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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Amy Julia Harris\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_126781\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/12/financial-abuse-mismanagement-leave-housing-agency-on-verge-of-takeover/richmondproject_832_la-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-126781\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-126781\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/02/richmondproject_832_la1-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"The Hacienda public housing complex in Richmond. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle) \" width=\"640\" height=\"426\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Hacienda public housing complex in Richmond. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Each Saturday morning, a handyman is supposed to unlock a recreation room at the Richmond public housing complex called Friendship Manor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On one December day last year, Jeffery Likely said it was his job. He told his bosses he opened the rec room at 8 a.m. and closed it at 5 p.m. He charged \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155141-likelyopeningfriendship.html#document/p1/a156452\">six hours of overtime\u003c/a> for locking and unlocking one door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Allen Wheeler said he did the simple task of unlocking and locking that door \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155127-wheeler-opening-friendship.html#document/p1/a156450\">at nearly the same times\u003c/a> on the same day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It wasn’t an isolated incident. The Richmond Housing Authority has paid tens of thousands of dollars in questionable overtime over the last four years to its two maintenance workers, a review of overtime records by The Center of Investigative Reporting has found.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They double-billed for the same job, charged overtime during normal work hours and regularly invoked a union clause to get paid triple for hours worked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, Likely billed the agency for hundreds of overtime hours for driving an agency vehicle despite not having a valid driver’s license. His license has been suspended on and off since September 2012, once for drunken driving after registering a blood alcohol level of 0.22, nearly three times the legal limit. It is still suspended. His aunt, Kathleen Jones, bailed him out of jail, records show. She’s the No. 2 official at the housing agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost 30 percent of the 2,800 hours of overtime that Wheeler billed in the last four years occurred during his normal work hours. Wheeler and Likely both charged overtime for opening or closing the rec room at nearly the same time on 10 occasions in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Richmond Housing Authority officials signed off on all the time sheets, some of which contain glaring problems. For example, nearly every day in March 2012, Wheeler \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155142-ot-during-normal-work-hours.html\">charged six hours of overtime\u003c/a> for six hours of work helping with maintenance work — his job description — from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. His regular shift runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last four years, the Housing Authority paid Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. Wheeler received more than $58,000. They each make a base annual salary of $23,000 a year and live in Housing Authority apartments rent-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The totals are a sliver of the agency’s $26 million annual budget, but they highlight the persistent management troubles that have led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to label Richmond as one of the worst-run housing agencies in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Nadler, a government ethics specialist, said that in the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, she said, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it is taxpayer money, every dollar, every penny counts,” Nadler said. “They can’t afford to have this lack of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is about $7 million in debt and has \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/residents-live-filth-fear-mismanaged-bay-area-public-housing-5902\">failed to provide basic maintenance\u003c/a> to residents, who have lived among mice, mold and cockroaches. A lack of financial controls, meanwhile, allowed one top Housing Authority official to \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/financial-abuse-mismanagement-leave-housing-agency-verge-takeover-5904\">steer contracts to his brother\u003c/a> and others to abuse agency credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials have said the authority is getting its act together, the overtime problems underscore that the agency remains susceptible to abuse. Time sheets and other agency records show the overtime problems persisted into this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Comment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler and Likely declined to comment. The Housing Authority has forbidden its employees to talk to CIR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Lindsay, Richmond’s city manager, said the overtime was billed incorrectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it has shown is that they’re pretty sloppy with how they’re filling out their time sheets,” Lindsay said. “We’re having meetings to sort all this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority changed its overtime policy after CIR brought the billing problems to Lindsay's attention. In an April 23 memo, Executive Director Tim Jones banned Wheeler and Likely from receiving extra pay during their normal shifts and limited the amount of money they can charge for being called back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Expert: In the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Likely clocked 27 hours of overtime \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155143-likely-driving-all-sites.html#document/p1/a156456\">specifically for driving\u003c/a> between the agency’s apartment complexes while his license was suspended. Most of the 500-plus hours of overtime he has billed since his license was revoked require driving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A valid driver’s license is one of the few job requirements for a Housing Authority maintenance worker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_135407\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/likely.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-135407\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/05/likely-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In the last four years, the Richmond Housing Authority paid maintenance worker Jeffery Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In the last four years, the Richmond Housing Authority paid maintenance worker Jeffery Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. (Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From 5 to 6 p.m., Likely often finished the workday by sweeping and cleaning up around one of the five public housing complexes he maintains, according to his time sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time, he got paid for three hours of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, workers at the Richmond Housing Authority receive time and a half for each hour of overtime. But if they’re called back to work after going home, they get a minimum of three hours per call — a clause known as call-back pay.The rules apply even if workers live on-site, as Likely does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Stephenson, Richmond’s human resources director, used a street flood to illustrate why the benefit exists. “Call-back pay is when public works folks have gone home and then need to come back to respond to the flooding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likely and Wheeler frequently used this union rule to bill for routine maintenance. Lindsay said call-back pay should not apply to regular maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every week in the last four years, Likely charged three hours of overtime for cleaning the agency office for one hour. He also regularly charged triple the time he put in for sweeping the housing project where he lives, emptying dumpsters and assisting the agency with routine housing inspections after his normal shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Likely’s overtime was done at Nevin Plaza\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>the housing complex where he lives, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler, who lives at Triangle Court, appeared to regularly invoke call-back pay when he continued working after his shift ended. He stayed at work an extra half-hour and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">charged three\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">hours\u003c/a> of call-back time for maintenance work. It should have been billed as regular overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there were other questionable charges, like billing overtime for performing maintenance at different places at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 17, 2012, Likely said he was inspecting an apartment while also responding to a call from 5 to 6 p.m. