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And again, in Hollywood, you know, the executives have always looked out for themselves, for sure. But what’s happening now is that these companies don’t mind sharing the wealth with the top 1%, the superstars, the the showrunners. But everybody else appears to be treated as expendable in much the same way that you see very carefully delineated stratification of the labor market in Silicon Valley. So, you know, Hollywood was already gig ified by the time Silicon Valley arrived. But Silicon Valley has perfected the business model in a very kind of dark and foreboding way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And that is in big part because of the fact that streaming has really sort of changed the game. Right. 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If we don’t stand tall right now, we are all going to be in trouble.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Hollywood is no stranger to big changes brought on by technology. But for writers and actors on strike right now, this moment is existential. Today, how Silicon Valley changed Hollywood and why this strike has everything to do with big tech.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, my first question, Rachel, I understand you actually come from a Hollywood family. 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He’s probably best known today for two songs. “You Make Me Feel So Young” and “Autumn Nocturne.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>MUSIC: \u003c/strong>[continues]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>You know, you make me feel so young was was part of a sort of a boiler plate musical of the kind that Hollywood used to churn out back then and would probably have been buried in that movie, except for the fact that a number of years later, Frank Sinatra decided to do a cover. Oh, my gosh. I don’t know. That’s that sounds like royalty to me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>MUSIC: \u003c/strong>[continues]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:: \u003c/strong>Well, I guess what did you come to learn about how Hollywood works from like this point of view or this perspective?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>There’s always been this war dance, if you will, between labor and the production companies. New technologies always been new technologies, disrupting things. And there’s always been this sort of gap between the experimental phase of a new technology being rolled out and that moment when the unions catch on and demand a piece of the action for their members in the next contract talks. So whether you’re talking about the shift to television or videotape rentals, remember those or foreign residuals? You know, there’s a little lag and then the unions catch up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You know, we’re talking about the strike. All these actors, producers, writers demanding higher wages and better protections. But what is that? What does any of that have to do with big tech and Silicon Valley?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>This wouldn’t be the first time Big Tech has essentially gone up against Big Labor in California, Right? These are very well-established unions. The Writers Guild of America, SAG-AFTRA. The gig economy has disrupted all sorts of labor markets. Right. And in really stark terms, because the shift to part time work with minimal employer provided benefits has taken money out of the pockets of rank and file workers and shifted it to the pockets of executives and investors. And again, in Hollywood, you know, the executives have always looked out for themselves, for sure. But what’s happening now is that these companies don’t mind sharing the wealth with the top 1%, the superstars, the the showrunners. But everybody else appears to be treated as expendable in much the same way that you see very carefully delineated stratification of the labor market in Silicon Valley. So, you know, Hollywood was already gig ified by the time Silicon Valley arrived. But Silicon Valley has perfected the business model in a very kind of dark and foreboding way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And that is in big part because of the fact that streaming has really sort of changed the game. Right. You talk about the role of streaming in all this and Netflix sort of changing the landscape for many of these these folks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Netflix introduced the concept of streaming. Netflix has also changed the name of the game in terms of transparency or lack thereof. You know, it was always hard to know exactly what was happening under the hood, financially speaking, with a show that you’re involved in producing. But Netflix tells you nothing. Even if you were the one making this the show and people who have been very successful on these programs report that they’re not making the kind of money you would think you would make if you were involved with a hit. My God, I’m going to be so rich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>News Anchor \u003c/strong>That was Kimiko Glenn, who played Brooks Soso on Netflix’s Orange is the New Black. She earned just $27 on that residual check. You saw it there. Her frustration being echoed by many of her costars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Which makes you ask the question, who knows how much Orange is the New Black is actually making, and who stands in for the actors inside Netflix arguing for them to get a fair amount of money?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>News Anchor \u003c/strong>Leah DeLaria telling The New Yorker, I got $20. I would love to know how much money did Ted Sarandos make last year? Well, here’s the answer. Sarandos, who’s the CEO of Netflix. According to the company’s financial statements last year, he received $20 million in base salary, more than $50 million, if you include the stock and the options…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Protesters \u003c/strong>[chanting]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The people I talked to on the picket lines outside of Netflix headquarters in Los Gatos. These people, Ericka, they can connect the dots. They watched what happened to gig workers in other industries. They saw what happened to musicians. My grandfather made a comfortable living on contract with 20th Century Fox, now owned by Disney. My father, on the other hand, died young, in large part from the stress of the ups and downs of working as an independent, a creative gig worker before we knew what that meant. But then you get to someone like Rajiv Shah, right? He’s from Los Gatos. He’s a member of SAG-AFTRA, the Screen Actors Guild slash American Federation of Television and Radio Artists for more than 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rajiv Shah: \u003c/strong>This is full time for me. So, I mean, I do a lot of work in L.A. and here I’m also a writer, so I do a lot of work with that. And we actually have a production company that does a lot of work for, you know, small businesses and things like that. So it’s all creative. You know, what I’ve been doing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>And like many creatives, he’s a hyphenate. He’s working a diversified portfolio of gigs. And I think I mentioned he’s from Los Gatos, right? He gets the tech has eaten Hollywood.