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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was reported for K Onda KQED, a monthly newsletter focused on the Bay Area’s Latinx community. \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/newsletters/k-onda\">\u003cem>Click here to subscribe.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursdays after school, a group of teenagers arrives at the Mid-Market headquarters of the Central American Resource Center of Northern California, or CARECEN SF, a social services organization for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101885738/system-challenges-ever-present-for-central-american-asylum-seekers\">Bay Area’s Central American communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They participate in a drum circle with instructor Victorino Cartagena, who leads them in learning a song inspired by Afro-Brazilian rhythms. Some are experienced drummers who have studied music for years, while others are picking it up for the first time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One student described playing the drums as therapy. 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The mission is more important with an anti-immigrant \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/donald-trump\">Trump administration\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030653\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030653\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CARECEN SF runs various arts programs for youth with the goal of affirming culture and identity. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CARECEN SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re really, one, recognizing that there’s fear and there’s pain,” she said. “Second, I’m really trying to create spaces and activities and outlets for young people to harness their power and transform them to action. And so we do that through a lot of culture, and the arts are critical to resilience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Immigrants come to CARECEN SF seeking legal help to gain residency or citizenship. They come for the organization’s mental health, physical health and wellness programs. Many times, the organization’s clients are struggling with necessities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CARECEN SF takes an intergenerational approach, supporting everyone from recent arrivals to second- and third-generation Americans seeking guidance, community and cultural connection, Dugan-Cuadra said. The organization was founded in 1986 to assist waves of Central American migrants fleeing civil wars and dictatorships with their asylum cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101885738 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/43/2021/09/GettyImages-1235130060-RESIZED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The bottom line is that people who migrate from any corner of the globe have continuously faced barriers to access our legal system, our immigration legal system,” Dugan-Cuadra said. “So that has remained the same across different administrations, whether it was Democrats or Republicans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What feels very different now is this very overt xenophobic, criminalizing, dehumanizing narrative and speech that just strips people who migrate from their humanity, and it feels really like a psychological warfare,” she continued. “The way politicians talk about immigrants is void of any context other than strict hate. That’s been incredibly damaging to our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugan-Cuadra said the organization provides youth mental health counseling, summer field trips around the Bay Area to learn about the region, a travel program to connect young with their ancestral homelands and a mentorship program for youth who have had experiences with the criminal justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I met with Dugan-Cuadra at CARECEN SF’s Market Street building, which is undergoing a major renovation to transform the 1908 office space into a modern, 20,000-square-foot community center spanning five floors and a basement. The center, near the Civic Center Station, will include meeting rooms, staff offices, event spaces and lounge areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugan-Cuadra said supporting young people is crucial to creating a stronger community. She was born in Connecticut to an Irish father and a Nicaraguan mother who decided to raise her and her sister in Nicaragua. Her mother sent her back to San Francisco at 16, when the civil war made it too dangerous for her to stay in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030654\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12030654 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/K-ONDA-CARECEN-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">CARECEN SF’s executive director, Lariza Dugan-Cuadra, says supporting young people is at the heart of the organization. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of CARECEN SF)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She recalled not speaking English when she arrived in San Francisco, where she met other refugees from Latin America who had fled their countries and ended up in the Mission district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That was just like a home, in the sense of people who were very social justice-minded and who had sacrificed a lot in their personal lifetimes for these visions of justice,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before coming to the United States, she thought of it as a place of abundance “where everybody’s happy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026423 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/20250127_K-ONDA_DB_00057-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And then I came to San Francisco and learned that there was poverty and that there was racism, and that there was social injustice and police brutality,” Dugan-Cuadra said. “And I was like, ‘OK, well, there’s work to be done here.