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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone — who has presided over three decades of massive taxable property value increases as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalley\">Silicon Valley’s industries\u003c/a> boomed, busted and boomed again — is retiring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, 84, announced last week he is stepping down on July 6, a little more than thirty years after he began running the assessor’s office, and nearly 50 years after he was first elected to public office. He is the longest-serving elected official in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s my time,” Stone told KQED. “I don’t want to embarrass myself,” he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone is a regional icon, not only because his name is on the property value assessment notices sent to hundreds of thousands of residents every year — “I call them love notes,” he said — but also because of his deep involvement in community building and political work outside of his day job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccassessor.org/images/k2%20article/2022CURRENTCURRICULUMVITAE-LarryStone.pdf\">dozens\u003c/a> of boards, commissions, councils, task forces and advisory groups, sharing his time, knowledge and money supporting the arts, education, professional sports, economic development and housing, and has long been recognized as one of the most powerful leaders in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone is seen in front of several pallets containing hundreds of thousands of this year’s property assessment notices on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of the Santa Clara County Assessor's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m not one to not be active. I mean, that’s not in my DNA, ever,” Stone said in his office this week, which even in the process of a move out, was still largely full of memorabilia from his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walls and shelves are lined with framed photos of Stone with his family, or world leaders such as Fidel Castro, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, local politicians, as well as clippings from just some of the many news articles and features written about him through the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them – a story published in the \u003cem>Sunnyvale Sun\u003c/em> 20 years ago – focused on Stone’s prominence and ubiquity in the region even then, and noted he “won the honor of being named the 2004 ‘Royal Schmoozer’ by the San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also led campaigns to try to bring the San Francisco Giants to the South Bay in the 1980s, and later supported the effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/61898/the-as-to-san-jose-san-joseans-speak-out-pro-and-con\">bring the then-Oakland A’s to San José\u003c/a>, neither of which materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his experience served the region well, as he would later help broker the deal that brought the San Francisco 49ers to Santa Clara and led the campaign to pass Measure J, which authorized the construction of Levi’s Stadium.[aside postID=news_12045682 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-28-KQED-1020x680.jpg'] Inside the walls of the assessor’s office, Stone has presided over a greater than 500% increase in value of the assessment roll — the entire estimated value of all real property like land and buildings, and business personal property, like computers, machines and furniture — in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first stepped into the office in January 1995, the assessment roll was worth about $115 billion. But due in large part to the continued growth of the computing and technology industry, land, buildings and homes alike have grown in value, now worth about $725 billion altogether, Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t changed Stone’s approach to the work, which he said is more of an art than a science, and requires an even keel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assessing property in California is already unique because of Proposition 13’s limitations on property taxes. But working in Silicon Valley, taking on tech behemoths and other private industry billionaires armed with benches of attorneys angling to pay less in property taxes can be a taxing game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Stone said, Apple’s spaceship campus in Cupertino is “the most unique property probably in the United States,” and not something that can easily be assessed with standard metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long time 49ers season ticket holder, Stone also vehemently disagreed with a decision by the county’s Assessment Appeals Board, which reduced the tax bill owed by the team for Levi’s Stadium by about half, from $12 million to $6 million annually, after the team appealed Stone’s assessment for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone argued the appeals board used an overly simplistic approach to value the stadium, not accounting for all the special events and concerts it hosts outside of football games, and he later sued the board, but lost in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-wont-appeal-san-francisco-49ers-nfl-tax-break-ruling/\">court\u003c/a> in late 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Assessor Larry Stone with politicians sit on a bookshelf at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believe that that building, the stadium, is not properly assessed. But I did all I could — my office did all we could — to arrive at an accurate value. The court disagreed,” Stone said, recalling the saga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone didn’t grow up hoping to be an assessor, but there may have been signs early on that he’d be a good fit for the role. Sifting through a stack of personal photos, Stone pulled out a grade-school image of his smiling young face during his campaign for school secretary. His campaign promise to his classmates was written across the image: “Dependable and accurate records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young, single man, Stone started his professional career as an investment banker working on Wall Street in New York, living in an apartment on Manhattan’s east side with a coworker, a gig and a lifestyle he said was “heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being transferred to the Bay Area, where he met his wife Carmen and had three children, Stone and two business partners started a real estate investment firm on Sand Hill Road, where the company neighbored Kleiner Perkins, one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.[aside postID=news_12046134 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250626-SJBBB-JG-5-KQED.jpg']He went on to develop very low-income housing — a San Francisco single-resident occupancy building — and an affordable apartment complex in San José, both of which he still has an ownership stake in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, who has lived in Sunnyvale since 1970, started his political career at home, running for and being elected to the City Council there in 1975, and serving two four-year terms before terming out. After waiting a city-mandated two years off the council and running again, he won two more elections, serving a total of 16 years on the council, including two turns as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From City Council to Assessor, Stone has never lost an election, running largely unopposed in his eight races for assessor. He was elected to the assessor’s office in 1994, but emphasizes that the work is not political, even though it’s an elected role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Williams, county executive of Santa Clara County, said people in the county might not realize the intricacies and the complexity involved in the work of the assessor, but said Stone has done an “outstanding” job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having confidence in the integrity and the efficacy of the property tax system is absolutely vital to every single service all of us take for granted from our local governments collectively,” Williams told KQED. “Schools, parks, roads — the list goes on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property taxes, which are raised and spent locally, account for roughly 40% of the county’s general fund budget, according to the county, and the largest chunk of those funds, about 44%, goes toward K-12 schools in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone holds a grade school photo of himself that says, ‘Vote for Larry for Secretary’ in his office at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone said he’s happy with his track record, noting that during his run of assessing the homes of everyday residents, as well as the major campuses and buildings of world-beating tech companies, he’s only added one additional staff member than was on payroll when he started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s “returned $35 million of my budget back to the general fund unspent” over his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he’s most proud of, however, is what he said is a more than 90% customer satisfaction rate, based on surveys given to residents who call, email or visit the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a government tax office. We give people news that they don’t necessarily like. I submit that over 90% customer service satisfaction rating for the assessor’s office is unheard of,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his high marks from residents, a finished assessment roll for 2025 and his office’s recent overhaul of its aging computer system software — a years-long effort — Stone felt now was as good a time to step away as any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the timing of Stone’s departure has rankled some in the county. Stone has often been quoted questioning the qualifications of his potential challengers for assessor during past elections.[aside postID=news_12044954 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SJEarthquakesGetty.jpg']After choosing to run again in 2022, only to retire in the midst of his term, Stone’s decision forced the Board of Supervisors to call for a special election to find a replacement to finish the term that runs through 2026, due to existing state and county laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1296/2025-06/press-release-special-election-called-to-fill-the-vacancy-of-the-santa-clara-county-assessor.pdf?VersionId=1Jv0eFrLsu6xgDks7HC9jVbKRyGsntVm\">approved \u003c/a>the special election for Nov. 4 of this year. If a candidate in that race doesn’t win a majority of votes, there will be a runoff election between the top two candidates on Dec. 30. The cost to run the first special election will be roughly $13 million, and roughly $26 million total if a runoff is needed, due to the voting infrastructure that is required under state law, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga, during the special June 25 meeting to approve the election, called the situation “very unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to stomach the cost of this, but we really have no legal options otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Stone’s retirement, Assistant Assessor Greg Monteverde will serve as the acting assessor, and the Board of Supervisors will appoint an interim assessor later this year, likely in August, to run the office until the special election is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2026, the assessor’s seat will be up for a standard election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he thinks the special election requirement is a “total waste of money” and said he plans to advocate for changes to requirements for such situations in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to concerns about his choice to retire now, leading to the high costs for the county, Stone said, “I didn’t create the rules. I make life choices that are best for me and best for my office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone speaks with a colleague at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, two candidates have announced their intention to run for the office in 2026, though they could also run in the special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is Saratoga City Council Member Yan Zhao, and the other is Los Altos Vice Mayor Neysa Fligor, who are both terming out of their city roles next year. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> Inside the walls of the assessor’s office, Stone has presided over a greater than 500% increase in value of the assessment roll — the entire estimated value of all real property like land and buildings, and business personal property, like computers, machines and furniture — in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first stepped into the office in January 1995, the assessment roll was worth about $115 billion. But due in large part to the continued growth of the computing and technology industry, land, buildings and homes alike have grown in value, now worth about $725 billion altogether, Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t changed Stone’s approach to the work, which he said is more of an art than a science, and requires an even keel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assessing property in California is already unique because of Proposition 13’s limitations on property taxes. But working in Silicon Valley, taking on tech behemoths and other private industry billionaires armed with benches of attorneys angling to pay less in property taxes can be a taxing game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Stone said, Apple’s spaceship campus in Cupertino is “the most unique property probably in the United States,” and not something that can easily be assessed with standard metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long time 49ers season ticket holder, Stone also vehemently disagreed with a decision by the county’s Assessment Appeals Board, which reduced the tax bill owed by the team for Levi’s Stadium by about half, from $12 million to $6 million annually, after the team appealed Stone’s assessment for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone argued the appeals board used an overly simplistic approach to value the stadium, not accounting for all the special events and concerts it hosts outside of football games, and he later sued the board, but lost in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-wont-appeal-san-francisco-49ers-nfl-tax-break-ruling/\">court\u003c/a> in late 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Assessor Larry Stone with politicians sit on a bookshelf at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believe that that building, the stadium, is not properly assessed. But I did all I could — my office did all we could — to arrive at an accurate value. The court disagreed,” Stone said, recalling the saga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone didn’t grow up hoping to be an assessor, but there may have been signs early on that he’d be a good fit for the role. Sifting through a stack of personal photos, Stone pulled out a grade-school image of his smiling young face during his campaign for school secretary. His campaign promise to his classmates was written across the image: “Dependable and accurate records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young, single man, Stone started his professional career as an investment banker working on Wall Street in New York, living in an apartment on Manhattan’s east side with a coworker, a gig and a lifestyle he said was “heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being transferred to the Bay Area, where he met his wife Carmen and had three children, Stone and two business partners started a real estate investment firm on Sand Hill Road, where the company neighbored Kleiner Perkins, one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He went on to develop very low-income housing — a San Francisco single-resident occupancy building — and an affordable apartment complex in San José, both of which he still has an ownership stake in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, who has lived in Sunnyvale since 1970, started his political career at home, running for and being elected to the City Council there in 1975, and serving two four-year terms before terming out. After waiting a city-mandated two years off the council and running again, he won two more elections, serving a total of 16 years on the council, including two turns as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From City Council to Assessor, Stone has never lost an election, running largely unopposed in his eight races for assessor. He was elected to the assessor’s office in 1994, but emphasizes that the work is not political, even though it’s an elected role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Williams, county executive of Santa Clara County, said people in the county might not realize the intricacies and the complexity involved in the work of the assessor, but said Stone has done an “outstanding” job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having confidence in the integrity and the efficacy of the property tax system is absolutely vital to every single service all of us take for granted from our local governments collectively,” Williams told KQED. “Schools, parks, roads — the list goes on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property taxes, which are raised and spent locally, account for roughly 40% of the county’s general fund budget, according to the county, and the largest chunk of those funds, about 44%, goes toward K-12 schools in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone holds a grade school photo of himself that says, ‘Vote for Larry for Secretary’ in his office at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone said he’s happy with his track record, noting that during his run of assessing the homes of everyday residents, as well as the major campuses and buildings of world-beating tech companies, he’s only added one additional staff member than was on payroll when he started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s “returned $35 million of my budget back to the general fund unspent” over his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he’s most proud of, however, is what he said is a more than 90% customer satisfaction rate, based on surveys given to residents who call, email or visit the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a government tax office. We give people news that they don’t necessarily like. I submit that over 90% customer service satisfaction rating for the assessor’s office is unheard of,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his high marks from residents, a finished assessment roll for 2025 and his office’s recent overhaul of its aging computer system software — a years-long effort — Stone felt now was as good a time to step away as any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the timing of Stone’s departure has rankled some in the county. Stone has often been quoted questioning the qualifications of his potential challengers for assessor during past elections.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The latest version of the bill extends tax cuts that Republicans passed in 2017 while slashing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046134/a-big-bad-betrayal-san-jose-groups-protest-trumps-tax-bill\">food assistance funding and Medicaid\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon, who represents the East Bay, is among Democrats presenting amendments to further delay Trump’s tax-and-spending mega-bill’s advance. A core amendment she is proposing would maintain federal funding for food benefits and health care coverage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Poor families in my district and across the country are surviving off of $6 equivalent of SNAP benefits per day, and Republicans want to cut those. So I’m going to say ‘Hell no,’” Simon said, adding that the changes will be difficult to get through in the Republican-majority House. “Our job is to fight.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11804662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg\" alt=\"North Bay Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. Garamendi and two other California congressmen want clarity from federal health officials in the wake of a whistleblower complaint.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1128\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-160x94.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-800x470.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/John-Garamendi-1020x599.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Democratic Rep. John Garamendi (right), pictured in 2011. \u003ccite>(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>U.S. Rep. 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If the billionaire tax cut were to be eliminated, we would be in a much better situation dealing with the healthcare services that 16 million Americans will lose, unless there’s a change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill adds nearly $45 billion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities and $14 billion for ongoing deportation efforts that include hiring thousands of more agents, on the heels of mass deportation raids, often by unidentified officers in unmarked vans.[aside postID=news_12046684 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/240517-TKBilingualLearners-128-BL_qed.jpg']Democrats who spoke to KQED said the ICE funding would further entrench the terror enveloping communities across the country, in the place of creating substantive immigration reform.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The connections between the head of ICE and Stephen Miller, to companies that they once owned — and have an interest in — is gross corruption,” Garamendi said. Increased funding for ICE “not only goes to a very corrupt program, but it doesn’t solve the problem. The problem is that our immigration laws are so out of date.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., earlier this week proposed an amendment to ensure the bill would not increase the deficit, in response to changes made by the Senate that would pile trillions onto the nation’s debt load. Republicans rejected the amendment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Senate Republicans just voted to let President Trump and his billionaire buddies steal from working families in order to cut their own taxes by trillions of dollars,” Padilla said. “Americans are struggling to keep up with rising costs from Trump’s chaotic tariffs. Instead of trying to reduce costs, Senate Republicans have chosen to cut a trillion dollars from Medicaid, kicking 17 million people — including over 2.3 million Californians — off their health insurance. 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Last month, Dan Goncher, a principal in the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office, sent a letter to Peterson \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042683/as-turmoil-mounts-at-sf-zoo-city-auditor-threatens-to-step-up-investigation\">threatening to escalate requests for compliance\u003c/a> back to the board, saying the zoo had dodged records requests since January, failed to turn over dozens of documents, made false claims about the status of others and submitted contradictory financial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12042161\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12042161\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1378\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo-800x551.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo-1536x1058.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SanFranciscoZoo-1920x1323.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bicyclist rolls past the San Francisco Zoo on Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco, California, on March 20, 2020. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Myrna Melgar, whose district includes the zoo, said she’s already asked the chair of the Budget and Finance Committee to hold the zoo’s $4 million in annual funding in reserve until it complies. The Board of Supervisors will vote on that request next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid the facility’s problems, there has also been a months-long struggle over Peterson’s position. 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They both take aim at the \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/environment/ceqa\">1970 California Environmental Quality Act\u003c/a>, known as CEQA (pronounced “see-kwah” in state legislative parlance), which has been the ire of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/03/ceqa-infill-housing-wicks/\">housing\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2025/06/ceqa-environmental-law-reform/\">advocates\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://lhc.ca.gov/report/california-environmental-quality-act-ceqa/\">oversight agencies\u003c/a> for years. Critics claim its ever-broadening scope and lengthy review process have slowed development and made it too expensive to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This budget that is connected to [those reforms] is a budget that builds,” Newsom said Monday. “It’s not just a housing package, it’s also about infrastructure, it’s also about high speed rail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, however, reforming CEQA has been a divisive issue among state Democrats, due to its ardent support among labor, \u003ca href=\"https://ceja.org/what-we-do/green-zones/ceqa-case-studies/\">environmental\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://ceqaworks.org/\">groups\u003c/a> and others, who have heralded it as one of the \u003ca href=\"https://w.ecovote.org/california-environmental-quality-act-the-myths-vs-the-facts/\">most important tools\u003c/a> to fight pollution and sprawl. And they often point to \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3956250\">studies \u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">calling into question\u003c/a> whether it truly stops development from moving forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.[aside postID=news_12046283 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/240718-BerkeleyMissingMiddleHousing-24-BL_qed.jpg']“It was too urgent, too important to allow the process to unfold as it has for the last generation, invariably falling prey to all kinds of pratfall and I was too concerned that that would indeed occur again if we allowed this process to unfold in the traditional way,” Newsom said, addressing criticism that the bills were fast-tracked. “If we can’t address this issue, we’re going to lose trust, and that’s just the truth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Elmendorf, a land-use and housing law expert at the UC Davis School of Law, called the maneuver “pretty bold.” The governor typically remains on the sidelines during legislative battles, he said, especially those involving controversial housing bills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He doesn’t really get involved in arm-twisting in the legislature, [but he] did the most intensive form of arm-twisting which is available to him,” Elmendorf said. “Because we need a budget. And in fact, if the budget isn’t passed on time, legislators don’t get paid.