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rajiv Shah: \u003c/strong>But I think what everybody understands is this is setting a precedent for what’s going to come in the future because, you know, tech is only going to grow. You know, streaming is only going to grow. So all we’re asking is that we grow with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>You know, But this is Labor’s moment, right? Maybe the last opportunity it has to fight for a share of the pie that allows people like Shah to survive economically.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I mean, Rachael, big tech has also been notoriously anti-union, right? I mean, just sort of thinking about how Uber and Lyft, for example, have been some of the biggest champions of gig work as opposed to full time work with benefits. How does that play into this? Like has. Have you seen this sort of anti-union, I guess, energy trickling down into Hollywood?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>The companies coming from tech. They don’t have this history of hashing things out every few years with the writers, the directors and the actors. Many of them are not union in the slightest, not even a portion of their employee base. It’s a different ballgame. We’ve seen Hollywood executives say some pretty dark things about willing to watch the writers and the actors bleed. You lose their homes. And, you know, it’s not that the companies aren’t at risk of losing a lot of money, but a lot of their entertainment services are are kind of loss leaders, to borrow a phrase from retail. If you’re Amazon, it doesn’t matter if prime, you know, at least the entertainment part of prime makes money. The whole point is to give people a reason to sign up for prime. Right. To to have the diapers delivered to your doorstep and to keep you engaged with Prime to continue re-upping every year. So that’s what Prime video is there for if you’re Apple. You don’t need to make money from Apple TV, right? This it’s just one unit. And in truth, you could say, well, yeah, those other media behemoths, they’re also made up of multiple units, many of which they talk about selling to each other. So so there’s some of that. But the big media companies, they have to succeed in entertainment versus for tech companies. I don’t think they have to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>There’s so much talk now about A.I. in big tech. How do you think that might further reshape the landscape of Hollywood?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>This is the question on everybody’s lips, and there’s a lot that really nobody really knows yet. You’ve probably noticed the companies are busy hiring specialists just to figure out what’s possible. Right. And what kind of intellectual property rights are protectable because nobody owns as much creative content as these companies. Right. But already it doesn’t take a software engineer to see that visual special effects people are in big trouble and actors are in big trouble. I don’t know if you saw the latest Indiana Jones movie. There’s a big chunk at the beginning, which is starring a fairly believable younger version of Harrison Ford, but that’s Harrison Ford. So he gets to make bank off that project, right? $25 million. Now, imagine that you’re an extra or the kind of actor who makes a little money here and there for big roles. People might recognize your face or the kind of character you usually play. There are legions of people like this in Hollywood and really all over the world, because there are all sorts of film sets all over the world. Right, including the Bay Area today. Nothing protects these actors from having their likeness recorded on the one or two days. They’re brought on to a set and then used for perpetuity. They’re never going to get called back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Harley Ford: \u003c/strong>There’s places for A.I., but let us do the work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>So actors like. One woman I met outside of Netflix in Los Gatos, Harley Ford, she can see the writing on the wall. She knows where this is going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Harley Ford: \u003c/strong>We’re the ones that, you know, have felt those emotions. And how can a robot put a tear behind something that doesn’t know what a real feeling is? It doesn’t know love. It doesn’t know respect or kindness. It doesn’t know fear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Harley understands something that I think if you can appreciate that spark of creativity, the way that that only a human can speak to the emotions within us, like some some computer driven retread just can’t. Get to that. Looking ahead here, where does the, I guess, strike stand now? Are the actors and writers any closer to reaching a deal? At this moment, it’s just the writers back at the bargaining table. But I. I can’t read the tea leaves on this one because for one thing, we’re not getting a lot of public information about what they’re talking about. But also, I think that all three core issues for the writers especially are existential, right? Who gets paid and how? Who works and how much and who gets a say in how generative AI is used. And I should say it’s existential for the actors, too. I just think this is this is a moment, perhaps the last moment when when these two unions have the strategic capacity to drive the conversation. I go back to the idea, Erica, that Silicon Valley has eaten Hollywood, eaten the production model, eaten the economic model, and, you know, seems to be well on its way to eating the creative model. We might not see so many picket lines up here in the San Francisco Bay Area. But I’ll tell you, when you see those actors and writers yelling into the cameras on social media, they are yelling at us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Rachel, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Rachael Myrow: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Rachael Myrow, senior editor of the Silicon Valley desk for KQED. Many KQED staffers are members of SAG-AFTRA. But broadcast journalists have a different contract than the Hollywood actors. This 40-minute conversation with Rachel was cut down and edited by senior editor Alan Montecillo. Producer Maria Esquinca scored this episode and added all the tape. If you liked this episode or learn something, tell someone about it. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, thanks for listening to The Bay. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Alaina Fox, who graduated from Los Gatos High School this summer, says the team working on her school newspaper, \u003ca href=\"https://elgatonews.com/\">El Gato News\u003c/a>, felt like a family. Students would stay after school until 7 or 8 in the evening on press week to get the paper done. Fox says the publication adviser, Doug Garrett, was well-liked and respected, bringing in food and snacks, checking in with them and joking around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox loved reporting on local news.