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dugan-Cuadra came to CARECEN SF in 2012 after working for the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development managing programs. She also previously worked for KQED on media literacy programs and outreach to the Latino community. The throughline in her career has been a focus on strengthening community and giving people resources to better themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the drumming circle last week, students were concerned about Trump’s threats of mass deportations because, even if they were not directly affected, someone in their family or community might be. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 11:15 a.m. Tuesday: Multiple media outlets have reported that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) reached a deal with the Trump administration on April 7 that would grant immigration officials access to the personal information of undocumented immigrants who have been ordered to leave the United States. This agreement — which complete details have yet to be made public — represents a major shift for the IRS. KQED will be updating this story as more information becomes available. \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/08/politics/irs-dhs-sign-data-deal-undocumented-immigrants/index.html\">Read more about the deal between the IRS and the Trump administration.\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every year, thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909786/how-to-find-free-tax-help-near-you-and-prepare-everything-you-need-for-your-appointment\">Bay Area families file their taxes for free\u003c/a> at the Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) in San Francisco. These clients include people who file taxes using an \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/individual-taxpayer-identification-number-itin\">individual taxpayer identification number (ITIN)\u003c/a> from the Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, in the absence of a Social Security number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Almost everyone who earns income in the United States is required to pay taxes, regardless of their immigration status. \u003ca href=\"https://www.nilc.org/resources/itinfaq/\">This includes millions of undocumented people\u003c/a> who file their taxes — alongside American citizens and immigrants with work permits — in order to comply with federal tax law and potentially improve their chances of one day obtaining legal immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, there’s one question that MEDA’s VP of family support and school-based services, Jaqueline Marcelos, said her staff is hearing more: How private is my tax information?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Rojas, senior program manager with United Way Bay Area (UWBA), works with free tax sites like MEDA all over the region and said she’s been hearing the same concern, too: “Will my information be shared with other agencies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelos attributes the anxiety she’s seeing from clients to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">President Donald Trump’s moves to target undocumented immigrants under his new administration\u003c/a>. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/28/immigration-enforcement-trump-administration-irs/\">the Washington Post reported\u003c/a> that the Department of Homeland Security asked the IRS to provide the addresses and phone numbers of individuals who may be in the country without a legal immigration status — a request that the IRS ultimately rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building stands on April 15, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Due to privacy rules passed by Congress in 1976, tax returns are confidential information — not public documents the president can access when desired. \u003ccite>(Zach Gibson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tax agency has also been a target of the informal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — led by billionaire Elon Musk — which reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-musk-staffer-goes-irs-examine-operations-sources-say-2025-02-13/\">showed up at the IRS headquarters last month in order to review agency operations\u003c/a>. The IRS was able to block \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/irs-blocks-musk-aide-accessing-taxpayer-data-2025-02-21/#:~:text=Feb%2021%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20The,agency%20and%20the%20Trump%20administration.\">one of Musk’s DOGE aides from accessing individual taxpayer returns\u003c/a> and other personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what laws are in place that establish how the IRS acts and who it shares information with? And can these rules hold off \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026245/can-trump-actually-change-federal-funding-rules-through-executive-orders\">a president who has shown his determination to reshape how the federal government works\u003c/a>? While the IRS did not reply to KQED’s multiple requests for comment, we spoke to multiple tax experts about current tax law to understand what legal mechanisms protect personal taxpayer data and recent actions by the IRS to protect this information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What rules does the IRS have to follow?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When you submit information to the IRS, your tax return by law cannot be shared \u003cem>outside \u003c/em>of the IRS, said Amy Spivey, professor and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at UC College of the Law in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, what that means is: the IRS is not permitted to share information about those who may be undocumented or without status here in the United States with other organizations like the Department of Homeland Security or ICE,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS operates under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Internal Revenue Code (IRC)\u003c/a>, first \u003ca href=\"https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=271147&p=2630483#:~:text=There%20have%20been%20three%20major,laws%20were%20individual%20Revenue%20Acts.