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That arm-twisting is partly what concerns environmental groups that wanted more public discussion about what these bills would do before they got signed into law. Asha Sharma, state policy manager for the Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability, said she wanted to see Newsom taking a stronger stance to uphold environmental protections in California, especially amidst \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history\">federal\u003c/a> rollbacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“CEQA is really the only way that we have any type of voice or say in what these projects look like,” she said. “It is really concerning that that is where [Newsom’s] priorities are, especially in such a precarious moment at a federal level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046618\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1997px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046618\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1997\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed.jpg 1997w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DSC0888_qed-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1997px) 100vw, 1997px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mother and daughter watch the construction from the balcony of their new home, which they helped to build in the Central Commons development in Fremont, California, on June 17, 2019. \u003ccite>(Stephanie Lister/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But housing advocates argue that protecting the environment is at the heart of the two bills featured in the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Language from Wick’s bill is included in trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB130\">AB 130\u003c/a>, which exempts infill housing — homes built within an existing city — from lengthy CEQA reviews. If it’s easier for developers to build homes in denser areas, Wicks argues it could help reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by longer commutes to \u003ca href=\"https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/01/06/suburban-sprawl-cancels-carbon-footprint-savings-of-dense-urban-cores/\">far-off\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://unu.edu/article/suburban-living-worst-carbon-emissions-new-research\">suburbs\u003c/a>. Apartments also tend to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=11731\">use less energy\u003c/a> than detached homes, according to the US Energy Information Administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All these places that are already urban, already developed, already have infrastructure … that type of housing development is by far the most environmentally beneficial,” said Matthew Lewis, spokesperson for the housing lobbying group, CA YIMBY. “What these bills do is they basically codify that by saying, we recognize that these types of homes are good for the environment and therefore do not have to go through these extensive environmental processes.”[aside postID=news_12011579 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20240930_CEQACHILDCARE_GC-45-KQED.jpg']Trailer bill \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB131\">SB 131\u003c/a>, which includes Wiener’s bill, makes more technical changes to CEQA reviews, but ultimately tries to avoid redundancies in the process. Among other provisions, the bill includes a number of CEQA exemptions for certain categories of development, including high-speed rail, trails and wildfire mitigation projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also exempts advanced manufacturing facilities in industrial areas, a feature Wiener hopes will spur the production of electronics and semiconductors in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re seeing a new kind of manufacturing that we’re trying to reshore into the US, whether it’s semiconductors, electronics, other kinds of advanced technology that we want to be produced here,” Wiener told KQED. “And the last thing we want is for California to get skipped over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But environmental groups say this exemption is precisely what concerns them about the bill. Semiconductor factories often require significant amounts of water to fabricate microchips and can release hazardous chemicals into the air and water supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046616\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046616\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250618-NewTeacherHousing-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction workers build at 750 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco on June 18, 2025, during a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of two affordable housing projects. One will deliver 75 units prioritized for SFUSD and City College educators, and the other at 850 Turk will add 92 family apartments. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Silicon Valley garnered international esteem for its semiconductor and microprocessor facilities, but now has \u003ca href=\"https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live\">23 toxic Superfund sites,\u003c/a> a designation the Environmental Protection Agency gives to the worst hazardous waste sites in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are examples across the state of how the communities surrounding these facilities have just really experienced a lot of health harm,” Raquel Mason, senior legislative manager with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, said at a press conference opposing the bill. “This is why CEQA [was created], so that we can have this review and make sure that there’s safety and health considerations for projects exactly like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it comes to housing, however, some advocates argue those reviews can result in more process than progress. They have criticized \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002905/it-was-a-sleepy-year-for-housing-legislation-here-are-some-that-made-it-through\">recent legislation as being ineffective\u003c/a> because they made too many concessions to environmental groups and often fell into an \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html\">everything bagel black hole\u003c/a> of qualifications — an idea central to the burgeoning \u003ca href=\"https://www.abundancenetwork.com/the-movement/\">Abundance\u003c/a> movement. That Newsom fought to get Wicks’ and Wiener’s bills passed so quickly is telling, Lewis said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CEQA has been the third rail of California politics for decades, but Lewis argued the state no longer has the luxury to delay the housing it needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is just fundamentally irresponsible to be blocking homes in California cities in 2025 when we’re seeing the incredible heat waves across the country. We’re seeing wildfires, we’re seeing flooding, we’re seeing storms destroy entire communities, all because of the pollution caused from sprawl and traffic and other pollution,” he said. “It’s time to get over that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Baker, state policy director for the Planning and Conservation League, an environmental advocacy group, said he was particularly concerned with the provisions in SB 607, which he called “the worst rollback of environmental and public health protections” the state has seen in decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Side-stepping the legislative process in a fast-track budget deal that has had zero transparency for such significant changes to the one law that gives our communities voice in the planning decisions that affect them is just simply a disgrace to our democracy,” he said. “This is the way you do bad things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046617\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046617\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250519-AffordableHousingFile-13-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction is underway on an affordable housing apartment building at 2550 Irving Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on May 19, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But as the state seeks to make housing more affordable and meet its energy goals, Wiener said it needs to be easier for projects to get approved and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The high costs devastating our communities stem directly from our extreme shortage of housing, childcare, affordable healthcare, and so many of the other things families need to thrive,” he said in a statement shortly after the Legislature’s vote. “These bills get red tape and major process hurdles out of the way, allowing us to finally start addressing these shortages and securing an affordable California and a brighter future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, legislators have taken a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.cp-dr.com/articles/how-long-can-the-swiss-cheese-approach-ceqa-go/b24c31e081204b8eb4cbbf4f6313f2db\">Swiss cheese\u003c/a>” approach to CEQA reform, bypassing the more onerous requirements by exempting \u003ca href=\"https://www.scag.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2024-05/ceqa_exemptions_for_housing_projects_-_project_eligibility_review_matrix.pdf\">certain kinds of development\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-06-27/california-lawmakers-ceqa-exemption-environmental-law-capitol-annex-renovation\">even\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">specific\u003c/a> \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-stadium-bills-failures-20170411-story.html\">projects\u003c/a>. But the two bills included in this year’s budget aim to make bolder moves: AB 609 exempts all urban housing development from individually going through the review process, while SB 607 exempts another nine categories of projects from review under the law, if they meet certain criteria, and narrows its scope for a variety of projects by avoiding what Wiener described as “repetitive” studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-05-14/newsom-announces-support-for-ceqa-exemption-bills\">publicly supported these bills\u003c/a> when he included them in his revised budget in May, but his strongest endorsement came last week, when he \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB102\">required\u003c/a> the bills to be included in two “trailer bills” — AB 130 and SB 131 — and approved, or the budget would be repealed entirely.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But Tanya Peterson, the zoo’s embattled leader, has said she’s not going anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The confusion arose after Lurie said in a statement on Friday that new leadership would be a step in the right direction for the zoo — whose image has suffered following months of strife between Peterson and the zoo’s board of directors and staff, noncompliance with a city audit and a scathing report that found the facility \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101907448/sf-zoo-is-unsafe-for-visitors-and-animals-according-to-city-report\">unsafe for employees and animals\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to a spokesperson for Peterson, after a phone call with Lurie on Thursday, she had no intention to leave her role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Peterson] has always said that she would do what is in the best interest of the zoo and its visitors. 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In May, the San Francisco Zoological Society, the nonprofit that runs the facility, held a series of closed-door discussions as part of an effort to oust her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12040493\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12040493\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1474\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1020x752.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1536x1132.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/SFZooGetty1-1920x1415.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Zoo director Tanya Peterson visits the giraffes in the African Savanna exhibit in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 7, 2011. \u003ccite>(Paul Chinn/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While she ultimately stayed, at least five members of the board of directors have resigned since. Matthew Miller, the former chair of the society’s risk committee, cited the board’s inability to decide on Peterson’s employment as the reason for his departure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort to remove Peterson followed a scathing report from the city’s Animal Control and Welfare Commission that found the zoo’s infrastructure was “extremely outdated,” lacked running water in some areas, flooded in others and was unsafe for animals and visitors last October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months following, the union that represents about 100 zoo workers took an overwhelming vote of no confidence in Peterson and the Board of Supervisors requested a performance audit of the zoo, which is ongoing.[aside postID=news_12042683 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SanFranciscoZooGetty-1020x744.jpg']The zoo is now \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042683/as-turmoil-mounts-at-sf-zoo-city-auditor-threatens-to-step-up-investigation\">at risk of losing $4 million in annual funding\u003c/a> for failing to comply with that audit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s office accused Peterson and zoo management of being uncooperative with its process, failing to turn over dozens of documents requested as far back as January, while making false claims about the status of others and providing contradictory financial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city’s audit threatens to escalate to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for further action to force compliance. 