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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 2:20 p.m.: And one more time ...\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the \u003ca href=\"http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2013/06/jerry-brown-will-support-bill-keeping-public-records-act-intact.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> ...\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Gov. \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://topics.sacbee.com/Jerry+Brown/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jerry Brown\u003c/a>\u003c/strong> will support a bill reversing a proposed weakening of the \u003ca href=\"http://topics.sacbee.com/California+Public+Records+Act/\" rel=\"nofollow\">California Public Records Act,\u003c/a> apparently resolving the controversy that has swept over the Capitol in recent days.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update to the update to the update on this story 12:10 p.m.: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A joint press release from Assembly Speaker John Pérez and Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg announces the Senate \u003cem>will\u003c/em>, in fact, vote to undo the public records changes, which transformed the requirement that local governments comply with requests for public documents to an optional \"best practices\" guideline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steinberg had previously said the Senate wouldn't act, despite the Assembly's earlier revote on the budget bill stripped of the public records provision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>SACRAMENTO\u003c/strong>—Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) and Assembly Speaker John A. 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As the Senate advances its proposed constitutional amendment, the Assembly will work with them throughout its process to give voters the chance to make clear that good government shouldn’t come with an extra price tag.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s Assembly has taken a mulligan on open records requirements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less than a week after the chamber passed a bill removing mandates dictating how local governments respond to public records requests, the chamber voted 52-25 to pass a near-identical version of the initial measure, but stripped of the public records changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The language in question removes mandates on local governments to respond to open records requests within 10 days, provide electronic copies of documents when they’re available, and actively assist members of the public with their queries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the scaled-back mandates, including Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, say the shift isn’t about making public access more restrictive, but rather a question of who should foot the bill for public records compliance. California’s constitution requires the state to pay for any mandates it imposes on local governments. Removing the public records requirements and making them a “best practice” for cities and counties instead of a requirement would save the state tens of millions of dollars, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Assembly’s move created moments of political jujitsu, as Democratic leaders simultaneously defended their initial vote while urging members to repeal it. Budget committee chair Bob Blumenfeld pointed out the change was initially proposed in Gov. 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(Justin Sullivan/Getty)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/20/california-assembly-turns-back-time-votes-to-un-do-open-records-change/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Updates on this story here\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Original post\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/california-public-records-act-controversy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">growing furor over proposed changes to the California Public Records Act\u003c/a> is threatening to undo this month’s relatively smooth budget negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Responding to criticism that the changes would substantially weaken California’s open records laws, Assembly Speaker John Perez announced the lower chamber would vote Thursday morning on a measure identical to the bill it passed last week, but not including the section dealing with open records. “To be clear, this means that the California Public Records Act will remain intact without any changes as part of the budget – consistent with the Assembly’s original action,” Pérez said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Senate isn’t budging. President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg says the Senate won’t vote on that new bill unless he sees evidence local governments are opting out of the public records requirements. Steinberg says the issue isn’t public records. It’s the fact the state is constitutionally required to pay for those local actions. “Unless the local governments are violating the law,” he told reporters, the state should not be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars to pay them for what they should be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://sd06.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-06-19-statement-senate-democratic-leaders-preserve-local-govt-transparency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steinberg said\u003c/a> that instead of a revote, a constitutional amendment would be introduced in the state Senate Thursday, “which will require permanent restoration of all California Public Records Act mandates in the state budget, and require that all local government entities pay for those services of providing public access to local government records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that measure passes, the issue would go before the voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Senate President Darrell Steinberg says the Senate won’t vote on the new bill unless he sees evidence local governments are opting out of the public records requirements.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>What’s this all about? As we’ve been reporting today, the proposed \u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=gov&group=06001-07000&file=6250-6270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Records Act\u003c/a> changes were included in one of the so-called trailer bills that lawmakers passed alongside the state budget last week. The bill removed the mandatory requirement that local governments respond to requests for documents within 10 days, provide electronic versions of records when available, and provide assistance to records-seekers who aren’t quite sure what they’re looking for. (For instance, if your town has an Excel spreadsheet of employee salaries that’s subject to disclosure and you ask for that information, the town is obligated to provide it to you.) Such compliance under the bill would have been optional, redefined as “best practices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the bill was signed, various mayors, including San Francisco’s Ed Lee, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/19/100507/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said local governments would continue to comply with the law\u003c/a>. But First Amendment and open government advocates have been livid, and newspapers published \u003ca href=\"http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/06/18/3349183/editorial-tell-brown-to-veto-attack.