support local and national businesses and nonprofit organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google ran an aggressive lobbying campaign against both bills in Sacramento and\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11983333/why-is-google-removing-news-links-for-some-californians\"> even temporarily removed news links\u003c/a> from its search engine in California in reaction to AB 886.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company made similar threats in both \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-news-canada-0c12334603bad9d150e6a7ade7002eb1\">Canada\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-55760673#\">Australia\u003c/a> before coming to agreements to contribute to news organizations in both countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta followed through on threats to remove news links in both Australia and Canada in response to specific legislative actions in order to influence the terms of legislation. Meta did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agreement has the support of the California News Publishers Association, which represents 700-plus member newsrooms. “This is a first step toward what we hope will become a comprehensive program to sustain local news in the long term, and we will push to see it grow in future years,” CEO Chuck Champion and Board Chair Julie Makinen wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the deal has critics, including Free Press Action Co-CEO Jessica J. Gonzàlez, who wrote: “We are disappointed in this outcome and this process. Good policy is made out in the open, where people can see and participate in the democratic process.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said the agreement fails to address the harms Silicon Valley has done to journalism in California, noting that “Since 2004, the state has lost 25 percent of its newspapers, total news circulation has plummeted more than 50 percent, and many ethnic media outlets and nonprofit newsrooms have struggled to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Work will begin immediately to set up the AI accelerator and the UC Berkeley-administered fund, with plans to go live in 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>At Bullard High School in Fresno, it’s easy to see the benefits of banning students’ cellphones. Bullying is down and socialization is up, principal Armen Torigian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enforcing the smartphone restrictions? That’s been harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of putting their devices in magnetically locked pouches, like they’re supposed to, some kids will stick something else in there instead, like a disused old phone, a calculator, a glue bottle or just the phone case. Others attack the pouch, pulling at stitches, cutting the bottom, or defacing it so it looks closed when it’s really open. Most students comply, but those who don’t create disproportionate chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should see how bad it is,” Torigian said. “It’s great to say no phones, but I don’t think people realize the addiction of the phones and what students will go to to tell you ‘No, you’re not taking my phone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bullard, which began restricting phones two years ago, is a step ahead of other schools around the state that have moved recently to prohibit cellphones in classrooms. Bullard and other pioneering schools offer a preview of how such bans might play out as they become more common. Educators who have enacted the smartphone restrictions said they help bolster student participation and reduce bullying but also raise challenges, like how to effectively keep phones locked up against determined students and how to identify and treat kids truly addicted to their devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing Bullard as an example, Gov. Gavin Newsom last week \u003ca href=\"https://mclist.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&id=c17c816541&e=5c1534d153\">urged school districts statewide to “act now”\u003c/a> and adopt similar restrictions on smartphone use, reminding them that a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB272\">2019 law\u003c/a> gives them the authority to do so. Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second-largest school district, recently approved plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-18/lausd-board-approved-strict-cell-phone-ban\">ban phones\u003c/a> in January. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab3216?slug=CA_202320240AB3216\">One bill before the state Legislature\u003c/a> would impose similar limits statewide while another would \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1283?slug=CA_202320240SB1283\">ban the use of social media at school\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb976\">Another would prevent\u003c/a> social media companies from sending notifications during school hours as part of a broader set of regulations intended to disrupt social media addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to limit how students use smartphones are driven in part by concerned educators. A Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/12/72-percent-of-us-high-school-teachers-say-cellphone-distraction-is-a-major-problem-in-the-classroom/\">survey released in June\u003c/a> found that 1 in 3 middle school teachers and nearly 3 in 4 high school teachers call smartphones a major problem. During school hours in a single day, the average student receives 60 notifications and spends 43 minutes — roughly the length of a classroom period — on their phone, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/2023-cs-smartphone-research-report_final-for-web.pdf\">a 2023 study (PDF)\u003c/a> by Common Sense Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is growing pressure to protect young people from excessive screen time generally:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>In June, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-health-warning.html\">urged Congress\u003c/a> to require social media companies to place warning labels on their content in order to protect young people.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attorneys general \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/22/technology/zuckerberg-instagram-child-safety-lawsuits.html\">from 45 U.S. states filed lawsuits\u003c/a> against Meta for failing to protect children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Released in March, the popular book \u003ca href=\"https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/\">\u003cem>The Anxious Generation\u003c/em>\u003c/a> correlates declining mental health among young people with smartphone adoption and encourages parents to demand school districts ban smartphones until high school.