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155180-jeff-likely.html#document/p1/a156461\">charged three hours of overtime\u003c/a> for each job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 27, 2013, Likely double-billed the Housing Authority for cleaning the same apartment complex from 6 to 7 p.m., charging six hours of overtime for working one hour, according to agency records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo, Tim Jones said Wheeler and Likely now are limited to charging three hours of call-back pay when they receive multiple calls in the same three-hour window after hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime charges violate the city’s policies, but it’s unclear whether they break any laws. That would likely depend on whether the men knowingly deceived the Housing Authority or simply misunderstood union rules, current and former prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said there could be an explanation for Wheeler billing during his regular work hours. It's possible, he said, that Wheeler could at times have been entitled to a 5 percent pay bump per day for doing work outside his normal job description. But Wheeler was instead billing the government for full extra hours and sometimes triple the time put in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of the three top officials at the Housing Authority signed off on all the overtime: Tim Jones, Kathleen Jones or William Bounthon, a manager in the Section 8 department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/projects/subsidized-squalor\">a CIR investigation\u003c/a> revealed a history of leadership problems at the agency and squalid living conditions for residents of its two largest housing complexes. Since then, Kathleen Jones, who is not related to Tim Jones, has been on paid leave. Likely has been out on sick leave for several weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has asked HUD for permission to relocate the residents of its largest and worst complex, Hacienda. Private attorneys are working with residents to file claims for health problems and property damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Andrew Donohue. It was copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em> \u003cem>It was produced by an independent nonprofit, \u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/\">The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>. Harris can be reached at aharris@cironline.org.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Wheeler and Likely both charged overtime for opening or closing the rec room at nearly the same time on 10 occasions in 2013.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Top Richmond Housing Authority officials signed off on all the time sheets, some of which contain glaring problems. For example, nearly every day in March 2012, Wheeler \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155142-ot-during-normal-work-hours.html\">charged six hours of overtime\u003c/a> for six hours of work helping with maintenance work — his job description — from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. His regular shift runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last four years, the Housing Authority paid Likely more than $67,000 in overtime. Wheeler received more than $58,000. They each make a base annual salary of $23,000 a year and live in Housing Authority apartments rent-free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The totals are a sliver of the agency’s $26 million annual budget, but they highlight the persistent management troubles that have led the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to label Richmond as one of the worst-run housing agencies in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judy Nadler, a government ethics specialist, said that in the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, she said, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When it is taxpayer money, every dollar, every penny counts,” Nadler said. “They can’t afford to have this lack of oversight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency is about $7 million in debt and has \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/residents-live-filth-fear-mismanaged-bay-area-public-housing-5902\">failed to provide basic maintenance\u003c/a> to residents, who have lived among mice, mold and cockroaches. A lack of financial controls, meanwhile, allowed one top Housing Authority official to \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/financial-abuse-mismanagement-leave-housing-agency-verge-takeover-5904\">steer contracts to his brother\u003c/a> and others to abuse agency credit cards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While city officials have said the authority is getting its act together, the overtime problems underscore that the agency remains susceptible to abuse. Time sheets and other agency records show the overtime problems persisted into this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No Comment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler and Likely declined to comment. The Housing Authority has forbidden its employees to talk to CIR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Lindsay, Richmond’s city manager, said the overtime was billed incorrectly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it has shown is that they’re pretty sloppy with how they’re filling out their time sheets,” Lindsay said. “We’re having meetings to sort all this out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Housing Authority changed its overtime policy after CIR brought the billing problems to Lindsay's attention. In an April 23 memo, Executive Director Tim Jones banned Wheeler and Likely from receiving extra pay during their normal shifts and limited the amount of money they can charge for being called back to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> Expert: In the best-case scenario, the overtime problems are the result of messy record keeping. At worst, they show a pattern of abuse.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Likely clocked 27 hours of overtime \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155143-likely-driving-all-sites.html#document/p1/a156456\">specifically for driving\u003c/a> between the agency’s apartment complexes while his license was suspended. 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(Lacy Atkins/San Francisco Chronicle)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>From 5 to 6 p.m., Likely often finished the workday by sweeping and cleaning up around one of the five public housing complexes he maintains, according to his time sheets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each time, he got paid for three hours of work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Normally, workers at the Richmond Housing Authority receive time and a half for each hour of overtime. But if they’re called back to work after going home, they get a minimum of three hours per call — a clause known as call-back pay.The rules apply even if workers live on-site, as Likely does.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Stephenson, Richmond’s human resources director, used a street flood to illustrate why the benefit exists. “Call-back pay is when public works folks have gone home and then need to come back to respond to the flooding,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likely and Wheeler frequently used this union rule to bill for routine maintenance. Lindsay said call-back pay should not apply to regular maintenance work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost every week in the last four years, Likely charged three hours of overtime for cleaning the agency office for one hour. He also regularly charged triple the time he put in for sweeping the housing project where he lives, emptying dumpsters and assisting the agency with routine housing inspections after his normal shift.