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorials\u003c/a> opposing the change, saying the law had been eviscerated. Journalists who rely on the law as an investigatory tool have also been highly critical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News10 Sacramento’s John Myers addressed in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.news10.net/capitol/article/248109/525/New-fight-over-weakening-state-transparency-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post\u003c/a> the suggestion that the weakening of the Public Records Act was a stealth measure …\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The fracas in recent days included accusations that lawmakers were trying to hide the change in how the state’s public records law is carried out with a stealth and last minute plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown actually made the proposal more than five months ago in his January budget, one of several state funded mandates that he suggested be scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legislators discussed the PRA mandate in budget committees, the Legislature’s analysts released a report on the plan on May 31, and then a budget conference committee voted unanimously to make PRA provisions optional (and thus, save the state money) on June 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real truth is that while some noticed the proposal early, the vast majority of political and government journalists didn’t notice it until last week, focused instead on bigger budget fights.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update Thursday 10 a.m.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\u003cp>Assembly votes 52-25 to modify budget trailer bill to eliminate provisions weakening \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/search?q=%23CPRA&src=hash\">#CPRA\u003c/a>. Senate leaders say they won’t act on bill now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>— Katie Orr (@1KatieOrr) \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/1KatieOrr/statuses/347758922918146048\">June 20, 2013\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Nearly five years after voters passed Proposition 8, the U.S. Supreme Court will soon decide the fate of California's ban on same-sex marriage. But will that be the final word?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_99836\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-99836 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/RS5062_Supreme-Court-Justices-2010-scr-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"Front row (L-R): Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Associate Justice Anthony M. Kennedy and Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Back Row (L-R): Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice Samuel Alito Jr. and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. 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And John Eastman, an attorney for the National Organization for Marriage -- supporters of Prop. 8 -- hopes that discourages the high court from intervening.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">“It's very rare for the court to invalidate the laws of two-thirds or three-quarters of the states,” Vik Amar\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Americans across the country are grappling with an intense policy debate,” Eastman said. “And there's nothing specifically in the Constitution that decides that debate one way or the other. And the Supreme Court ought to recognize that and let it play out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/26/audio-transcript-of-supreme-court-proposition-8-oral-arguments/\" target=\"_blank\">oral arguments\u003c/a> in March, there seemed to be little appetite – even among the most liberal justices -- for a momentous decision in support of gay marriage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there are two ways for the court to avoid that legal question altogether. They could simply dismiss the case, allowing the 9th U.S. Circuit Court decision to stand. 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(Sam Harnett/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city's office of the controller estimates that about 1,730 units would convert under the terms of either ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/bag061113_130480.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"> ordinance supported by Mark Farrell and Scott Wiener\u003c/a> appears less likely to pass than a more restrictive \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfbos.org/ftp/uploadedfiles/bdsupvrs/bosagendas/materials/bag061113_120669.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">ordinance backed by David Chiu, Norman Yee and Jane Kim.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"provisions\">\u003c/a>Both proposed laws have undergone substantial change since Farrell's original proposal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell wanted to change the current system because it allows only 200 TIC units, chosen by lottery, to convert per year. Many more unit owners would like to convert. Tenants groups worry that allowing more conversions will reduce the amount of rental housing available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two alternative ordinances up for debate are alike in almost every way:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For seven years, they would allow eligible buildings to convert if the owners pay a fee of up to $20,000 per unit. \u003c!--more-->Among other criteria, for a building to be eligible a minimum number of units must be occupied by owners applying for conversion: at least one unit in buildings of four units, and at least half the units in buildings of five or six units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(Buildings with more than six units have not been eligible for conversion since the original ordinance passed.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The units would be allowed to convert in the order that they have been on the waiting list, with about 800 to 1,000 units in the first year, then about 500 in the second year, and fewer in each of the subsequent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fees would be lower depending on the length of time units have been on the waiting list as well, with a minimum of $4,000 per unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hope would be to work through a backlog of about 2,269 units over seven years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lottery would be suspended for at least 10 years. It could be suspended for an even longer period if the city determines that rental housing is insufficient.