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If you’re a healthy-living type, your home-buyer happiness may be gone in a puff of smoke.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now California Assemblyman Mark Levine, D-Marin, is trying to address that problem with a statewide ban on smoking in multiunit housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What would the bill do?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_746&sess=CUR&house=B&author=levine\">AB 746, \u003c/a>currently in the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee, would ban smoking in “any residential property containing two or more units with one or more shared walls, floors, ceilings, or ventilation systems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be one of the toughest smoking laws in the country, and affect some 12 million Californians, Michael Krasny explained on KQED’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201303130900\">Forum\u003c/a> Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is the bill being proposed?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we sent our children to school, we send them to a smoke-free environment,” said Levine on the show. “When we go to work we have protections because of state law to work in a smoke-free environment. 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So the one thing I would like to say is if you are considering buying an apartment or a condo be very careful who you are buying next to.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>That point of view is shared by most people in multiunit housing, said Levine. 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"content": "\u003cp>You can eat shellfish in any month with an “r” in it, right? Well, just consider this the month of “Mach.” According to the California Department of Public Health, mussels, clams and whole scallops on Marin County beaches contain toxins right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/03/04/california-warns-against-shell-fish-gathered-from-marin/mussels/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-90689\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/03/mussels.jpg\" alt=\"mussels\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-90689\">\u003c/a>It’s still safe to eat commercially produced shellfish from the county, because shellfish from certified harvesters and dealers are subject to frequent testing. Just forget about prying a bushel of mussels off the rocks for your own dinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While dangerous levels of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins have only been detected in mussels, clams and scallops may also pose a health risk, the agency says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warning adds to the annual mussel quarantine that was extended on October 31, 2012, for Del Norte and Humboldt counties and remains in effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what happens to you if you eat a toxic mussel, according to the health department:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>PSP toxins affect the central nervous system, producing a tingling around the mouth and fingertips within a few minutes to a few hours after eating toxic shellfish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These symptoms are typically followed by loss of balance, lack of muscular coordination, slurred speech and difficulty swallowing. In severe poisonings, complete muscular paralysis and death from asphyxiation can occur. Cooking does not destroy the toxin.\n\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>You can learn more form the CDPH’s toll-free “Shellfish Information Line” at (800) 553-4133.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or visit the CDPH Marine Biotoxins-Mussels \u003ca title=\"\" href=\"http://www.cdph.ca.gov/Pages/MusselQuarantineFAQ.aspx\">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Web page.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>by Aaron Glantz, Shane Shifflett, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/despite-va-pledge-improve-more-veterans-face-long-wait-benefits-4172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center For Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for its growing backlog of disability benefits claims, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last July set itself a goal: By year’s end, 40 percent of veterans would wait no more than four months for an answer on compensation claims for conditions as serious as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88621\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/08/despite-va-pledge-to-improve-more-veterans-face-long-wait-for-benefits/veterans-cir-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88621\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88621\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Veterans-CIR-300x199.gif\" alt=\"Army vet Michael Grabski and his wife, Sandra, search real estate websites in their Napa apartment. 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A Center for Investigative Reporting analysis shows the ranks of veterans facing long waits increased by 18,000 since July 11, when the agency’s undersecretary for benefits, Allison Hickey, told reporters that the delays were unacceptable and pledged that the backlog would begin to shrink “right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early January, the total number of veterans waiting for all claims had dipped slightly but remained above 900,000, with 630,000 – 70 percent – waiting longer than four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Informed of the missed deadline, VA spokesman Steve Westerfeld amended the goal: The agency, he said in an email, now expects to turn the corner in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet two initiatives to reduce the logjam have failed to produce results so far, according to a CIR analysis of VA data. Four years after it was widely touted, a $537 million computer system has successfully processed 75 claims. And an effort to offload claims from the busiest offices has overloaded offices that previously had been performing well. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans groups are outraged and argue it is time for President Barack Obama to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is being held accountable? Who’s being fired? What change is being made?” said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “We’ve been patient for a long time and to hear, ‘Be patient for a while longer’ when you’re a disabled veteran is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Informed of the missed deadline, the VA amended the goal: The agency said it now expects to turn the corner in 2014.