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because those are unique stories and you get to speak to the people involved and write a piece that if you’re not writing, it’s possible nobody is,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she says her opinion of Garrett gradually shifted last school year when students began to face backlash for the stories they wanted to tell. According to six student reporters who spoke to KQED, Garrett prevented reporters from reporting or publishing certain investigative and opinion pieces about sexual harassment or assault for the school newspaper.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the main word that comes to mind is betrayal,” Fox said. “I trusted him and believed in him deeply.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11876356,news_11864769,news_11859164\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrett did not respond to multiple requests for comment. When asked for his response to students who said they were censored, he wrote, “There is no story here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the pieces the students wanted to write were tied in some way to a #MeToo movement that began on campus last summer. That student-led movement began when a rising sophomore posted on Instagram last July that she had been raped by a fellow student. Students also started a group called From Survivors, For Survivors (FSFS) to push for policy changes and greater accountability at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox was horrified by the number of disclosures, but also inspired by the students who were speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those things where I felt like, ‘That doesn’t happen at our school, that happens at other places.’ I was distanced from the problem and so I couldn’t see it at the time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Gato published a \u003ca href=\"https://elgatonews.com/2020/07/25/dozens-of-lghs-students-come-forward-as-survivors-of-sexual-assault/\">piece\u003c/a> in July 2020 about dozens of Los Gatos High students who were coming forward as survivors of sexual assault, some of which was perpetrated by fellow students. Soon after that, another newspaper staffer wrote an opinion piece that criticized comments that the school’s former interim principal, Paul Robinson, made during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnFjXybXqAU\">an interview\u003c/a> with the paper about the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a screenshot from the messaging app Slack shared with KQED, Garrett wrote that he was concerned the piece did not belong as an opinion article in El Gato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember he is BRAND NEW and stepping into the role, and us writing a ‘gotcha’ piece after he voluntarily sat down for the interview is really bad form,” Garrett wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District Superintendent Mike Grove also did not respond to questions related to claims students were censored. He issued a written statement that the district works to create an open environment where students and advisers work collaboratively to challenge each other as part of the journalistic process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although not always perfect, it has worked because we are constantly reflecting on the process and providing our students with the necessary resources and guidance that allows them to lead the decision-making in the student newsroom, including guidance that maintains journalistic integrity to ensure the pursuit of truth based on facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884069\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main entrance to Los Gatos High School is empty during summer vacation on July 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, in November, Fox wrote an editorial piece about anti-harassment training given to Los Gatos High School students. She found Garrett’s edits worrying. In her draft, she criticized the lesson as outdated and ineffective, and described an “insidious rape culture that plagues LGHS.” Garrett, according to documents shared with KQED, said the phrasing was problematic and asked that she change “insidious rape culture” to “culture of silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still don’t understand what the problem is, other than it’s controversial, but the newspaper’s purpose is not to avoid controversy,” Fox said. “It’s to write truthfully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the editorial, Fox also contended that the lesson should have included gender-neutral pronouns, to which Garrett responded: “This is still a shift that is happening — sorry, but that’s too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Gato had also published a short piece about a video documentary posted on Instagram in January. The video, which now has over 94,000 views, was made by a recent alum, Natalie Brooks, about the school’s #MeToo movement. The piece included a link to the documentary. Students said Garrett took the piece down soon after it was posted, saying it was too opinionated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CJjVlz7pX90/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Allegations of a Rape Culture on Campus\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was all happening amid rising tensions between student organizers and members of the high school football team. Los Gatos is a wealthy Silicon Valley town, and some students said that privilege contributed to a culture where young athletes were allowed to get away with abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the summer, one school alum, Abbi Berry, emailed all Los Gatos High School staff, saying she could not “in good conscience allow for the current culture propagated by the LGHS Football Team to continue to put female students at risk.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berry wrote that many of the boys she was warned about in high school were on the football team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CCXggSNpOVY-RfJ4lKjwbLyEnOwQLrf_CskjPs0/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Farrell, the district Title IX coordinator who handles misconduct complaints, said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876356/how-high-school-students-launched-their-own-metoo-movement-during-the-pandemic\">interview\u003c/a> with KQED earlier this year that it can be difficult to determine whether a certain campus-wide culture exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell said the district formed a committee of students, parents and administrators to address some of those concerns, and launched an inquiry into whether the district has a culture that allows abuse to continue. She also said the district hired a consultant focused on restorative justice to give community members affected by these issues a chance to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding Other Platforms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Gatos students had long been finding their own ways to try to make their concerns public and create space for students to support one another. Before Casey Kamali graduated from Los Gatos High School in 2020, she started her own podcast called “Mind in Pieces.” The idea of it was to give her peers a space to talk about mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamali says at least half of the girls she spoke to for the podcast described experiences with harassment and assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n.jpeg 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Kamali, a Los Gatos High School alum, launched her own podcast to give students a space to talk about mental health issues. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Casey Kamali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty apparent to me immediately how much of an issue this was and how pervasive of an issue this was,” she said. “I wouldn’t say it surprised me, sadly. I just really wanted to make sure that I was making them feel heard and safe and like they weren’t going to be interrogated on the legitimacy of what they were saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are also sharing their experiences online. Over 130 students and alums have shared experiences with harassment and assault on the @metoo.losgatos Instagram page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One alum, Eliza Potts, shared her experience with assault by a fellow student on the FSFS Instagram account. She says she also reported the assault to the school, and says school staff offered to make sure she did not attend class with the perpetrator. But she says she didn’t have classes with him anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media feels like the only platform where we can get our voices out unfiltered,” she said. “It was nice to be able to put myself out there and not have to worry about censoring things in fear of ruining the school’s reputation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Complicated Assignment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the national #MeToo movement began, journalism teachers and even legal experts around the country have wrestled with guiding students in how best to report on sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These last two years have been professionally, without question, the most difficult of my life,” said Mike Hiestand, senior legal counsel with Student Press Law Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that provides advice to student journalists. He gets a lot of questions from these journalists looking to cover stories related to sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll try and help young journalists stay out of trouble. #MeToo reporting, it is an advanced level of reporting. You don’t get tougher journalism assignments,” Hiestand said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/5682955/Bobkowski-Belmas-Volume-10-Issue-1-Mixed-Message.pdf\">survey \u003c/a>conducted by researchers at the University of Kansas found that female students are also more likely to be told by school staff not to discuss certain topics in school-run media outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiestand will often encourage students to keep working with advisers and principals, but if that fails he sometimes advises students to publish elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to use the rights that we have, but at some point we have to say, ‘We have other ways to get this information out and there’s nothing you can do about it,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The football field and track at Los Gatos High School is empty during summer vacation on July 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Football Assignment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Doug Garrett told students they could not publish the opinion piece written in response to the interview with their former interim principal, they posted it on the From Survivors, For Survivors Instagram page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we can’t publish something, we just put it on our Instagram account,” said Wren, another Los Gatos alum and former editor with El Gato News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is using a pseudonym to protect Wren’s identity, because she says some of her classmates have faced threats for bringing attention to sexual assault on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student reporters say the tension reached a breaking point in January. Garrett had assigned a project to interview the football community on how they viewed the #MeToo movement on campus. Garrett sent the journalism students a list of dozens of current and former football players and parents, suggesting they interview some of them. Wren says she was stunned, and worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘So let me get this straight. We’re going to be interviewing people and amplifying their voices,’” Wren said she recalled thinking at the time. “’We’ve never been able to amplify the voices of survivors, we’ve never been able to produce our own opinion articles about this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reporters say they began discussing their concerns and how to proceed. Wren says there were alleged perpetrators on that list, and she was worried about the mental well-being and physical safety of her classmates and fellow reporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Someone from that crowd had said the people who were part of FSFS belonged under the wheel of a car and they accelerated their car at one of our organizers,” Wren said. “So that was someone on that list.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the reporters say they began working on the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But weeks later, when students asked about the status of the project, Garrett sent them an email that said, “At this point we cannot move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were definitely confused, and we asked, like, why aren’t we doing this? He gave a very strange reason, which basically boiled down to the same thing he’s been saying a lot, which is for legal reasons,” Wren said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same email exchange, students were also told they could no longer move forward with a piece they were investigating on sexually explicit hand signals used by members of the football team. They ended up publishing that \u003ca href=\"https://patch.com/california/losgatos/lghs-football-team-hand-gesture-reignites-rape-culture-debate\">piece\u003c/a> on the Los Gatos Patch, an online community news site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884074\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50349_003_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50349_003_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50349_003_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50349_003_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50349_003_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50349_003_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A print copy of El Gato News, the student-led paper for Los Gatos High School. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bigger Than the School Newspaper\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But students like Wren say they still wish they could have published their pieces in their school paper. She is no longer considering a career in journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is heartbreaking for me to say this. And I don’t want to pin it all on the relationship that I have with my adviser, but that definitely discouraged me from pursuing it,” she said. “I definitely don’t want to do it as a professional career anymore.