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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. 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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. 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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. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_132299\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 399px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/ballot.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\" wp-image-132299\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/ballot.jpg\" alt=\"Ballot scanning machine, November 6, 2012. (Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\" width=\"399\" height=\"225\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ballot scanning machine, Nov. 6, 2012. (Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I did a double take when I first looked at the new Field Poll showing Republican \u003ca href=\"http://www.petesos.com/\">Pete Peterson\u003c/a> leading all candidates in the race for secretary of state with 30 percent of likely voters, followed by Democratic state Sen. \u003ca href=\"http://www.padilla4sofs.com/sign-up-g?mkwid=shBUZvehc&crid=37060329899&mp_kw=alex%20padilla&mp_mt=p&pdv=c\">Alex Padilla\u003c/a> from Los Angeles with 17 percent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It is very rare to see a GOP candidate at the top of any statewide poll in California. In the race for governor, by contrast, Jerry Brown pulls 57 percent to 17 percent for Republican Assemblyman Tim Donnelly. But then again, it \u003cem>is\u003c/em> still early. And the real leader in the secretary of state race is \"None of the Above,\" since 44 percent say they're undecided.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last Republican to win a statewide election here was Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2006, and before him the GOP Winner's Circle is -- well, you don't really have enough people to make a circle. So what gives this time?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Field Poll director Mark DiCamillo simply says \"it's mainly because most Republicans are coalescing around Peterson's candidacy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans make up a shrinking portion of the California electorate -- now less than 30 percent, right where Peterson's number is at. Padilla, on the other hand, is splitting the vote with others, including another Democrat, Derek Cressman.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Padilla actually benefited quite a bit from (Democrat) Leland Yee's withdrawal from the race,\" says DiCamillo, noting that until getting arrested in an FBI sting and dropping out, Yee was close behind Padilla in the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Padilla remains the most formidable of the Democrats in the race,\" says DiCamillo. \"There's a huge market of voters out there that he can still attempt to attract. I would say he has a greater upside potential to expand his base\" by getting Democrats and nonpartisan voters (now one-fifth of the electorate in California) to support him between now and November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One interesting note in the poll: Political insiders and journalists are well acquainted with another secretary of state candidate running as an \"independent\" candidate with no party preference: Dan Schnur. The ever quotable former-Republican-consultant-turned-academic pulls just 4 percent of the vote. It's the first time the Field Poll has ever measured support for a \"nonpartisan\" candidate for statewide office, according to DiCamillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dan doesn't have the opportunity to attract partisan voters because he has no party affiliation next to his name. That may actually be hindering his campaign a bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> still early. Peterson, who's Hollywood-handsome in a Clark Kent kind of way, could do well on TV but has no money -- less than $2,000 cash on hand in his latest campaign finance report. Schnur does better, having $313,300 in the bank, but they \u003cem>all\u003c/em> trail Padilla, who's sitting on $614,426.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one wild card is the ongoing FBI investigation in Sacramento. The public's approval of the Legislature has been dropping since scandals enveloped three Democratic state senators, including Yee. That can't help Alex Padilla. Then again, it may not matter because come election day it may be enough just to have a \"D\" next to your name on the ballot in this deeply blue state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing's for sure -- with California ranking 49th ahead of only Mississippi in a new Pew Charitable Trusts \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewstates.org/uploadedFiles/Flash_Library/PCS/Interactives/ElectionsPerformanceIndex/template.html#state-CA\">report\u003c/a> ranking state elections performance, the next secretary of state will have plenty to do.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Padilla actually benefited quite a bit from (Democrat) Leland Yee's withdrawal from the race,\" says DiCamillo, noting that until getting arrested in an FBI sting and dropping out, Yee was close behind Padilla in the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Padilla remains the most formidable of the Democrats in the race,\" says DiCamillo. \"There's a huge market of voters out there that he can still attempt to attract. I would say he has a greater upside potential to expand his base\" by getting Democrats and nonpartisan voters (now one-fifth of the electorate in California) to support him between now and November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One interesting note in the poll: Political insiders and journalists are well acquainted with another secretary of state candidate running as an \"independent\" candidate with no party preference: Dan Schnur. The ever quotable former-Republican-consultant-turned-academic pulls just 4 percent of the vote. It's the first time the Field Poll has ever measured support for a \"nonpartisan\" candidate for statewide office, according to DiCamillo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Dan doesn't have the opportunity to attract partisan voters because he has no party affiliation next to his name. That may actually be hindering his campaign a bit.