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of Likely’s overtime was done at Nevin Plaza\u003cstrong>, \u003c/strong>the housing complex where he lives, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wheeler, who lives at Triangle Court, appeared to regularly invoke call-back pay when he continued working after his shift ended. He stayed at work an extra half-hour and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">charged three\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155154-ot-vs-call-out.html#document/p1/a156549\">hours\u003c/a> of call-back time for maintenance work. It should have been billed as regular overtime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there were other questionable charges, like billing overtime for performing maintenance at different places at the same time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Feb. 17, 2012, Likely said he was inspecting an apartment while also responding to a call from 5 to 6 p.m. He \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1155180-jeff-likely.html#document/p1/a156461\">charged three hours of overtime\u003c/a> for each job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 27, 2013, Likely double-billed the Housing Authority for cleaning the same apartment complex from 6 to 7 p.m., charging six hours of overtime for working one hour, according to agency records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his memo, Tim Jones said Wheeler and Likely now are limited to charging three hours of call-back pay when they receive multiple calls in the same three-hour window after hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The overtime charges violate the city’s policies, but it’s unclear whether they break any laws. That would likely depend on whether the men knowingly deceived the Housing Authority or simply misunderstood union rules, current and former prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay said there could be an explanation for Wheeler billing during his regular work hours. It's possible, he said, that Wheeler could at times have been entitled to a 5 percent pay bump per day for doing work outside his normal job description. But Wheeler was instead billing the government for full extra hours and sometimes triple the time put in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least one of the three top officials at the Housing Authority signed off on all the overtime: Tim Jones, Kathleen Jones or William Bounthon, a manager in the Section 8 department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/projects/subsidized-squalor\">a CIR investigation\u003c/a> revealed a history of leadership problems at the agency and squalid living conditions for residents of its two largest housing complexes. 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He highlighted the plan in his January State of the State address and further elevated the issue \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404250850/a\">by calling the Legislature into special session\u003c/a> earlier this month\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown argues that by trying to capture funds \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/11/125893/gov-brown-rainy-day-fund\">from periodic spikes in capital gains tax revenue\u003c/a>, the plan could smooth out the deep deficits that have hit California when the economy weakens. Before the Assembly Budget Committee on Monday, he said that stability is worth the cost of forgoing several billions of dollars’ worth of spending on state programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is some curb, because if you don’t curb you’ll go back into this constant recurrence of debt,” Brown said. “Boom and bust, red and black.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://gov.ca.gov/docs/4.14.14_State_Reserve_Policy.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Brown proposal \u003c/a>would replace California’s current rainy day fund, which has been virtually ignored by governors and lawmakers since 2007. And it would bump a competing proposal, approved by the Legislature in 2010, off the November ballot. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘There is some curb, because if you don’t curb you’ll go back into this constant recurrence of debt. Boom and bust, red and black.’\u003ccite>— Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Under the governor’s plan, whenever capital gains taxes make up more than 6.5 percent of the state’s general fund revenue, the excess would be steered into a reserve account. That account would max out at 10 percent of general fund tax proceeds. The proposal would allow the state to use some of that account to pay down debts and other liabilities, and it would set up a new reserve account to support school funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Democrats and Republicans on the Assembly budget panel voiced support for a new rainy day fund. (The panel asked Brown just one question during his hourlong appearance.) Republican enthusiasm for Brown’s cautious fiscal approach underscored the difficulty GOP opponents face in this year’s election. In fact, Assemblywoman Diane Harkey, an Orange County Republican, may have inadvertently shown just how little faith the party has in challengers Tim Donnelly and Neel Kashkari when she said that she trusted Brown’s approach to governing, but worried “he will only be here for another term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regardless, GOP lawmakers do want to make some changes to how the fund’s money could be tapped in future years. Brown’s plan would only require a simple majority vote to spend reserve money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been some conversation about requiring a two-thirds vote,” said committee vice chair Jeff Gorell, a Republican from Ventura County. “There’s some logic to that,” he said, pointing out that “urgency” legislation currently requires a supermajority. Gorell added that a higher threshold would force governors and lawmakers to cut spending as much as possible before tapping emergency funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown said he’s willing to consider a higher vote threshold.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Legislature could also define the conditions that would permit withdrawal,” he said. “I think we ought to explore both. Both a vote threshold, and a specification that these conditions — one, two, or three — must occur, or no money comes out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The appearance had its share of Brownisms. When the governor made his pitch for the revamped rainy day fund in January, he handed out playing cards featuring his popular corgi, Sutter. Brown returned to the dog theme Monday, saying, “This is kind of a set of bones for our backyard. Because we don’t know what we’ll need to chew on if capital gains go awry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Brown ended with this thought: “I was just thinking, where will I be in 11 years? I added it up. I’ll be 87. 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Born in Hong Kong in 1960, Chow came to the United States at 16 and was reportedly nicknamed "Shrimp Boy" by his grandmother, in part due to his small stature. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\" width=\"249\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">On Aug. 6, 2006, Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow is shown after being sworn in as the \"Dragon Head\" of the Ghee Kung Tong in Chinatown in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Sing Tao Daily)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) Raymond \"Shrimp Boy\" Chow, the leader of the Chinatown-based Chee Kung Tong organization, and four other defendants pleaded not guilty in federal court in San Francisco today to charges in a wide-ranging grand jury indictment filed earlier this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and the others arraigned today were among 29 people named in the April 3 indictment, which also accuses suspended state Sen. 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An FBI affidavit filed with the criminal complaint alleged that Chow was in charge of the criminal faction and approved its members' activities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow's lawyers, led by veteran defense attorney Tony Serra, contend the group is not a criminal organization but rather \"a beautiful group of people who bonded together to do beautiful things.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They maintain Chow has reformed since being released from prison a decade ago and is now \"an exemplary human being\" who worked on charitable causes for black and Chinese youth in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chow and most of the other defendants are due to return to the court of U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer on Thursday for a hearing on a protective order that will set guidelines for prosecutors' release of evidence, including recordings made by undercover FBI agents, to defense attorneys. A trial date has not been set.