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College Park High School students relax in the Wellness Center, which provides a quiet environment as well as meditation, peer support and social services for students. Pleasant Hill on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The moves to limit smartphone use in California put it near the forefront of an increasingly national trend. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ban-cell-phones-schools-nyc-new-york-kathy-hochul-plan.html\">has reportedly been mulling\u003c/a> a statewide school smartphone ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/05/30/kathy-hochul-considers-smartphone-ban-amid-student-mental-health-concerns/\">for several months\u003c/a> now. Florida, Ohio, and Indiana have all \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/06/09/cell-phone-school-laws/73975232007/\">imposed some degree of statewide restrictions on phones in schools, and several other states\u003c/a> have introduced similar legislation. Education Week in June said \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/technology/which-states-ban-or-restrict-cellphones-in-schools/2024/06\">11 states either restrict or encourage school districts to restrict\u003c/a> student phone use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-in-san-bernardino-ban-leads-to-higher-teacher-satisfaction\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">In San Bernardino, ban leads to higher teacher satisfaction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Teachers have had classroom phone policies for years; what’s new at schools like Bullard are that their bans are blanket, campus-wide restrictions. Many of the schools that moved early to adopt such bans are smaller and charter schools, like Soar Academy, a TK–8 charter school with 430 mostly low-income students in San Bernardino. Like Bullard, it also found enforcement of its ban was tough. Suspending students wasn’t an option. Neither was yanking phones from students’ hands. That left an honor system, which relied on students’ willingness to accept that smartphones and social media are harmful to their mental health and a distraction from learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key was that we needed 100% buy-in from teachers. There couldn’t be a weak link,” said Soar principal Trisha Lancaster. “It was scary, because we weren’t sure it was going to work. But we were determined to try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lancaster said it also helped not to give parents or students a choice in the matter. The school simply presented the new policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012622/#:~:text=Evidence%20from%20a%20variety%20of,to%20be%20greatest%20among%20girls.\">alongside ample research\u003c/a> on the harmful effects of cellphones and social media on young people, and made it clear what the punishments would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first violation, staff would keep a student’s phone for the day and call their parents. Punishments would escalate until the sixth offense, when a student would have to meet with the school board, whose members might suggest the student enroll elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Soar, the idea originated at the end of the 2022–23 school year, when teachers said they were fed up with distracted students and an overall dispiriting school climate. Students, Lancaster said, “had lost their social skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the staff decided to ban phones during class, at recess, at lunch and after school — essentially, all times except when in a special area where parents or others can pick them up from school. Students must keep phones off and in backpacks when they are not permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first year of the ban went smoother than expected, Lancaster said. Some students and parents protested, but most understood the policy was in students’ best interests. Test scores didn’t budge much, but at the end of the school year, a survey of teachers showed much higher job satisfaction than they recorded previously. And walking across campus, the improvements are obvious, Lancaster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone on campus is so much happier. You see kids actually socializing, problem solving, enjoying themselves,” Lancaster said, choking up as she described the school atmosphere. “It’s true, it’s one more thing to enforce. But education matters, and now kids are learning. That’s the No. 1 reason we did this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-bans-from-san-mateo-to-san-diego\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bans from San Mateo to San Diego\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soar’s experience has been mirrored on a larger scale in the San Mateo-Foster City School District, which serves 10,000 students at 21 TK–8 schools south of San Francisco. After a full-time return to campus in 2022, teachers in the district found many students were “interacting intensely with cellphones in a way we didn’t see before the pandemic,” said superintendent Diego Ochoa, and so the school district adopted a smartphone ban for four middle schools in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrators were convinced to do so following a trip to a nearby high school with a smartphone ban. There, they saw students speaking to each other and looking at one another during break time instead of their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said the benefits of locking smartphones away is evident from improved test scores and an anonymous annual student survey that found a decline in depression, bullying, and fights in the 2023–24 school year relative to prior years. But saying the smartphone ban led to those benefits is tricky because they could have also been caused by other policy changes that happened at the same time, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-restorative-practices-high-school/\">”restorative” approach to discipline\u003c/a> that relied less on detention and suspension and more on support from counselors. Still, when students were surveyed specifically about the policy and the biggest difference in their