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It \u003cem>is\u003c/em> still early. Peterson, who's Hollywood-handsome in a Clark Kent kind of way, could do well on TV but has no money -- less than $2,000 cash on hand in his latest campaign finance report. Schnur does better, having $313,300 in the bank, but they \u003cem>all\u003c/em> trail Padilla, who's sitting on $614,426.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The one wild card is the ongoing FBI investigation in Sacramento. The public's approval of the Legislature has been dropping since scandals enveloped three Democratic state senators, including Yee. That can't help Alex Padilla. Then again, it may not matter because come election day it may be enough just to have a \"D\" next to your name on the ballot in this deeply blue state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing's for sure -- with California ranking 49th ahead of only Mississippi in a new Pew Charitable Trusts \u003ca href=\"http://www.pewstates.org/uploadedFiles/Flash_Library/PCS/Interactives/ElectionsPerformanceIndex/template.html#state-CA\">report\u003c/a> ranking state elections performance, the next secretary of state will have plenty to do.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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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 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. 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(Jose Cabeza/AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Far fewer immigrants arrested by California law enforcement have been turned over to federal authorities for deportation since the state's Trust Act went into effect in January. The Trust Act prohibits local police from holding immigrants presumed to be undocumented for federal agents if the immigrants were arrested for minor crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of people held for possible deportation dropped by 44 percent during January and February, from 2,984 people to 1,660, according to an Associated Press survey of 15 California counties. Until now, California has accounted for a third of deportations under U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement's \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/secure-communities/\" target=\"_blank\">Secure Communities\u003c/a> program, which screens the fingerprints of arrestees for potential immigration violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I'm not surprised at all by the size of the drop,\" said Kevin Johnson, dean of the UC Davis School of Law and an immigration law expert. \"The concern with the federal government's removal programs has been that low-level criminal offenders have been caught up in the web of the criminal justice system, and are being deported for relatively minor crimes like driving without a license.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The San Francisco Sheriff's Department sent 96 percent fewer immigrants to federal authorities this year.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Since sheriff's departments are responsible for most bookings, the AP surveyed those agencies in 23 counties responsible for most of California's deportations under the program. Of the 15 departments that responded were four of the five largest in the state: Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and San Bernardino. Orange County could not provide complete 2013 data because officials there do not retain paperwork on this issue for more than 12 months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The degree to which counties are complying with the Trust Act appears to vary widely. The San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Department reported only a 3 percent drop, compared with a 28 percent decline in Los Angeles and a 58 percent decline in San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The biggest decline, 96 percent, was in San Francisco. Last September, city supervisors passed the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local-govt-politics/sf-supes-pass-ordinance-opposing-immigration-hold-/nZ6n8/\" target=\"_blank\">Due Process for All\u003c/a> law, which stopped city law enforcement from complying with Secure Communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some sheriffs in California have expressed concern that the new law is letting potentially violent offenders go. Alameda County Sheriff Greg Ahern is president of the California State Sheriffs' Association, which opposed the Trust Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Common sense will tell you people who are violating the law and taken into custody many times are responsible for unrelated crimes,\" Ahern said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Johnson said that it's hard to say whether people arrested for relatively minor infractions, like trespassing, are likely to become criminal offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the fear that some people have expressed is exaggerated and only loosely based to the facts,” Johnson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nationwide deportations increase\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/us/more-deportations-follow-minor-crimes-data-shows.html?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">a New York Times analysis\u003c/a> of internal government records shows that since President Barack Obama took office, two-thirds of deportation cases involve people who have committed minor infractions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>The demographics of those being removed today are not all that different from those removed over the years. Most are Mexican men under the age of 35. But many of their circumstances have changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The records show the largest increases were in deportations involving illegal immigrants whose most serious offense was listed as a traffic violation, including driving under the influence. Those cases more than quadrupled from 43,000 during the last five years of President George W. Bush’s administration to 193,000 during the five years Mr. Obama has been in office. In that same period, removals related to convictions for entering or re-entering the country illegally tripled under Mr. Obama to more than 188,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The Obama administration used arrests for small infractions to show that it was making large strides in deportation, Johnson told KQED's Mina Kim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The truth of the matter is quite different, and suggests that relatively small-time criminals have been caught up in the system,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Listen to more analysis:\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/143623072&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>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>* An earlier version of this post incorrectly stated that undocumented immigrants can now secure drivers licenses, in fact that law will take effect next year. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 12 p.m.\u003c/strong> Attorney Paul DeMeester says he no longer represents suspended state Sen. Leland Yee against federal charges filed in a wide-ranging corruption case that has rocked California's Democratic political establishment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DeMeester says Yee's new attorney is \u003ca href=\"http://www.mpbf.com/attorneys/lassart_james.php\" target=\"_blank\">James Lassart\u003c/a>. 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Yee is expected to face a formal grand jury indictment next week. After a wide-ranging investigation, the FBI claims it has Yee on tape promising to coordinate an arms deal and trade political favors in exchange for cash. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_131168\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-131168\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/04/RS2361_108330194-lpr-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 2013, Big Tech was the No.4 Big Spender on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas. (Saul Loeb/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201404020850/c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listen to the story on The California Report\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.eventbrite.com/directory?q=startup+event&loc=Washington%2C+DC\">delegation\u003c/a> of representatives from Silicon Valley start-ups is making the rounds in Washington, D.C., to press for patent reform legislation. Even in an election year, proponents are optimistic they can garner bipartisan support to tackle what many consider a cancer in high tech: \u003ca href=\"http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/441/when-patents-attack\">patent lawsuits\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Julie Samuels is executive director of the group organizing this week’s lobbying trip: \u003ca href=\"http://engine.is/\">Engine\u003c/a>. “The House of Representatives last December passed a bill, and the White House has already said it would sign it. And it looks like the Senate is hopefully going to pass a similar bill that will make this better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Engine goes to bat for small firms in tech — as opposed to, say, \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/about_us\">Fwd.us\u003c/a> a lobbying organization that’s garnered national attention with big names like Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Marissa Mayer of Yahoo and Bill Gates of Microsoft. Samuels says tech companies big and small share many of the same interests: patent reform, net neutrality, cybersecurity, copyrights, taxes and immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The list is growing, along with Silicon Valley’s clout in the nation’s capital. Sarah Bryner is research director at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/\">Center for Responsive Politics\u003c/a>, a campaign finance watchdog. She says that in 2013 Big Tech was the \u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\">#4 Big Spende\u003c/a>r on lobbying, behind Big Health, Big Insurance and Big Oil & Gas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Industry\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Pharmaceuticals/Health Products\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$225,715,937\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Insurance\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$153,116,559\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oil & Gas\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$144,682,462\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>Computers/Internet\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>\u003cstrong>$140,297,606\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Electric Utilities\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$129,618,239\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>TV/Movies/Music\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$117,972,447\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Business Associations\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$108,371,903\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/top.php?indexType=i&showYear=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. (Credit: Fwd.us/Lucas Waldron)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Last week, Julie Samuels, from Engine, moderated yet another panel discussion in San Francisco on the challenge of expanding the labor pool in tech. Right off the bat, she acknowledged the argument that companies should do more to find and cultivate homegrown talent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really hard to find good engineers, and there are two sides of this. It’s the businesses who can’t find people, but it’s also the people who want to be there and can’t get there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event was held at a start-up incubator called \u003ca href=\"http://www.parisoma.com/\">PariSoma\u003c/a>, and organized by Fwd.us. The crowd was young, hip and international. Mexican native Miguel Cervera is a software engineer at \u003ca href=\"@MiguelCervera\">Twitter\u003c/a>. Over sliders and beer, the 23-year-old expressed distress over the lack of movement on immigration reform.