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also pleading not guilty today were Brandon Jackson, 28, of San Francisco, and sports agent Marlon Sullivan, 29, of Oakland, who were arrested on March 27 in Connecticut and New Jersey and made their first appearance in federal court in San Francisco today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackson and Sullivan are accused of joining Jackson's father, former San Francisco school board president Keith Jackson, in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a fictitious victim for $25,000. The murder was allegedly requested by an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a Mafia member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Jacksons and Sullivan are also accused of selling guns and ballistic vests to the undercover agent, who said he needed them to protect a Mendocino County marijuana-growing operation, according to the criminal complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two Jacksons and Sullivan are also charged with conspiring to sell cocaine, which they allegedly requested from the undercover agent, according to the complaint.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The others arraigned today are Leslie Yun, 42, and her husband, James Pau, 55, of Oakland, both described in the complaint as officers of the Chee Kung Tong. 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The court allowed the company to remain open while it appealed the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Lunny family has run the oyster operation since 2004, when it took over a 40-year lease, issued in 1972 after the federal government bought the land. The company says it produces one-third of all oysters grown in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED's Joshua Johnson talked today to the current leader of the company's legal team, Peter Prow, who said the main question before the court is whether courts have jurisdiction to review agency actions for arbitrariness and capriciousness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies most of the time do the right thing, but sometimes they make mistakes, sometimes they abuse their power,\" Prow said. \"In this case we think that's exactly what has happened, from the Parks Service and the Department of the Interior, and the 9th Circuit has said we don't even have a chance to have our day in court. And we think that if people can't take agencies to court when agencies misbehave, that's a very troubling precedent for not just the oyster farm but for anyone who deals with the government on any kind of permit or lease or any kind of day-to-day regular application to the government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the Interior Department said it couldn't comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News Fix's Dan Brekke recounted the history of the conflict in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/14/court-rejects-drakes-bay-oyster-company-request-for-new-hearing\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At issue in the case is the conflict between Lunny’s decade-old campaign to win an extension to the oyster company’s lease and National Park Service plans to designate Drakes Estero, the operation’s site, as wilderness. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/November-2008/The-Oyster-War/\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny has long maintained \u003c/a>that the park service not only could but should extend the 40-year “reservation of use and occupancy” first granted in 1972 when the government bought the property from the operation’s previous owner. The National Park Service, operating under provisions of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/parkmgmt/upload/lawsandpolicies_publiclaw94_544.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1976 Point Reyes Wilderness Act\u003c/a>, informed Lunny in 2005 of its intention not to extend the lease beyond its expiration date in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lunny’s chief allies, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, lobbied for an extension of the lease and in 2009 managed to win approval of legislation authorizing the secretary of the Interior to grant a 10-year extension to the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. After a long review process marked by charges that the National Park Service had manipulated data to show the oyster farm was harmful to the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=332286\" target=\"_blank\">Salazar declined to extend the lease\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other reasons, Salazar cited the government’s original agreement to purchase the oyster farm’s property, Park Service policy limiting commercial operations in national parks and wilderness areas, and the requirements of the 1976 Point Reyes law. He also acknowledged the scientific uncertainty over the oyster operation’s environmental and recreational impacts, but said in his view that studies backed the view that letting the lease expire “would result in long-term beneficial impacts to the estero’s natural environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar’s decision required Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to vacate its premises within 120 days, a departure delayed when \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2012/12/115478606-DBOC-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny filed suit in December 2012\u003c/a> to block the Interior secretary’s action. The lawsuit alleged that Salazar had violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an assessment of agency impacts on the human environment, and the federal Administrative Policy Act, which guides government decision-making policies. Ultimately, a federal judge in San Francisco rejected Lunny’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Department of Interior’s action, leading to the 9th Circuit appeal and today’s decision denying a rehearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has caused a split between environmental groups that support wilderness restoration at Point Reyes and leaders of the sustainable food movement, who praise Drakes Bay as a model operation. Both sides submitted “friend of the court” briefs during the Drakes Bay appeal. A group of local restaurateurs were among those who \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/04/03/13-15227_Drakes_Bay_amicus_brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filed a brief\u003c/a> arguing that closing the operation “would have a broad, negative and immediate impact, on the local economy and the sustainable agriculture and food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the school children of the workers who live in the housing units onsite, and, in the longer term, on food security and the U.S. balance of trade.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The case has become a cause celebrate of sorts for libertarian-leaning organizations, and Drakes has been supported by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/cases#section=tab2\" target=\"_blank\">frequently sues\u003c/a> government agencies on behalf of businesses and individuals. Earlier on in the case, the issue was taken up by Cause of Action, an anti-government group led by a lawyer with ties to the Charles Koch Foundation. From Kelly O'Mara's \u003ca href=\"http://www.callawyer.com/clstory.cfm?eid=933766&wteid=933766_It%27s_Not_Just_About_the_Oysters\" target=\"_blank\">piece\u003c/a> last month for California Lawyer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Accepting Cause of Action's help seemed sensible to Lunny at first, since it was free. But he ended the relationship soon after PBS \u003cem>NewsHour\u003c/em> aired a segment in May 2013 that mentioned the group's involvement. Lunny says his frustration was less about bad PR than the fact that Cause of Action had used his name in publicizing unrelated issues and in arguing for a newspaper to reveal unnamed sources who criticized the oyster farm in a story. But the group's involvement cemented Drakes Bay's position in the center of larger national debates over conservation, management of all types of federal land, and the limits of federal authority. It also made clear how important a precedent Lunny's case could set.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update\u003c/strong>: Amy Trainer, Executive Director of the West Marin Environmental Action Committee, which opposes a new lease for Drakes Bay Oyster Co., writes in an editorial for the East Bay Express that the company's petition to the Supreme Court is \"full of false statements of fact and exaggerations,\" calling it a \"desperate move full of desperate arguments.