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"content": "\u003cp>You won’t notice it right away, but a new California state agency took a major step this week toward \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2024/02/health-care-costs-cap/\">reining in the seemingly uncontrollable costs of health care\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB184\">Office of Health Care Affordability\u003c/a> approved the state’s first cap on health industry spending increases, limiting growth to 3% by 2029. This means that hospitals, doctors and health insurers will need to find ways to cut costs to prevent annual per capita spending from exceeding the target. Between 2015 and 2020, per capita health spending in California grew more than 5% each year, according to federal data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A board appointed by Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature on Wednesday approved the new regulations in a 6–1 vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Health and Human Services Secretary Dr. Mark Ghaly, who chairs the board, said the regulations recognize that Californians are struggling every day to pay for\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/category/health/\"> health care\u003c/a> and that the state has a role in helping them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a place in making sure it becomes more affordable,” Ghaly said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hospitals, doctors and insurers battled over the regulations for months, arguing that rising inflation and labor costs would make the target impossible to achieve. An earlier proposal would have moved more aggressively to cap costs. The final version gives the industry time to rein in spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ghaly said he is confident that health care industry leaders will be able to find solutions to meet the new target. “When that happens, it’s going to be great for Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-how-does-it-work\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does it work?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Increased health spending most often translates to higher out-of-pocket costs for consumers through premiums, deductibles and copays. The annual spending benchmark would require health care providers to limit spending growth to 3.5% next year, decreasing to 3% by 2029. Providers — including hospitals, doctors groups and health insurers — must submit spending data to the state to demonstrate that they comply with the cap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The affordability office also has the authority to enforce penalties, including performance improvement plans and fines, for organizations that exceed the benchmark. It will not enforce penalties until 2029.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Jim Wood, a Democrat from Ukiah, at the meeting, urged the board to send a clear message to Californians that the state is taking affordability seriously. Wood spearheaded the legislation that created the office in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not an exaggeration to say that people are deciding whether to get food on the table or get their medicines,” Wood said. “This is not an exercise. This is an effort to impact the real-life experiences of people in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-how-will-providers-lower-health-care-costs\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">How will providers lower health care costs?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ultimately, it’s up to the health care organizations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board hopes health care organizations will crack down on inefficient and wasteful health spending, such as administrative inefficiency and redundant or poorly coordinated testing. But it doesn’t want to discourage spending on primary care and behavioral health. The affordability office will monitor spending in those areas to ensure organizations do not reduce services or access to preventative care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-will-californians-see-cheaper-health-care\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will Californians see cheaper health care?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but it may not feel like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth cap is not a mandate for providers to lower prices. Californians will not pay less for health insurance next year than they did this year. For those who already can’t afford health care — some estimates peg that number at \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2024-chcf-california-health-policy-survey/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 50% of Californians \u003c/a>— the cap won’t bring any immediate relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the cap is to prevent future prices from increasing uncontrollably. This year, health insurance premiums on the state’s Affordable Care Act Exchange increased by 9.6% statewide, with double-digit increases in many regions. Personal health care spending shot up 60% between 2010 and 2020, reaching $405 billion, according to federal data. That’s $10,299 per person. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/tracking-the-rise-in-premium-contributions-and-cost-sharing-for-families-with-large-employer-coverage/#Cumulative%20growth%20in%20out-of-pocket%20and%20total%20health%20spending%20for%20people%20with%20large%20employer%20coverage,%202007-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Household health spending\u003c/a> has also grown twice as fast as wages, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to recognize how many Californians can’t pay for health care, the affordability office tied the cap to the average annual median household income growth, which has historically been about 3% over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-will-california-succeed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will California succeed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is not the first state to try to lower health care costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/cost-commissions-eight-states-address-cost-growth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eight other states\u003c/a> have similar cost benchmarks, although California’s is one of the more aggressive targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts, the first state to set a health spending benchmark, has largely met its target growth rate of 3.6% over the past 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in recent years, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, states have found it harder to contain costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/6-29-angeles-piece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Connecticut, Delaware and Massachusetts\u003c/a> significantly surpassed their spending targets between 2020 and 2021 primarily because of increased health care use, according to a report by the policy journal Health Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-who-opposed-the-spending-cap\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who opposed the spending cap?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. 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Association President Carmela Coyle said in a statement after the vote that the new regulations will worsen access to care as organizations are forced to make cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The office is charged by law to do more than limit spending,” Coyle said. “It’s imperative that the board analyze the impact of its decision on patients and create a process to reconsider future targets to protect access to equitable, quality care for every Californian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Association of Health Plans, representing most insurers, and the California Medical Association, representing doctors, voiced support for the phased-in 3% target this week but have previously pushed the affordability office to consider other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adopting a 3% health care spending growth target, which most physician practices and health care entities will be unable to meet, will negatively impact access to health care for Californians,” medical association President Dr. Tanya Spirtos wrote ahead of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-who-supported-the-health-spending-cap\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who supported the health spending cap?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new regulations are largely supported by unions, employers and consumer advocates. Supporters turned up in force at the vote to give examples of how housekeepers, bartenders, teachers, carpenters, nurses and other workers cannot afford health care even with insurance and frequently forgo raises to pay for ever-growing medical spending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11975284,science_1991871,news_11983752\"]“Consumers, particularly people of color, are burdened by record medical debt and are making daily choices between health care, housing, and food,” said Kiran Savage-Sangwan, executive director of the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, at the meeting. “If we want a different outcome, we need to change the incentives in our system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Wright, executive director of Health Access California, said the new spending target was “long-awaited, but welcome news for Californians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“California consumers, patients and payers have been screaming for years about the cost,” Wright said. “This will provide some downward pressure on what has been ever-increasing hikes in our health care costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Supported by the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), which works to ensure that\u003c/em> \u003cem>people have access to the care they need, when they need it, at a price they can afford. 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But it doesn’t want to discourage spending on primary care and behavioral health. The affordability office will monitor spending in those areas to ensure organizations do not reduce services or access to preventative care.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-will-californians-see-cheaper-health-care\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will Californians see cheaper health care?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Yes, but it may not feel like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The growth cap is not a mandate for providers to lower prices. Californians will not pay less for health insurance next year than they did this year. For those who already can’t afford health care — some estimates peg that number at \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/2024-chcf-california-health-policy-survey/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">more than 50% of Californians \u003c/a>— the cap won’t bring any immediate relief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal of the cap is to prevent future prices from increasing uncontrollably. This year, health insurance premiums on the state’s Affordable Care Act Exchange increased by 9.6% statewide, with double-digit increases in many regions. Personal health care spending shot up 60% between 2010 and 2020, reaching $405 billion, according to federal data. That’s $10,299 per person. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/brief/tracking-the-rise-in-premium-contributions-and-cost-sharing-for-families-with-large-employer-coverage/#Cumulative%20growth%20in%20out-of-pocket%20and%20total%20health%20spending%20for%20people%20with%20large%20employer%20coverage,%202007-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Household health spending\u003c/a> has also grown twice as fast as wages, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an effort to recognize how many Californians can’t pay for health care, the affordability office tied the cap to the average annual median household income growth, which has historically been about 3% over the past two decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-will-california-succeed\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Will California succeed?