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"content": "\u003cp>As the Trump administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910383/how-trumps-immigration-crackdown-is-playing-out-in-the-bay-area\">ramps up immigration arrests\u003c/a>, flooding the streets of Los Angeles with masked agents, it is simultaneously stripping half a million people of humanitarian protections that allowed them to enter the country legally — essentially turning them into undocumented immigrants and threatening to deport them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of those people is a Nicaraguan journalist who escaped \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/09/14/1198540870/nicaragua-ortega-repression-journalism\">a crackdown on the free press\u003c/a> in her homeland, and recently landed here in the Bay Area. The journalist, a woman in her 40s, asked KQED to identify her only by her first initial, E., because she fears what the Nicaraguan government could do to her if she’s deported, or to the family she left behind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We met on a sunny morning earlier this month at her new apartment in a suburban housing complex in Concord. E. had just rented the place but she had no furniture, so we sat down to talk on the brown living room carpet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E. told her story as the Trump administration began \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/06/12/dhs-issues-notices-termination-chnv-parole-program-encourages-parolees-self-deport\">sending letters out\u003c/a> this month notifying her and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/national-media-release/cbp-releases-december-2024-monthly-update\">more than 530,000 others\u003c/a> from four unstable and authoritarian countries — Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela — that a Biden-era \u003ca href=\"https://www.refugeesinternational.org/perspectives-and-commentaries/setting-the-record-straight-on-chnv/\">humanitarian parole program\u003c/a> under which they had come to the U.S. lawfully, had been terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thinking back to what brought her to this point, E., who’s a mother of two, described her path to become a journalist. She was in high school when she discovered the profession, and she said interviewing politicians and covering the news of the day seemed exciting. She built a career spanning TV, radio and newspapers and, over time, her work took on increasing urgency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It gave me the opportunity to give voice to the voiceless and hold power to account — to question what’s permitted under the laws and the constitution,” she said. “Of course in some countries it can be dangerous to bring to light what’s happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, Nicaragua has become such a country. The government of President Daniel Ortega has taken control of some news outlets and shut others down entirely, locking up journalists on false charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-03-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. in her home in Concord on June 12, 2025. The journalist is seeking asylum from persecution in Nicaragua and did not want to expose her name or face. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>“If you’re on the list … The only thing to do is to run.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Ortega first came to power as part of the Sandinista leadership that waged\u003ca href=\"https://americanarchive.org/exhibits/newshour-cold-war/nicaragua\"> a leftist revolution\u003c/a> to topple the 43-year Somoza family dictatorship in 1979. He was elected president in 1985, but when he was voted out five years later, he stepped down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After winning re-election in 2006, though, \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaragua-congress-gives-final-approval-sweeping-constitutional-reforms-2025-01-30/\">Ortega tightened his grip on power\u003c/a>. A\u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/02/nicaraguas-deepening-repression-un-experts-call-urgent-global-action\"> bloody crackdown on protesters\u003c/a> in 2018 was followed by a 2021 election in which \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2022/02/11/1080204905/nicaragua-has-convicted-more-than-a-dozen-opponents-of-president-daniel-ortega\">Ortega jailed most opposition candidates\u003c/a>. His party dominates the legislature and he has progressively gained control of the police, the military \u003ca href=\"https://www.refugeesinternational.org/perspectives-and-commentaries/setting-the-record-straight-on-chnv/\">and the courts\u003c/a>. He has made his wife, Rosario Murillo, co-president. And earlier this month, a former general who became a critic \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/20/roberto-samcam-killed-costa-rica-president-daniel-ortega\">was assassinated\u003c/a> in Costa Rica.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In spite of the risk, E. stayed, even as others left the country. Journalists from formerly competing media outlets teamed up to report clandestinely and publish news without bylines, getting information out about human rights violations however they could.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12044974 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/Presser_IMG_5746-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They learned of an “enemies list” compiled by the regime, and contacted the people whose names were on it, so they could try to escape, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you’re on the list, they will get you. The only thing to do is to run,” she said. “I have friends who wanted to stay and face justice. They said, ‘I don’t have anything to fear.’ I told them, ‘No! Go! Get out!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, in late 2023, E. found out that she was targeted. “My source told me: ‘Run! You’re on the list.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>E. said she kissed her children goodbye and, with the help of her journalism network, went into hiding. Soon, police began violently questioning her family about her whereabouts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will never regret becoming a journalist,” she said, brushing her long dark hair away from her face. “But my family shouldn’t have to pay. When I decided to be a journalist I didn’t know that this was part of the package.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Safe in exile, but for how long?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Nicaraguan journalists already in exile in Florida helped her find a U.S. sponsor and apply for the parole program, which Biden officials had designed as a way to shift the growing number of migrants from the four countries away from the border and into a lawful, if temporary, pathway.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, last spring, E.’s parole was approved and she flew to Florida legally — with a two-year work permit and, once on U.S. soil, the chance to seek asylum.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was one of \u003ca href=\"https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-01-18/journalists-on-the-verge-of-extinction-in-nicaragua.html\">more than 40 journalists who fled Nicaragua last year\u003c/a>, she said, while five colleagues who stayed are now in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When she landed in the U.S., she said, she touched the earth and thought, ‘Thank God! This land is welcoming me and I can start over.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“E.’s case is a great example for why we even had the program,” said Reena Arya, E.’s immigration lawyer with Jewish Family and Community Services of the East Bay. “The United States vetted her, ran her fingerprints. … They stamped her passport.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Florida, she found work she loved, doing public relations for nonprofits. And she applied for humanitarian parole for her children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the day President Donald Trump took office, \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2025/01/20/nx-s1-5268986/trump-humanitarian-parole-immigration#:~:text=In%20an%20executive%20order%20signed,National\">he issued an executive order ending the program\u003c/a>, along with other “categorical” parole programs, such as one for Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion and Afghans who escaped after the Taliban takeover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After waiting 70 days for her kids’ applications to be approved, E. knew they would instead be void. She says when she found out, she cried the entire day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044052\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044052\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-NICARAGUAN-JOURNALIST-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">E. in her home in Concord on June 12, 2025. She is among dozens of Nicaraguan journalists who have fled a violent crackdown on the free press. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Parole revoked\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://justiceactioncenter.org/svitlana-doe-v-noem-class-action/\">Advocates sued\u003c/a> the Trump administration to preserve the humanitarian protections, including the so-called CHNV parole for Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans, as well as those for Ukrainians, Afghans and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For more than 70 years, under both Republican and Democratic administrations, humanitarian parole has been a longstanding and effective lynchpin of our immigration system,” said Esther Sung, legal director for Justice Action Center, the pro-immigrant group that brought the suit. “It has been a lifeline for people facing humanitarian crises in their countries of origin and has been one of the last remaining lawful pathways for people to secure temporary protection in the U.S.”[aside postID=news_12040425 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/20250514_AFGHANREFUGEESTPS_GC-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg']In April, a federal judge in Massachusetts halted the parole terminations, and an appeals court declined to reverse that decision. But in late May, the Supreme Court ruled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/30/dhs-releases-statement-major-scotus-victory-trump-administration-and-american\">government can start revoking parole \u003c/a>while the case, Svitlana Doe v. Noem, plays out in court. The next hearing is July 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung called the revocations unprecedented, and added that she considers them part of a plan by the Trump administration “to de-legalize people here lawfully to advance its anti-immigrant agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement June 12, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin called the CHNV parole “disastrous,” saying the Biden administration had poorly vetted parolees and suggesting those admitted were responsible for “chaos” and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ending the CHNV parole programs, as well as the paroles of those who exploited it, will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First,” McLaughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different observer, award-winning Venezuelan journalist Boris Muñoz, who’s a former \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> editor and UC Berkeley journalism lecturer, has seen the impact of the parole — and its termination — up close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz came to the U.S. on a fellowship, but as then-President Hugo Chavez consolidated power in Venezuela, Muñoz decided it wasn’t safe to go back. He has since become a U.S. citizen, and he’s watched over the years as other Venezuelan journalists flee the growing repression in their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHNV parole offered them a legal way to get here. And the \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/2024/08/press-freedom-in-nicaragua-nearly-nonexistent-cpj-and-rights-groups-tell-un/\">crackdown on press freedom\u003c/a> in all four countries covered by the program is well documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In particular for journalists, it’s crucial,” Muñoz said. “Because they cannot live in their countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that the journalists who arrived with parole are now in limbo, as their work permits are canceled and the possibility of deportation looms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a cruel measure that’s not addressing the promise Trump made to clean the country of criminals,” he said. “These people are not criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking for sanctuary in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Leaving her office in Florida one afternoon in February, in the early weeks of the Trump presidency, E. said she saw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounding up immigrants on a nearby avenue and loading them onto buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had thought that with the protection of parole, she had nothing to fear from ICE. Now she realized that she could be next. E. felt hunted again, as she had in Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘I can’t stay here,’ and I called some friends in California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told her they thought she’d be safer if she joined them, because California’s sanctuary laws prevent local police from helping ICE with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So E. uprooted once more, arriving in the Bay Area with nothing. She said she slept on friends’ couches until she found the apartment in Concord. And she landed a supermarket job to pay the bills while she looked for work in her field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she recently received the DHS letter canceling her parole and her work permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospect of deportation is terrifying, she said, fighting back tears, because she expects she would be imprisoned, as others have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me if I fear going back to my country, the answer is ‘Yes,’” she said, fighting back tears. “I’ve never been scared in my life. I’ve always been strong and brave. But I’ve seen what they’re capable of. I’ve seen people who were tortured, who were held in deplorable conditions. I don’t want to suffer. I don’t want my children to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Arya’s help, E. applied for asylum so, if normal rules apply, it’s unlikely she’ll be deported any time soon. But Arya says the revocation of parole means the promise of protection has been broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s fundamentally unfair,” she said. “It’s not how our immigration system has ever worked. And we’re entering a new era where the government thinks they can do that. And it’s a very scary door to open and walk through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For now, E. has plans to furnish the apartment. She should eventually get a work permit through her asylum application. And if she wins the asylum case, as Arya thinks she will, E. will eventually be allowed to bring her children here, though that could be years off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And she wants to work for a just society, she said, whether for Nicaragua or here in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to help,” she said. “That’s what I’ve always done. And one day, I will be doing it again.