education since it was put into place, they said that they pay more attention in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000961\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign that reads “no phone zone” in English teacher Jen Roberts’ class at Point Loma High School in San Diego on May 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ron Dyste also implemented a smartphone ban and, like Ochoa, recommends them. Dyste is principal at Urban Discovery Academy, a TK–12 charter school in San Diego, which banned cellphones during the 2023–24 academic year amid an uptick in bullying, harassment and anxiety among students, staff told CalMatters. Nearly 90% of discipline cases, across Urban Discovery Academy and a school where he worked previously, could be traced to misuse of phones or social media, including students filming fights, spreading nude photos of classmates and encouraging students to kill themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I may never get some of those images out of my head. It’s horrible, what kids can do to each other,” Dyste said. “The damage to our kids and our communities is real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyste got the idea to ban phones when he and his wife went to a Dave Chapelle performance where audience members were required to secure their phones in locked pouches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My wife said, why don’t we do this in schools?” he said. “We knew we had to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over last summer, the school sent out notices to families about the new policy, explaining the rationale. Some students complained, but parents were thrilled, Dyste said. And the improvements in campus climate were almost immediate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of “hiding away with their screens,” said Jenni Owen, the school’s chief operations officer, students spent their breaks talking, dancing, playing volleyball, and having fun. They developed empathy and a sense of community, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the academic year, the school logged zero fights. The previous year, the school’s suspension rate was 13.5%, almost four times the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For schools that are wondering if they should take this on, I think the answer is, we have to,” Dyste said. “If we don’t educate kids on how and when to use this technology, we’re going to continue seeing a rise in suicide, sexual harassment, and anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have recognized the importance of healthier technology use among children. California students are \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB873\">supposed to learn about\u003c/a> “appropriate, responsible, and healthy behavior … related to current technology” under a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/11/fake-news-california-school/\">media literacy law passed in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-to-pouch-or-not-to-pouch\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">To pouch or not to pouch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To enforce smartphone bans, some schools rely on smartphone lockers or locked pouches like the kind Dyste saw in use at the Dave Chappelle show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried using locked pouches from the Los Angeles-based company Yondr but encountered numerous issues. Some kids were breaking and smashing the pouches to open them, or they’d listen to music all day by connecting their earbuds to their locked-away phones using Bluetooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11999993,mindshift_64133,news_11977206\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to return what was left of the equipment,” he said. Instead of going with Yondr, which wanted $6,000 to cover 110 kids, Dyste found clear, plastic phone lockers on Amazon that cost $50 each and put one in each classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yondr told CalMatters: “Our pouches are designed to withstand heavy-duty usage, and we are continuously working to improve the durability of our solution. However, there will always be students who try to push boundaries, especially when policies are initially rolled out. For this reason, it is critical that our team works directly with districts and administrators in rolling out the Yondr Program, to ensure that the most effective policies and procedures are implemented for successful school-wide adoption. Without adherence to strong policies, schools may struggle with student compliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soar Academy also considered purchasing Yondr phone pouches but was discouraged by the $19,000 price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Mateo-Foster City School District paid $50,000 to obtain Yondr pouches for roughly 3,000 students. To use them, staff hand out pouches at school entryways each morning, then students swab the pouch over a demagnetizer to unlock the pouch at the end of the day. Kids who want an exception to the rule — for a family emergency for example — must come to the school front office and ask for permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yondr pouches come with a hefty price tag, Ochoa said, but he thinks it’s worth it to improve student focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Call up five random superintendents, I don’t care where they’re at and ask them, how much would you spend to have your students pay more attention? It’s worth millions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-mixed-feelings-among-students\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mixed feelings among students\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether phones get locked in a clear box or a silver pouch, Oakland High School senior Leah West said she finds it punitive to require students to lock their phones away before they have broken any rules with the devices. While Oakland High School does not have a blanket smartphone ban, her former English teacher sometimes locked student phones in Yondr pouches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be given a chance to prove ourselves,” she said, adding that such an approach can motivate a rebellious streak in students like her who like freedom and don’t like when she isn’t trusted to make a responsible decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisa Perry-Picciotto, who graduated from high school in Alameda in June, said students with jobs rely on their phones for work updates and all teens use their phones to communicate with their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she’s grateful her parents didn’t get her a smartphone until she was in eighth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get distracted easily, and without a phone I was a lot more connected to the world,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leah West, 17, in Oakland on Aug. 16, 2024, is in 12th grade at Oakland High School. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edamevoh Ajayi, who is a junior at Oakland Technical High School, said there’s no question some students don’t pay attention in class because they’re busy texting or playing games. Those students would definitely benefit from rules surrounding cellphone use like the kind being implemented at her school this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she feels like she has a strong sense of self-control and a desire to learn, and doesn’t need a phone ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they take away my belongings, I feel like I’m being treated like a child,” she said. At her school, policies vary by classroom. In general, students are free to use their phones between classes and at lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When students use their phones in class it can be frustrating for everyone else, said Fremont High School science teacher Chris Jackson. It puts teachers in a tough position: Either ignore that student and carry on for the sake of the students who are listening or disrupt learning for all students and confront them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long run, Jackson said he’s worried that Black and brown students, who have historically faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/5/17199810/school-discipline-race-racism-gao\">higher rates of punishment than other students\u003c/a>, will again bear the brunt of disciplinary actions related to smartphone bans. Rather than punishment, Jackson would prefer to see solutions that address root issues like addiction that lead students to use their devices in violation of the rules. So no matter what policy school districts adopt, he wants the focus to remain on teaching students digital literacy and how social media can be a risk to their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-course-corrections\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course corrections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some schools who helped pioneer smartphone bans have reassessed their initial approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Bullard is changing its policy to allow students to access their smartphones at lunch time. Torigian said school administrators wanted to make room for important communications, for example by allowing students who pick up younger siblings to text with their parents. They also hoped the looser rules would encourage more students to comply with the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If kids don’t comply, teachers call parents, and if they still refuse they’re sent to what the school calls the re-engagement center. Starting last month, California \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20231010-california-law-will-make-student-suspensions-willful-defiance-illegal\">began prohibiting suspensions for “willful defiance\u003c/a>.” Torigian believes that schools need an exemption from the policy in order to enforce smartphone restrictions. He wants it back because he said he needs a way to hold kids accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the governor’s got to give us some leeway on this willful defiance; you can’t do one [smartphone restrictions] without the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said if he had to do it over again in San Mateo-Foster City he would devote more time to explaining to students why they adopted such a policy before putting it into place. Getting a smartphone is a big deal for middle school students, a milestone for adolescents that represents more freedom and autonomy, and it’s counterproductive for the school environment if they feel punished or something they value is taken away with little explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teenagers told us, ‘you forgot to explain why we’re doing this,’” he said, adding that even if a small percentage of kids violate the policy it can be really harmful academically and to school culture. “Even with your conviction to implement a policy like this, spend the time developing the language around the policy and explaining it to your students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer, whose nonprofit is focused on how children use media and technology, agreed that it works best to explain to kids why a rule to limit smartphone access at school is necessary. Parents and teachers need the same explanation so that they can help enforce some restrictions in order to keep kids safe and healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any even remotely engaged parent is going to want their kid to do well in school, and is going to want them to understand why phones and social media platforms get in the way of learning and can be really distracting and can affect your mental health,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>At Bullard High School in Fresno, it’s easy to see the benefits of banning students’ cellphones. Bullying is down and socialization is up, principal Armen Torigian said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Enforcing the smartphone restrictions? That’s been harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of putting their devices in magnetically locked pouches, like they’re supposed to, some kids will stick something else in there instead, like a disused old phone, a calculator, a glue bottle or just the phone case. Others attack the pouch, pulling at stitches, cutting the bottom, or defacing it so it looks closed when it’s really open. Most students comply, but those who don’t create disproportionate chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You should see how bad it is,” Torigian said. “It’s great to say no phones, but I don’t think people realize the addiction of the phones and what students will go to to tell you ‘No, you’re not taking my phone.