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California is not the first state to try to lower health care costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.chcf.org/publication/cost-commissions-eight-states-address-cost-growth/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eight other states\u003c/a> have similar cost benchmarks, although California’s is one of the more aggressive targets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Massachusetts, the first state to set a health spending benchmark, has largely met its target growth rate of 3.6% over the past 10 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, in recent years, with the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, states have found it harder to contain costs. \u003ca href=\"https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/6-29-angeles-piece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Connecticut, Delaware and Massachusetts\u003c/a> significantly surpassed their spending targets between 2020 and 2021 primarily because of increased health care use, according to a report by the policy journal Health Affairs.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-who-opposed-the-spending-cap\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who opposed the spending cap?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Former state Sen. 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Association President Carmela Coyle said in a statement after the vote that the new regulations will worsen access to care as organizations are forced to make cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The office is charged by law to do more than limit spending,” Coyle said. “It’s imperative that the board analyze the impact of its decision on patients and create a process to reconsider future targets to protect access to equitable, quality care for every Californian.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Association of Health Plans, representing most insurers, and the California Medical Association, representing doctors, voiced support for the phased-in 3% target this week but have previously pushed the affordability office to consider other options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Adopting a 3% health care spending growth target, which most physician practices and health care entities will be unable to meet, will negatively impact access to health care for Californians,” medical association President Dr. Tanya Spirtos wrote ahead of the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"h-who-supported-the-health-spending-cap\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Who supported the health spending cap?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The new regulations are largely supported by unions, employers and consumer advocates. 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"content": "\u003cp>In an effort to address crime, San José is rapidly blanketing the city with hundreds of automated license plate readers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan helped install the city’s 235th device this week and said San José aims to have 500 up and running by the summer. Leaders say the ALPRs from Atlanta-based Flock Safety are a critical support for investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has already proven an incredible tool for our thinly staffed police department,” Mahan said Tuesday during a press conference in East San José where a new ALPR was being installed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said the network of cameras in 2023 alone helped recover $2 million worth of stolen vehicles and led to the arrests of nearly 200 people suspected of crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Acting Police Chief Paul Joseph said the ALPRs have been invaluable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cameras make a difference by helping to identify and apprehend suspects, curbing criminal activity and providing crime victims with a feeling of closure and justice,” Joseph said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some privacy advocates and residents say the cameras aren’t actually effective at reducing crime and instead create massive logs about the movements of locals and visitors. They worry about the amount of data police are keeping, the length of time it’s retained, and how it is shared across law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Complicated issues like safety deserve really well thought out and focused solutions,” said Nick Hidalgo, a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Installing hundreds of expensive devices that effectively turn San José into a surveillance city is like using a bazooka instead of a fly swatter. It’s expensive, unnecessary, ineffective and does a lot more harm than good.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Flock devices capture not only license plates but also a car’s make and model and other characteristics like customizations or bumper stickers. Flock’s software pings police when a car matching a “hotlist” crosses the path of the cameras, and police can also search the data logs for specific cars and plates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials say the cameras do not have facial recognition features, nor do they photograph inside a car. City officials said they are proud of the data privacy protections San José follows and noted that the data, under state law requirements, is only shared with other California law enforcement agencies and is prohibited from being used for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny Garza, a 65-year resident of East San José’s Plata Arroyo neighborhood, trusted the police to handle the information securely and said he and others have requested cameras be put up in the area for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking that these license plate readers help protect layer upon layer of community gains,” Garza said. “All we’re interested in is community safety. We’ve had shootings in the past, and they’ve gotten away. Nobody knows where they went.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though police leaders say the technology is effective and has helped capture people suspected of car theft, rape, and homicide, among other crimes, the department declined to use a specific metric to measure the success of the program over time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan during a press conference in East San José where a new ALPR was being installed on Tuesday, April 23, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We like to measure our success in terms of usefulness in our pursuit of public safety by solving and reducing crime,” Sgt. Jorge Garibay, a department spokesperson, told KQED in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Crime trends fluctuate, as do crime types. What most of these have in common is a mode of transportation to and from the scene of crime. When that mode is a vehicle, ALPR success is achieved when a hit has been broadcasted and officers have a tangible lead to follow up on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cameras installed to date — 241 of them as of this writing — are already amassing huge troves of data about the cars driving in San José. The current camera network has detected nearly 3 million unique cars per month, according to the city’s Flock portal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just an 18-day period in December 2022, the city’s cameras captured nearly 16 million total scans, which can include multiple scans of the same vehicle in different locations, according to police. The total scans will only increase as the city’s arsenal of cameras more than doubles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It casts a net over the entire community, tracking where drivers go and allowing law enforcement to, if they chose, create maps of where drivers work, live, worship, seek medical care, and travel,” said Hidalgo of ACLU Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His research into San José’s ALPR program from 2022 showed that more than 99.99% of the plates scanned do not match any hotlists for police. If the car or plate is not implicated in an investigation, the SJPD then keeps every plate scanned for a year before purging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many law enforcement agencies using similar Flock systems purge license plate data every 30 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hidalgo said it’s not just invasive that police track that much data on people who aren’t suspected of any crimes, but by keeping it for a year, the city puts the data at further risk for misuse or to be inadvertently disclosed in a data breach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joseph, the police chief, said the department keeps the data for one year based on the recommendation of the city attorney’s office, indicating the law requires it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11983106,news_11983119,news_11966615\"]Albert Gehami, San José’s privacy officer, said the city is aware other agencies do not keep similar data for as long as San José does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it has nothing to do with an investigation, a year is excessive,” Gehami said of the data. “Police departments up and down, everyone that we speak to, [say] there is no need for that information. It is strictly what our attorney’s office has decided is the current interpretation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney Nora Frimann said the retention period has been in place for more than a decade, going back to when the police department trialed other license plate reader technology and before the state required cities to have formal ALPR policies in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just made sense to keep it for a year,” Frimann said. However, she noted the retention time is a policy question that the city council can change if it sees fit. “As a city, we can revisit the time frame,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The extra time San José police choose to keep the data also costs the city more money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José police could not immediately provide total cost estimates for the program but noted that each camera costs the city about $2,500 per year to lease from Flock, along with a $350 one-time fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flock’s head of policy and communication, Josh Thomas, said San José pays an extra $300 per camera each year for the longer data retention periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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City officials said they are proud of the data privacy protections San José follows and noted that the data, under state law requirements, is only shared with other California law enforcement agencies and is prohibited from being used for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Danny Garza, a 65-year resident of East San José’s Plata Arroyo neighborhood, trusted the police to handle the information securely and said he and others have requested cameras be put up in the area for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re asking that these license plate readers help protect layer upon layer of community gains,” Garza said. “All we’re interested in is community safety. We’ve had shootings in the past, and they’ve gotten away. 