\" You can \u003ca href=\"http://www.eastbayexpress.com/SevenDays/archives/2014/04/14/opinion-dont-be-fooled-by-drakes-bay-oyster-companys-supreme-court-petition\" target=\"_blank\">read her opinion of this latest legal maneuver in the case here\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Agencies most of the time do the right thing, but sometimes they make mistakes, sometimes they abuse their power,\" Prow said. \"In this case we think that's exactly what has happened, from the Parks Service and the Department of the Interior, and the 9th Circuit has said we don't even have a chance to have our day in court. And we think that if people can't take agencies to court when agencies misbehave, that's a very troubling precedent for not just the oyster farm but for anyone who deals with the government on any kind of permit or lease or any kind of day-to-day regular application to the government.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokeswoman for the Interior Department said it couldn't comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>News Fix's Dan Brekke recounted the history of the conflict in a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/01/14/court-rejects-drakes-bay-oyster-company-request-for-new-hearing\" target=\"_blank\">blog post\u003c/a> in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>At issue in the case is the conflict between Lunny’s decade-old campaign to win an extension to the oyster company’s lease and National Park Service plans to designate Drakes Estero, the operation’s site, as wilderness. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marinmagazine.com/Marin-Magazine/November-2008/The-Oyster-War/\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny has long maintained \u003c/a>that the park service not only could but should extend the 40-year “reservation of use and occupancy” first granted in 1972 when the government bought the property from the operation’s previous owner. The National Park Service, operating under provisions of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nps.gov/pore/parkmgmt/upload/lawsandpolicies_publiclaw94_544.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">1976 Point Reyes Wilderness Act\u003c/a>, informed Lunny in 2005 of its intention not to extend the lease beyond its expiration date in 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Lunny’s chief allies, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, lobbied for an extension of the lease and in 2009 managed to win approval of legislation authorizing the secretary of the Interior to grant a 10-year extension to the Drakes Bay Oyster Co. After a long review process marked by charges that the National Park Service had manipulated data to show the oyster farm was harmful to the environment, \u003ca href=\"http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfile&pageid=332286\" target=\"_blank\">Salazar declined to extend the lease\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other reasons, Salazar cited the government’s original agreement to purchase the oyster farm’s property, Park Service policy limiting commercial operations in national parks and wilderness areas, and the requirements of the 1976 Point Reyes law. He also acknowledged the scientific uncertainty over the oyster operation’s environmental and recreational impacts, but said in his view that studies backed the view that letting the lease expire “would result in long-term beneficial impacts to the estero’s natural environment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salazar’s decision required Drakes Bay Oyster Co. to vacate its premises within 120 days, a departure delayed when \u003ca href=\"http://causeofaction.org/assets/uploads/2012/12/115478606-DBOC-Complaint.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Lunny filed suit in December 2012\u003c/a> to block the Interior secretary’s action. The lawsuit alleged that Salazar had violated the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires an assessment of agency impacts on the human environment, and the federal Administrative Policy Act, which guides government decision-making policies. Ultimately, a federal judge in San Francisco rejected Lunny’s request for a preliminary injunction to halt the Department of Interior’s action, leading to the 9th Circuit appeal and today’s decision denying a rehearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case has caused a split between environmental groups that support wilderness restoration at Point Reyes and leaders of the sustainable food movement, who praise Drakes Bay as a model operation. Both sides submitted “friend of the court” briefs during the Drakes Bay appeal. A group of local restaurateurs were among those who \u003ca href=\"http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/general/2013/04/03/13-15227_Drakes_Bay_amicus_brief.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">filed a brief\u003c/a> arguing that closing the operation “would have a broad, negative and immediate impact, on the local economy and the sustainable agriculture and food industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the school children of the workers who live in the housing units onsite, and, in the longer term, on food security and the U.S. balance of trade.”\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The case has become a cause celebrate of sorts for libertarian-leaning organizations, and Drakes has been supported by the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation, which \u003ca href=\"http://www.pacificlegal.org/cases#section=tab2\" target=\"_blank\">frequently sues\u003c/a> government agencies on behalf of businesses and individuals. Earlier on in the case, the issue was taken up by Cause of Action, an anti-government group led by a lawyer with ties to the Charles Koch Foundation. From Kelly O'Mara's \u003ca href=\"http://www.callawyer.com/clstory.cfm?eid=933766&wteid=933766_It%27s_Not_Just_About_the_Oysters\" target=\"_blank\">piece\u003c/a> last month for California Lawyer:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Accepting Cause of Action's help seemed sensible to Lunny at first, since it was free. But he ended the relationship soon after PBS \u003cem>NewsHour\u003c/em> aired a segment in May 2013 that mentioned the group's involvement. Lunny says his frustration was less about bad PR than the fact that Cause of Action had used his name in publicizing unrelated issues and in arguing for a newspaper to reveal unnamed sources who criticized the oyster farm in a story. But the group's involvement cemented Drakes Bay's position in the center of larger national debates over conservation, management of all types of federal land, and the limits of federal authority. It also made clear how important a precedent Lunny's case could set.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132379\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 384px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS1369_IMG_1902-lpr.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-132379\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS1369_IMG_1902-lpr-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"(Craig Miller/KQED)\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last year, state Sen. Ed Hernandez authored a series of bills making it possible for California optometrists, pharmacists and nurse-practitioners to \u003ca href=\"http://sd24.senate.ca.gov/news/2013-03-13-senator-hernandez-introduces-legislation-bridge-provider-gap\">expand the range of medical services they provide\u003c/a>. It would have allowed them to administer vaccines, among other things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have a huge capacity issue in the state of California,” the Los Angeles-area Democrat said. “And this is even pre-Affordable Care Act — only one-third of the counties meet the national average of primary-care physician-to-patient ratio.” He argued that giving more authority to optometrists and other professions would help more people get the treatment they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez would know — he’s a practicing optometrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said there’s nothing wrong with putting forward a bill that would expand the scope of his business. And according to California’s conflict-of-interest laws, he’s absolutely right. The way the regulations are written, California lawmakers are free to vote on, or even write, measures that affect the fields in which they work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez pointed out that he’s taken votes that hurt his practice, like a 2011 measure cutting Medi-Cal payments to providers. “My wife, when I told her about it, she said, ‘Well, why’d you do that? You just cut our pay by 10 percent.’ I said, ‘Well, we had to. We had to balance the budget.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>No One’s Declaring Conflicts\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez and his optometry practice are just one example of a broad trend within California’s Legislature. The Assembly and Senate are filled with practicing lawyers, real estate agents and business executives of various sorts. Four in 10 legislators bring in some sort of outside income, according to disclosure forms.