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would like to see for the people to stop thinking that we are coming here to steal jobs,” Cervera said. “As an immigrant, that’s how I feel, that –- maybe not here in the city, the city is really open in that aspect — but in other places, I feel like if I am Mexican, and I am coming here, they think I am here to steal some other U.S. citizens’ jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even outside Silicon Valley, American opinion may be changing faster than Cervera realizes. A February bipartisan \u003ca href=\"http://www.fwd.us/poll_support_immigration_reform\">poll\u003c/a> that Fwd.us likes to quote found a thousand likely general election voters nationwide overwhelmingly support immigration reform. Whatever happens in D.C. – or doesn’t – Silicon Valley money is working hard to keep immigration reform near the top of the legislative agenda. Patent reform, however, could graduate from the Senate Judiciary Committee as early as this month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Since 1998, which is the earliest year that I have data for, the industry has increased their lobbying by 258 percent, and that’s more than double the rate at which the lobbying industry as a whole has increased their activity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley has been lobbying in Washington, D.C., for a half-century now. \u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">Hewlett-Packard\u003c/a>, one of the first major Valley firms\u003ca href=\"http://www8.hp.com/us/en/hp-information/about-hp/history/overview.html\">,\u003c/a> was a military contractor. One of its co-founders, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Packard\">David Packard\u003c/a>, served in the Defense Department during the Nixon administration. Bryner says the \u003cem>kinds\u003c/em> of tech companies that \u003cem>top\u003c/em> the list of big spenders have changed as the industry has changed over the years: from a focus on hardware, to software, to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You still have traditional tech companies like IBM and Oracle and HP all at the top. But now, you see not necessarily newer — but newer to the game — players like Yahoo, and Facebook is climbing, and Twitter just hired a lobbyist this last year.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2013, Google was No.1 by a wide margin, having spent $14 million on lobbying.\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tableizer-table\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr class=\"tableizer-firstrow\">\n\u003cth>Client/Parent\u003c/th>\n\u003cth>Total\u003c/th>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Google Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$14,060,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Microsoft Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$10,490,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Oracle Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$7,190,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Hewlett-Packard\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,921,692\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Facebook Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$6,430,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>IBM Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,950,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Entertainment Software Assn\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$5,210,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Intel Corp\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$4,393,750\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Amazon.com\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,456,831\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd>Apple Inc\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd>$3,370,000\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003c/tbody>\n\u003c/table>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/indusclient.php?id=B12&year=2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">See the full report.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google actually is one of the few companies that hired a former member of Congress on their own staff to do lobbying,” Bryner notes. “Most companies that hire [former] members of Congress do so using lobbying firms based in D.C., but Google \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/business/susan-molinari-adds-to-googles-political-firepower.html?pagewanted=all\">hired Susan Molinari\u003c/a> of New York from their own payroll. And that’s unusual.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That said, all the big tech companies hire professional schmoozers, including former politicians, to cultivate relationships. They offer advice on bills and on anything else of interest to industry – like regulations and government contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone sort of thinks of lobbying as sort of men in suits talking to Congress people in the hallways,” Bryner says, “but there’s a lot of lobbying of the administration. Including the White House. Even though President Obama has sort of made it a policy to not invite lobbyists to the White House, lobbying of the presidency has increased in the last several years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last several years, it’s become increasingly difficult to get legislation through Congress. Individually and through groups, tech titans have spent a lot of money trying to get comprehensive immigration reform passed -– to no avail. But they’re still spending, holding private fundraisers here in Northern California for key Democrats –- and Republicans –- from all over the country. Just a couple of weeks ago, House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201403190850/a\">paid a visit to the Bay Area\u003c/a> for the latest in a series of private fundraisers put on by TechNet, a bipartisan network of tech executives.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130989\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/31/silicon-valley-the-4-lobbying-force-in-washington-dc/img_6883/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-130989\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-130989 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/IMG_6883-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Attendees at a recent Fwd.us panel discussion fortify themselves for a long wait on immigration reform in Washington, D.C. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130741\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 540px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/9452_transform.