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaina Fox, the former editor-in-chief, says she still loves journalism even if her experience with the paper has been painful. She and others say they’ve chosen to share their experience now because they want next year’s student journalists to be empowered to write the stories that matter to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have much faith in established institutions or authority figures right now,” Fox said. “I have a lot of trust in a group of teenagers who are really committed to making things right.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This article was produced as a project for the \u003ca href=\"https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism\u003c/a> Impact Fund.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garrett did not respond to multiple requests for comment. When asked for his response to students who said they were censored, he wrote, “There is no story here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the pieces the students wanted to write were tied in some way to a #MeToo movement that began on campus last summer. That student-led movement began when a rising sophomore posted on Instagram last July that she had been raped by a fellow student. Students also started a group called From Survivors, For Survivors (FSFS) to push for policy changes and greater accountability at the school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox was horrified by the number of disclosures, but also inspired by the students who were speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was one of those things where I felt like, ‘That doesn’t happen at our school, that happens at other places.’ I was distanced from the problem and so I couldn’t see it at the time,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Gato published a \u003ca href=\"https://elgatonews.com/2020/07/25/dozens-of-lghs-students-come-forward-as-survivors-of-sexual-assault/\">piece\u003c/a> in July 2020 about dozens of Los Gatos High students who were coming forward as survivors of sexual assault, some of which was perpetrated by fellow students. Soon after that, another newspaper staffer wrote an opinion piece that criticized comments that the school’s former interim principal, Paul Robinson, made during \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnFjXybXqAU\">an interview\u003c/a> with the paper about the movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a screenshot from the messaging app Slack shared with KQED, Garrett wrote that he was concerned the piece did not belong as an opinion article in El Gato.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Remember he is BRAND NEW and stepping into the role, and us writing a ‘gotcha’ piece after he voluntarily sat down for the interview is really bad form,” Garrett wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District Superintendent Mike Grove also did not respond to questions related to claims students were censored. He issued a written statement that the district works to create an open environment where students and advisers work collaboratively to challenge each other as part of the journalistic process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although not always perfect, it has worked because we are constantly reflecting on the process and providing our students with the necessary resources and guidance that allows them to lead the decision-making in the student newsroom, including guidance that maintains journalistic integrity to ensure the pursuit of truth based on facts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884069\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884069\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50357_011_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main entrance to Los Gatos High School is empty during summer vacation on July 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, in November, Fox wrote an editorial piece about anti-harassment training given to Los Gatos High School students. She found Garrett’s edits worrying. In her draft, she criticized the lesson as outdated and ineffective, and described an “insidious rape culture that plagues LGHS.” Garrett, according to documents shared with KQED, said the phrasing was problematic and asked that she change “insidious rape culture” to “culture of silence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still don’t understand what the problem is, other than it’s controversial, but the newspaper’s purpose is not to avoid controversy,” Fox said. “It’s to write truthfully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the editorial, Fox also contended that the lesson should have included gender-neutral pronouns, to which Garrett responded: “This is still a shift that is happening — sorry, but that’s too far.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Gato had also published a short piece about a video documentary posted on Instagram in January. The video, which now has over 94,000 views, was made by a recent alum, Natalie Brooks, about the school’s #MeToo movement. The piece included a link to the documentary. Students said Garrett took the piece down soon after it was posted, saying it was too opinionated.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Megan Farrell, the district Title IX coordinator who handles misconduct complaints, said in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11876356/how-high-school-students-launched-their-own-metoo-movement-during-the-pandemic\">interview\u003c/a> with KQED earlier this year that it can be difficult to determine whether a certain campus-wide culture exists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farrell said the district formed a committee of students, parents and administrators to address some of those concerns, and launched an inquiry into whether the district has a culture that allows abuse to continue. She also said the district hired a consultant focused on restorative justice to give community members affected by these issues a chance to talk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Finding Other Platforms\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Gatos students had long been finding their own ways to try to make their concerns public and create space for students to support one another. Before Casey Kamali graduated from Los Gatos High School in 2020, she started her own podcast called “Mind in Pieces.” The idea of it was to give her peers a space to talk about mental health issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kamali says at least half of the girls she spoke to for the podcast described experiences with harassment and assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884071\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884071\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n-800x600.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n-800x600.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n-160x120.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/227217515_239262424682567_7572725433430282258_n.jpeg 824w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Casey Kamali, a Los Gatos High School alum, launched her own podcast to give students a space to talk about mental health issues. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Casey Kamali)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was pretty apparent to me immediately how much of an issue this was and how pervasive of an issue this was,” she said. “I wouldn’t say it surprised me, sadly. I just really wanted to make sure that I was making them feel heard and safe and like they weren’t going to be interrogated on the legitimacy of what they were saying.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Students are also sharing their experiences online. Over 130 students and alums have shared experiences with harassment and assault on the @metoo.losgatos Instagram page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One alum, Eliza Potts, shared her experience with assault by a fellow student on the FSFS Instagram account. She says she also reported the assault to the school, and says school staff offered to make sure she did not attend class with the perpetrator. But she says she didn’t have classes with him anyway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Social media feels like the only platform where we can get our voices out unfiltered,” she said. “It was nice to be able to put myself out there and not have to worry about censoring things in fear of ruining the school’s reputation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>A Complicated Assignment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the national #MeToo movement began, journalism teachers and even legal experts around the country have wrestled with guiding students in how best to report on sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These last two years have been professionally, without question, the most difficult of my life,” said Mike Hiestand, senior legal counsel with Student Press Law Center, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that provides advice to student journalists. He gets a lot of questions from these journalists looking to cover stories related to sexual assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ll try and help young journalists stay out of trouble. #MeToo reporting, it is an advanced level of reporting. You don’t get tougher journalism assignments,” Hiestand said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One 2017 \u003ca href=\"https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/5682955/Bobkowski-Belmas-Volume-10-Issue-1-Mixed-Message.pdf\">survey \u003c/a>conducted by researchers at the University of Kansas found that female students are also more likely to be told by school staff not to discuss certain topics in school-run media outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiestand will often encourage students to keep working with advisers and principals, but if that fails he sometimes advises students to publish elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to use the rights that we have, but at some point we have to say, ‘We have other ways to get this information out and there’s nothing you can do about it,’ ” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11884072\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11884072\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/08/RS50353_007_LosGatos_HighSchool_07212021-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The football field and track at Los Gatos High School is empty during summer vacation on July 21, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The Football Assignment\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Doug Garrett told students they could not publish the opinion piece written in response to the interview with their former interim principal, they posted it on the From Survivors, For Survivors Instagram page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we can’t publish something, we just put it on our Instagram account,” said Wren, another Los Gatos alum and former editor with El Gato News.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED is using a pseudonym to protect Wren’s identity, because she says some of her classmates have faced threats for bringing attention to sexual assault on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Student reporters say the tension reached a breaking point in January. Garrett had assigned a project to interview the football community on how they viewed the #MeToo movement on campus. Garrett sent the journalism students a list of dozens of current and former football players and parents, suggesting they interview some of them. Wren says she was stunned, and worried.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“‘So let me get this straight. We’re going to be interviewing people and amplifying their voices,’” Wren said she recalled thinking at the time. “’We’ve never been able to amplify the voices of survivors, we’ve never been able to produce our own opinion articles about this.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reporters say they began discussing their concerns and how to proceed. 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"content": "\u003cp>When most schools across California shut down last year, teenagers were stuck at home. For many of them, that meant months alone to reflect on experiences of trauma in high school. But they didn’t all keep that pain to themselves. Instead, young people created dozens of Instagram accounts for students and alums to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linh is one of those students. We’re only using her middle name to protect her privacy. She’s a senior at Mira Mesa High School in San Diego County, and she runs an Instagram account called @metooinsd where students and alums anonymously share experiences of harassment and assault.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CPEC75-j731/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said part of what motivated her to run the account is her own experience as a survivor. She said she was sexually assaulted by an ex-boyfriend, but didn’t recognize how damaging the relationship was until after it was over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was gaslighted to the point where I thought, ‘He loves me’ or whatever, which obviously is not true,” she said. “But when you’re in it like that, it feels like it is true.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Linh, Mira Mesa High School senior\"]‘If I stop, that’s letting them win, and I refuse to do that.’[/pullquote]Linh said she still had to see him in band even after he was reported. The ex-boyfriend denied the allegations, and said he was never disciplined.