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In April, a federal judge in Massachusetts halted the parole terminations, and an appeals court declined to reverse that decision. But in late May, the Supreme Court ruled the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/05/30/dhs-releases-statement-major-scotus-victory-trump-administration-and-american\">government can start revoking parole \u003c/a>while the case, Svitlana Doe v. Noem, plays out in court. The next hearing is July 29.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sung called the revocations unprecedented, and added that she considers them part of a plan by the Trump administration “to de-legalize people here lawfully to advance its anti-immigrant agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement June 12, Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin called the CHNV parole “disastrous,” saying the Biden administration had poorly vetted parolees and suggesting those admitted were responsible for “chaos” and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ending the CHNV parole programs, as well as the paroles of those who exploited it, will be a necessary return to common-sense policies, a return to public safety, and a return to America First,” McLaughlin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A different observer, award-winning Venezuelan journalist Boris Muñoz, who’s a former \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> editor and UC Berkeley journalism lecturer, has seen the impact of the parole — and its termination — up close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muñoz came to the U.S. on a fellowship, but as then-President Hugo Chavez consolidated power in Venezuela, Muñoz decided it wasn’t safe to go back. He has since become a U.S. citizen, and he’s watched over the years as other Venezuelan journalists flee the growing repression in their country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CHNV parole offered them a legal way to get here. And the \u003ca href=\"https://cpj.org/2024/08/press-freedom-in-nicaragua-nearly-nonexistent-cpj-and-rights-groups-tell-un/\">crackdown on press freedom\u003c/a> in all four countries covered by the program is well documented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In particular for journalists, it’s crucial,” Muñoz said. “Because they cannot live in their countries.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he added that the journalists who arrived with parole are now in limbo, as their work permits are canceled and the possibility of deportation looms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s a cruel measure that’s not addressing the promise Trump made to clean the country of criminals,” he said. “These people are not criminals.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Looking for sanctuary in California\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Leaving her office in Florida one afternoon in February, in the early weeks of the Trump presidency, E. said she saw U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents rounding up immigrants on a nearby avenue and loading them onto buses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She had thought that with the protection of parole, she had nothing to fear from ICE. Now she realized that she could be next. E. felt hunted again, as she had in Nicaragua.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought, ‘I can’t stay here,’ and I called some friends in California,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They told her they thought she’d be safer if she joined them, because California’s sanctuary laws prevent local police from helping ICE with immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So E. uprooted once more, arriving in the Bay Area with nothing. She said she slept on friends’ couches until she found the apartment in Concord. And she landed a supermarket job to pay the bills while she looked for work in her field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she recently received the DHS letter canceling her parole and her work permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The prospect of deportation is terrifying, she said, fighting back tears, because she expects she would be imprisoned, as others have been.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask me if I fear going back to my country, the answer is ‘Yes,’” she said, fighting back tears. “I’ve never been scared in my life. I’ve always been strong and brave. But I’ve seen what they’re capable of. I’ve seen people who were tortured, who were held in deplorable conditions. I don’t want to suffer. I don’t want my children to suffer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With Arya’s help, E. applied for asylum so, if normal rules apply, it’s unlikely she’ll be deported any time soon. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two years ago, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california\">California\u003c/a> released the first-of-its-kind report, documenting harms committed by the government against Black residents — just as the nation’s highest court was dealing a devastating blow to race-conscious policymaking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was a dramatic split-screen moment: On June 29, 2023, the same day the California Reparations Task Force released a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11953025/reparations-task-forces-final-report-covers-much-more-than-money\">groundbreaking final report\u003c/a>, the Supreme Court issued its monumental decision \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11954709/timeline-a-heated-history-of-affirmative-action-in-america\">banning affirmative action\u003c/a> in higher education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Legal hurdles and shifting politics around racial justice have stalled many \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12002804/centerpiece-reparations-bill-derailed-by-newsoms-late-request-heres-why\">reparations-related proposals\u003c/a> in the state Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, California lawmakers are advancing a new strategy: reparations not based on race, but on lineage. They hope to set up a clash over whether descendants of enslaved people can be given preference in areas such as college admissions, mortgage assistance and professional licensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it should go up to the Supreme Court, then let it be there,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, vice chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus. “But the country needs to say unequivocally that reparations and repair for slavery are either constitutional or unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the real foundational question that Black Americans are due [to have] answered in the immediate, and we want to pose that question as quickly as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (right) talks to members of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California about two reparations bills in the rotunda on the last day of the legislative year on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Tran Nguyen/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move carries legal risk, as opponents argue the bills attempt to circumvent state and federal limits on affirmative action and they, too, welcome a fight in the courts. Years before the Supreme Court’s ruling in \u003cem>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard\u003c/em>, California voters passed their own ban on affirmative action in public education, employment and contracting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills, if they become law, could generate reprisals from a Trump administration that has tried to punish state and local governments that have enacted diversity, equity and inclusion programs in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041026/new-trump-administration-rules-could-cut-off-crucial-federal-homelessness-funding\">housing\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the unfinished task of determining who qualifies for reparations programs. The Legislature has yet to create a new state agency to implement the report’s proposals or verify ancestry.[aside postID=news_12044638 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/12m-Reparations-1.jpg']Despite broad support in the Capitol for the creation of the task force in 2020, legislators have had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents\">mixed success\u003c/a> turning the panel’s recommendations into laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the California Legislative Black Caucus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027903/california-lawmakers-target-historical-harm-to-black-residents-in-latest-bill-push\">announced a package of bills\u003c/a> inspired by the task force’s recommendations, including Assembly Bill 7, which would allow California universities to grant preference in admissions to applicants who are descendants of enslaved people. Importantly, said Bryan, the bill’s author, the words “Black” or “African American” do not appear in the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no race in AB7 at all,” he added. “It’s a specific harm-based intervention for a group of people who were previously excluded or harmed by institutions of higher learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the state Assembly in early June and is set to be heard in the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Law School professor Ralph Richard Banks predicted the bill would set off an intense legal fight if it is passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white sign with black lettering reads "Reparations Now 2023" at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento, the state's capital.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, “Reparations Now 2023,” at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On one side, you’ll have people saying, ‘Oh, an admissions preference for descendants of slavery — that’s just a transparent proxy for race,” Banks said. “And the other side of the argument will say, ‘Well, actually, there are reasons that we might be concerned about slavery and rectifying and responding to the damage and the harm done by slavery, which is distinct from any concern with race per se.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banks said the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling is likely to suppress race-conscious policies beyond college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greater significance is that it would naturally be extended to all other sectors of life,” he said. “Not only college admissions, but employment and government policymaking related to housing … so the implications are dramatic and they’re still playing out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a precedent-setting court battle could also include two other bills making their way through the Legislature. Assembly Bill 57 would set aside 10% of funds in the California Dream for All home-loan assistance program for descendants of enslaved people. Assembly Bill 742 would prioritize descendants of enslavement for state licenses required for professions such as barbers, dental hygienists and physical therapists.[aside postID=news_11948198 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Rep-Episode-2_Thumbnail_1-1020x574.png']Last year, a similar bill proposed to prioritize Black Californians for professional licenses was shelved ahead of a committee hearing, in part due to legal concerns. Another bill aimed at weakening Proposition 209, California’s ban on affirmative action, also failed to advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Quinio, a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a group opposing the bills, said the legislation is searching for a loophole to enact policies that benefit Black Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is absolutely being used as a proxy of a race,” Quinio said. “Not only is the origin and the purpose of AB 7 demonstrative of the fact that it is trying to benefit a racial category, but the ultimate effect will be that only a particular racial category will benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinio said the bill’s authors have been explicit about their goal of enacting recommendations of the reparations task force, which was created “to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill package, which includes AB 7, among the other bills, is about repairing centuries of economic damage [and] abuse that was inflicted on Black Californians,” Quinio said. “So it’s very clear as to who the bills were meant to benefit and what the purpose is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinio pointed to a 2000 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Hawaii law restricting voting for a particular state office to people with Hawaiian ancestry. But he acknowledged the nation’s highest court has not ruled definitively on the kind of reparations policies being pursued in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a face mask holds a sign that reads \"World Leaders! Reparations for Slavery Now!