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/9452_transform.jpg\" alt=\"State Senator Leland Yee (Adithya Sambamurthy/ The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" class=\"size-full wp-image-130741\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Senator Leland Yee (Adithya Sambamurthy/ The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Mina Kim and Grace Rubenstein\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fallout continues after Wednesday's arrest of State Senator Leland Yee on corruption charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee's lawyer, Paul De Meester, announced Thursday that the San Francisco legislator is quitting his campaign for secretary of state. And U.S. senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer also called for Yee to step down from his state Senate post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An FBI affidavit more than 100 pages long outlines the allegations against Yee and 25 others in great detail, including Yee's request for campaign contributions in exchange for facilitating a meeting with a gun trafficker and his accepting tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for introductions or calls to high-profile lawmakers. Yee has been charged with six counts of depriving the public of honest services and one count of conspiracy to traffic in guns without a license. (Check out the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/03/26/a-reporters-guide-to-affidavit-on-leland-yee/\">annotated guide\u003c/a> to the affidavit by KQED's Scott Detrow.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much of the FBI's evidence comes from sting operations with undercover agents -- an approximate version of an approach that will be fresh in the minds of those who saw the film \"American Hustle.\" Dramatic as it is on screen, will that kind of evidence-gathering hold up well in court?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Law professor Robert Weisberg, who co-directs the university's Criminal Justice Center, said it most likely will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/141782964&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Not all of it has to hold up when there's this much,\" he said. There are still lots of dots to be connected and witnesses to be vetted, he added, \"but when you have this much in a federal affidavit -- and this affidavit is remarkably long and detailed -- then the U.S. attorney has a right to be pretty confident that she can get a lot of convictions on a lot of counts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What about entrapment? Weisberg said entrapment claims aren't likely to scuttle the case, as undercover agents (and here the \"American Hustle\" comparison ends) typically get involved only \u003cem>after\u003c/em> the FBI finds indications that an official is \"open for business.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The most serious charge carries a maximum 20-year prison sentence. According to his lawyer, Yee plans to plead not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/F180097365.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/F180097365-640x453.jpg\" alt=\"California's Department of Public Health has been under scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the state's five developmental centers. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-130703\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California's Department of Public Health has been under scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the state's five developmental centers. (Adithya Sambamurthy/The Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>By Rachael Bale\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is known in public records as Client 98, a disabled woman living at the Lanterman Developmental Center, a state-run board-and-care facility in Los Angeles County that houses roughly 100 men and women with disorders such as cerebral palsy and severe autism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the morning of Nov. 6, 2012, an aide was helping Client 98 from the shower to the bed when the aide noticed drops of blood on the floor. A health services specialist found that the woman had a tear in her genital area. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An on-site physician examined Client 98, whose age was not included in public records, and concluded that someone might have sexually assaulted her. She was taken to the hospital for a full examination. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was some type of blunt force trauma, but I cannot tell what,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p121/a150083\">said a nurse\u003c/a> who examined her, according to public records. The nurse confirmed an assault had occurred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The unsolved case of Client 98 was in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/programs/LnC/Pages/DevelopmentalCenterActions.aspx\">reports\u003c/a> by the California Department of Public Health documenting life inside Lanterman Developmental Center and another state board-and-care facility, the Fairview Developmental Center in Orange County. Totaling more than 500 pages, these reports offer a dispiriting glimpse into alleged violence and other misconduct harming severely developmentally disabled residents in these two facilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">The facility’s emergency notification system went off: code blue -- patient in need of resuscitation.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The violations include suspicious deaths, poor treatment and improper supervision. Inspectors visiting Lanterman in September, for example, recorded incidents of staff giving \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p86/a9\">unnecessary drugs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p93/a5\">providing incontinence care in view of others\u003c/a> and inadequately supervising residents, during which times one person \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p111/a8\">assaulted another with a wooden stick\u003c/a> and another was suspected of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p109/a7\">ingesting foreign objects\u003c/a>, among other incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state inspectors, who complete the compliance surveys on behalf of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, focused on about 30 residents at the facilities, which together house more than 400 residents. Although the reports are public, the names and other identifying