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were times where, you know, there was a concert and I walk into the storage room. He’s right there and I just left,” she said. “I couldn’t be there. I still had to see him, in the hallways, in the library, I still had to see him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The account she runs has helped Linh heal, and feel less alone. She said she’s gotten threats for running the account, but it’s too important to stop now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I stop, that’s letting them win, and I refuse to do that,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='news_11859164' label='Related Coverage']In an email, Maureen Magee, spokesperson with the San Diego Unified School District, said the district has made police aware of the account, and that allegations made anonymously are difficult to investigate. Magee said the district has also worked with student leaders to get the word out about how to recognize and report abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are dozens of accounts like the San Diego Instagram page throughout California, including one for students in the affluent Silicon Valley town of Los Gatos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A senior there, Natalie Brooks, made a film about the #MeToo movement happening at her school, and the backlash students faced for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CJjVlz7pX90/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“LG is idyllic, perfect teens in perfect clothes from perfect families. And don’t forget the money. But like most seemingly perfect things, you can’t see the cracks . . . yet,” the film begins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A post by one 15-year-old student, Mia Lozoya, inspired others to share their stories, and eventually set up their own \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/metoo.losgatos/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Instagram account\u003c/a>. Since then, more than 100 students and alums have posted their experiences with harassment and assault on the account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But student organizers say there was still a lot of pushback in response to the attention they were bringing to the football team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876387\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876387\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-800x602.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-800x602.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-1020x768.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Mia-Lozoya-@-LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-R.-Hansen.jpg 1700w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mia Lozoya ignited a movement at Los Gatos High School when she shared her experience with sexual assault on Instagram. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of R. Hansen)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Los Gatos alum, Abbi Berry, saw the post from Lozoya, and wrote an email describing how the culture of the football team allowed players to continue to abuse young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And my mom didn’t want me to send it. She was like, you could get in trouble or you could get this backlash. And I remember literally being like, I don’t care, this is an issue,” she said. “And I was so angry. I was just so — I was just livid. I was enraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She sent the email to all Los Gatos High School staff, and wrote that the entire community was complicit in these issues. She signed it as a survivor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876388\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876388\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/LGHS-Rally-Courtesy-A.-Panu.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and alums rallied over sexual assault at the Los Gatos High School football field July 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A. Panu)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>One teacher and football coach hit “reply all,” and responded. He wrote: “Wrong. If this young lady has had something bad happen to her in the past, she should take it up with the individual who is responsible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berry said that confirmed her biggest fear that people would invalidate her statement because she had signed the email as a survivor. She was disappointed to see teachers taking sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The teacher did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]Berry is worried about the students who’ve faced backlash and lost friends for speaking out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just really scared for them,” she said, “I know how much reputation counts in high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Megan Farrell is the Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District’s Title IX coordinator, and she handles sexual misconduct claims. She said there are many reasons young people are reluctant to turn to their schools to report abuse. They might not be ready to tell their parents, or want to talk to police, who schools have an obligation to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were no Title IX complaints filed against students in the district in the 2019-2020 school year, and only two this school year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11876389\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11876389\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/06/Crowd-Gives-Mia-Lozoya-Standing-Ovation-Courtesy-A.-Panu.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A crowd applauds Mia Lozoya during a rally at the Los Gatos High School field July 2020. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of A. 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And she said if nothing else, the online movement has at least started a conversation in way that wasn’t happening before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Regardless of whether we may not have been able to change policies, or moved mountains for the school, we got the town talking about it,” she said. “We definitely shocked the town, and I think it’ll change, even a little bit, for the better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over in Mira Mesa, Linh is still running the San Diego account. Her mom said she’s proud of how much she’s seen her daughter grow. We’re not using her name to protect her daughter’s identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Abbi Berry, Los Gatos High School alum\"]‘We definitely shocked the town, and I think it’ll change, even a little bit, for the better.’[/pullquote]“I really am grateful that she found the strength to help other people. In middle school and high school, she retreated a bit, but in our household she’s always had a voice. 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But the finding is essentially moot, because Silva \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11762733/los-gatos-cop-resigns-amid-outcry-over-beating-at-san-jose-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">resigned\u003c/a> from the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department last month, amid controversy over the violence involved in an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11759028/former-san-jose-state-cop-fired-for-excessive-force-won-job-back-on-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">arrest he made in 2016\u003c/a> when he was working for the San Jose State University Police Department.[aside postID='news_11759028,news_11760061,news_11762733' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Johnathon-Silva-SJSU-Police-excessive-force-Los-Gatos-Peter-Decena-1020x574.