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"content": "\u003cp>If you visited a Planned Parenthood in the continental United States in the past few years, then the company Near Intelligence, a data broker, probably knew it — and may have \u003ca href=\"https://www.wsj.com/articles/antiabortion-group-used-cellphone-data-to-target-ads-to-planned-parenthood-visitors-446c1212\">sold that information to anti-abortion activists\u003c/a>. If you attended certain houses of worship or patronized particular pharmacies, the data broker known as Outlogic allegedly sold that information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Near Intelligence \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/privacy/2024/02/23/what-happens-to-your-sensitive-data-when-a-data-broker-goes-bankrupt\">filed for bankruptcy\u003c/a> in December. Outlogic agreed to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/ftc_gov/pdf/X-ModeSocialDecisionandOrder.pdf\">settlement\u003c/a> with the Federal Trade Commission to stop selling user location data while insisting regulators had found \u003ca href=\"https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/ftc-reaches-first-settlement-banning-location-data-tracking\">“no misuse of any data.”\u003c/a> Both were among nearly 90 companies on the latest version of the \u003ca href=\"https://cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/\">California data broker registry\u003c/a> that self-reported selling data about where people are or have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time this year, California requires data brokers — companies that knowingly collect and sell consumer’s data to third parties — to report if they collect location data. New state transparency requirements that kicked in this year also revealed that roughly two dozen companies collect personal data about children, and about a dozen collect reproductive health data about people who are pregnant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do data brokers somewhere have data about you? Almost certainly. Almost everywhere you go on your digital journey will collect traces of information about you. If you’ve been on the internet in the past few years, you’ve probably seen a bunch of notices asking if it’s okay for the website you’re on to collect your “cookies” — information that allows the website to remember you, essentially. Some apps on your phone may track your location. It’s hard to precisely say what information about you is where because there are so many variables — your privacy settings, the sites you visit, what you buy and from whom, etc. — but data brokers are in the business of finding, collecting, and selling that data to other businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokers sell your web activity and other personal information to companies that may target advertising to you\u003cem>\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003c/em>or make important decisions about your life, such as \u003ca href=\"https://themarkup.org/locked-out/2020/05/28/access-denied-faulty-automated-background-checks-freeze-out-renters\">whether you get an apartment\u003c/a>, whether your activity is \u003ca href=\"https://epic.org/pondera-surveillance/\">labeled fraudulent\u003c/a>, or how \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/11/technology/carmakers-driver-tracking-insurance.html\">insurance companies treat you\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The market is largely unregulated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selling data about people is the cornerstone of the modern internet economy, powering targeted advertising based on insights gleaned from personal data. Media investment company GroupM forecasted $258 billion in digital advertising revenue this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To give people visibility into who sells their data for profit, four years ago, California started requiring data brokers to register once a year. Since then, a new registry has come out each year based on those submissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest registry debuted one month ago with more detailed information and is now maintained by a relatively new state agency. A law passed last fall introduces new consumer rights and more stringent requirements for brokers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are some important things to know:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can data brokers harm you or your loved ones?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Data brokers can sell data to bad actors, ranging from scam artists to adversarial foreign governments. In testimony to a congressional committee one year ago, Georgetown Law Center associate professor Laura Moy said data brokers selling information to law enforcement agencies could amount to a violation of the Fourth Amendment right to live free from unreasonable search and seizure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From Beijing to Brussels to Washington D.C. and U.S. state capitals, government regulators are creating registries and business reporting rules to prevent privacy violations or harmful forms of artificial intelligence. Privacy advocates have urged the creation of a national data broker registry with the Federal Trade Commission for years, but no such registry exists yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who protects my privacy rights?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>California voters passed a ballot measure in 2020 that gives consumers the right to access information collected about them, delete or modify that information, or tell a broker they cannot sell or share that information. Consumers can initiate the process by emailing the point of contact \u003ca href=\"https://cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/\">listed on the registry website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, they must present a copy of their ID, like a driver’s license, to prove who they are. Consumers and people under 18 can also work with an authorized agent, someone who makes data deletion requests on their behalf. Companies like Transcend and nonprofit organizations like Consumer Reports offer consumer data deletion services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To enforce these rights, the ballot measure created the California Privacy Protection Agency and a five-member board to govern its activity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Companies that buy, sell, or share the personal data of at least 100,000 Californians or get a majority of annual revenue from selling data are required to comply with the consumer privacy law.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s new?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The most recent changes to California’s data broker registry — which took effect in January — require brokers to disclose whether they sell data about children, pregnant people, or anyone’s geolocation data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, relatively soon — at the speed at which state governments operate — consumers should be able to delete data collected about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, consumers must go to hundreds of data brokers one at a time if they want them to delete their data.[aside postID=news_11947039 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS40986_iStock-1170728885-qut-1020x680.jpg']Last fall, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb362?slug=CA_202320240SB362\">the Delete Act\u003c/a> giving consumers a way to delete data from all registered brokers by using a single tool or website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the law — authored by state Sen. Josh Becker, a Democrat from Menlo Park — the state’s privacy agency must launch a website by 2026 that allows Californians to delete their data in 30 seconds or less. The Delete Act doubles the cost if data brokers fail to register to $200 a day, as well as the costs associated with an action brought by the state attorney general. By 2028, audits must verify that data brokers are complying with the Delete Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other major change is that the Delete Act requires brokers to delete any information they collect about a consumer, not just information shared directly from a consumer, closing what privacy advocates called a crucial loophole that existed in the right to delete granted to consumers under the California Consumer Privacy Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law also shifts responsibility for maintaining the registry from the Department of Justice to the California Privacy Protection Agency. That means that the power to determine which companies fail to register and comply with state privacy law or the Delete Act is decided by enforcement officers within that privacy agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it’s up to the agency to decide whether companies should register as data brokers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The enforcement division has received more than 1,200 complaints from July 2023 to February 2024, according to a staff update \u003ca href=\"https://www.cppa.ca.gov/meetings/materials/20240308_item6_enforcement_update.pdf\">last month\u003c/a>. The majority of those complaints concern the right to delete data collected about individuals.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Is California’s data broker registry comprehensive?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since data brokers do not have a direct relationship with consumers, most people have never heard of companies that buy and sell data. But the registry is not comprehensive, not yet at least.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The registry that launched March 1 includes roughly 450 businesses and email points of contact. Brokers were required to register by Jan. 31, but in a meeting held in February, privacy protection agency attorney Liz Travis Allen warned: “If you look at the whole universe of every data broker, we don’t have that list. But that would be something we can enforce on, to figure out who isn’t registered and should be.”[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='privacy']The \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/data-brokers\">2023 registry maintained by the state Justice Department\u003c/a> listed 550 companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy Rights Clearinghouse head of privacy Emory Roane was a co-sponsor of the Delete Act. He said it’s “really cool” that the privacy protection agency data broker registry illuminates metrics you couldn’t see before, like the number of companies that track your location or collect data about kids and people who are pregnant or that the credit score agency Experian collects all three. But he said the registry is incomplete. The state of Vermont defines a data broker the same way as California, also \u003ca href=\"https://sos.vermont.gov/corporations/other-services/data-brokers/\">maintains a data broker registry\u003c/a>, and created its registry around the same time as California, but it lists 660 companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That discrepancy “suggests that there is a problem with non-registered data brokers,” he told CalMatters in an email. “As to how many brokers aren’t registered, well, that’s anyone’s guess. It could be dozens, hundreds, or even thousands.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A January \u003ca href=\"https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-facebook-user-is-monitored-by-thousands-of-companies-a5824207467/#:~:text=Using%20a%20panel%20of%20709,to%20Facebook%20by%202%2C230%20companies.\">Consumer Reports study\u003c/a> involving nearly 700 volunteers who shared the data Meta collects about them on Facebook and Instagram found that more than 2,220 companies track the average person.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How can I tell a data broker to delete my data?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Each company maintains its own privacy policy, but deleting the data it collects on you can be as simple as sending an email to the broker, whose contact email is listed on the registry. California law requires the broker to respond within 90 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can also use third-party tools like \u003ca href=\"https://permissionslipcr.com/\">the Permission Slip app\u003c/a> to tell data brokers to delete your data.