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bullard, which began restricting phones two years ago, is a step ahead of other schools around the state that have moved recently to prohibit cellphones in classrooms. Bullard and other pioneering schools offer a preview of how such bans might play out as they become more common. Educators who have enacted the smartphone restrictions said they help bolster student participation and reduce bullying but also raise challenges, like how to effectively keep phones locked up against determined students and how to identify and treat kids truly addicted to their devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Citing Bullard as an example, Gov. Gavin Newsom last week \u003ca href=\"https://mclist.us7.list-manage.com/track/click?u=afffa58af0d1d42fee9a20e55&id=c17c816541&e=5c1534d153\">urged school districts statewide to “act now”\u003c/a> and adopt similar restrictions on smartphone use, reminding them that a \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB272\">2019 law\u003c/a> gives them the authority to do so. Los Angeles Unified, the nation’s second-largest school district, recently approved plans to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-18/lausd-board-approved-strict-cell-phone-ban\">ban phones\u003c/a> in January. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240ab3216?slug=CA_202320240AB3216\">One bill before the state Legislature\u003c/a> would impose similar limits statewide while another would \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb1283?slug=CA_202320240SB1283\">ban the use of social media at school\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb976\">Another would prevent\u003c/a> social media companies from sending notifications during school hours as part of a broader set of regulations intended to disrupt social media addiction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calls to limit how students use smartphones are driven in part by concerned educators. A Pew Research Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/06/12/72-percent-of-us-high-school-teachers-say-cellphone-distraction-is-a-major-problem-in-the-classroom/\">survey released in June\u003c/a> found that 1 in 3 middle school teachers and nearly 3 in 4 high school teachers call smartphones a major problem. During school hours in a single day, the average student receives 60 notifications and spends 43 minutes — roughly the length of a classroom period — on their phone, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/2023-cs-smartphone-research-report_final-for-web.pdf\">a 2023 study (PDF)\u003c/a> by Common Sense Media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There is growing pressure to protect young people from excessive screen time generally:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>In June, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-health-warning.html\">urged Congress\u003c/a> to require social media companies to place warning labels on their content in order to protect young people.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Attorneys general \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/22/technology/zuckerberg-instagram-child-safety-lawsuits.html\">from 45 U.S. states filed lawsuits\u003c/a> against Meta for failing to protect children.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Released in March, the popular book \u003ca href=\"https://www.anxiousgeneration.com/\">\u003cem>The Anxious Generation\u003c/em>\u003c/a> correlates declining mental health among young people with smartphone adoption and encourages parents to demand school districts ban smartphones until high school.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000960\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000960\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/031524_Wellness-Center_MO_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">College Park High School students relax in the Wellness Center, which provides a quiet environment as well as meditation, peer support and social services for students. Pleasant Hill on March 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Manuel Orbegozo for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The moves to limit smartphone use in California put it near the forefront of an increasingly national trend. In New York, Gov. Kathy Hochul \u003ca href=\"https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ban-cell-phones-schools-nyc-new-york-kathy-hochul-plan.html\">has reportedly been mulling\u003c/a> a statewide school smartphone ban \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2024/05/30/kathy-hochul-considers-smartphone-ban-amid-student-mental-health-concerns/\">for several months\u003c/a> now. Florida, Ohio, and Indiana have all \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2024/06/09/cell-phone-school-laws/73975232007/\">imposed some degree of statewide restrictions on phones in schools, and several other states\u003c/a> have introduced similar legislation. Education Week in June said \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/technology/which-states-ban-or-restrict-cellphones-in-schools/2024/06\">11 states either restrict or encourage school districts to restrict\u003c/a> student phone use.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-in-san-bernardino-ban-leads-to-higher-teacher-satisfaction\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">In San Bernardino, ban leads to higher teacher satisfaction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Teachers have had classroom phone policies for years; what’s new at schools like Bullard are that their bans are blanket, campus-wide restrictions. Many of the schools that moved early to adopt such bans are smaller and charter schools, like Soar Academy, a TK–8 charter school with 430 mostly low-income students in San Bernardino. Like Bullard, it also found enforcement of its ban was tough. Suspending students wasn’t an option. Neither was yanking phones from students’ hands. That left an honor system, which relied on students’ willingness to accept that smartphones and social media are harmful to their mental health and a distraction from learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The key was that we needed 100% buy-in from teachers. There couldn’t be a weak link,” said Soar principal Trisha Lancaster. “It was scary, because we weren’t sure it was going to work. But we were determined to try.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lancaster said it also helped not to give parents or students a choice in the matter. The school simply presented the new policy, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7012622/#:~:text=Evidence%20from%20a%20variety%20of,to%20be%20greatest%20among%20girls.