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the lottery resumes, eligibility would be more restrictive: Only buildings of four units or fewer could convert. Buildings of two units must have at least one unit occupied by an owner. Buildings of three units must have at least two units occupied by owners. And buildings of four units must have at least three units occupied by the owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two ordinances differ in one key respect: When the lottery resumes, Farrell's version would allow a new owner-occupant to take the place of someone who left, allowing a building to keep its place on the conversion waiting list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Why all the interest in condo conversion?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city allows only buildings owned by tenants-in-common to convert to condominiums. In this arrangement, occupants of a building own the entire building together. They are more limited in the kinds of home loans they can obtain because the risk of making a loan to multiple borrowers is considered greater than making a loan to a single borrower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That has prevented tenants from refinancing to take advantage of lower rates. As a result, many tenants-in-common want to convert to condominiums in which they can own their own units and apply for separate loans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But if more tenants-in-common buildings convert to condominiums, that in turn could spur more apartments to convert to TICs, reducing the amount of rental housing in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/04/17/new-tic-to-condo-plan-would-impose-10-year-conversion-moratorium-in-exchange-for-lottery-bypass/\" target=\"_blank\">Negotiations\u003c/a> have been difficult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Apartment renters and tenant-in-common owners have\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/22/san-francisco-struggles-with-decision-that-could-help-some-homeowners-and-hurt-renters/\" target=\"_blank\"> both been outspoken \u003c/a>about how the changes might affect them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca name=\"rollcall\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 6:20 p.m. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the roll calls of the votes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Votes for Chiu Version: Passed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim – Y\u003cbr>\nMar - Y\u003cbr>\nTang – N\u003cbr>\nWiener – N\u003cbr>\nYee – Y\u003cbr>\nAvalos – Y\u003cbr>\nBreed – Y\u003cbr>\nCampos – Y\u003cbr>\nChiu – Y\u003cbr>\nCohen - Y\u003cbr>\nFarrell – N\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Votes for Farrell Version: Failed\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim – N\u003cbr>\nMar – N\u003cbr>\nTang – Y\u003cbr>\nWiener – Y\u003cbr>\nYee – N\u003cbr>\nAvalos – N\u003cbr>\nBreed – Y\u003cbr>\nCampos – N\u003cbr>\nChiu – N\u003cbr>\nCohen – N\u003cbr>\nFarrell – Y\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Almost a week after FBI agents raided his office, Democratic state Sen. Ron Calderon returned to work at the state Capitol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_99263\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-99263\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/calderon-qs-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"State Senator Ron Calderon makes a statement about an FBI raid on his office. (Scott Detrow / KQED)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Sen. Ron Calderon makes a statement about an FBI raid on his office. (Scott Detrow / KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters for one minute and 20 seconds – he didn’t take any questions – Calderon said his “intention, at this point, is to do my job that I was elected to do, attend my hearings, get my bills passed out of committee and onto the floor, and do the work of the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon had been absent from the Capitol in the days immediately following the FBI raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI and U.S. attorney's office haven’t disclosed the focus of the probe, but \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2013/jun/05/local/la-me-ff-calderon-fbi-20130606\">several news\u003c/a> outlets \u003ca href=\"http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2013/06/06/fbi-looking-into-state-sen-calderon-brother-since-2005/\">have reported\u003c/a> it touches on the finances of a Los Angeles-area water district with ties to Calderon’s brother, Tom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing in front of a portrait of Earl Warren, former California governor and United States chief justice, Calderon said, “My family and I have gone through a lot in the last several days. It’s been very stressful, very hard on all of us. We’re all very anxious to put this behind us and carry on a normal life.” Politics is the family profession for the Calderons: \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201306060850/a\">Ron is the third sibling to serve in the state Legislature\u003c/a>. Calderon’s nephew, Ian, currently holds an Assembly seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update at 11:45 a.m:\u003c/strong> California Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Beard Jr. has retracted his statement that the FBI searched the office of the Latino Caucus yesterday. Instead he said agents searched two offices of Ron Calderon, D-Montebello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard issued this statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yesterday afternoon, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation served sealed warrants to search an office in the State Capitol and the Legislative Office Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those offices was erroneously identified as an office of the Legislative Latino Caucus, based on an outdated roster of room numbers. The Legislative Latino Caucus moved into new offices earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both offices that are subject to the sealed search warrants are the offices of Senator Calderon; one in the Capitol building and the other in the Legislative Office Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This correction illustrates the limited information available to the Legislature. We have and will continue to fully cooperate with the agents.