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brokers must detail how to delete or modify data in a privacy policy listed on their website. If a business fails to act within 90 days, you can \u003ca href=\"https://cppa.ca.gov/webapplications/complaint\">file a complaint\u003c/a> with California’s privacy protection agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To quickly view the complete list of companies that sell kids data, reproductive health data, or geolocation data, toggle the arrow buttons at the top of the screen on California’s online registry site.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How do I delete data collected about my kid?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A parent or guardian who wishes to make a deletion request on a child’s behalf may follow the same steps necessary for any other Californian, but a business may require them to verify their identity with a government-issued ID card or phone or video call with a trained professional.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s next in California?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The state’s privacy protection agency is already developing a single-click data deletion option. The enforcement division will contact companies they believe should be part of the registry or face fines, fees, or legal action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How aggressive will California’s consumer privacy agency be? One test is how frequently it issues fines and fees for brokers who fail to register. Privacy Protection Agency deputy director of external affairs, Megan White, wouldn’t say when enforcement officers will contact companies that they determined must register as data brokers and are in violation of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Roane said he hopes for and expects “eager enforcers more vigilantly holding non-registering and non-conforming data brokers to account.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, California will begin requiring data brokers to publicly report on their websites the number of requests they receive to delete, modify, or share what data they collected about individuals and the median amount of time it takes to fulfill those requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Lately he has traveled the country as a leading surrogate for President Biden’s re-election campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through his rise over the intervening two decades, his baseball career has provided Newsom a triumphant narrative to push back on the perception that his upbringing was privileged and easy: The high school standout scouted by the major leagues, who overcame his dyslexia and academic shortcomings to earn a partial scholarship to Santa Clara University before an injury forced him to find a new purpose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has become so closely associated with Newsom that “Saturday Night Live” \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpNCwUzIPtU\">opened a show in March with a sketch\u003c/a> where the Democratic governor, portrayed by Michael Longfellow, defends President Biden’s mental fitness by recounting: “The other day he was taking a nap and I whipped a baseball at him and he caught it like De Niro in ‘Awakenings.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Vince Machi, former Santa Clara baseballer\"]‘It’s kind of the standing joke that Newsom played on the team.’[/pullquote]Newsom told the story himself again in January on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIn1YknOSsc#t=1h00m38s\">the podcast Pod Save America\u003c/a>: Because of poor test scores, he was headed to community college until he got a call from the Santa Clara University baseball coaches. “It was literally the ticket to a four-year university. It changed my life, my trajectory,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But former coaches and teammates said that biography, repeated again and again through interviews and glossy magazine profiles and coverage of his 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/30/gov-newsom-writes-childrens-book-inspired-by-personal-experience-with-dyslexia/\">baseball-themed children’s book\u003c/a> on overcoming dyslexia, has inflated Newsom’s baseball credentials, giving the impression that he was a more accomplished player than he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, Newsom never played an official game for Santa Clara University; he was a junior varsity recruit who played only during the fall tryouts his freshman and sophomore years, then left the baseball program before the regular season began. He does not appear on the Broncos’ \u003ca href=\"https://santaclarabroncos.com/sports/2023/6/20/all-time-roster-bold-indicates-current-player-bb.aspx\">all-time roster\u003c/a> or in media guides published by the athletic department to preview the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man wearing jeans and a blue buttoned shirt and sunglasses throws a snowball with snow and trees in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. 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One associate connected Newsom to the baseball program when he was in high school, while his father’s best friend, then a member of the university’s board of regents, wrote him a letter of recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cummins, the assistant coach at Santa Clara while Newsom was there, said the governor has “embellished his baseball career a little bit at times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never played in a varsity game. He may have played in some scrimmages,” said Cummins, who is now the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/staff-directory/mike-cummins/193\">head baseball coach\u003c/a> at California State University, East Bay. “He’s embellished it. It’s half-truths. He was recruited to Santa Clara, he was there in the fall, but he never played. He didn’t have a varsity career there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misconception has been propelled as much by what Newsom doesn’t say as what he does — a polished sweep over his time at Santa Clara University that rarely gets more detailed than, “I played a little baseball. Just my first and second year,” as he told The Santa Clara, the student newspaper, in \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090426073753/http:/media.www.thesantaclara.com/media/storage/paper946/news/2008/02/14/News/San-Franciscos.Gavin.Newsom.Sits.Down.With.The.Santa.Clara-3210314.shtml\">a 2008 interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for the first time in his career, Newsom has allowed a more flattering version of events to develop in the public discourse while being slow to clear up the inaccuracies. During his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018, he acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209176644.html\">he never attended rehab\u003c/a>, as was widely reported more than a decade earlier after he pledged to seek treatment for problems with alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Broncos players from the era, who said they still regularly get asked about Newsom when people find out they played baseball at Santa Clara, wanted to correct the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t earn it. He didn’t earn the right to say it,” said Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons and now runs a pitching academy in San Francisco. “I worked my ass off. So did everyone else on that team. For him to just go all these years, to say he did something he didn’t that takes not just talent but also dedication and effort and sacrifice, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Newsom rejected multiple requests to interview the governor about his baseball career. They said Newsom had never exaggerated his experience at Santa Clara University and that it was not his job to fix whatever mistaken assumptions the public may have developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been very honest and consistent about what happened to him in college and more personable than you would get from most politicians,” spokesperson Bob Salladay said. “He is not responsible for other people’s impressions or interpretations of him and his life. He is doing his job, and he cannot spend his entire day correcting people when they make errors about him. He’s moved on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom speaks about his baseball journey with “emotional, real truth that is visceral to him,” said Nathan Click, another spokesperson for the governor. “We all go through life and remember the emotions we feel about things, not, you know, facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story,” Click said. “That matters way more than, you know, whether he was a rostered player or what his stats were in the fall ball, JV, freshman year, Santa Clara University season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From high school standout to Santa Clara University\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Newsom was a talented baseball player at Redwood High School in Marin County, where he was also a star on the basketball team before graduating in 1985. His name appears in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>’s prep coverage from the time — banging home runs, hitting a game-winning single in the Marin County Athletic League championship his senior year and being named to the all-league first team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publications including \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/gavin-newsom-the-next-head-of-the-california-resistance\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2007/07/08/dave-albee-sf-mayor-takes-his-licks-at-att-park/\">the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20091127090647/http:/www.mensjournal.com/newsom\">Men’s Journal\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have reported over the years that the Texas Rangers drafted, recruited or showed interest in Newsom in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2009, a Newsom spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090430051404/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39062\">clarified\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that he had merely been scouted, not drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Nathan Click, spokesperson for Gavin Newsom\"]‘He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story.’[/pullquote]Newsom was among the hundreds of high school players across the country whom the Rangers organization looked at while preparing for the annual amateur draft, according to a spokesperson for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson John Blake wrote in an email that the Rangers’ chief California scout from the time “said that we did watch Governor Newsom play in high school, but he doesn’t remember us specially scouting him.” He said major league teams are very thorough in scouting California and “it is likely there were several players on this particular high school team that our scouts had interest in seeing, including Governor Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Click said the governor received business cards from those scouts after they watched him play, which he has spoken about in past interviews. “They made a point to come up to him and introduce themselves, which means something,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom headed down the Peninsula to Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit college where he was a freshman in the fall of 1985. Having struggled in high school, with a reported SAT score of 960 out of 1600, Newsom has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">credited baseball\u003c/a> with securing his admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a pretty severe learning disability, dyslexia, struggled academically, and the only reason Santa Clara University would have ever accepted me was because I was a left-handed first baseman who could hit fairly well,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A young high school male with baseball uniform crouches on one knee and leans on a baseball bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom played baseball and graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. \u003ccite>(Photo from Gavin Newsom’s social