\">alongside ample research\u003c/a> on the harmful effects of cellphones and social media on young people, and made it clear what the punishments would be.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first violation, staff would keep a student’s phone for the day and call their parents. Punishments would escalate until the sixth offense, when a student would have to meet with the school board, whose members might suggest the student enroll elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Soar, the idea originated at the end of the 2022–23 school year, when teachers said they were fed up with distracted students and an overall dispiriting school climate. Students, Lancaster said, “had lost their social skills.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So the staff decided to ban phones during class, at recess, at lunch and after school — essentially, all times except when in a special area where parents or others can pick them up from school. Students must keep phones off and in backpacks when they are not permitted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first year of the ban went smoother than expected, Lancaster said. Some students and parents protested, but most understood the policy was in students’ best interests. Test scores didn’t budge much, but at the end of the school year, a survey of teachers showed much higher job satisfaction than they recorded previously. And walking across campus, the improvements are obvious, Lancaster said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone on campus is so much happier. You see kids actually socializing, problem solving, enjoying themselves,” Lancaster said, choking up as she described the school atmosphere. “It’s true, it’s one more thing to enforce. But education matters, and now kids are learning. That’s the No. 1 reason we did this.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-bans-from-san-mateo-to-san-diego\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bans from San Mateo to San Diego\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Soar’s experience has been mirrored on a larger scale in the San Mateo-Foster City School District, which serves 10,000 students at 21 TK–8 schools south of San Francisco. After a full-time return to campus in 2022, teachers in the district found many students were “interacting intensely with cellphones in a way we didn’t see before the pandemic,” said superintendent Diego Ochoa, and so the school district adopted a smartphone ban for four middle schools in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Administrators were convinced to do so following a trip to a nearby high school with a smartphone ban. There, they saw students speaking to each other and looking at one another during break time instead of their phones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said the benefits of locking smartphones away is evident from improved test scores and an anonymous annual student survey that found a decline in depression, bullying, and fights in the 2023–24 school year relative to prior years. But saying the smartphone ban led to those benefits is tricky because they could have also been caused by other policy changes that happened at the same time, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.edutopia.org/article/using-restorative-practices-high-school/\">”restorative” approach to discipline\u003c/a> that relied less on detention and suspension and more on support from counselors. Still, when students were surveyed specifically about the policy and the biggest difference in their education since it was put into place, they said that they pay more attention in class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000961\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000961\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/050324_School-AI-San-Diego_AH_CM_31-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign that reads “no phone zone” in English teacher Jen Roberts’ class at Point Loma High School in San Diego on May 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Adriana Heldiz/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ron Dyste also implemented a smartphone ban and, like Ochoa, recommends them. Dyste is principal at Urban Discovery Academy, a TK–12 charter school in San Diego, which banned cellphones during the 2023–24 academic year amid an uptick in bullying, harassment and anxiety among students, staff told CalMatters. Nearly 90% of discipline cases, across Urban Discovery Academy and a school where he worked previously, could be traced to misuse of phones or social media, including students filming fights, spreading nude photos of classmates and encouraging students to kill themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I may never get some of those images out of my head. It’s horrible, what kids can do to each other,” Dyste said. “The damage to our kids and our communities is real.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dyste got the idea to ban phones when he and his wife went to a Dave Chapelle performance where audience members were required to secure their phones in locked pouches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My wife said, why don’t we do this in schools?” he said. “We knew we had to do something.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over last summer, the school sent out notices to families about the new policy, explaining the rationale. Some students complained, but parents were thrilled, Dyste said. And the improvements in campus climate were almost immediate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of “hiding away with their screens,” said Jenni Owen, the school’s chief operations officer, students spent their breaks talking, dancing, playing volleyball, and having fun. They developed empathy and a sense of community, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the end of the academic year, the school logged zero fights. The previous year, the school’s suspension rate was 13.5%, almost four times the state average.