information about patients were kept confidential for privacy reasons. The surveys occur no more than 15.9 months apart, according to federal guidelines. On average, they occur 12 months apart, according to a state Department of Public Health spokesman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Department of Public Health, which inspects the state’s five developmental centers, and the state Department of Developmental Services, which runs them, have been under intense scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the facilities, which collectively house more than 1,300 men and women. A \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/broken-shield\">series of reports\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found the developmental centers’ on-site police force, the Office of Protective Services, has failed to conduct thorough investigations into claims of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they're finding all of these problems at all of these facilities now really suggests they have not been doing thorough survey investigations over a number of years at these facilities,” said Leslie Morrison, director of the investigations unit at Disability Rights California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, a spokesman for the health department said all surveys are conducted according to a process laid out by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “Each survey is dynamic, and findings from surveys stand independently,” Corey Egel said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since December 2012, federal regulators have penalized all four of California's large developmental centers, located in Sonoma, Orange, Los Angeles and Tulare counties. A fifth, smaller developmental center in Riverside County was found to have compliance violations in 2012, but it faced no state or federal penalties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the health department began removing Medicaid funding for Fairview, Lanterman and the Porterville Developmental Center in the Central Valley for failing the compliance surveys, but recent agreements between the Department of Developmental Services and the California Department of Public Health to improve conditions halted the decertification process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Lungren, a spokeswoman for the Department of Developmental Services, said in a written statement that the facilities “responded to each incident noted and developed plans of correction immediately to provide the necessary care and services, and to address any system issues.” In addition, Lungren said independent reviewers are expected to start visiting the facilities in April to “examine the root cause of the deficiencies” and offer an improvement plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Client 12 'refused to move her legs' for two days. It turned out that she had a broken neck.\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The state has eight enforcement actions pending against Lanterman and Fairview, but neither facility paid any fines in 2013. And after agreeing to the plans of correction, neither faced sanctions for failing the surveys. Had the Medicare decertification actions for Lanterman, Fairview and Porterville gone through, California taxpayers would have been on the hook for about $4.1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of Client 98, the investigation was handed over the day after the assault to the California Highway Patrol, which has jurisdiction over potentially criminal cases that occur at Lanterman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A CHP investigator interviewed all four staff members who had contact with the client the night of the incident. But after DNA tests returned negative, the highway patrol concluded the investigation nine months after the assault occurred. The primary suspect, an aide who was in charge of the shift on the night the client was injured, died of an unspecified medical condition during the course of the investigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found little evidence that the Office of Protective Services had followed up with its own internal investigation as required. It was unclear whether it had tracked down other clients with whom the suspected aide had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OPS Commander was unable to provide a clear and concise answer, stating that it might have been documented in the report,” the inspectors \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p149/a4\">wrote\u003c/a>. The commander \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p148/a3\">suggested\u003c/a> at one point that the injury could have been a result of a loose arm on a chair, according to the compliance survey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to failing to protect a client from sexual assault, Lanterman was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a150079\">cited\u003c/a> for neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 5, 2013 – about two months after the suspected sexual assault – another Lanterman resident, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a4\">Client 97\u003c/a>, lay down for a nap. The afternoon nap was out of character, but the aide assigned to monitor this resident at all times nonetheless left the room after a few minutes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 10 minutes later, the facility’s emergency notification system went off: code blue – patient in need of resuscitation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aide returned to the room and began CPR. More staff arrived to help. Paramedics came soon after. But by 5:15 p.m., the code was canceled. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Client 97 was dead. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coincidentally, a surveyor from the Department of Public Health was on-site that day to conduct a compliance inspection. The surveyor noticed that Client 97 was supposed to be on enhanced supervision, so the surveyor and another employee went to check on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We found Client 97 in his bed, laying on his side,” the surveyor \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p59/a150080\">wrote\u003c/a> in the inspection report. He had no pulse. “I called a code and 911.