\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-time Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the Reparations Task Force listens to public input at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To invite such a legal showdown, the Legislature will first have to pass Senate Bill 518, a bill that would create a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. The new agency would be tasked with verifying an individual’s status as a descendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar proposal stalled last year after opposition from the Newsom administration over cost concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at UCLA, said his hope for the legal survival of the reparations movement has been buoyed by an unlikely source: conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his concurring opinion in the Students for Fair Admissions case, Thomas argued that laws passed by Congress around the time of the 14th Amendment, particularly the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, were race-neutral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If laws meant to assist freed slaves were considered race-neutral and constitutional, Hunter wondered, could the same be true of laws meant to support their descendants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s happening in the atmosphere is to test that theory out,” Hunter said. “There’s a lot of fear about what they’re going to accept or not accept, but they haven’t yet been made to come into the waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it should go up to the Supreme Court, then let it be there,” said Assemblymember Isaac Bryan, D-Los Angeles, vice chair of the California Legislative Black Caucus. “But the country needs to say unequivocally that reparations and repair for slavery are either constitutional or unconstitutional.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s the real foundational question that Black Americans are due [to have] answered in the immediate, and we want to pose that question as quickly as we can.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12002657\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12002657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/AP24244812299639-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (right) talks to members of the Coalition for a Just and Equitable California about two reparations bills in the rotunda on the last day of the legislative year on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024, in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Tran Nguyen/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The move carries legal risk, as opponents argue the bills attempt to circumvent state and federal limits on affirmative action and they, too, welcome a fight in the courts. Years before the Supreme Court’s ruling in \u003cem>Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard\u003c/em>, California voters passed their own ban on affirmative action in public education, employment and contracting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bills, if they become law, could generate reprisals from a Trump administration that has tried to punish state and local governments that have enacted diversity, equity and inclusion programs in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041026/new-trump-administration-rules-could-cut-off-crucial-federal-homelessness-funding\">housing\u003c/a> or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12030028/trump-cut-education-grants-over-dei-it-will-worsen-teacher-shortages-lawsuit-says\">education\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s also the unfinished task of determining who qualifies for reparations programs. The Legislature has yet to create a new state agency to implement the report’s proposals or verify ancestry.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Despite broad support in the Capitol for the creation of the task force in 2020, legislators have had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents\">mixed success\u003c/a> turning the panel’s recommendations into laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, the California Legislative Black Caucus \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027903/california-lawmakers-target-historical-harm-to-black-residents-in-latest-bill-push\">announced a package of bills\u003c/a> inspired by the task force’s recommendations, including Assembly Bill 7, which would allow California universities to grant preference in admissions to applicants who are descendants of enslaved people. Importantly, said Bryan, the bill’s author, the words “Black” or “African American” do not appear in the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s no race in AB7 at all,” he added. “It’s a specific harm-based intervention for a group of people who were previously excluded or harmed by institutions of higher learning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill passed the state Assembly in early June and is set to be heard in the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanford Law School professor Ralph Richard Banks predicted the bill would set off an intense legal fight if it is passed by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11945733\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11945733\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A white sign with black lettering reads "Reparations Now 2023" at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento, the state's capital.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS63347_042_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForceSac_03032023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says, “Reparations Now 2023,” at a California Reparations Task Force meeting in Sacramento on March 3, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“On one side, you’ll have people saying, ‘Oh, an admissions preference for descendants of slavery — that’s just a transparent proxy for race,” Banks said. “And the other side of the argument will say, ‘Well, actually, there are reasons that we might be concerned about slavery and rectifying and responding to the damage and the harm done by slavery, which is distinct from any concern with race per se.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Banks said the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling is likely to suppress race-conscious policies beyond college admissions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The greater significance is that it would naturally be extended to all other sectors of life,” he said. “Not only college admissions, but employment and government policymaking related to housing … so the implications are dramatic and they’re still playing out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a precedent-setting court battle could also include two other bills making their way through the Legislature. Assembly Bill 57 would set aside 10% of funds in the California Dream for All home-loan assistance program for descendants of enslaved people. Assembly Bill 742 would prioritize descendants of enslavement for state licenses required for professions such as barbers, dental hygienists and physical therapists.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Last year, a similar bill proposed to prioritize Black Californians for professional licenses was shelved ahead of a committee hearing, in part due to legal concerns. Another bill aimed at weakening Proposition 209, California’s ban on affirmative action, also failed to advance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrew Quinio, a lawyer with the Pacific Legal Foundation, a group opposing the bills, said the legislation is searching for a loophole to enact policies that benefit Black Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it is absolutely being used as a proxy of a race,” Quinio said. “Not only is the origin and the purpose of AB 7 demonstrative of the fact that it is trying to benefit a racial category, but the ultimate effect will be that only a particular racial category will benefit.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinio said the bill’s authors have been explicit about their goal of enacting recommendations of the reparations task force, which was created “to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bill package, which includes AB 7, among the other bills, is about repairing centuries of economic damage [and] abuse that was inflicted on Black Californians,” Quinio said. “So it’s very clear as to who the bills were meant to benefit and what the purpose is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quinio pointed to a 2000 Supreme Court decision that struck down a Hawaii law restricting voting for a particular state office to people with Hawaiian ancestry. But he acknowledged the nation’s highest court has not ruled definitively on the kind of reparations policies being pursued in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952793\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED.jpg\" alt='A man wearing a face mask holds a sign that reads \"World Leaders! Reparations for Slavery Now!\" in a crowd of people.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/230612-Reparations-Getty-1243475910-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Long-time Los Angeles resident Walter Foster, 80, holds up a sign as the Reparations Task Force listens to public input at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Sept. 22, 2022. \u003ccite>(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To invite such a legal showdown, the Legislature will first have to pass Senate Bill 518, a bill that would create a Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery. The new agency would be tasked with verifying an individual’s status as a descendant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A similar proposal stalled last year after opposition from the Newsom administration over cost concerns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. Marcus Anthony Hunter, a professor of sociology and African American Studies at UCLA, said his hope for the legal survival of the reparations movement has been buoyed by an unlikely source: conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his concurring opinion in the Students for Fair Admissions case, Thomas argued that laws passed by Congress around the time of the 14th Amendment, particularly the establishment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, were race-neutral.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If laws meant to assist freed slaves were considered race-neutral and constitutional, Hunter wondered, could the same be true of laws meant to support their descendants?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of what’s happening in the atmosphere is to test that theory out,” Hunter said. “There’s a lot of fear about what they’re going to accept or not accept, but they haven’t yet been made to come into the waters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Instead, the court — split along ideological lines, with conservatives in the majority — ruled that federal judges likely overstepped their powers by issuing nationwide injunctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The court also placed a 30-day stay on Trump’s birthright citizenship order to give opponents time to challenge in court, according to the majority opinion written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12046217 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/npr.brightspotcdn-copy-13-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta noted that the court ruling does not completely eliminate the possibility of future nationwide injunctions. If it is found that a sweeping stay is needed to provide complete relief to plaintiffs involved in cases against Trump’s executive order, one may be reintroduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dissenting opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, she argued that the decision to limit nationwide injunctions goes against “basic principles of equity as well as the long history of injunctive relief granted to nonparties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Chiu, city attorney of San Francisco, said birthright citizenship is one instance where a court’s ability to decide on the nation’s behalf is critical. Without a universal injunction, determining each person’s citizenship and status based on where they’re born or move would be logistically difficult and unfair, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t require some states to issue birth certificates to birthright citizens and prohibit other states from doing so,” Chiu said. “The idea that a baby may or may not be a citizen depending on where she or he is born is cruel and nonsensical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the court’s decision did not question the merits of birthright citizenship and its constitutionality, Chiu said. Rather, he is more concerned that the ruling could dramatically reduce the injunctionary powers of the judiciary more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can no longer expect to benefit from other parties when they win court challenges,” he said. “We have to be in the fight ourselves to ensure that we can vindicate the interests of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kevin Johnson, a law professor at UC Davis, the Supreme Court’s ruling has less to do with immigration and legal status than it does with limiting the powers of the judicial branch and federal courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Democratic and Republican administrations in the past have had issues with courts ordering injunctions that interfere with executive directives, Johnson noted, adding that the question of whether lower courts should have the discretion to issue sweeping injunctions has been long debated by conservatives and liberals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Supreme Court has expressed a concern with all the injunctions coming before it on various matters, including immigration,” he said. “The court has … lost its patience with all these lawsuits, all these injunctions, all of these efforts to limit the prerogative of the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said it’s likely that the rule of birthright citizenship will continue to be enforced as federal judges release more limited injunctions. There’s also a chance that pushback from the Trump administration may eventually result in the issue being returned to the Supreme Court, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the court’s decision, Trump said on Truth Social that the ruling was a “giant win” and a hard hit on birthright citizenship, which he described as a scam on the United States’ immigration process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Trump issued an order barring citizenship to U.S.