media via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom also had help from several well-connected alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Connolly, a San Francisco investment banker and associate of William Newsom who played baseball at Santa Clara in the 1960s, put the younger Newsom on the team’s radar, according to Cummins, the former assistant coach. Connolly \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.scu.edu/classnote/bill-connolly/\">died in 2017\u003c/a>, and his widow could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connolly “was a very good supporter of us at the time, money-wise,” Cummins said, and pushed the coaches to check Newsom out. “That was pretty normal at the time,” Cummins said, especially in a pre-internet era when recruiting was more regional and word-of-mouth. He said the baseball team was not a “backdoor” to admit Newsom into the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom does not remember his family asking Connolly to recommend him to Santa Clara University “and if it’s true, it would be news to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside then-head coach John Oldham, who died in February, Cummins eventually visited Newsom at home and recruited him to Santa Clara. The team had a junior varsity squad at the time, which it used as a “minor league,” Cummins said, so Newsom had a guaranteed spot in the program, but would have to perform well enough to play in varsity games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was offered a scholarship of $500 in October 1985, during fall quarter of his freshman year, according to a photograph of a section of the paperwork provided by Click, though it’s unclear if that’s the only payment he received. Click said Newsom was unable to locate the original document. The cost of attendance for Santa Clara University that year was $10,251, including tuition, room and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to ensure his spot, Newsom’s family also solicited letters of recommendation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article7965822.html\">from former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who attended Santa Clara University for one year and appointed William Newsom to the Superior Court and the state Court of Appeal during his first term as governor, and from John Mallen, an attorney who served on Santa Clara’s board of regents at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen, who described William Newsom as “my best friend for 75 years,” said he did not frequently write letters of recommendation for applicants while he was on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with newspaper clippings.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of newspaper clippings that highlight Newsom’s baseball accomplishments during high school. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I may not have helped anybody else get in,” Mallen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he does not have a copy of the letter anymore, Mallen said it was probably addressed to the president of the university and would have been a character reference for the younger Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’d known him since birth,” Mallen said. “He was a good athlete. That I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen said it “absolutely” would have been “hugely influential” in helping Newsom gain admission to Santa Clara: “I think it was a big help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click denied that the letters of recommendations played any role in Newsom’s acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball was the reason he got into university and the partial baseball scholarship shows it,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>College baseball cut short by elbow injury\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has previously said he played baseball his first two years at Santa Clara University before injuring his throwing arm and reevaluating his path, a timeline repeated in major profiles of Newsom, most recently by \u003ca href=\"https://lamag.com/featured/gavin-newsom-recall\">Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I had an ulnar nerve issue and threw out my arm and had a surgery and really didn’t come back,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2019/10/18/california-governor-gavin-newsom-lebron-james-fair-pay-to-play-act\">he told WBUR\u003c/a>, a Boston public radio station, in 2019. “And then I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report this story, CalMatters reached out to coaches and teammates listed on the Broncos rosters for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. They\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said Newsom played only during the fall tryout periods of his freshman and sophomore years, when prospective players trained and rotated into practice games against other local universities, and no official statistics were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people recalled that Newsom was around\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>for just the first few weeks, perhaps as much as six weeks, as a freshman. He did not make the 1986 roster, as reflected in the game program and media guide “The Boys of Spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A team roster on an illustrated background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom does not appear on the 1986 Santa Clara University baseball roster. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom was not one of the standout prospects that year — “We would have known he was a big scholarship player who crapped out,” said Jim Flynn, who was a freshman pitcher — but no one interviewed by CalMatters disputes his athletic ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Cole, a freshman in the 1986 season who split his time pitching and playing outfield for the varsity team and playing outfield for the junior varsity team, said Newsom “was a good athlete” and “he looked like somebody who could play college ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who was recruited had talent. So he had talent,” said Cole, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/2695/victor-cole\">briefly played\u003c/a> for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 and \u003ca href=\"https://cbubucs.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/victor-cole/504\">now coaches\u003c/a> at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machi, who also arrived in 1985, said Newsom caught his attention because they were competing for the same spot, playing first base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do recall him being a fairly athletic guy. It wasn’t like he was a fish out of water,” Machi said. “As a competitor, you’re always looking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few weeks, Newsom had “just disappeared,” Machi said. “He didn’t have any accolades on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Gavin Newsom\"]‘I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.’[/pullquote]Struggling with pain in his left elbow, Newsom underwent ulnar nerve surgery in late 1985 and took the rest of the season off, Click said. Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poadocs.com/provider/michael-f-dillingham-md\">Michael Dillingham\u003c/a>, an orthopedic surgeon in Daly City who was the team doctor at the time, confirmed to CalMatters that he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the surgery, however, Newsom did not rehabilitate his arm through the Santa Clara baseball program, recalled Larry Donahe, then a freshman pitcher who also sat out the 1986 season recovering from an elbow operation for the same injury as Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he had a bad elbow and was hurt and was doing any sort of rehab, I probably would have seen him,” said Donahe, who had a full-ride scholarship and continued to play for the Broncos through other surgeries his sophomore and junior years. “He never came into the training room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom was in a cast and then physical therapy for several months and did not begin training seriously to return to baseball until the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried out for the Broncos again in fall 1986 as a sophomore but “couldn’t make it work” because of continued elbow pain, Click said. Before the regular season began, Newsom gave up his beloved sport for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players said Newsom was not particularly close to his teammates and they were uncertain of the circumstances of his departure. Many wondered if he lost interest in baseball because of the fierce demands of Santa Clara’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the NCAA had not yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/10/sports/ncaa-cuts-practice-scholarships-and-seasons.html\">established limits on student-athletes’ time\u003c/a>, players described the team in that era as a full-time job, even during fall tryouts: multiple games each week; practices that ran from the early afternoon until after the dining hall stopped serving dinner and all day on the weekends; extra training including 5 a.m. workouts; and vision strengthening and success visualization classes, where players would lie on the floor with their eyes closed and imagine how to improve their technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a life, you chose to do something else. If you were a baseball lifer you loved it,” Matt Toole, who played baseball at Santa Clara from 1985 to 1989 and then two seasons in the minor leagues, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom “actually played well enough to make our team both years,” he wrote. “He had a lot of potential but he chose not to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a young boy in baseball uniform with a hat and bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Gavin Newsom in a baseball uniform. \u003ccite>(CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom may not have felt comfortable sharing his injury publicly at the time because he was ashamed not to live up to the success he experienced earlier in his baseball career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a crushing moment for him,” Click said, “especially somebody who had been really hyped up by everyone around him in Little League, in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the legend of Newsom’s feats on the diamond\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>endured. In a 2010 story previewing the Giants-Rangers World Series, The New York Times \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">contrasted the baseball careers\u003c/a> of the mayors for the two teams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert joked about his brief stint playing junior varsity at Claremont McKenna College: “They put me in when it was time for the outfielders to do wind sprints.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Times called Newsom “more serious about the game,” noting the then-San Francisco mayor played for two years at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was your standard 6-foot-3-inch first baseman,” Newsom told the paper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom told the story himself again in January on \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIn1YknOSsc#t=1h00m38s\">the podcast Pod Save America\u003c/a>: Because of poor test scores, he was headed to community college until he got a call from the Santa Clara University baseball coaches. “It was literally the ticket to a four-year university. It changed my life, my trajectory,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But former coaches and teammates said that biography, repeated again and again through interviews and glossy magazine profiles and coverage of his 2021 \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/09/30/gov-newsom-writes-childrens-book-inspired-by-personal-experience-with-dyslexia/\">baseball-themed children’s book\u003c/a> on overcoming dyslexia, has inflated Newsom’s baseball credentials, giving the impression that he was a more accomplished player than he was.