\">established by Congress in 1939\u003c/a>, which defines not just how the federal government collects taxes but also what it does with taxpayer data. Specifically, IRC Section 6103 establishes that “taxpayer information is extremely confidential,” said Josh Rosenthal, who leads the workers’ rights program at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029428 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/250226-NAMEGENDERMARKERS-12-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taxpayer information at the IRS can only be disclosed under extremely, extremely limited circumstances,” Rosenthal said, “mostly for the purposes of administering the tax system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these exceptions the IRC provides \u003cem>do \u003c/em>apply during certain investigations, like taxpayer audits, for example, when the IRS needs to update state tax agencies — such as California’s Franchise Tax Board — that there are changes to a taxpayer’s filing information, or in limited criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is no such exception for immigration enforcement “or other civil enforcement,” Rosenthal said — “and the exceptions that are there for criminal enforcement have substantial, procedural protection to make sure that taxpayer information is protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if an individual IRS employee wanted to share taxpayer information, Rosenthal added, “it’s actually a crime for a federal employee to look at or disclose taxpayer information outside of those privacy protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do undocumented immigrants pay taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The IRS started issuing ITINs in 1996 in order to improve tax collection, and since then, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-individual-taxpayer-identification-numbers-itins/\">millions of people working in the U.S. have paid their taxes with an ITIN\u003c/a>. Many people who use an ITIN to file are undocumented, although \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-individual-taxpayer-identification-numbers-itins/#_ftnref8\">other groups may use an ITIN, too\u003c/a>, including the spouses of workers legally authorized to work in the U.S. and international students. \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/how-to-apply-for-an-itin\">Requesting an ITIN from the IRS can be\u003c/a> a complicated process that requires applicants to send their foreign passports, along with other personal information, to the tax agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/\">a 2024 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy\u003c/a>, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. However, undocumented immigrants are barred from receiving Medicare or Social Security retirement benefits — \u003ca href=\"https://taxpolicycenter.org/fiscal-facts/yes-undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes-and-receive-few-tax-benefits#:~:text=Most%20people%20who%20pay%20into,tax%20benefits%20as%20US%20citizens.\">despite contributing massively to these programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody who earns income in the United States is obligated to file taxes,” said Rosenthal from the Asian Law Caucus. “ITINs [recognize] that people are here across a range of immigration situations in order to build safe and healthy lives for themselves and for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982862\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year, those who are eligible can do their taxes directly through the IRS using their Direct File tool instead of buying and using tax software. \u003ccite>(d3sign/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, at the start of the previous Trump administration, community tax clinics in the Bay Area reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dipping-amid-trump-crackdown-on-illegal-immigration\">a 20% decline in the number of people filing with ITINs\u003c/a>. Staff working at these clinics told NPR in 2017 that their undocumented clients felt discouraged to file taxes when the federal government was making the path to citizenship much harder for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could the Trump administration force the IRS to break the law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since his return to the White House, Trump and his allies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026245/can-trump-actually-change-federal-funding-rules-through-executive-orders\">have intervened in almost every corner of the federal government\u003c/a>. Many of these actions have already been frozen by federal judges across the country, with legal scholars insisting that the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028351/what-happens-if-the-president-disobeys-the-courts-a-constitutional-crisis-experts-say\">has been acting against federal law and the U.S. Constitution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS has already been a target of the informal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk. Around \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/irs-drafting-plans-to-slash-as-much-as-half-of-its-90000-person-workforce-leaving-agency-dysfunctional-ap-sources-say\">7,000 probationary IRS employees were laid off\u003c/a> in February, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/politics/irs-taxes-trump-musk-federal-workers.html\"> the Trump administration is now assessing budget cuts and additional layoffs\u003c/a> that could ultimately result in the IRS reducing its workforce by up to 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, could Trump force the IRS to go against its own laws and disclose to other federal agencies the personal information of specific taxpayers — immigrant taxpayers using their ITINs, for example?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’ve seen across the board with this administration is that they are acting erratically and chaotically,” said Rosenthal from the Asian Law Caucus — “and they’re trying to inspire confusion and fear, particularly among immigrant communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that many of these tax privacy protections were created in response to a previous American president who tried to weaponize the IRS: Richard Nixon. In 1973, members of the Nixon administration testified to Congress that they \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2023/03/13/timelines-in-tax-history-nixon-aide-tried-to-weaponize-the-irs-by-pressuring-the-commissioner/\">tried — and failed — to obtain from the IRS tax information about individuals that Nixon considered to be his enemies.