-born children whose parents are not citizens or legal permanent residents. It was one of nearly a dozen sweeping executive orders aimed at rewriting the rules on immigration and redefining who gets to be an American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and 21 other states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">immediately sued\u003c/a>. They were also joined by San Francisco and several immigrant rights groups, as well as individuals who stand to be affected by the directive. Federal judges quickly blocked the order from taking effect while the cases went forward, and three separate appeals courts refused to lift the injunctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus and the ACLU are \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/news/birthright-citizenship-executive-order\">litigating another lawsuit\u003c/a> against Trump’s birthright citizenship order, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/new-hampshire-indonesian-community-support-v-donald-j-trump?document=Complaint\">filed\u003c/a> in federal court in New Hampshire. In February, that judge also issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/documents/nh-indonesian-community-support-preliminary-injunction\">an injunction\u003c/a> — not a nationwide one — and the Trump administration is appealing the stay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To any pregnant woman out there, please do not worry and stress about this,” said Aarti Kohli, executive director of the Asian Law Caucus. “We are here. We are fighting very hard. There’s a large community of legal experts who really believe that this executive order has no teeth and that we will find a way to persevere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta noted that the court ruling does not completely eliminate the possibility of future nationwide injunctions. If it is found that a sweeping stay is needed to provide complete relief to plaintiffs involved in cases against Trump’s executive order, one may be reintroduced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the dissenting opinion written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, she argued that the decision to limit nationwide injunctions goes against “basic principles of equity as well as the long history of injunctive relief granted to nonparties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>David Chiu, city attorney of San Francisco, said birthright citizenship is one instance where a court’s ability to decide on the nation’s behalf is critical. Without a universal injunction, determining each person’s citizenship and status based on where they’re born or move would be logistically difficult and unfair, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t require some states to issue birth certificates to birthright citizens and prohibit other states from doing so,” Chiu said. “The idea that a baby may or may not be a citizen depending on where she or he is born is cruel and nonsensical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As it stands, the court’s decision did not question the merits of birthright citizenship and its constitutionality, Chiu said. Rather, he is more concerned that the ruling could dramatically reduce the injunctionary powers of the judiciary more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can no longer expect to benefit from other parties when they win court challenges,” he said. “We have to be in the fight ourselves to ensure that we can vindicate the interests of San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Kevin Johnson, a law professor at UC Davis, the Supreme Court’s ruling has less to do with immigration and legal status than it does with limiting the powers of the judicial branch and federal courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Democratic and Republican administrations in the past have had issues with courts ordering injunctions that interfere with executive directives, Johnson noted, adding that the question of whether lower courts should have the discretion to issue sweeping injunctions has been long debated by conservatives and liberals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Supreme Court has expressed a concern with all the injunctions coming before it on various matters, including immigration,” he said. “The court has … lost its patience with all these lawsuits, all these injunctions, all of these efforts to limit the prerogative of the president.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said it’s likely that the rule of birthright citizenship will continue to be enforced as federal judges release more limited injunctions. There’s also a chance that pushback from the Trump administration may eventually result in the issue being returned to the Supreme Court, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to the court’s decision, Trump said on Truth Social that the ruling was a “giant win” and a hard hit on birthright citizenship, which he described as a scam on the United States’ immigration process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this year, Trump issued an order barring citizenship to U.S.-born children whose parents are not citizens or legal permanent residents. It was one of nearly a dozen sweeping executive orders aimed at rewriting the rules on immigration and redefining who gets to be an American.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California and 21 other states \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023126/california-leaders-to-sue-trump-over-birthright-citizenship-border-policies\">immediately sued\u003c/a>. They were also joined by San Francisco and several immigrant rights groups, as well as individuals who stand to be affected by the directive. Federal judges quickly blocked the order from taking effect while the cases went forward, and three separate appeals courts refused to lift the injunctions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s Asian Law Caucus and the ACLU are \u003ca href=\"https://www.asianlawcaucus.org/news-resources/news/birthright-citizenship-executive-order\">litigating another lawsuit\u003c/a> against Trump’s birthright citizenship order, \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclu.org/cases/new-hampshire-indonesian-community-support-v-donald-j-trump?document=Complaint\">filed\u003c/a> in federal court in New Hampshire. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 2:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board that oversees the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-bridge\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a>, Highway and Transportation District voted Friday to approve a compromise resolution that declares the agency’s support for human rights while rescinding previously approved policies that supported diversity, equity and inclusion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The move was designed to adhere to new Trump administration funding rules that would deny federal grants to agencies that have adopted DEI policies. The funding rules are based on the administration’s position that diversity, equity and inclusion policies are discriminatory and illegal under federal law, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bridge district General Manager Denis Mulligan had argued it was necessary for the board to rescind earlier district resolutions containing DEI language in order to preserve access to a $400 million Department of Transportation grant the agency is counting on for a seismic retrofit of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members said they were uneasy with abandoning support for equity programs under pressure from the Trump administration, saying they believe it could embolden federal authorities to impose even more restrictive conditions on future funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly the choices in front of us are awful,” said Sonoma County board member Gerard Giudice. He offered a compromise: replacing a 2020 board resolution with one containing a more general declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1920x1317.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on April 15, 2024. \u003ccite>(Paul Kuroda/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Let’s craft a resolution that is based on our values, that the district believes every person has the right to be respected and to be safe,” Giudice said. “That the district and the board of directors show honor, compassion, and the qualities of character that support equal justice and due process for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2020 resolution, passed a month after the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd, originally read:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District believes every person, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or transgender status), age, or disability, deserves the right to feel respected and safe within our organization, to feel welcome in using our Bridge and public transit facilities, and to be afforded opportunities on a fair and equitable basis in all transactions involving the District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new resolution says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District believes every person deserves the right to feel respected and safe within our organization, to feel welcome in using our Bridge and public transit facilities, and to be afforded opportunities on a fair and equal basis in all transactions involving the District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted to accept the amended resolution by a vote of 11–3, with members Joel Engardio and Danny Sauter of San Francisco and Holli Thier of Marin County voting no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the agency that operates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-bridge\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> is asking its board to repeal commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs in response to Trump administration funding restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency General Manager Denis Mulligan called the action “a business decision” that is necessary to ensure the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District receives \u003ca href=\"https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/biden-harris-administration-announces-400-million-improve-golden-gate-bridge-through\">$400 million in federal funding\u003c/a> it’s counting on for a seismic retrofit of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2000x1332.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2048x1364.