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For schools that are wondering if they should take this on, I think the answer is, we have to,” Dyste said. “If we don’t educate kids on how and when to use this technology, we’re going to continue seeing a rise in suicide, sexual harassment, and anxiety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislators have recognized the importance of healthier technology use among children. California students are \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB873\">supposed to learn about\u003c/a> “appropriate, responsible, and healthy behavior … related to current technology” under a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2023/11/fake-news-california-school/\">media literacy law passed in October\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-to-pouch-or-not-to-pouch\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">To pouch or not to pouch\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To enforce smartphone bans, some schools rely on smartphone lockers or locked pouches like the kind Dyste saw in use at the Dave Chappelle show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried using locked pouches from the Los Angeles-based company Yondr but encountered numerous issues. Some kids were breaking and smashing the pouches to open them, or they’d listen to music all day by connecting their earbuds to their locked-away phones using Bluetooth.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had to return what was left of the equipment,” he said. Instead of going with Yondr, which wanted $6,000 to cover 110 kids, Dyste found clear, plastic phone lockers on Amazon that cost $50 each and put one in each classroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yondr told CalMatters: “Our pouches are designed to withstand heavy-duty usage, and we are continuously working to improve the durability of our solution. However, there will always be students who try to push boundaries, especially when policies are initially rolled out. For this reason, it is critical that our team works directly with districts and administrators in rolling out the Yondr Program, to ensure that the most effective policies and procedures are implemented for successful school-wide adoption. Without adherence to strong policies, schools may struggle with student compliance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soar Academy also considered purchasing Yondr phone pouches but was discouraged by the $19,000 price tag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Mateo-Foster City School District paid $50,000 to obtain Yondr pouches for roughly 3,000 students. To use them, staff hand out pouches at school entryways each morning, then students swab the pouch over a demagnetizer to unlock the pouch at the end of the day. Kids who want an exception to the rule — for a family emergency for example — must come to the school front office and ask for permission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yondr pouches come with a hefty price tag, Ochoa said, but he thinks it’s worth it to improve student focus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Call up five random superintendents, I don’t care where they’re at and ask them, how much would you spend to have your students pay more attention? It’s worth millions,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-mixed-feelings-among-students\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Mixed feelings among students\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether phones get locked in a clear box or a silver pouch, Oakland High School senior Leah West said she finds it punitive to require students to lock their phones away before they have broken any rules with the devices. While Oakland High School does not have a blanket smartphone ban, her former English teacher sometimes locked student phones in Yondr pouches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should be given a chance to prove ourselves,” she said, adding that such an approach can motivate a rebellious streak in students like her who like freedom and don’t like when she isn’t trusted to make a responsible decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Louisa Perry-Picciotto, who graduated from high school in Alameda in June, said students with jobs rely on their phones for work updates and all teens use their phones to communicate with their friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, she’s grateful her parents didn’t get her a smartphone until she was in eighth grade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get distracted easily, and without a phone I was a lot more connected to the world,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12000964\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12000964\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1025\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/081624_CellPhoneBan_FM_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leah West, 17, in Oakland on Aug. 16, 2024, is in 12th grade at Oakland High School. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Edamevoh Ajayi, who is a junior at Oakland Technical High School, said there’s no question some students don’t pay attention in class because they’re busy texting or playing games. Those students would definitely benefit from rules surrounding cellphone use like the kind being implemented at her school this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she feels like she has a strong sense of self-control and a desire to learn, and doesn’t need a phone ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When they take away my belongings, I feel like I’m being treated like a child,” she said. At her school, policies vary by classroom. In general, students are free to use their phones between classes and at lunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When students use their phones in class it can be frustrating for everyone else, said Fremont High School science teacher Chris Jackson. It puts teachers in a tough position: Either ignore that student and carry on for the sake of the students who are listening or disrupt learning for all students and confront them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the long run, Jackson said he’s worried that Black and brown students, who have historically faced \u003ca href=\"https://www.vox.com/identities/2018/4/5/17199810/school-discipline-race-racism-gao\">higher rates of punishment than other students\u003c/a>, will again bear the brunt of disciplinary actions related to smartphone bans. Rather than punishment, Jackson would prefer to see solutions that address root issues like addiction that lead students to use their devices in violation of the rules. So no matter what policy school districts adopt, he wants the focus to remain on teaching students digital literacy and how social media can be a risk to their health.