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are a few bright spots. In Northern California, where a report by The Bay Citizen – now part of the Center for Investigative Reporting – touched off congressional outrage, nearly 5,000 fewer veterans have been waiting for more than four months. The VA’s Oakland office closed in June while its staff was retrained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer veterans also are waiting in other areas where media outlets picked up CIR’s coverage, including Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Waco, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many factors no doubt play a role. In an interview, Diana Rubens, the VA’s deputy undersecretary for field operations, agreed that offices in those areas had received extra attention from Washington, but said she wasn’t sure if it was the result of media scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coincidence?” she said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an anecdotal basis, however, shining the spotlight on individual claimsmade a difference. 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That same day, the VA transferred $39,075 in back pay to her bank account.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The same week Army veteran Michael Grabski was featured in a story on \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/story/veterans-disability-claims-buried/\">delays at the Oakland office\u003c/a>, the veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan received a call from a VA official who expedited his 2-year-old claim for post-traumatic stress disorder and a knee injury sustained during a patrol in Afghanistan. Grabski subsequently received two retroactive benefits checks totaling $45,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It was a game changer,” he said of the story. After receiving his benefits, Grabski proposed to his longtime girlfriend and used a portion of the money to pay for their wedding at the Marines’ Memorial Club in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple is house hunting in Napa. Grabski’s $1,628 monthly disability check, coupled with his wife’s salary as a warehouse manager, provides enough regular income for the couple to qualify for a home loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After waiting so long, I feel like the next phase of my life has begun,” Grabski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubens acknowledged that the agency gave special attention to individual veterans whose problems were exposed in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an unfortunate way that things have had to get done recently,” she said. In the future, she added, the VA aspires to process claims quickly “so you don’t have to make that phone call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positive outcomes are the exception, however, not the rule. Between July and December, the average delay veterans across the nation faced increased by two weeks, to 273 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Center for Investigative Reporting: Chronic Errors on VA Disability Claims (Nov 2012)\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/QW9Biy76gBQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite shrinking backlogs in California, veterans there waited about five months longer by December than they had in July. Veterans filing claims with the Los Angeles office now face the longest delays in the nation – nearly 17 months on average –while Northern California veterans filing in Oakland wait an average of 14 months. More than 80 percent of veterans in both parts of the state wait more than four months. In San Diego, veterans wait an average of about 11 months for a decision, with 68 percent facing delays the VA considers unacceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait times vary dramatically across the country, offering the VA the potential to shuffle the deck a bit. Data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows that in the fiscal year that ended in September, the VA transferred nearly 47,000 claims, including 1,800 mailed out of Oakland in the months following CIR’s coverage of problems at that office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the VA’s numbers, most of the offices experiencing a decline in inventory have been sending claims out, while those where the backlog is increasing have been receiving large numbers of those shifted claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Muskogee, Okla., regional office, which has received the bulk of claims transferred by Oakland, the number of veterans waiting more than four months increased by about 4,500. 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On July 8, 2009, after a long battle with post-traumatic stress disorder, Jack Cornelius shot himself in the head in their Hinton, Okla., home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How many thousands of men have been buried with no questions asked or demanded from the VA?” she asked. “It makes me sick to think about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criticism of the VA also is coming from official circles. In mid-January, the Government Accountability Office issued a report saying the agency lacked “sound planning” and had no comprehensive plan to reduce the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its written response to the audit, John Gingrich, the VA’s chief of staff, said the agency generally agrees with the GAO’s conclusions but argued that a series of reforms, including computerization of the claims process, called the Veterans Benefits Management System, will allow the agency to decide nearly all veterans’ compensation claims within four months by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet four years after the VA pledged the technology upgrade, computer systems have been deployed at 18 of the 58 regional offices. Even at the offices that have received computers, more than 90 percent of disability claims remain on paper. Of the 24,588 claims entered into the system between October and January, 75 had been completed by year’s end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the first four offices to pilot the system – Salt Lake City; Providence, R.I.; Fort Harrison, Mont.; and Wichita, Kan. – CIR found the number of veterans waiting more than four months has grown since the VA undersecretary’s July press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday, the VA’s independent inspector general released a report stating that the computer system, which so far has cost taxpayers more than a half-billion dollars, still had not been adequately tested and could not fully perform the seven key tasks that claims processors must perform to get veterans their benefits.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubens said that “the usability” of the computer system was improved during a series of tweaks in 2012 and that its use, and effectiveness, is poised to take off during the coming year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in Washington, observers are increasingly skeptical.