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It comes as the Trump administration’s new conditions on funding have pushed agencies across California and the U.S. to review their DEI policies and priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not $400 million we could get someplace else,” Mulligan said in an interview. “The question is, should we undo a couple of policies that we know are problematic words to access [these] funds or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move faces criticism from the district’s nine-member board, with one representative saying it represents a retreat in the face of an attack on local values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t just live our lives only thinking about business decisions,” said San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, who serves on the bridge district board. “There are things called moral decisions, and this is one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Supervisor Joel Engardio speaks on stage at the Sunset Night Market on Irving Street in San Francisco on Sept. 15, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mulligan’s staff has introduced \u003ca href=\"https://www.goldengate.org/assets/1/25/2025-0627-rulescomm-no3-gmrescindresosrevstratplancomplyftafhwadot.pdf?12860\">a resolution\u003c/a> for a Friday district board meeting that would rescind DEI-related measures adopted in 2020 and 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The\u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25983828-ggbhtd-resolution-20-049/\"> 2020 resolution\u003c/a> was essentially a solidarity statement condemning \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821834/bay-area-protests-over-death-of-george-floyd\">the police murder of George Floyd\u003c/a>, denouncing racism and committing the agency, among other things, to “recruit, hire, train and retain talent from Black People, Indigenous People, and other People of Color.” The \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25983902-2023-0127-boardmeeting-no8d-rulessum/\">2023 policy\u003c/a> approved by the board added “social equity” as one of the factors the district could consider in awarding contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A staff report accompanying the Friday resolution notes that although neither of the prior board actions is in apparent violation of federal anti-discrimination law, they could run afoul of a pair of directives from the U.S. Department of Transportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first of those was \u003ca href=\"https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2025-04/Follow%20the%20Law%20Letter%20to%20Applicants%204.24.25.pdf\">an April 24 letter\u003c/a> from Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to all grant recipients. The letter warned “any policy, program or activity that is premised on a prohibited classification, including discriminatory policies or practices designed to achieve socalled ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion,’ or ‘DEI,’ goals, presumptively violates federal law.”[aside postID=news_12044945 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20241204-BART-JY-009_qed.jpg']The next day, the Federal Transit Administration issued funding guidelines requiring grant recipients to certify that they do not “operate any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan argued that the Trump administration directives leave the district with just three “unpleasant choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could sign a funding agreement for the $400 million grant, which was awarded in 2023, with its current policies in place, but he said that would run the risk of having the grant denied or clawed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could instead challenge the orders in court, following the lead of about 30 other agencies that sued the administration in a Washington state federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mulligan said that would mean engaging in a process that could take years to play out and delay the seismic project indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he said, the district can rescind its policies and avoid the uncertainty and delay of the first two options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will allow us to award a construction contract, start strengthening the bridge and put people to work, hundreds of people to work,” Mulligan said. “And so when you look at the three options from a business perspective, that seems to be the most prudent” course of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with suit and sunglasses gazes out over the edge of Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Mulligan, general manager of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, looks at the safety net being installed below the sidewalk on the Golden Gate Bridge on Jan. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The general manager also argued that repealing the board’s previous actions will not alter the district’s commitment to the Bay Area community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we undo two policies, we’re still the Golden Gate Bridge District,” Mulligan said. “You know, this was a bridge that was built with all union labor in the 1930s. It’s a bridge of the people. We provide first-class bus and ferry service to everybody. We treat our employees with dignity and respect. You know, if you’re a vendor, we’re a trusted partner that you can do business with. So none of that changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But board member Engardio called it “disappointing and alarming” that the district would back away from values that should be celebrated.[aside postID=news_12042706 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/05/IMG_7164-1020x765.jpeg']“We are talking about a simple statement that said people should be treated with respect, feel safe, and be free from discrimination,” he said, referring to the 2020 resolution. “There is nothing controversial about that statement. And if we start retreating from statements like that, where does it end?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that the district retreating from its positions on DEI would send a negative message to its workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we’re rescinding statements that say, ‘Folks should be free from discrimination,’ what kind of signal does that send to our workers and to the people?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bridge district is just one of many agencies contending with the implications of the Trump administration’s new demands on recipients of federal funds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART has apparently taken down \u003ca href=\"https://web.archive.org/web/20250301063106/https:/www.bart.gov/about/business/ocr/diversity\">a page\u003c/a> that promoted its DEI efforts. The page, which was live as recently as early March, has been scrubbed of content and now displays the message “\u003ca href=\"https://www.bart.gov/about/business/ocr/diversity\">access denied\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to emailed questions about the page, a BART spokesperson wrote: “The district has reviewed federal guidelines and taken steps to bring its programs into compliance. We are not providing any more details beyond that at this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thirty-one jurisdictions nationwide, including San Francisco, Santa Clara and Sonoma counties and the city of San José, filed a federal suit in Washington state in May challenging the administration’s authority to impose new conditions on funding that had already been awarded. The grants at risk would help pay for homelessness prevention, housing assistance and transportation infrastructure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A federal judge in Seattle issued \u003ca href=\"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.347622/gov.uscourts.wawd.347622.169.0.pdf\">a preliminary injunction\u003c/a> against the Trump administration earlier this month, an order now under appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several board members said they were uneasy with abandoning support for equity programs under pressure from the Trump administration, saying they believe it could embolden federal authorities to impose even more restrictive conditions on future funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Clearly the choices in front of us are awful,” said Sonoma County board member Gerard Giudice. He offered a compromise: replacing a 2020 board resolution with one containing a more general declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010374\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010374\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-800x549.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1020x700.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/GGBridgeProtestAprilGetty-1536x1054.jpg 1536w, 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disability, deserves the right to feel respected and safe within our organization, to feel welcome in using our Bridge and public transit facilities, and to be afforded opportunities on a fair and equitable basis in all transactions involving the District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new resolution says:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The District believes every person deserves the right to feel respected and safe within our organization, to feel welcome in using our Bridge and public transit facilities, and to be afforded opportunities on a fair and equal basis in all transactions involving the District.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted to accept the amended resolution by a vote of 11–3, with members Joel Engardio and Danny Sauter of San Francisco and Holli Thier of Marin County voting no.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The head of the agency that operates the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/golden-gate-bridge\">Golden Gate Bridge\u003c/a> is asking its board to repeal commitments to diversity, equity and inclusion programs in response to Trump administration funding restrictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency General Manager Denis Mulligan called the action “a business decision” that is necessary to ensure the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District receives \u003ca href=\"https://highways.dot.gov/newsroom/biden-harris-administration-announces-400-million-improve-golden-gate-bridge-through\">$400 million in federal funding\u003c/a> it’s counting on for a seismic retrofit of the bridge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045403\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045403\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg\" alt=\"President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1705\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2000x1332.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-1536x1023.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/gettyimages-2220605099-1-2048x1364.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Trump pumps his fist after stepping off Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland on Saturday.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It comes as the Trump administration’s new conditions on funding have pushed agencies across California and the U.S. to review their DEI policies and priorities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not $400 million we could get someplace else,” Mulligan said in an interview. “The question is, should we undo a couple of policies that we know are problematic words to access [these] funds or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the proposed move faces criticism from the district’s nine-member board, with one representative saying it represents a retreat in the face of an attack on local values.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t just live our lives only thinking about business decisions,” said San Francisco Supervisor Joel Engardio, who serves on the bridge district board. “There are things called moral decisions, and this is one of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016406\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016406\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20230915-SunsetNightMarket-13-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The next day, the Federal Transit Administration issued funding guidelines requiring grant recipients to certify that they do not “operate any programs promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives that violate any applicable federal anti-discrimination laws.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mulligan argued that the Trump administration directives leave the district with just three “unpleasant choices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could sign a funding agreement for the $400 million grant, which was awarded in 2023, with its current policies in place, but he said that would run the risk of having the grant denied or clawed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district could instead challenge the orders in court, following the lead of about 30 other agencies that sued the administration in a Washington state federal court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Mulligan said that would mean engaging in a process that could take years to play out and delay the seismic project indefinitely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, he said, the district can rescind its policies and avoid the uncertainty and delay of the first two options.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will allow us to award a construction contract, start strengthening the bridge and put people to work, hundreds of people to work,” Mulligan said. “And so when you look at the three options from a business perspective, that seems to be the most prudent” course of action.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972459\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972459\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white man with suit and sunglasses gazes out over the edge of Golden Gate Bridge.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240108-BridgeSafetyNet-26-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denis Mulligan, general manager of the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, looks at the safety net being installed below the sidewalk on the Golden Gate Bridge on Jan. 8, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The general manager also argued that repealing the board’s previous actions will not alter the district’s commitment to the Bay Area community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we undo two policies, we’re still the Golden Gate Bridge District,” Mulligan said. “You know, this was a bridge that was built with all union labor in the 1930s. It’s a bridge of the people. We provide first-class bus and ferry service to everybody. We treat our employees with dignity and respect. You know, if you’re a vendor, we’re a trusted partner that you can do business with. So none of that changes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But board member Engardio called it “disappointing and alarming” that the district would back away from values that should be celebrated.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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