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eight months later, the health department found that this incident – and several others relating to lack of supervision – put the Lanterman Developmental Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a5\">on track\u003c/a> to lose its Medicaid funding. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found serious problems at the Fairview Developmental Center in Costa Mesa. 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It is unclear or unknown exactly what caused the neck fracture, but inspectors noted her \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p91/a150138\">worn-out\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p92/a150139\">cracked\u003c/a> helmet and heard from staff members who \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p96/a150116\">said\u003c/a> she had complained of back pain at least a week before the paralysis began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the resident first “refused to move,” several sets of X-rays failed to reveal any injuries. 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Inspectors visiting Lanterman in September, for example, recorded incidents of staff giving \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p86/a9\">unnecessary drugs\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p93/a5\">providing incontinence care in view of others\u003c/a> and inadequately supervising residents, during which times one person \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p111/a8\">assaulted another with a wooden stick\u003c/a> and another was suspected of \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p109/a7\">ingesting foreign objects\u003c/a>, among other incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state inspectors, who complete the compliance surveys on behalf of the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, focused on about 30 residents at the facilities, which together house more than 400 residents. Although the reports are public, the names and other identifying information about patients were kept confidential for privacy reasons. The surveys occur no more than 15.9 months apart, according to federal guidelines. On average, they occur 12 months apart, according to a state Department of Public Health spokesman. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the Department of Public Health, which inspects the state’s five developmental centers, and the state Department of Developmental Services, which runs them, have been under intense scrutiny for overlooking obvious cases of abuse at the facilities, which collectively house more than 1,300 men and women. A \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/broken-shield\">series of reports\u003c/a> from The Center for Investigative Reporting found the developmental centers’ on-site police force, the Office of Protective Services, has failed to conduct thorough investigations into claims of abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that they're finding all of these problems at all of these facilities now really suggests they have not been doing thorough survey investigations over a number of years at these facilities,” said Leslie Morrison, director of the investigations unit at Disability Rights California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, a spokesman for the health department said all surveys are conducted according to a process laid out by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. “Each survey is dynamic, and findings from surveys stand independently,” Corey Egel said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since December 2012, federal regulators have penalized all four of California's large developmental centers, located in Sonoma, Orange, Los Angeles and Tulare counties. A fifth, smaller developmental center in Riverside County was found to have compliance violations in 2012, but it faced no state or federal penalties. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, the health department began removing Medicaid funding for Fairview, Lanterman and the Porterville Developmental Center in the Central Valley for failing the compliance surveys, but recent agreements between the Department of Developmental Services and the California Department of Public Health to improve conditions halted the decertification process. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nancy Lungren, a spokeswoman for the Department of Developmental Services, said in a written statement that the facilities “responded to each incident noted and developed plans of correction immediately to provide the necessary care and services, and to address any system issues.” In addition, Lungren said independent reviewers are expected to start visiting the facilities in April to “examine the root cause of the deficiencies” and offer an improvement plan. \u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">Client 12 'refused to move her legs' for two days. 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The primary suspect, an aide who was in charge of the shift on the night the client was injured, died of an unspecified medical condition during the course of the investigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inspectors also found little evidence that the Office of Protective Services had followed up with its own internal investigation as required. It was unclear whether it had tracked down other clients with whom the suspected aide had contact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The OPS Commander was unable to provide a clear and concise answer, stating that it might have been documented in the report,” the inspectors \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p149/a4\">wrote\u003c/a>. The commander \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p148/a3\">suggested\u003c/a> at one point that the injury could have been a result of a loose arm on a chair, according to the compliance survey. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to failing to protect a client from sexual assault, Lanterman was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a150079\">cited\u003c/a> for neglect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 4:30 p.m. Jan. 5, 2013 – about two months after the suspected sexual assault – another Lanterman resident, known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068159-lanterman-developmental-center-survey-1of-2.html#document/p58/a4\">Client 97\u003c/a>, lay down for a nap. 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