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Don Thompson and Tom Verdin, Associated Press\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The FBI searched the offices of a California state senator and the Legislature's Latino caucus on Tuesday but would not disclose the reason for the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98776\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/05/fbi-raids-office-of-calif-state-lawmaker/ronald-calderon/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98776\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Ronald-Calderon-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Calderon (official photograph)\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Calderon (official photograph)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI office in Los Angeles, said the warrants were served at about 3 p.m. Six to eight agents left the Capitol more than six hours later carrying at least a half-dozen boxes and what appeared to be a computer hard drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would not disclose the target of the search warrants, but Senate Chief Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Beard told The Associated Press it was Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles County city of Montebello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a federal search warrant served on Sen. Calderon's office. It's a sealed search warrant. I don't know what it relates to,\" Beard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Calderon was not present during the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon did not return a message left on his cell phone. His spokesman, Rocky Rushing, said he could not comment and referred calls to Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5471945/fbi-raids-offices-of-sen-ron-calderon.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee \u003c/a>reports that FBI agents have been investigating the way contracts are awarded by the Central Basin Municipal Water District where Calderon's brother, Tom Calderon, is on the board of directors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/legislator/1262-ron-calderon\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon has raised most of his campaign money outside his district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5473539/sen-ron-calderon-took-40000-in.html\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon received twice as many gifts as any other legislator since 2000. \u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I have a sense that they're on a witch hunt,\" Geragos said in a telephone interview. \"My client refused to read their script and so this is what resulted. ... My client has done absolutely nothing wrong.\" He said he does not know what the FBI is investigating or if others also are targets of the investigation.He contended the Justice Department is targeting his client, a Democrat, as \"a bait and switch\" to mute congressional Republicans' outcry over recent disclosures, including that the department obtained telephone records from AP reporters and editors and private emails from a Fox News correspondent.Beard told reporters who gathered outside Calderon's office Tuesday night that the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus, which is across the street from the Capitol in the Legislative Office Building, also was searched. A spokeswoman for the caucus, Lizette Mata, did not return telephone and email messages.Sacramento defense attorney William Portanova entered and left the Capitol office during the search. He told the AP he was retained to represent the interests of the Senate as a whole, not any particular lawmaker.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're 100 percent cooperative with any investigation,\" Portanova said late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warrants were being served as lawmakers who are part of the 23-member Latino caucus held an event with reporters at the Capitol to discuss the group's legislative priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's raid at the Capitol recalled the so-called \"Shrimpscam\" investigation in 1985, in which federal agents went undercover and posed as representatives of a phony shrimp-processing company. Five lawmakers went to prison for taking bribes in the FBI sting operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eimiller said the current investigation is being led by federal authorities in Southern California, where Calderon is based, but the search warrants were issued in U.S. District Court in Sacramento and are under seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the search was conducted to investigate \"allegations of criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an ongoing investigation,\" she said. \"Searches are typically done in the early stages of an investigation, so it would be premature to say that charges will be filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, the state's political watchdog agency, the Fair Political Practices Commission, closed an investigation into Calderon's three Assembly campaign committees without sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission opened an investigation after receiving allegations that Calderon had used campaign money for personal purposes while seeking re-election to the Assembly in 2003 and 2004, according to agency records. A letter to Calderon said the agency found nothing on its face to show the expenses were made for \"anything other than a political, legislative or governmental purpose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon terminated his legal defense fund in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmaker is part of a powerful Southern California political dynasty. His two brothers served in the state Legislature and his nephew, Ian Calderon, was elected to the Assembly last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is known as a moderate, business-friendly Democrat. After his election to the Assembly in 2002, he was a member of the Assembly Moderate Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon played a key role last year in brokering an agreement that led to new state laws governing foreclosures that went beyond the national mortgage settlement with the nation's five largest banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He originally balked at proposals by Attorney General Kamala Harris that he thought would do too much harm to the lending industry. He then cast a key vote in an unusual conference committee that led to the compromise legislation becoming law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also has promoted regulatory reform and Hollywood tax credits, among legislative initiatives reflecting his business-oriented interests. Among other legislation this year, Calderon is carrying a bill that would require education officials to create lesson plans about violence in American culture as a way to respond to mass shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon also drew mention last year in an Associated Press story about lawmakers who sought upgrades to their state-provided vehicles shortly before buying them for personal use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He special-ordered \"2 vogue type wheel center caps\" for $80 for his 2006 Cadillac, among other maintenance that cost taxpayers more than $500. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update at 11:45 a.m:\u003c/strong> California Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Beard Jr. has retracted his statement that the FBI searched the office of the Latino Caucus yesterday. Instead he said agents searched two offices of Ron Calderon, D-Montebello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard issued this statement:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Yesterday afternoon, agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation served sealed warrants to search an office in the State Capitol and the Legislative Office Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those offices was erroneously identified as an office of the Legislative Latino Caucus, based on an outdated roster of room numbers. The Legislative Latino Caucus moved into new offices earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both offices that are subject to the sealed search warrants are the offices of Senator Calderon; one in the Capitol building and the other in the Legislative Office Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This correction illustrates the limited information available to the Legislature. We have and will continue to fully cooperate with the agents.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>by Don Thompson and Tom Verdin, Associated Press\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nSACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The FBI searched the offices of a California state senator and the Legislature's Latino caucus on Tuesday but would not disclose the reason for the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98776\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 266px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/06/05/fbi-raids-office-of-calif-state-lawmaker/ronald-calderon/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-98776\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98776\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/06/Ronald-Calderon-266x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ron Calderon (official photograph)\" width=\"266\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ron Calderon (official photograph)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI office in Los Angeles, said the warrants were served at about 3 p.m. Six to eight agents left the Capitol more than six hours later carrying at least a half-dozen boxes and what appeared to be a computer hard drive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She would not disclose the target of the search warrants, but Senate Chief Sergeant-at-Arms Tony Beard told The Associated Press it was Sen. Ron Calderon, a Democrat from the Los Angeles County city of Montebello.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's a federal search warrant served on Sen. Calderon's office. It's a sealed search warrant. I don't know what it relates to,\" Beard said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said Calderon was not present during the search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon did not return a message left on his cell phone. His spokesman, Rocky Rushing, said he could not comment and referred calls to Los Angeles attorney Mark Geragos. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5471945/fbi-raids-offices-of-sen-ron-calderon.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee \u003c/a>reports that FBI agents have been investigating the way contracts are awarded by the Central Basin Municipal Water District where Calderon's brother, Tom Calderon, is on the board of directors.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://maplight.org/california/legislator/1262-ron-calderon\" target=\"_blank\">MapLight\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon has raised most of his campaign money outside his district.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/06/05/5473539/sen-ron-calderon-took-40000-in.html\">The Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> reports that Ron Calderon received twice as many gifts as any other legislator since 2000. \u003c/li>\u003c/ul>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"I have a sense that they're on a witch hunt,\" Geragos said in a telephone interview. \"My client refused to read their script and so this is what resulted. ... My client has done absolutely nothing wrong.\" He said he does not know what the FBI is investigating or if others also are targets of the investigation.He contended the Justice Department is targeting his client, a Democrat, as \"a bait and switch\" to mute congressional Republicans' outcry over recent disclosures, including that the department obtained telephone records from AP reporters and editors and private emails from a Fox News correspondent.Beard told reporters who gathered outside Calderon's office Tuesday night that the office of the Latino Legislative Caucus, which is across the street from the Capitol in the Legislative Office Building, also was searched. A spokeswoman for the caucus, Lizette Mata, did not return telephone and email messages.Sacramento defense attorney William Portanova entered and left the Capitol office during the search. He told the AP he was retained to represent the interests of the Senate as a whole, not any particular lawmaker.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They're 100 percent cooperative with any investigation,\" Portanova said late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warrants were being served as lawmakers who are part of the 23-member Latino caucus held an event with reporters at the Capitol to discuss the group's legislative priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday's raid at the Capitol recalled the so-called \"Shrimpscam\" investigation in 1985, in which federal agents went undercover and posed as representatives of a phony shrimp-processing company. Five lawmakers went to prison for taking bribes in the FBI sting operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eimiller said the current investigation is being led by federal authorities in Southern California, where Calderon is based, but the search warrants were issued in U.S. District Court in Sacramento and are under seal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the search was conducted to investigate \"allegations of criminal activity.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"This is an ongoing investigation,\" she said. \"Searches are typically done in the early stages of an investigation, so it would be premature to say that charges will be filed.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, the state's political watchdog agency, the Fair Political Practices Commission, closed an investigation into Calderon's three Assembly campaign committees without sanctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission opened an investigation after receiving allegations that Calderon had used campaign money for personal purposes while seeking re-election to the Assembly in 2003 and 2004, according to agency records. A letter to Calderon said the agency found nothing on its face to show the expenses were made for \"anything other than a political, legislative or governmental purpose.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon terminated his legal defense fund in 2009.