\u003c/a> Using the IRS as a political tool would later be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/an-explanation-the-allegatoins-of-nixons-irs-interference-many.html\">one of the accusations Nixon faced from lawmakers who wanted to impeach him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/nixonsb-3_enl-ff57c096653782415da98c1be82a850c3c68bfd3-e1741642037958.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11721589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/nixonsb-3_enl-ff57c096653782415da98c1be82a850c3c68bfd3-e1741642037958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1654\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Richard Nixon speaking on a beach in Santa Barbara in March 1969. Using the IRS as a political tool would later be one of the accusations Nixon faced from lawmakers who wanted to impeach him.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/94th-congress/house-bill/10612\">Tax Reform Act of 1976\u003c/a>, which established the privacy rules in the Internal Revenue Code 6103 and made it clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/center-article/the-future-of-tax-privacy/\">tax returns are confidential information\u003c/a> — not public documents the president can access when desired. On March 7, \u003ca href=\"https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/1-Complaint-10.pdf\">immigration advocacy groups based out of Chicago sued IRS leadership,\u003c/a> arguing that Internal Revenue Code section 6103 “forbids Defendants from complying with requests — whether from the President, DHS, ICE, or a state — to share return or return information for purposes of immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenthal said there is reason to believe that the IRS will protect its autonomy once again if challenged, just like agency employees pushed back against Nixon in the 1970s. “There are career staff in these agencies who … emphasize that everybody has the same obligation to pay taxes, and people who are doing that shouldn’t be made to fear because of their participation in the system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028454 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-2177324845-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When officials from DOGE \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-musk-staffer-goes-irs-examine-operations-sources-say-2025-02-13/\">showed up at the IRS headquarters last month in order to review agency operations\u003c/a>, the IRS responded by asking for clear and written rules of what information DOGE would be able to access. The agreement reached between federal officials states that if DOGE employees were to look at any taxpayer returns, that information “shall only be provided if it is anonymized and in a manner that cannot be associated with, directly or indirectly, any taxpayer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS did not reply to multiple requests from KQED to comment on this agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[Internal Revenue Code 6103] should be protecting the tax return information of those who are undocumented, for now,” said Spivey from UC Law. “Whether this will stay in place or whether it will be amended, that’s another question.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid this uncertainty, if you are still nervous that filing taxes may complicate your immigration situation, every tax expert KQED spoke to recommends that you reach out to a legal services organization or a lawyer, with whom you can discuss your particular situation and make a decision that is best for you and your family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every scenario is different … We cannot provide one statement for everybody,” said Marcelos from MEDA. “[Clients] need to check with their immigration lawyer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11909786/how-to-find-free-tax-help-near-you-and-prepare-everything-you-need-for-your-appointment\">Read our guide on how to find a free or low-cost tax preparer near you.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lindsay Rojas, senior program manager with United Way Bay Area (UWBA), works with free tax sites like MEDA all over the region and said she’s been hearing the same concern, too: “Will my information be shared with other agencies?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marcelos attributes the anxiety she’s seeing from clients to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024332/ice-raids-in-california-how-to-sort-fact-from-rumor-online\">President Donald Trump’s moves to target undocumented immigrants under his new administration\u003c/a>. In February, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/28/immigration-enforcement-trump-administration-irs/\">the Washington Post reported\u003c/a> that the Department of Homeland Security asked the IRS to provide the addresses and phone numbers of individuals who may be in the country without a legal immigration status — a request that the IRS ultimately rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030567\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030567\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/internal-revenue-service_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building stands on April 15, 2019 in Washington, D.C. Due to privacy rules passed by Congress in 1976, tax returns are confidential information — not public documents the president can access when desired. \u003ccite>(Zach Gibson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The tax agency has also been a target of the informal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — led by billionaire Elon Musk — which reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/top-musk-staffer-goes-irs-examine-operations-sources-say-2025-02-13/\">showed up at the IRS headquarters last month in order to review agency operations\u003c/a>. The IRS was able to block \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/irs-blocks-musk-aide-accessing-taxpayer-data-2025-02-21/#:~:text=Feb%2021%20(Reuters)%20%2D%20The,agency%20and%20the%20Trump%20administration.