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All I see are promises,” said Rep. 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"description": "by Aaron Glantz, Shane Shifflett, Center For Investigative Reporting Under fire for its growing backlog of disability benefits claims, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last July set itself a goal: By year’s end, 40 percent of veterans would wait no more than four months for an answer on compensation claims for conditions as serious as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Instead, things got worse. A Center for Investigative Reporting analysis shows the ranks of veterans facing long waits increased by 18,000 since July 11, when the agency’s undersecretary for benefits, Allison Hickey, told reporters that the delays",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>by Aaron Glantz, Shane Shifflett, \u003ca href=\"http://cironline.org/reports/despite-va-pledge-improve-more-veterans-face-long-wait-benefits-4172\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center For Investigative Reporting\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under fire for its growing backlog of disability benefits claims, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs last July set itself a goal: By year’s end, 40 percent of veterans would wait no more than four months for an answer on compensation claims for conditions as serious as post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_88621\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/08/despite-va-pledge-to-improve-more-veterans-face-long-wait-for-benefits/veterans-cir-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88621\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-88621\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/Veterans-CIR-300x199.gif\" alt=\"Army vet Michael Grabski and his wife, Sandra, search real estate websites in their Napa apartment. (Michael Short/Center for Investigative Reporting)[/caption\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Army vet Michael Grabski and his wife, Sandra, search real estate websites in their Napa apartment. (Michael Short/Center for Investigative Reporting)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Instead, things got worse. A Center for Investigative Reporting analysis shows the ranks of veterans facing long waits increased by 18,000 since July 11, when the agency’s undersecretary for benefits, Allison Hickey, told reporters that the delays were unacceptable and pledged that the backlog would begin to shrink “right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By early January, the total number of veterans waiting for all claims had dipped slightly but remained above 900,000, with 630,000 – 70 percent – waiting longer than four months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Informed of the missed deadline, VA spokesman Steve Westerfeld amended the goal: The agency, he said in an email, now expects to turn the corner in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet two initiatives to reduce the logjam have failed to produce results so far, according to a CIR analysis of VA data. Four years after it was widely touted, a $537 million computer system has successfully processed 75 claims. And an effort to offload claims from the busiest offices has overloaded offices that previously had been performing well. \u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Veterans groups are outraged and argue it is time for President Barack Obama to step in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who is being held accountable? Who’s being fired? What change is being made?” said Paul Rieckhoff, founder and CEO of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. “We’ve been patient for a long time and to hear, ‘Be patient for a while longer’ when you’re a disabled veteran is ridiculous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>Informed of the missed deadline, the VA amended the goal: The agency said it now expects to turn the corner in 2014.\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>There are a few bright spots. In Northern California, where a report by The Bay Citizen – now part of the Center for Investigative Reporting – touched off congressional outrage, nearly 5,000 fewer veterans have been waiting for more than four months. The VA’s Oakland office closed in June while its staff was retrained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fewer veterans also are waiting in other areas where media outlets picked up CIR’s coverage, including Indianapolis, Los Angeles, New York, San Diego and Waco, Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many factors no doubt play a role. In an interview, Diana Rubens, the VA’s deputy undersecretary for field operations, agreed that offices in those areas had received extra attention from Washington, but said she wasn’t sure if it was the result of media scrutiny.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Coincidence?” she said. “I don’t know.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On an anecdotal basis, however, shining the spotlight on individual claimsmade a difference. Veterans featured in The Bay Citizen’s stories about wait times typically received benefits shortly after a reporter contacted the VA about them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>The VA approved a pension benefits claim from World War II veteran James Alderson on Dec. 12, the day after CIR asked the agency about his case for a story about \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/story/number-veterans-who-die-waiting-benefits/\">veterans who died while awaiting an answer\u003c/a>. A week later, the agency sent a $6,057 retroactive benefit check to his widow.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Navy medic Rachael Hairston received a call from the VA saying her claim had been approved Jan. 15, a day after CIR asked about her post-traumatic stress disorder claim while reporting this story. The Iraq veteran and her toddler had become homeless while she waited for two years. That same day, the VA transferred $39,075 in back pay to her bank account.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The same week Army veteran Michael Grabski was featured in a story on \u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/veterans/story/veterans-disability-claims-buried/\">delays at the Oakland office\u003c/a>, the veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan received a call from a VA official who expedited his 2-year-old claim for post-traumatic stress disorder and a knee injury sustained during a patrol in Afghanistan. Grabski subsequently received two retroactive benefits checks totaling $45,000.