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawmaker is part of a powerful Southern California political dynasty. His two brothers served in the state Legislature and his nephew, Ian Calderon, was elected to the Assembly last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is known as a moderate, business-friendly Democrat. After his election to the Assembly in 2002, he was a member of the Assembly Moderate Caucus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon played a key role last year in brokering an agreement that led to new state laws governing foreclosures that went beyond the national mortgage settlement with the nation's five largest banks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He originally balked at proposals by Attorney General Kamala Harris that he thought would do too much harm to the lending industry. He then cast a key vote in an unusual conference committee that led to the compromise legislation becoming law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also has promoted regulatory reform and Hollywood tax credits, among legislative initiatives reflecting his business-oriented interests. Among other legislation this year, Calderon is carrying a bill that would require education officials to create lesson plans about violence in American culture as a way to respond to mass shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calderon also drew mention last year in an Associated Press story about lawmakers who sought upgrades to their state-provided vehicles shortly before buying them for personal use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He special-ordered \"2 vogue type wheel center caps\" for $80 for his 2006 Cadillac, among other maintenance that cost taxpayers more than $500. Rushing, Calderon's spokesman, said at the time that the spending was all for necessary or scheduled maintenance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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State agencies frequently fail to protect the confidentiality of patients and consumers, including those who are the most vulnerable to fraud and identity theft – children, the elderly and the disabled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>25 Percent Not Encrypted\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly 10 years of state-collected data on computer security incidents involving confidential and private information reveals state agencies do not always encrypt computers, even when they contain confidential information affecting thousands of people. Of the 283 computers and phones containing confidential information that were reported lost and stolen, 25 percent were not encrypted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some cases, employee carelessness, not hacking, leads to security breaches. 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A memo in 2008 from the Office of Information Security and Privacy Protection reminded state agencies to encrypt all devices containing confidential information, a requirement long outlined in the State Administrative Manual. Yet many agencies have not followed the procedure, allowing electronic information to fall into harm’s way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely need to find out how rampant this situation is and rectify the situation as soon as possible,” said Assemblyman Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park, chairman of the Assembly’s Select Committee on Privacy. “Building a firewall to safeguard information is crucial.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Without encryption, anyone can override a computer’s password and gain access to its confidential contents by removing the computer’s hard drive, using software or guessing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>by Lauren Bénichou\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vallejo City Council is set to vote Tuesday on a series of projects -- from streetlights to senior centers -- that were chosen directly by nearly 4,000 residents last month. These projects came about as part of the city's adoption of a new civic model called \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.pbvallejo.org/\" target=\"_blank\">participatory budgeting\u003c/a>.\" The items up for a vote, totaling about $3 million, represent a small chunk of the city's budget. But Monica Tipton, who volunteered as a budget delegate, said even that small amount wasn't so easy to grapple with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_98178\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-98178\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/vallejo-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo. (Justin Sulivan/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia Street in downtown Vallejo. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I learned that all those people that I was like, ‘Oh my God, they make such stupid decisions, why don’t they do this, this and this…?’ I know now why they don’t do this, this and this,\" she said. \"It’s a tough process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Participatory budgeting is a new twist on an old theme, dating back to New England town meetings. The model Vallejo adopted was developed in Brazil in the 1980s, and it's been picked up in places like Chicago, New York and \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2012-12/san-francisco-to-pilot-participatory-budgeting\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Professor Larry Rosenthal, from UC Berkeley's Goldman School of Public Policy, said people have been thinking about direct democracy for years. “What differs here is that a city like Vallejo or wards in Chicago have actual resources,\" he said, \"and the person who was in control of those resources, or the agency, makes a decision that they no longer wish to exercise discretion in the first instance about how that money gets spent. Instead, they want the community to decide.” \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea is spreading. In San Jose, a city councilman is pushing for participatory budgeting. In Oakland, community activists are proposing different approaches. The Community Democracy Project, or CDP, is an all-volunteer group that meets every week at Sudo Room in downtown Oakland. Co-founder Sonya Rifkin said she wants to give residents power to decide the entire city budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Will it take a concerted effort? Yes,\" she said. \"Will it take time to work, to get in the groove of it? Yes. Will we learn a lot along the way? Yes. But is it worth it? I think so.“\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rifkin’s group hopes to put an initiative on the Oakland ballot next year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adam Stiles of \u003ca href=\"http://openbudgetoakland.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Budget Oakland\u003c/a>, which creates online resources to help people make sense of city spending, said the group's new visualization tools, also known as \"civic hacking,\" help translate between city officials and the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are trying to do is create a platform where people can easily understand the budget, “ Stiles said. “Then, based on what they see, have a more informed discussion about it and then find out how to get more involved and participate in the budget process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most cities actually have a public process right now, such as Oakland’s town hall meetings. At one of those sessions, Oakland resident Mary Forte echoed the sentiments of many residents who showed up that day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There just seem like they’re always questions,” said Forte. “It’s a lot of numbers that are really complex for people to understand.