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">‘Public officials are making decisions affecting millions, and sometimes billions, of dollars. We want to make sure they don’t have a personal stake different from the stake of the public in making these decisions.’\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>And California’s law says they have a conflict of interest only if they vote on a measure that directly affects their own company or firm. There’s no problem if the bill helps, say, every other optometrist, too. That being the case, it’s been years since a legislator followed the ethics law’s protocols and formally declared a conflict. The Assembly clerk and Senate secretary’s offices can’t remember the last time it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since three Democrats were suspended from the Senate for legal problems, ethics have been front and center in Sacramento. Scores of new bills are being proposed, and legislative staffers have even been going through extra ethics training. But reining in outside income doesn’t appear to be on the reform agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s mostly because California’s conflict-of-interest guidelines \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/to-vote-or-not-to-vote.aspx\">are on par with other states\u003c/a>. Other full-time legislatures \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/03/18/12313/conflicts-interest-run-rampant-state-legislatures\">allow outside income, too\u003c/a>. And California lawmakers need to disclose all their outside income each year, in more detail than many states require.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Stern co-authored California’s Political Reform Act and worked as the top lawyer at the Fair Political Practices Commission. He said there’s a reason why the state requires officials to provide that information. “Public officials are making decisions affecting millions — and sometimes billions — of dollars. And we want to make sure that they don’t have a personal stake different from the stake of the public in making these decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144680316&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said he’s satisfied with California’s current laws, but he’d like to see the state go a step further. He said the Legislature should follow the lead of Congress and the Los Angeles City Council, and ban members from holding any outside jobs. “Basically raise the pay to a pay that is commensurate to what they’re doing in office. And say, ‘That’s it,’ ” he said. “You have to be working full time for the public, and you cannot have any outside earned income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These second jobs have led to questions before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-01/news/mn-1225_1_willie-brown/2\">Assembly Speaker Willie Brown was criticized for earning millions of dollars in private law practice\u003c/a> and sometimes appointing clients to state boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top Democrat in the Senate today has worked for law firms, too. But President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said he has bent over backwards to avoid conflicts, to the detriment of his practice. “It was very, very difficult because of the time demands on the job that I have. And also, you know, I’m very sensitive to conflicts. And the notion of marketing and that sort of thing, when you’re an elected official, is just very difficult to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of potential conflicts goes beyond legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/20/local/me-disclosure20\">Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire\u003c/a> for accepting a magazine consulting gig in 2005. That led to a bill to end these side jobs for statewide officeholders, but the legislation never went anywhere. In fact, Treasurer Bill Lockyer has done outside legal work for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reform Groups Have Other Priorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much of a problem is this? Most elected officials aren’t actually clocking in at second jobs — they’re earning income from businesses in which they have longtime ownership stakes. And lawmakers argue their outside jobs give them valuable perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t exactly a groundswell to change the current set-up. Although Bob Stern wants to eliminate outside jobs, he pointed out there are larger problems to fix first.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are only a handful, or small percentage, of legislators who earn outside income that could be conflicts,” said Stern. “Almost every legislator earns campaign money from someone who wants something from government. And that, in my mind, is the bigger conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So even if recent scandals do lead to ethics reforms in state government, don’t expect this issue to be on the agenda.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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That being the case, it’s been years since a legislator followed the ethics law’s protocols and formally declared a conflict. The Assembly clerk and Senate secretary’s offices can’t remember the last time it happened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the weeks since three Democrats were suspended from the Senate for legal problems, ethics have been front and center in Sacramento. Scores of new bills are being proposed, and legislative staffers have even been going through extra ethics training. But reining in outside income doesn’t appear to be on the reform agenda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s mostly because California’s conflict-of-interest guidelines \u003ca href=\"http://www.ncsl.org/research/ethics/to-vote-or-not-to-vote.aspx\">are on par with other states\u003c/a>. Other full-time legislatures \u003ca href=\"http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/03/18/12313/conflicts-interest-run-rampant-state-legislatures\">allow outside income, too\u003c/a>. And California lawmakers need to disclose all their outside income each year, in more detail than many states require.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Stern co-authored California’s Political Reform Act and worked as the top lawyer at the Fair Political Practices Commission. He said there’s a reason why the state requires officials to provide that information. “Public officials are making decisions affecting millions — and sometimes billions — of dollars. And we want to make sure that they don’t have a personal stake different from the stake of the public in making these decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/144680316&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stern said he’s satisfied with California’s current laws, but he’d like to see the state go a step further. He said the Legislature should follow the lead of Congress and the Los Angeles City Council, and ban members from holding any outside jobs. “Basically raise the pay to a pay that is commensurate to what they’re doing in office. And say, ‘That’s it,’ ” he said. “You have to be working full time for the public, and you cannot have any outside earned income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These second jobs have led to questions before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early 1990s, \u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/1991-04-01/news/mn-1225_1_willie-brown/2\">Assembly Speaker Willie Brown was criticized for earning millions of dollars in private law practice\u003c/a> and sometimes appointing clients to state boards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The top Democrat in the Senate today has worked for law firms, too. But President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg said he has bent over backwards to avoid conflicts, to the detriment of his practice. “It was very, very difficult because of the time demands on the job that I have. And also, you know, I’m very sensitive to conflicts. And the notion of marketing and that sort of thing, when you’re an elected official, is just very difficult to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The issue of potential conflicts goes beyond legislators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://articles.latimes.com/2005/jul/20/local/me-disclosure20\">Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger came under fire\u003c/a> for accepting a magazine consulting gig in 2005. That led to a bill to end these side jobs for statewide officeholders, but the legislation never went anywhere. In fact, Treasurer Bill Lockyer has done outside legal work for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reform Groups Have Other Priorities\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how much of a problem is this? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By G.W. Schulz and Amanda Pike, The Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132174\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-132174\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RossMcNutt2-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ross McNutt views video footage of Compton. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">W\u003c/span>hen sheriff’s deputies in Compton noticed an increase in necklace snatchings from women walking through town, they turned to an unlikely source to help solve the crimes: a retired Air Force veteran named Ross McNutt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt and his Ohio-based company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.persistentsurveillance.com/\" target=\"_blank\">Persistent Surveillance Systems\u003c/a>, persuaded the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department to use his surveillance technology to monitor Compton’s streets from the air and track suspects from the moment the snatching occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The system, known as wide-area surveillance, is something of a time machine – the entire city is filmed and recorded in real time. Imagine Google Earth with a rewind button and the ability to play back the movement of cars and people as they scurry about the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We literally watched all of Compton during the time that we were flying, so we could zoom in anywhere within the city of Compton and follow cars and see people,” McNutt said. “Our goal was to basically jump to where reported crimes occurred and see what information we could generate that would help investigators solve the crimes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"e935a7f5a36a58f7efac3ca96fbdfd15\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt, who holds a doctorate in rapid product development, helped build wide-area surveillance to \u003ca href=\"http://www.armytimes.com/article/20120416/NEWS/204160317/System-gives-troops-360-degree-eye-sky\" target=\"_blank\">hunt down bombing suspects\u003c/a> in Iraq and Afghanistan. He decided that clusters of high-powered surveillance cameras attached to the belly of small civilian aircraft could be a game-changer in U.S. law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our whole system costs less than the price of a single police helicopter and costs less for an hour to operate than a police helicopter,” McNutt said. “But at the same time, it watches 10,000 times the area that a police helicopter could watch.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McNutt’s airborne cameras are just one part of a new digital movement in law enforcement. The Hollywood version of American policing is made up of darkened command centers where a wellspring of digital data about criminals always seems just a few clicks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, that fiction is inching closer to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emerging Technologies Could Revolutionize Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is rolling out a sprawling data complex that contains over 147 million mug shots and sets of fingerprints, many of which belong to people who are not criminals. Local law enforcement analysts are using surveillance centers to monitor video feeds and reported crimes minute by minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED teamed up to take an inside look at the emerging technologies that could revolutionize policing – and how intrusively the public is monitored by the government. The technology is forcing the public and law enforcement to answer a central question: When have police crossed the line from safer streets to expansive surveillance that threatens to undermine the nation’s constitutional values?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In one city, law enforcement officials don’t need to see your identification: They just need your face. Police officers in Chula Vista, near San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/facial-recognition-once-battlefield-tool-lands-san-diego-county-5502\">already have used mobile facial recognition technology\u003c/a> to confirm the identities of people they suspect of crimes. After using a tablet to capture the person’s image, an answer is delivered in eight seconds. (About 1 percent of the time, the system retrieves the wrong name, according to the manufacturer, FaceFirst.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chula Vista is now part of a larger trend in law enforcement to use unique biological markers like faces, palm prints, skin abnormalities and the iris of eyes to identify people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can lie about your name, you can lie about your date of birth, you can lie about your address,” said Officer Rob Halverson. “But tattoos, birthmarks, scars don’t lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI, meanwhile, is finalizing plans this year to make 130 million fingerprints digital and searchable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fingerprints belong to people who have not been not arrested but simply submitted their prints for background checks while seeking jobs. Civil libertarians worry that facial images for these individuals could be next. The FBI already maintains a collection of some 17 million mug shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This personal information is now housed in a West Virginia-based storage facility the size of two football fields containing row after row of blinking and buzzing server stacks. These machines are the heart of the FBI’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi\">Next Generation Identification\u003c/a> program, which seeks to make it easier for police officers and investigators around the nation to distinguish one human being from another based on biological traits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it potentially means is that we’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have so they don’t commit another crime,” said Jeremy Wiltz, acting assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such technology, he said, also could exonerate innocent people and keep them from being held in a jail cell for days or longer. Audits have been conducted to ensure Next Generation Identification isn’t accessed by local police for conducting inappropriate searches, Wiltz added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential for Misuse Troubles Civil Libertarians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, said she’s concerned the government will eventually collect and store face images like it does now with the tens of millions of fingerprints submitted by people seeking certain jobs. She’s worried such data will be merged with criminal records that are currently kept separate – resulting in innocent people being placed under suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the nation has a facial recognition database, and once facial recognition capabilities improve to the point that we can identify faces in a crowd, it will become possible for authorities to identify people as they move through society,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for wide-area surveillance, McNutt said that ground-based cameras offer higher resolutions and that his technology cannot zoom in on faces or other particular details. But cameras on the ground are limited in range, and a seemingly infinite number would be necessary to blanket an entire city. McNutt believes his technology will be good enough in a few years to cover twice as much area – perhaps as large as the entire city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132182 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM-640x358.png\" alt=\"Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"338\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the case of a Compton necklace-snatching, the suspects eventually drove out of camera range without being identified, said L.A. County sheriff’s Sgt. Doug Iketani, who supervised the project. He added that McNutt’s system can’t provide the kind of detailed, close-up images that would survive in court. But Iketani said the technology did give police useful leads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why have the people of Compton heard little about this experiment until now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system was kind of kept confidential from everybody in the public,” Iketani said. “A lot of people do have a problem with the eye in the sky, the Big Brother, so in order to mitigate any of those kinds of complaints, we basically kept it pretty hush-hush.