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-course-corrections\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Course corrections\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Some schools who helped pioneer smartphone bans have reassessed their initial approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year, Bullard is changing its policy to allow students to access their smartphones at lunch time. Torigian said school administrators wanted to make room for important communications, for example by allowing students who pick up younger siblings to text with their parents. They also hoped the looser rules would encourage more students to comply with the ban.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If kids don’t comply, teachers call parents, and if they still refuse they’re sent to what the school calls the re-engagement center. Starting last month, California \u003ca href=\"https://sd09.senate.ca.gov/news/20231010-california-law-will-make-student-suspensions-willful-defiance-illegal\">began prohibiting suspensions for “willful defiance\u003c/a>.” Torigian believes that schools need an exemption from the policy in order to enforce smartphone restrictions. He wants it back because he said he needs a way to hold kids accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why the governor’s got to give us some leeway on this willful defiance; you can’t do one [smartphone restrictions] without the other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ochoa said if he had to do it over again in San Mateo-Foster City he would devote more time to explaining to students why they adopted such a policy before putting it into place. Getting a smartphone is a big deal for middle school students, a milestone for adolescents that represents more freedom and autonomy, and it’s counterproductive for the school environment if they feel punished or something they value is taken away with little explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our teenagers told us, ‘you forgot to explain why we’re doing this,’” he said, adding that even if a small percentage of kids violate the policy it can be really harmful academically and to school culture. “Even with your conviction to implement a policy like this, spend the time developing the language around the policy and explaining it to your students.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Common Sense Media CEO Jim Steyer, whose nonprofit is focused on how children use media and technology, agreed that it works best to explain to kids why a rule to limit smartphone access at school is necessary. Parents and teachers need the same explanation so that they can help enforce some restrictions in order to keep kids safe and healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any even remotely engaged parent is going to want their kid to do well in school, and is going to want them to understand why phones and social media platforms get in the way of learning and can be really distracting and can affect your mental health,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And that is to elect Kamala Harris as the next president of the United States.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With that, the arena went wild — and Harris and Walz appeared on the jumbotrons from a rally they simultaneously held in Milwaukee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are so honored to be your nominees. This is a people-powered campaign, and together, we will chart a new way forward,” Harris declared to raucous cheers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier, just outside the storied arena where Michael Jordan once led the Chicago Bulls, Breed reflected on the enormity of this moment. The mayor has known Harris for decades and credited the vice president for convincing Breed to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know how to describe it; everywhere I go, I see Kamala’s images, people wearing their Harris T-shirts,” Breed said. “There’s a lot of energy and excitement for what this moment means and how people are fired up and ready to work hard across this country to make sure she gets elected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For California delegates like Shay Franco-Clausen, the nomination of the first Black woman on a major presidential ticket was a moment to savor. Franco-Clausen, who is from Harris’ hometown of Oakland, said Black women have been waiting “for 410 years” for this moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I feel like there are no words to describe how emotional, how I feel this spirit of hope, how the energy here is really getting me hyped up,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Franco-Clausen broke down in tears as she reflected on the historic nature of Harris’ nomination, saying it is “so personal” and says to the world that Black women can do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a Black woman, we always have to work 10 times harder just to be seen in any room I am in,” she said. “But I am here because I am my ancestor’s greatest gift. 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She called Harris’ ascension “an incredible moment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In my wildest dreams, I could imagine Kamala Harris, a woman of color of her stature, as president. But the rest of the country wasn’t quite there for most of my professional work,” Allison said. “And now I’m surrounded by thousands of people here in Chicago and millions at home that now see that women of color are so critical to the future of this country. It’s like the joy and the spirit and the heart that we’ve been waiting for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Scott Shafer contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Without that impediment, officials said, they were able to move ahead with the sanctioned camp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am so tired of waiting to take action,” Mayor Kate Colin said during Monday’s City Council meeting. “We all know the status quo is not OK.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As officials in San Rafael and across the state take advantage of the opening from the court to crack down on encampments, they’re facing a backlash from homeless advocates who warn the tactics only cause more harm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s a perception among city officials that they can take their gloves off and start pummeling people,” said San Rafael advocate Robbie Powelson, who’s been fighting the city’s policies for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He argues the money would be better spent putting people into permanent housing. 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