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>“It was a game changer,” he said of the story. After receiving his benefits, Grabski proposed to his longtime girlfriend and used a portion of the money to pay for their wedding at the Marines’ Memorial Club in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the couple is house hunting in Napa. Grabski’s $1,628 monthly disability check, coupled with his wife’s salary as a warehouse manager, provides enough regular income for the couple to qualify for a home loan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“After waiting so long, I feel like the next phase of my life has begun,” Grabski said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rubens acknowledged that the agency gave special attention to individual veterans whose problems were exposed in the media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s an unfortunate way that things have had to get done recently,” she said. In the future, she added, the VA aspires to process claims quickly “so you don’t have to make that phone call.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Positive outcomes are the exception, however, not the rule. Between July and December, the average delay veterans across the nation faced increased by two weeks, to 273 days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cem>Center for Investigative Reporting: Chronic Errors on VA Disability Claims (Nov 2012)\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: center\">\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/QW9Biy76gBQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/div>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite shrinking backlogs in California, veterans there waited about five months longer by December than they had in July. Veterans filing claims with the Los Angeles office now face the longest delays in the nation – nearly 17 months on average –while Northern California veterans filing in Oakland wait an average of 14 months. More than 80 percent of veterans in both parts of the state wait more than four months. In San Diego, veterans wait an average of about 11 months for a decision, with 68 percent facing delays the VA considers unacceptable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wait times vary dramatically across the country, offering the VA the potential to shuffle the deck a bit. Data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act shows that in the fiscal year that ended in September, the VA transferred nearly 47,000 claims, including 1,800 mailed out of Oakland in the months following CIR’s coverage of problems at that office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Based on the VA’s numbers, most of the offices experiencing a decline in inventory have been sending claims out, while those where the backlog is increasing have been receiving large numbers of those shifted claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the Muskogee, Okla., regional office, which has received the bulk of claims transferred by Oakland, the number of veterans waiting more than four months increased by about 4,500. Previously, the Oklahoma office was processing claims faster than it received them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s like Whac-A-Mole,”said Paul Sullivan, a Gulf War veteran and former senior VA project manager who now works at the Washington, D.C.-area law firm Bergmann & Moore. “All the VA is trying to do is hide the problem instead of solving it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transfers are about fairness, Rubens said. For a veteran, “it shouldn’t matter if I live in State A or State X, I should be getting the same treatment across the country.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even more claims are being transferred than the official tally, she added, because the agency frequently mails a claim from one office to another without first entering it into the computer system that tracks transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For VA workers, all this shuffling is “demoralizing,” said Ron Robinson, an Army veteran who has worked for the past 16 years at the agency’s South Carolina office. That office shipped out 3,000 claims last year, yet still saw its backlog grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robinson said a single veteran’s claim frequently is mailed back and forth between offices multiple times to clear up questions and inconsistencies. The extra transfers increase the chance that a claim will be lost, he said, and can alarm veterans who are not only unable to figure out how close they are to receiving their benefits, but even who is handling their claim.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no sense of urgency,” said Sheryl Cornelius, 58, who lost her home to foreclosure while she waited a year for the agency to rule that her husband’s suicide was related to his service during the Tet Offensive in the Vietnam War. 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In mid-January, the Government Accountability Office issued a report saying the agency lacked “sound planning” and had no comprehensive plan to reduce the backlog.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In its written response to the audit, John Gingrich, the VA’s chief of staff, said the agency generally agrees with the GAO’s conclusions but argued that a series of reforms, including computerization of the claims process, called the Veterans Benefits Management System, will allow the agency to decide nearly all veterans’ compensation claims within four months by 2015.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet four years after the VA pledged the technology upgrade, computer systems have been deployed at 18 of the 58 regional offices. Even at the offices that have received computers, more than 90 percent of disability claims remain on paper. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/08/news-pix-super-bowl-oakand-lunar-new-year-celebration-elephant-seals-in-point-reyes/photoweek130208superbowl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88584\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88584\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130208superbowl.gif\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130208superbowl\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>San Francisco 49ers’ fans filled the bar Hockey Haven with screams and cheers during the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/04/were-the-ravens-holding-breaking-down-the-super-bowls-most-controversial-play/\">Super Bowl\u003c/a>. (Debbie Svoboda/\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/\">KQED\u003c/a>)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/08/news-pix-super-bowl-oakand-lunar-new-year-celebration-elephant-seals-in-point-reyes/photoweek130208chineseny/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88585\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88585\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130208chineseNY.gif\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130208chineseNY\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>A Red Panda Acrobat shows off his skills at Oakland Chinatown’s Lunar New Year Bazaar on Feb. 3. 