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Groups like CDP and Open Budget Oakland can make things clearer for voters like Forte and could involve more people in budget decisions. But UC Berkeley's Rosenthal said that the more participatory the process, the more unwieldy it can become.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These things are extraordinarily difficult to administer in total budget settings,” Rosenthal said. “We would be looking at a substantial investment of time and effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Vallejo, Monica Tipton said the large turnout that the participatory budgeting vote attracted should convince the council to ratify the citizen-approved projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They will approve it, I have confidence of that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago this month, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> announced a list of 70 parks it planned to close. Park lovers rallied, giving their time and money to pick up the parks the state was willing to drop off. There is no closure list now, and the department is under \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301150900\">new management\u003c/a>, but the financial crisis has not passed. Those park lovers are now wondering how long they’re going to carry an extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/palomarvolunteers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97368\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97368 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/PalomarVolunteers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillestad wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillstead wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time of year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=637\">Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a> smells wonderfully fragrant, a mix of oak and pine and earth. Woodpeckers chatter with each other in the trees, and purple lupine dots the landscape. Twelve miles of trails offer stunning vistas of valleys to the north and south of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those simple charms won over Rick Barclay of Temecula about 15 years ago. Somehow, he went from casual day hiking, to trail maintenance, to running \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofpalomarsp.org\">Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a>, established two years ago, after park system officials put Palomar on a closure list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like parents,” Barclay says. “You may have a kid, but I love my kid, and this is my kid we’re talking about. I’m sure all of the other parks have a lot of things going for them. I haven’t been to all of them, so I can’t say that this park is worthy of staying open more than every other park that there is, but this is my park.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Friends of Palomar has raised $190,000 in the last two years from more than 300 people, most of them from San Diego and Riverside Counties. Signs of the group’s involvement are everywhere. Even the $2 trail map for sale in the ranger’s kiosk is theirs. Recently, they organized and funded the replacement of about a dozen bathroom doors at two campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97369\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/bathroom-doors/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97369\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-97369 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Bathroom-Doors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"It doesn't look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw back visitors to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They may not look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw visitors back to Palomar’s campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is how bad things have gotten,” Barclay muses. “We are celebrating bathroom doors being replaced the same way that we would if we were opening up a new trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they’ve raised on. Yes, there’s a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,” Barclay says. “We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this a state park or is not?” Barclay asks. “If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. It’s been a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/view-from-fire-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97371\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97371 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/View-from-Fire-Tower-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Aguanga Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire.(Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Pauma Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire of 2007. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar—and the state—are going to continue to rely on generous local donors like Bob Wilson of Rancho Santa Fe. He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that people will step up,” Wilson says. “Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Two years ago this month, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/\">California Department of Parks & Recreation\u003c/a> announced a list of 70 parks it planned to close. Park lovers rallied, giving their time and money to pick up the parks the state was willing to drop off. There is no closure list now, and the department is under \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201301150900\">new management\u003c/a>, but the financial crisis has not passed. Those park lovers are now wondering how long they’re going to carry an extra load.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97368\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/palomarvolunteers/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97368\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97368 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/PalomarVolunteers-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillestad wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County.\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left to right: Rosemary Johnston, Rick Barclay, Bob Hillstead wear sun hats and sun screen on a regular basis to volunteer at Palomar Mountain State Park in San Diego County. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This time of year, \u003ca href=\"http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=637\">Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a> smells wonderfully fragrant, a mix of oak and pine and earth. Woodpeckers chatter with each other in the trees, and purple lupine dots the landscape. Twelve miles of trails offer stunning vistas of valleys to the north and south of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those simple charms won over Rick Barclay of Temecula about 15 years ago. Somehow, he went from casual day hiking, to trail maintenance, to running \u003ca href=\"http://www.friendsofpalomarsp.org\">Friends of Palomar Mountain State Park\u003c/a>, established two years ago, after park system officials put Palomar on a closure list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re like parents,” Barclay says. “You may have a kid, but I love my kid, and this is my kid we’re talking about. I’m sure all of the other parks have a lot of things going for them. I haven’t been to all of them, so I can’t say that this park is worthy of staying open more than every other park that there is, but this is my park.”\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/news/openspaces/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-111261\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-111261\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/hdpublicplaces-mod.jpg\" alt=\"hdpublicplaces-mod\" width=\"200\" height=\"46\">\u003c/a>Friends of Palomar has raised $190,000 in the last two years from more than 300 people, most of them from San Diego and Riverside Counties. Signs of the group’s involvement are everywhere. Even the $2 trail map for sale in the ranger’s kiosk is theirs. Recently, they organized and funded the replacement of about a dozen bathroom doors at two campgrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97369\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 150px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/bathroom-doors/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97369\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-97369 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/Bathroom-Doors-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"It doesn't look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw back visitors to Palomar's campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">They may not look like much, but these new bathroom doors will do a lot to draw visitors back to Palomar’s campgrounds. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is how bad things have gotten,” Barclay muses. “We are celebrating bathroom doors being replaced the same way that we would if we were opening up a new trail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, Friends of Palomar set up a “donor agreement” with the parks department. The nonprofit donates $38,000 a year to the agency to cover Palomar’s operating deficit, along with a wish list of things to spend the rest of money they’ve raised on. Yes, there’s a list. The Friends would like to see cabins installed at the campgrounds, the Boucher Hill fire tower restored, and Doane Pond cleared of the cattail trying to transform it from a watering hole with fish into a meadow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’d love to have State Parks fix that problem,” Barclay says. “We’d love to give them money to fix that problem. Our hope is the kind of improvements that we want to make will help to generate revenue as well. Then maybe, one day, the park can actually be self-sufficient. It can pay for itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some folks have suggested some nonprofits might \u003cem>fully\u003c/em> adopt the parks the state can’t afford to run. But the math doesn’t add up in most of the more than 50 cases where a nonprofit is helping or fixing to help a state park stay open. Take Palomar. It costs the state roughly $220,000 every year—and that’s only counting direct expenses, not costs like regional management—or hundreds of thousands of dollars of deferred maintenance. Just the same, it has occurred to Barclay that Sacramento might continue to lean on Friends of Palomar for that extra $38,000 a year indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this a state park or is not?” Barclay asks. “If it’s a state park, then the state should support it. Do whatever it takes to keep it robust. Not limping along the way it has been over these several years. It’s been a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_97371\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/05/16/97365/view-from-fire-tower/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-97371\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97371 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/05/View-from-Fire-Tower-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Aguanga Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire.(Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boucher Hill Fire Lookout offers a fabulous view of Pauma Valley—as well as damage from the Poomacha Fire of 2007. (Credit KQED/Rachael Myrow)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Friends of Palomar—and the state—are going to continue to rely on generous local donors like Bob Wilson of Rancho Santa Fe. He grew up in Escondido, looking up at that mountain every day, going up there with his parents to visit the famous \u003ca href=\"http://www.astro.caltech.edu/palomar/\">Palomar Observatory\u003c/a>, see snow in the wintertime, and in warmer weather, camp a mile high in the sky. Even if he did get the worst case of poison oak he ever suffered from Palomar Mountain. Fond memories like that one inspired Wilson to give Friends $30,000—its biggest donation—to help seed the group’s fundraising.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that people will step up,” Wilson says. “Certainly, I’m of a mind to challenge them if they want to do that. I think that they’re out there and we have to make sure that they understand what the conditions are, what they could be, and what they should be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue is likely to remain a live one for at least another year. Governor Jerry Brown’s latest budget proposal doesn’t include the kind of money it would take for the parks department to re-shoulder the load for Palomar and parks like it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After news broke of as much as $29 million dollars \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/01/04/california-state-parks-investigation-report-released/\">unreported\u003c/a> at State Park headquarters in Sacramento, a number of people who’d pledged money to Palomar pulled back. That money has since been set aside as a pool of matching grants for groups like Friends of Palomar, and the group is applying. That said, it doesn’t hurt local fundraising efforts to point out that every dollar donated to the nonprofit is directed to Palomar park, not some general operating fund in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Barclay and Wilson lament the way California’s infrastructure is fraying. “My concern is that now we’re in maintenance mode,” says Barclay. “We’re just trying to cobble the bridges back together, and cobble the streets back together. Why aren’t we opening more state parks? You know, we’re talking about just staying open. 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