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most notably, Newsom never played an official game for Santa Clara University; he was a junior varsity recruit who played only during the fall tryouts his freshman and sophomore years, then left the baseball program before the regular season began. He does not appear on the Broncos’ \u003ca href=\"https://santaclarabroncos.com/sports/2023/6/20/all-time-roster-bold-indicates-current-player-bb.aspx\">all-time roster\u003c/a> or in media guides published by the athletic department to preview the upcoming season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982110\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982110\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged white man wearing jeans and a blue buttoned shirt and sunglasses throws a snowball with snow and trees in the background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1046\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/040224_Snow_Survey_Newsom_FG_CM_02-copy-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom tosses a snowball after the California Department of Water Resources conducted a media snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(Fred Greaves/California Department of Water Resources)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A deeper look at his recruitment also reveals that Newsom’s admission to Santa Clara University — like \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-gavin-newsom-san-francisco-money/\">so many of his formative opportunities\u003c/a> — was substantially boosted by friends and acquaintances of his father, William Newsom, a San Francisco judge and financial adviser to the Gettys, the wealthy oil family. One associate connected Newsom to the baseball program when he was in high school, while his father’s best friend, then a member of the university’s board of regents, wrote him a letter of recommendation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Cummins, the assistant coach at Santa Clara while Newsom was there, said the governor has “embellished his baseball career a little bit at times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He never played in a varsity game. He may have played in some scrimmages,” said Cummins, who is now the \u003ca href=\"https://eastbaypioneers.com/staff-directory/mike-cummins/193\">head baseball coach\u003c/a> at California State University, East Bay. “He’s embellished it. It’s half-truths. He was recruited to Santa Clara, he was there in the fall, but he never played. He didn’t have a varsity career there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The misconception has been propelled as much by what Newsom doesn’t say as what he does — a polished sweep over his time at Santa Clara University that rarely gets more detailed than, “I played a little baseball. Just my first and second year,” as he told The Santa Clara, the student newspaper, in \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090426073753/http:/media.www.thesantaclara.com/media/storage/paper946/news/2008/02/14/News/San-Franciscos.Gavin.Newsom.Sits.Down.With.The.Santa.Clara-3210314.shtml\">a 2008 interview\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not for the first time in his career, Newsom has allowed a more flattering version of events to develop in the public discourse while being slow to clear up the inaccuracies. During his first gubernatorial campaign in 2018, he acknowledged that \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article209176644.html\">he never attended rehab\u003c/a>, as was widely reported more than a decade earlier after he pledged to seek treatment for problems with alcohol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some Broncos players from the era, who said they still regularly get asked about Newsom when people find out they played baseball at Santa Clara, wanted to correct the record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He didn’t earn it. He didn’t earn the right to say it,” said Kevin Schneider, who pitched for two seasons and now runs a pitching academy in San Francisco. “I worked my ass off. So did everyone else on that team. For him to just go all these years, to say he did something he didn’t that takes not just talent but also dedication and effort and sacrifice, it’s not right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokespeople for Newsom rejected multiple requests to interview the governor about his baseball career. They said Newsom had never exaggerated his experience at Santa Clara University and that it was not his job to fix whatever mistaken assumptions the public may have developed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s been very honest and consistent about what happened to him in college and more personable than you would get from most politicians,” spokesperson Bob Salladay said. “He is not responsible for other people’s impressions or interpretations of him and his life. He is doing his job, and he cannot spend his entire day correcting people when they make errors about him. He’s moved on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom speaks about his baseball journey with “emotional, real truth that is visceral to him,” said Nathan Click, another spokesperson for the governor. “We all go through life and remember the emotions we feel about things, not, you know, facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He chooses to talk about the emotional side of it, because he thinks that is the place that young people in particular, who are going through struggles, people with dyslexia, can find themselves in his story,” Click said. “That matters way more than, you know, whether he was a rostered player or what his stats were in the fall ball, JV, freshman year, Santa Clara University season.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From high school standout to Santa Clara University\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By all accounts, Newsom was a talented baseball player at Redwood High School in Marin County, where he was also a star on the basketball team before graduating in 1985. His name appears in the \u003cem>San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em>’s prep coverage from the time — banging home runs, hitting a game-winning single in the Marin County Athletic League championship his senior year and being named to the all-league first team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Publications including \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/gavin-newsom-the-next-head-of-the-california-resistance\">\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/27/sports/baseball/27mayors.html\">\u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.marinij.com/2007/07/08/dave-albee-sf-mayor-takes-his-licks-at-att-park/\">the \u003cem>Marin Independent Journal\u003c/em>\u003c/a> and \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20091127090647/http:/www.mensjournal.com/newsom\">Men’s Journal\u003c/a> \u003c/em>have reported over the years that the Texas Rangers drafted, recruited or showed interest in Newsom in high school.\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>In 2009, a Newsom spokesperson \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20090430051404/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/cityinsider/detail?entry_id=39062\">clarified\u003c/a> to the \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> that he had merely been scouted, not drafted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Newsom was among the hundreds of high school players across the country whom the Rangers organization looked at while preparing for the annual amateur draft, according to a spokesperson for the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson John Blake wrote in an email that the Rangers’ chief California scout from the time “said that we did watch Governor Newsom play in high school, but he doesn’t remember us specially scouting him.” He said major league teams are very thorough in scouting California and “it is likely there were several players on this particular high school team that our scouts had interest in seeing, including Governor Newsom.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Click said the governor received business cards from those scouts after they watched him play, which he has spoken about in past interviews. “They made a point to come up to him and introduce themselves, which means something,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom headed down the Peninsula to Santa Clara University, a private Jesuit college where he was a freshman in the fall of 1985. Having struggled in high school, with a reported SAT score of 960 out of 1600, Newsom has long \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">credited baseball\u003c/a> with securing his admission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had a pretty severe learning disability, dyslexia, struggled academically, and the only reason Santa Clara University would have ever accepted me was because I was a left-handed first baseman who could hit fairly well,” he \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/01/us/college-sports-gavin-newsom.html\">told \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in 2019.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982126\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982126\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A young high school male with baseball uniform crouches on one knee and leans on a baseball bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-01-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom played baseball and graduated from Redwood High School in 1985. \u003ccite>(Photo from Gavin Newsom’s social media via CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom also had help from several well-connected alumni.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Connolly, a San Francisco investment banker and associate of William Newsom who played baseball at Santa Clara in the 1960s, put the younger Newsom on the team’s radar, according to Cummins, the former assistant coach. Connolly \u003ca href=\"https://magazine.scu.edu/classnote/bill-connolly/\">died in 2017\u003c/a>, and his widow could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Connolly “was a very good supporter of us at the time, money-wise,” Cummins said, and pushed the coaches to check Newsom out. “That was pretty normal at the time,” Cummins said, especially in a pre-internet era when recruiting was more regional and word-of-mouth. He said the baseball team was not a “backdoor” to admit Newsom into the university.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom does not remember his family asking Connolly to recommend him to Santa Clara University “and if it’s true, it would be news to him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alongside then-head coach John Oldham, who died in February, Cummins eventually visited Newsom at home and recruited him to Santa Clara. The team had a junior varsity squad at the time, which it used as a “minor league,” Cummins said, so Newsom had a guaranteed spot in the program, but would have to perform well enough to play in varsity games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He was offered a scholarship of $500 in October 1985, during fall quarter of his freshman year, according to a photograph of a section of the paperwork provided by Click, though it’s unclear if that’s the only payment he received. Click said Newsom was unable to locate the original document. The cost of attendance for Santa Clara University that year was $10,251, including tuition, room and board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eager to ensure his spot, Newsom’s family also solicited letters of recommendation \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article7965822.html\">from former Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a>, who attended Santa Clara University for one year and appointed William Newsom to the Superior Court and the state Court of Appeal during his first term as governor, and from John Mallen, an attorney who served on Santa Clara’s board of regents at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen, who described William Newsom as “my best friend for 75 years,” said he did not frequently write letters of recommendation for applicants while he was on the board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982127\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982127\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration with newspaper clippings.