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(Lauren Sommer/KQED)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2013/02/08/news-pix-super-bowl-oakand-lunar-new-year-celebration-elephant-seals-in-point-reyes/photoweek130208zonteejones/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-88587\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88587\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2013/02/PhotoWeek130208ZonteeJones.gif\" alt=\"PhotoWeek130208ZonteeJones\" width=\"640\" height=\"450\">\u003c/a>\u003cem>Monday saw \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyside.com/2013/02/04/fatal-shooting-in-north-berkeley-this-morning/\">Berkeley’s first homicide victim\u003c/a> of 2013, when 34-year-old Zontee Jones was killed shortly after 11 a.m. on Delaware Street in West Berkeley. Witnesses said he was shot while walking down the street. 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If you ask the Brown administration, the work is done – and it’s time for courts to \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/health/la-ed-prisons-healthcare-jerry-brown-20130111,0,925681.story\">let go of the reform process\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the federal judges who have been overseeing the system have yet to relent. Now there’s a new secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation — a man who has functioned as a consultant to and a critic of California prisons – \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/About_CDCR/Secretary.html\">Jeffrey Beard\u003c/a>. (He still needs to be confirmed by the State Senate.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard was the chief of the department of corrections in Pennsylvania when he first became involved with California as an expert on a panel that advised prisons about recidivism (the technical term for former prisoners reoffending and ending back behind bars). That was 2006. Beard returned in 2008 to advise the three-judge panel of federal judges that’s been keeping a fire lit under the state to roll forward with reforms. Then in 2011, Beard began consulting for California directly. He estimates that he’s visited 20 California prison facilities over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I got a chance to ask him during an interview for \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201302040850/a\">The California Report\u003c/a> what he thinks has changed in the prison system. For one thing, 43,000 inmates have been either farmed out to private and out-of-state prisons or diverted to local lockups.\u003c!--more-->California prisons are running at about 150 percent of capacity — which is to say, still overcrowded, but not as much as they used to be. Nonetheless, federal judges have repeatedly insisted the state reduce the population to 137 percent of capacity. What’s the difference between those two levels of overcrowding? About 10,000 inmates, Beard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the face of it, that sounds like a lot of prisoners, and Beard himself has called on California to reduce its population. So how does he find a way to agree with Governor Brown now? Beard says the judges need to let go of “design capacity” as their benchmark for determining how much overcrowding will allow for a constitutionally acceptable level of inmate health care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody else in the country still talks about original design capacity,” Beard says. “They all talk about a rated capacity,” which is to say, taking into account adjustments made to facilities since they first opened. “California hasn’t been given credit for those changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard points out that about $2.5 billion dollars have been spent upgrading medical and mental health care facilities. “Those expenditures should cause your capacity ratings to change. I would contend the system isn’t at 150 percent of capacity, but might be closer to 137 percent of capacity – if you look at all the changes [California has] made to the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But some of these new clinics aren’t actually open yet, and a lot of staff positions have yet to be filled. Is Beard counting chickens that have yet to hatch?\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\"> \u003cstrong>The system is providing a constitutional level of care, and if it’s doing that, it no longer needs federal oversight\u003c/strong>.” \u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“Absolutely not!” he says. He acknowledges that a highly anticipated new mental health care facility in Stockton hasn’t opened yet, but says that other facilities have. “I’ve seen it. I’ve seen people getting the treatment,” he says. A licensed psychologist by trade, Beard thinks mental health care in California prisons is in a better state than medical care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s a rosier assessment than two court appointed monitors – Federal Receiver \u003ca href=\"www.latimes.com/health/la-me-ff-prisons-20130126,0,438990.story\">Clark Kelso\u003c/a> and Special Master \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-prisons-20130119,0,6228066.story\">Matthew Lopes\u003c/a> would offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prison suicide rates are climbing, for one. The Brown Administration argues that’s a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/2013/01/29/5150209/calif-gets-more-time-to-reduce.html#storylink=misearch\">misleading indicator\u003c/a>, but the jury is still out, and some wonder if getting free of court oversight has become the benchmark by which state prison officials define what constitutes acceptable care. Care that is constitutionally acceptable in that it does not constitute cruel and unusual punishment, as one recent commenter to KQED’s Forum program \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/KQEDForum\">noted\u003c/a>, is not necessarily \u003cem>good\u003c/em> care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The system is providing a constitutional level of care, and if it’s doing that, it no longer needs federal oversight,” Beard says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beard says California prison officials were understandably preoccupied with safety during the years of massive overcrowding, but now things are better.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As the population comes down, it becomes easier to manage the prisons, the prisons become less violent, and then you can begin focusing more on providing constructive programs that can help reduce recidivism,” he says. “I think that’s where the system is today. 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