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A public statement and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTnw5oJimpM&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube video\u003c/a> of body-camera footage from the April 19, 2019 encounter, in the 100 block of Towne Terrace, was posted by the Police Department Friday in response to Senate Bill 1421, California’s new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The law compelled the release of previously protected disciplinary records when an officer was found to have engaged in sexual assault or dishonesty, or was involved in a shooting or use of force that caused great bodily injury.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police, Silva was called to the apartment building after a resident reported that Newlon was yelling obscenities and scaring her. The resident, who was not identified, said Newlon’s anger may have been the result of her complaining to their landlord that he was “hoarding” items in the corner of the property’s carport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As shown in the body camera footage, Silva attempted to detain Newlon, first with verbal commands. Newlon refused to comply. When he placed his right hand in his pants pocket, Silva ordered him to “get your hands out of your pocket.”\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\nIn the video footage Newlon tells the officer that he is “suffering with a brain tumor right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My hormones are raging,” he says. “I could actually start out and break out and fight you, bastard!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva is captured on the video calmly telling Newlon to relax. But a minute later, he puts Newlon into a wrist-lock, and then brings him to the ground with his hand on Newlon’s neck. He repeatedly tells Newlon to get on his stomach, and threatens to use a Taser on him. 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His landlord described him to police as a Navy veteran who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain tumor, according to incident reports released by the Police Department, and the woman who called police said she only wanted him to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva was the subject of public scrutiny after SB 1421 records released in July — first reported by KQED and the Bay Area News Group — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11759028/former-san-jose-state-cop-fired-for-excessive-force-won-job-back-on-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed\u003c/a> that he had been fired by San Jose State after a 2016 incident in which he brutally beat a man who was watching porn and may have been masturbating in the campus library. The civil suit filed by the subject of the beating led to $950,000 settlement. 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"content": "\u003cp>An officer with the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department has resigned amid a controversy over a violent arrest he made while working as a San Jose State University cop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Johnathon Silva was accused of excessive force in the beating of a suspect three years ago at the campus library, the university fired him, but later was required to reinstate him when Silva won his job back on appeal.[aside postID='news_11759028,news_11760061' hero=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/07/Johnathon-Silva-SJSU-Police-excessive-force-Los-Gatos-Peter-Decena-1020x574.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both the arrest and wrangling between the college and Silva over his job were mostly shielded from public view until KQED and the Mercury News \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11759028/former-san-jose-state-cop-fired-for-excessive-force-won-job-back-on-appeal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported\u003c/a> on records and body-camera videos released earlier this month by San Jose State University under Senate Bill 1421, California's new police transparency law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Gatos Town Manager Laurel Prevetti confirmed Monday morning that Silva had resigned, effective this coming Friday, July 26. She declined to comment further. A statement issued by the town later Monday also did not detail the circumstances surrounding Silva's resignation. But the statement noted that Silva — who was hired in September 2018 — was still in his one-year probationary period and that he could \"be rejected at any time during the probationary period without cause and without the right to appeal.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Prior to the culmination of Officer Silva's probationary period, he submitted his resignation giving two weeks notice,\" the statement reads. \"Given this is a personnel matter, there will be no further comment at this time.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Town officials also continued to defend Silva's hiring, saying he underwent a \"rigorous selection process.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Gatos resident Maureen Fox, one of many who objected to Silva's hiring once she learned about his past conduct, said that she and her husband met with the town manager to voice their concerns about Silva, and that Prevetti mentioned Silva was still on probation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"She said that the matter was under review, and she couldn't really comment,\" Fox said. \"But not long after that obviously he resigned.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fox said she is \"gratified\" by Silva's resignation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think the town will be much safer without him,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva was fired by San Jose State in 2017 for inflicting serious injuries — including broken ribs and a punctured lung — on a man named Philip Chong, who was apparently masturbating and watching pornography on a laptop in the school’s library in March 2016. Silva also used a Taser on Chong, who was apparently mentally ill and was refusing the officer's orders to give his real name and birthdate, but the stun gun malfunctioned, according to police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Warning, this video contains graphic imagery and language.\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://youtu.be/BLIC3gaAiBc\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-university Police Chief Peter Decena and his command staff, while voicing concern about the violence, ultimately decided that the force Silva used was within department policy and training, according to records released by the school. But the college overrode that decision after launching its own investigation following Chong's lawsuit over the encounter. Chong later won a $950,000 settlement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva appealed his dismissal and a state personnel board ordered him to be reinstated over the objection of the university, which argued that the arrest was an “egregious example of excessive force.” He resigned from San Jose State's police force on Oct. 1, 2018 -- after starting his new job a week earlier in Los Gatos, where Decena had become police chief a few months earlier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Silva was also the subject of a separate excessive force lawsuit settled last year for $59,900. 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