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Newsom-Baseball-Headlines-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A series of newspaper clippings that highlight Newsom’s baseball accomplishments during high school. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In fact, I may not have helped anybody else get in,” Mallen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though he does not have a copy of the letter anymore, Mallen said it was probably addressed to the president of the university and would have been a character reference for the younger Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, I’d known him since birth,” Mallen said. “He was a good athlete. That I remember.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mallen said it “absolutely” would have been “hugely influential” in helping Newsom gain admission to Santa Clara: “I think it was a big help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click denied that the letters of recommendations played any role in Newsom’s acceptance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Baseball was the reason he got into university and the partial baseball scholarship shows it,” Click said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>College baseball cut short by elbow injury\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Newsom has previously said he played baseball his first two years at Santa Clara University before injuring his throwing arm and reevaluating his path, a timeline repeated in major profiles of Newsom, most recently by \u003ca href=\"https://lamag.com/featured/gavin-newsom-recall\">Los Angeles Magazine\u003c/a> in 2021.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, I had an ulnar nerve issue and threw out my arm and had a surgery and really didn’t come back,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.wbur.org/onlyagame/2019/10/18/california-governor-gavin-newsom-lebron-james-fair-pay-to-play-act\">he told WBUR\u003c/a>, a Boston public radio station, in 2019. “And then I had to make that tough choice of, ‘What the hell do I do with my life?’ Because I was just so consumed by baseball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To report this story, CalMatters reached out to coaches and teammates listed on the Broncos rosters for the 1986 and 1987 seasons. They\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>said Newsom played only during the fall tryout periods of his freshman and sophomore years, when prospective players trained and rotated into practice games against other local universities, and no official statistics were kept.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people recalled that Newsom was around\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>for just the first few weeks, perhaps as much as six weeks, as a freshman. He did not make the 1986 roster, as reflected in the game program and media guide “The Boys of Spring.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982130\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A team roster on an illustrated background.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-800x1000.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1020x1275.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Santa-Clara-Baseball-Roster-CM-copy-1229x1536.jpg 1229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom does not appear on the 1986 Santa Clara University baseball roster. \u003ccite>(Illustration by Miguel Gutierrez Jr./CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Newsom was not one of the standout prospects that year — “We would have known he was a big scholarship player who crapped out,” said Jim Flynn, who was a freshman pitcher — but no one interviewed by CalMatters disputes his athletic ability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Victor Cole, a freshman in the 1986 season who split his time pitching and playing outfield for the varsity team and playing outfield for the junior varsity team, said Newsom “was a good athlete” and “he looked like somebody who could play college ball.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone who was recruited had talent. So he had talent,” said Cole, who \u003ca href=\"https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/2695/victor-cole\">briefly played\u003c/a> for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1992 and \u003ca href=\"https://cbubucs.com/sports/baseball/roster/coaches/victor-cole/504\">now coaches\u003c/a> at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Machi, who also arrived in 1985, said Newsom caught his attention because they were competing for the same spot, playing first base.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do recall him being a fairly athletic guy. It wasn’t like he was a fish out of water,” Machi said. “As a competitor, you’re always looking around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But within a few weeks, Newsom had “just disappeared,” Machi said. “He didn’t have any accolades on the field.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Struggling with pain in his left elbow, Newsom underwent ulnar nerve surgery in late 1985 and took the rest of the season off, Click said. Dr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.poadocs.com/provider/michael-f-dillingham-md\">Michael Dillingham\u003c/a>, an orthopedic surgeon in Daly City who was the team doctor at the time, confirmed to CalMatters that he performed the operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the surgery, however, Newsom did not rehabilitate his arm through the Santa Clara baseball program, recalled Larry Donahe, then a freshman pitcher who also sat out the 1986 season recovering from an elbow operation for the same injury as Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he had a bad elbow and was hurt and was doing any sort of rehab, I probably would have seen him,” said Donahe, who had a full-ride scholarship and continued to play for the Broncos through other surgeries his sophomore and junior years. “He never came into the training room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom was in a cast and then physical therapy for several months and did not begin training seriously to return to baseball until the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He tried out for the Broncos again in fall 1986 as a sophomore but “couldn’t make it work” because of continued elbow pain, Click said. Before the regular season began, Newsom gave up his beloved sport for good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Players said Newsom was not particularly close to his teammates and they were uncertain of the circumstances of his departure. Many wondered if he lost interest in baseball because of the fierce demands of Santa Clara’s program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the NCAA had not yet \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/10/sports/ncaa-cuts-practice-scholarships-and-seasons.html\">established limits on student-athletes’ time\u003c/a>, players described the team in that era as a full-time job, even during fall tryouts: multiple games each week; practices that ran from the early afternoon until after the dining hall stopped serving dinner and all day on the weekends; extra training including 5 a.m. workouts; and vision strengthening and success visualization classes, where players would lie on the floor with their eyes closed and imagine how to improve their technique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you had a life, you chose to do something else. If you were a baseball lifer you loved it,” Matt Toole, who played baseball at Santa Clara from 1985 to 1989 and then two seasons in the minor leagues, wrote in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom “actually played well enough to make our team both years,” he wrote. “He had a lot of potential but he chose not to play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982131\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982131\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A photo of a young boy in baseball uniform with a hat and bat.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/022724-Gavin-Newsom-Baseball-SOCIAL-CM-02-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A young Gavin Newsom in a baseball uniform. \u003ccite>(CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Click said Newsom may not have felt comfortable sharing his injury publicly at the time because he was ashamed not to live up to the success he experienced earlier in his baseball career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was really a crushing moment for him,” Click said, “especially somebody who had been really hyped up by everyone around him in Little League, in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the legend of Newsom’s feats on the diamond\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>endured. 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"content": "\u003cp>Joy Perrin had been living in a van with her two children for several months when she walked into a welfare office in 2018. She had left an abusive partner and had failed her first semester at Laney College in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A social worker told Perrin she qualified for the CalWORKS family stabilization program, which provides cash assistance, transitional housing and counseling to families experiencing crises such as domestic violence, substance abuse, or the risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years later, Perrin spoke to lawmakers on March 20, trying to save the program that helped her find a safe home and achieve an associate’s degree in biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program gave me the opportunity to show my children that poverty doesn’t have to be our name,” said Perrin, who plans to study radiology. “Not only am I a testament of the power of this program, but my children will be able to share their stories and how it can change their path to their future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California faces a projected budget shortfall of $38 billion to $73 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom in January \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">proposed cuts\u003c/a> that would wipe out funding for the family stabilization program and for another CalWORKS program that subsidizes jobs for lower-income recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A room full of people seated and listening.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the Budget Subcommittee on Human Services hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both cuts would undermine CalWORKS’ effectiveness, advocates say, and contradict the governor’s stated goals of helping move families out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family stabilization program serves more than 31,000 people. The extended subsidized employment program reaches about 8,000 participants a month. In total 354,000 households with 659,000 children receive CalWORKS benefits a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CalWORKS cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To shrink CalWORKS’ $7 billion annual budget, Newsom would take away what’s left of the $55 million from family stabilization this year and $71 million next year and $134 million each year from the expanded subsidized employment program — along with other cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are resisting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Corey Jackson, the Moreno Valley Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s Human Services Committee, held the recent hearing to make clear how many people would be hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told CalMatters he opposes “a vast majority” of Newsom’s proposed cuts to CalWORKS and is seeking alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981424\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1257px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man in a gray suit with black tie listens from behind a desk with his name on it.