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere in the Los Angeles area, police are facing similar challenges at a command center near downtown where law enforcement analysts observe a video surveillance feed aimed at the iconic Hollywood sign, which police say is sometimes targeted by vandals and is vulnerable to fires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Policing the Hollywood sign is one of many tasks of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lapdonline.org/september_2009/news_view/42863\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Police Department’s Real-Time Analysis and Critical Response Division\u003c/a> – looking not unlike other high-tech law enforcement centers that have sprung up around the country as part of a post-9/11 trend known as predictive or intelligence-led policing. The goal: speed up reaction times or, better yet, intercede before new crimes, including potential precursors to terrorism, occur.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center has access to 1,000 surveillance cameras spread across the city. Also available, through a feed to the center, are social media sites, news broadcasts and data captured by license-plate recognition devices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also a wall-mounted digital map of real-time reported crimes around Los Angeles that could provide analysts with valuable insight into when and where crimes are most likely to occur, where trends are emerging and where officers should be patrolling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many cities around the country, Los Angeles is grappling with unease from residents over thousands of networked cameras that can peer into many corners of our lives, often without us being fully aware of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The center’s commanding officer, Capt. John Romero, recognizes the concerns but equates them with public resistance to street lights in America’s earliest days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People thought that this is the government trying to see what we’re doing at night, to spy on us,” Romero said. “And so over time, things shifted, and now if you try to take down street lights in Los Angeles or Boston or anywhere else, people will say no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VkKeM-OK6g]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132136 alignleft\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/cirlogo-640x267.jpg\" alt=\"cirlogo\" width=\"221\" height=\"92\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story is part of a co-production by the independent, nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>, the country’s largest investigative reporting team, and KQED. For more, visit cironline.org. Schulz can be reached at \u003ca href=\"mailto:gwschulz@cironline.org\">gwschulz@cironline.org\u003c/a>. Pike can be reached at apike@cironline.org.\u003c/em> Also, watch both the documentary and a roundtable discussion, on \"State of Surveillance,\" Friday at 8 p.m. on KQED Public Television 9. You can hear the program on Sundays at 6 p.m. on KQED Public Radio 88.5 FM and watch on demand here anytime.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Hollywood version of American policing is made up of darkened command centers where a wellspring of digital data about criminals always seems just a few clicks away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In cities across the country, that fiction is inching closer to reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Emerging Technologies Could Revolutionize Policing\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is rolling out a sprawling data complex that contains over 147 million mug shots and sets of fingerprints, many of which belong to people who are not criminals. Local law enforcement analysts are using surveillance centers to monitor video feeds and reported crimes minute by minute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Center for Investigative Reporting and KQED teamed up to take an inside look at the emerging technologies that could revolutionize policing – and how intrusively the public is monitored by the government. The technology is forcing the public and law enforcement to answer a central question: When have police crossed the line from safer streets to expansive surveillance that threatens to undermine the nation’s constitutional values?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'We’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have.'\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>In one city, law enforcement officials don’t need to see your identification: They just need your face. Police officers in Chula Vista, near San Diego, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/facial-recognition-once-battlefield-tool-lands-san-diego-county-5502\">already have used mobile facial recognition technology\u003c/a> to confirm the identities of people they suspect of crimes. After using a tablet to capture the person’s image, an answer is delivered in eight seconds. (About 1 percent of the time, the system retrieves the wrong name, according to the manufacturer, FaceFirst.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chula Vista is now part of a larger trend in law enforcement to use unique biological markers like faces, palm prints, skin abnormalities and the iris of eyes to identify people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can lie about your name, you can lie about your date of birth, you can lie about your address,” said Officer Rob Halverson. “But tattoos, birthmarks, scars don’t lie.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI, meanwhile, is finalizing plans this year to make 130 million fingerprints digital and searchable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the fingerprints belong to people who have not been not arrested but simply submitted their prints for background checks while seeking jobs. Civil libertarians worry that facial images for these individuals could be next. The FBI already maintains a collection of some 17 million mug shots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This personal information is now housed in a West Virginia-based storage facility the size of two football fields containing row after row of blinking and buzzing server stacks. These machines are the heart of the FBI’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/fingerprints_biometrics/ngi\">Next Generation Identification\u003c/a> program, which seeks to make it easier for police officers and investigators around the nation to distinguish one human being from another based on biological traits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What it potentially means is that we’re able to catch bad guys faster, and we’re able to get them off the streets a lot faster with the technologies we have so they don’t commit another crime,” said Jeremy Wiltz, acting assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such technology, he said, also could exonerate innocent people and keep them from being held in a jail cell for days or longer. Audits have been conducted to ensure Next Generation Identification isn’t accessed by local police for conducting inappropriate searches, Wiltz added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Potential for Misuse Troubles Civil Libertarians\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Lynch, a senior staff attorney at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.eff.org/\">Electronic Frontier Foundation\u003c/a>, said she’s concerned the government will eventually collect and store face images like it does now with the tens of millions of fingerprints submitted by people seeking certain jobs. She’s worried such data will be merged with criminal records that are currently kept separate – resulting in innocent people being placed under suspicion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once the nation has a facial recognition database, and once facial recognition capabilities improve to the point that we can identify faces in a crowd, it will become possible for authorities to identify people as they move through society,” Lynch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for wide-area surveillance, McNutt said that ground-based cameras offer higher resolutions and that his technology cannot zoom in on faces or other particular details. But cameras on the ground are limited in range, and a seemingly infinite number would be necessary to blanket an entire city. McNutt believes his technology will be good enough in a few years to cover twice as much area – perhaps as large as the entire city of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132182\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 338px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM.png\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132182 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-09-at-5.22.31-PM-640x358.png\" alt=\"Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"338\" height=\"189\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sgt. Doug Iketani of the L.A. County Sheriff's Department. (Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the case of a Compton necklace-snatching, the suspects eventually drove out of camera range without being identified, said L.A. 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