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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 Attorney Paul DeMeester says he no longer represents suspended state Sen.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. Outside the federal courthouse in San Francisco Monday, DeMeester asked why it took the FBI three years to make the arrest, saying the time lag raises questions about the amount of money spent on the investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It also raises the question of whether the government did not think that they had a case they could make, until towards the end the agents started pushing this idea of the arms dealing,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yee remains free on $500,000 bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the FBI searched an office at the state Legislature \"occasionally used by a staff member of Yee’s who normally works in his district office,\" the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2014/04/01/6287550/fbi-returns-to-sacramento-to-search.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sacramento Bee\u003c/a> said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>Meanwhile, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/yees-district-offices-to-remain-open-despite-senate-suspension/Content?oid=2751976\" target=\"_blank\">Examiner reports\u003c/a> today that Yee's staff will continue to act as liaison to public agencies for District 8 constituents, who live in San Francisco and San Mateo counties.\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>Yee's Senate seat will be eliminated later this year, a result of redistricting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Jackson\u003cem>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal magistrate said Tuesday he believes Keith Jackson, also charged in the case, can be safely released from jail if he can post bond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_130511\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-130511 \" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2014/03/YeeOffice300.jpg\" alt=\"A California Highway Patrol officer and other officials stand outside Sen. 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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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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. 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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_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. 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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. 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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. In fact, they noted Fairview had accumulated more violations between surveys in May and August of 2013, ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p6/a2\">verbal abuse\u003c/a> to restricting \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p38/a3\">access to the telephone\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p39/a4\">recreational activities\u003c/a> to not being alert about \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p8/a150147\">unexplained injuries\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one illustrative case, Client 12 “refused to move her legs” for two days. It turned out that she had a broken neck and needed surgery. Doctors also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p96/a9\">found\u003c/a> a broken rib, a bruise on her neck and a blood clot under her scalp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surgery was the culmination of about a month of unexplained bruises and a hard fall after a seizure. 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. However, as the radiologist later \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p93/a150114\">told\u003c/a> inspectors, several vertebrae in her neck could not be scanned because of the placement of her shoulder. He recommended a CT scan, but Client 12 returned to Fairview without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two days of being unable to move her legs, she received a CT scan. It showed her broken neck, as well as a broken right rib. Client 12 needed surgery. She is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p29/a151211\">paralyzed and requires a breathing tube\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanterman and Fairview continue to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter Ryan Gabrielson contributed to this story. It 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>\u003cstrong>This story was produced by the independent, nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, the country’s largest investigative reporting team. For more, visit cironline.org. Bale can be reached at rbale@cironline.org.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. In fact, they noted Fairview had accumulated more violations between surveys in May and August of 2013, ranging from \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p6/a2\">verbal abuse\u003c/a> to restricting \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p38/a3\">access to the telephone\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p39/a4\">recreational activities\u003c/a> to not being alert about \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068161-fairview-developmental-center-survey-2-of-3.html#document/p8/a150147\">unexplained injuries\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In one illustrative case, Client 12 “refused to move her legs” for two days. It turned out that she had a broken neck and needed surgery. Doctors also \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p96/a9\">found\u003c/a> a broken rib, a bruise on her neck and a blood clot under her scalp.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The surgery was the culmination of about a month of unexplained bruises and a hard fall after a seizure. 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. However, as the radiologist later \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p93/a150114\">told\u003c/a> inspectors, several vertebrae in her neck could not be scanned because of the placement of her shoulder. He recommended a CT scan, but Client 12 returned to Fairview without one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two days of being unable to move her legs, she received a CT scan. It showed her broken neck, as well as a broken right rib. Client 12 needed surgery. She is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1068163-fairview-developmental-center-survey-1-of-3.html#document/p29/a151211\">paralyzed and requires a breathing tube\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lanterman and Fairview continue to operate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Reporter Ryan Gabrielson contributed to this story. It was edited by Robert Salladay and copy edited by Nikki Frick and Christine Lee.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The program is already operating on less than half its former budget this year – about $850,000 — with bridge funds. Next year’s budget would be under $500,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This has been a very difficult process for all of us,” Superintendent Donald Evans said. “This is a nationally recognized program. But that was when we had $2 million. We can no longer retain that type of program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts affect cooking and gardening classes at every school in the district, except King Middle School, where the garden is operated under separate funding by the non-profit Edible Schoolyard Project, founded by Alice Waters of Chez Panisse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their long discussion, the board members appeared to agree that the current BUSD program needs to eliminate its cooking classes for now and offer limited gardening classes. The latest proposal called for gardening classes for pre-kindergarten through grade 7 (eliminating grades 8-12). However, board members said they’d also like to fund the garden at Berkeley Technical Academy (which is shared by the Independent Study students), and that will be added to the proposal the board is expected to pass Wednesday, March 26.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even at a reduced cost of $485,000 for the coming year, with only $178,000 requested in new funding, the board members were very concerned about whether the budget could accommodate the outlay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m struggling with this,” board member Karen Hemphill said. “We’re having a lot of things come to the board, piecemeal, that are all a priority, that all have their supporters. Nobody here doesn’t love this program.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board will be committing to funding only one year right now. Board members recognized that a longer term financial commitment is probably better for attracting major donors. However, with changes in school funding this coming year (the new \u003ca href=\"http://www.cde.ca.gov/fg/aa/lc/\" target=\"_blank\">Local Control Funding Formula\u003c/a> from the state), the district is still sorting out priorities for any new monies it gets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members discussed allowing individual PTAs to raise funds supporting cooking classes in their own schools. Hemphill was initially opposed, saying it would create inequalities between the schools. But by the end of the discussion, the board members seemed to agree that if a principal signed off, they were fine with PTA-funded cooking classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another possibility for the future is involvement from the Edible Schoolyard Project which has offered to help run BUSD’s middle school cooking and gardening program once a blueprint for sustainability is in place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board president Josh Daniels said he is hoping that \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2014/03/14/berkeley-likes-taxing-soda-but-support-for-parks-pools-lags/\" target=\"_blank\">a proposed city tax on sugar-sweetened beverages\u003c/a> (not just soda) for November’s election, will help fund the cooking and gardening program. The tax — which the City Council has not yet decided to put on the ballot — would bring in an estimated $1.5 million a year, say supporters. That’s less than the $2 million cost of the full cooking and gardening program, and it’s unlikely all the proceeds from the tax would go to the program. A further hurdle is that any funding for the cooking and gardening program would have to be re-approved annually by the city council, if, as expected, the tax is a general tax (which would only require a 50% vote to pass). A special tax, which would segregate the funds for specific uses, requires a two-thirds vote to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Starting March 26 the board moves its meeting location to 2020 Bonar St. Meetings will no longer take place at 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way. 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