\" width=\"1257\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg 1257w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1257px) 100vw, 1257px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Corey Jackson, chairperson of the Human Services Committee, at a hearing at the state Capitol on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The question is no longer whether something is a good program; the question is whether it is more important than another,” Jackson said. “CalWORKS is one of the most important programs that the state has. Very few can compete with it from a priorities perspective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State senators recently proposed shrinking the state budget shortfall by trimming current-year allocations. They agreed with Newsom’s plan to take back $336 million from CalWORKs, saying the money “is projected to be unexpended and should have no programmatic impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that doesn’t mean the cuts are set in stone. Newsom’s administration has proposed “a number of solutions across state government,” said H.D. Palmer, a spokesperson for Newsom’s finance department, including some funding for both CalWORKS programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office is also recommending \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4872\">reducing CalWORKS funding\u003c/a> to reflect “consistently unspent funds,” said Sonia Russo, a policy analyst there. Almost $40 million a year remains unspent in the subsidized employment program, she said, though the family stabilization program spends all of its funds each year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A family’s lifeline\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Part of the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, generally known as welfare, CalWORKS requires recipients to get a job or participate in activities intended to lead to employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Its subsidized employment program helps people transition off public assistance by placing them into jobs and paying part of their wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Moreno Valley)\"]‘CalWORKS is one of the most important programs that the state has. Very few can compete with it from a priorities perspective.’[/pullquote]At the height of the pandemic, the subsidized employment program’s caseload dropped, largely due to worksite closures and restrictions. But it began rebounding in 2021 and this year increased again, though still below pre-pandemic levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lizbet Paz Alegria, a program participant, said it’s a lifeline for many who need it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz Alegria, a Mexican-born immigrant, sought CalWORKS help in 2022 because her husband at the time had lost his job. Bills were piling up and she and her three children needed to escape domestic violence, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The subsidized employment program gave her a job at a San Mateo County resource center, where she helps other Spanish-speaking CalWORKS participants find employment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was so grateful, because I was placed in a position to welcome families,” she told CalMatters, “and they see in me someone who has walked in their shoes, who knows that feeling of desperation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Paz Alegria is a permanent resident who immigrated more than two decades ago. Many other immigrants do not qualify for CalWORKS benefits because they are undocumented or have legal status but have lived fewer than five years in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981422\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981422\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A woman with blond hair and a red cardigan stands in court, looking toward the floor.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_20-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lizbeth Paz Alegria at the Budget Subcommittee on Human Services hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>CalWORKS bases its grants on the number of eligible family members in a household. The average cash grant was $1,021 a month last year, though families living in high-cost coastal counties, such as Los Angeles and San Francisco, received 5% more than families in inland counties, such as Shasta and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Fresno County, where poverty is nearly 19% higher than the rest of the state, more than 8,000 people received employment services from CalWORKS last year, said Maria Rodriguez-Lopez, the county’s deputy director of employment services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county contracts with the Marjaree Mason Center to help domestic violence victims. Last year the center handled 8,748 domestic violence cases, Rodriquez-Lopez said, and more than 500 people, including 257 children, participated in the family stabilization program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If funding is terminated, the risk of transitioning out of this contract is high,” Rodriguez-Lopez said. “However our department will make every attempt to mitigate the negative consequences to our families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A question of priorities\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jackson said the state has an obligation to prevent its vulnerable population from plunging further into a financial crisis. Last year California’s \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/california-divide/2023/10/poverty-rate-california/\">poverty\u003c/a> rate grew from 11.7% in 2021 to 13.2%, with 5 million people living in poverty, \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/wp-content/uploads/JTF_PovertyJTF.pdf\">according to the Public Policy Institute\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11969301,news_11980559,news_11949192\"]“I agree there must be cuts,” Jackson said. “The only question is where and whether we accomplish this through a just process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson said he and other lawmakers have asked Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas to “not rush the process so people are not hurt due to political theater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocacy groups and nonprofits wrote a joint letter to legislative leaders predicting the cuts won’t save money but will instead cost the state: “Every $1 in CalWORKs received by a family saves the state $8 by preventing increases in child protective services, worsened children and parents’ health, and reductions in future education, employment and earnings,” it said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Joy Perrin had been living in a van with her two children for several months when she walked into a welfare office in 2018. She had left an abusive partner and had failed her first semester at Laney College in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A social worker told Perrin she qualified for the CalWORKS family stabilization program, which provides cash assistance, transitional housing and counseling to families experiencing crises such as domestic violence, substance abuse, or the risk of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years later, Perrin spoke to lawmakers on March 20, trying to save the program that helped her find a safe home and achieve an associate’s degree in biology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This program gave me the opportunity to show my children that poverty doesn’t have to be our name,” said Perrin, who plans to study radiology. “Not only am I a testament of the power of this program, but my children will be able to share their stories and how it can change their path to their future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because California faces a projected budget shortfall of $38 billion to $73 billion, Gov. Gavin Newsom in January \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2024/01/newsom-budget-california/\">proposed cuts\u003c/a> that would wipe out funding for the family stabilization program and for another CalWORKS program that subsidizes jobs for lower-income recipients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981421\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1568px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A room full of people seated and listening.\" width=\"1568\" height=\"1045\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy.jpg 1568w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_03-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at the Budget Subcommittee on Human Services hearing at the state Capitol in Sacramento on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Both cuts would undermine CalWORKS’ effectiveness, advocates say, and contradict the governor’s stated goals of helping move families out of poverty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family stabilization program serves more than 31,000 people. The extended subsidized employment program reaches about 8,000 participants a month. In total 354,000 households with 659,000 children receive CalWORKS benefits a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>CalWORKS cuts\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>To shrink CalWORKS’ $7 billion annual budget, Newsom would take away what’s left of the $55 million from family stabilization this year and $71 million next year and $134 million each year from the expanded subsidized employment program — along with other cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some lawmakers are resisting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Corey Jackson, the Moreno Valley Democrat who chairs the Assembly’s Human Services Committee, held the recent hearing to make clear how many people would be hurt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told CalMatters he opposes “a vast majority” of Newsom’s proposed cuts to CalWORKS and is seeking alternatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981424\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1257px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981424\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg\" alt=\"An African American man in a gray suit with black tie listens from behind a desk with his name on it.\" width=\"1257\" height=\"754\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992.jpg 1257w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-800x480.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-1020x612.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/032024_CalWorks-Hearing_JLV_CM_05-copy-e1711834742992-160x96.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1257px) 100vw, 1257px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Corey Jackson, chairperson of the Human Services Committee, at a hearing at the state Capitol on March 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(José Luis Villegas for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The question is no longer whether something is a good program; the question is whether it is more important than another,” Jackson said. “CalWORKS is one of the most important programs that the state has. 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"content": "\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/03/29/flock-cameras-oakland/\">announced\u003c/a> on Friday that the California Highway Patrol had signed a contract with a private company to install 480 high-tech cameras around Oakland in an effort to help crack down on crime in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the announcement, 290 of the cameras will be installed on the streets of Oakland and 190 along freeways that cut through the city and surrounding areas. 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