\">one of Musk’s DOGE aides from accessing individual taxpayer returns\u003c/a> and other personal information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what laws are in place that establish how the IRS acts and who it shares information with? And can these rules hold off \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026245/can-trump-actually-change-federal-funding-rules-through-executive-orders\">a president who has shown his determination to reshape how the federal government works\u003c/a>? While the IRS did not reply to KQED’s multiple requests for comment, we spoke to multiple tax experts about current tax law to understand what legal mechanisms protect personal taxpayer data and recent actions by the IRS to protect this information.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What rules does the IRS have to follow?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When you submit information to the IRS, your tax return by law cannot be shared \u003cem>outside \u003c/em>of the IRS, said Amy Spivey, professor and director of the Low-Income Taxpayer Clinic at UC College of the Law in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Historically, what that means is: the IRS is not permitted to share information about those who may be undocumented or without status here in the United States with other organizations like the Department of Homeland Security or ICE,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS operates under the \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/6103\">Internal Revenue Code (IRC)\u003c/a>, first \u003ca href=\"https://guides.ll.georgetown.edu/c.php?g=271147&p=2630483#:~:text=There%20have%20been%20three%20major,laws%20were%20individual%20Revenue%20Acts.\">established by Congress in 1939\u003c/a>, which defines not just how the federal government collects taxes but also what it does with taxpayer data. Specifically, IRC Section 6103 establishes that “taxpayer information is extremely confidential,” said Josh Rosenthal, who leads the workers’ rights program at the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taxpayer information at the IRS can only be disclosed under extremely, extremely limited circumstances,” Rosenthal said, “mostly for the purposes of administering the tax system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of these exceptions the IRC provides \u003cem>do \u003c/em>apply during certain investigations, like taxpayer audits, for example, when the IRS needs to update state tax agencies — such as California’s Franchise Tax Board — that there are changes to a taxpayer’s filing information, or in limited criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there is no such exception for immigration enforcement “or other civil enforcement,” Rosenthal said — “and the exceptions that are there for criminal enforcement have substantial, procedural protection to make sure that taxpayer information is protected.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even if an individual IRS employee wanted to share taxpayer information, Rosenthal added, “it’s actually a crime for a federal employee to look at or disclose taxpayer information outside of those privacy protections.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How do undocumented immigrants pay taxes?\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The IRS started issuing ITINs in 1996 in order to improve tax collection, and since then, \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-individual-taxpayer-identification-numbers-itins/\">millions of people working in the U.S. have paid their taxes with an ITIN\u003c/a>. Many people who use an ITIN to file are undocumented, although \u003ca href=\"https://immigrationforum.org/article/fact-sheet-individual-taxpayer-identification-numbers-itins/#_ftnref8\">other groups may use an ITIN, too\u003c/a>, including the spouses of workers legally authorized to work in the U.S. and international students. \u003ca href=\"https://www.irs.gov/tin/itin/how-to-apply-for-an-itin\">Requesting an ITIN from the IRS can be\u003c/a> a complicated process that requires applicants to send their foreign passports, along with other personal information, to the tax agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://itep.org/undocumented-immigrants-taxes-2024/\">a 2024 report by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy\u003c/a>, undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. However, undocumented immigrants are barred from receiving Medicare or Social Security retirement benefits — \u003ca href=\"https://taxpolicycenter.org/fiscal-facts/yes-undocumented-immigrants-pay-taxes-and-receive-few-tax-benefits#:~:text=Most%20people%20who%20pay%20into,tax%20benefits%20as%20US%20citizens.\">despite contributing massively to these programs\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody who earns income in the United States is obligated to file taxes,” said Rosenthal from the Asian Law Caucus. “ITINs [recognize] that people are here across a range of immigration situations in order to build safe and healthy lives for themselves and for their families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982862\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982862\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1403824678_slide-f338fde370196cf054676c1627f763c404b1fa9a-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This year, those who are eligible can do their taxes directly through the IRS using their Direct File tool instead of buying and using tax software. \u003ccite>(d3sign/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, at the start of the previous Trump administration, community tax clinics in the Bay Area reported \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2017/04/17/523634144/tax-filings-seen-dipping-amid-trump-crackdown-on-illegal-immigration\">a 20% decline in the number of people filing with ITINs\u003c/a>. Staff working at these clinics told NPR in 2017 that their undocumented clients felt discouraged to file taxes when the federal government was making the path to citizenship much harder for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Could the Trump administration force the IRS to break the law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Since his return to the White House, Trump and his allies \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026245/can-trump-actually-change-federal-funding-rules-through-executive-orders\">have intervened in almost every corner of the federal government\u003c/a>. Many of these actions have already been frozen by federal judges across the country, with legal scholars insisting that the administration \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028351/what-happens-if-the-president-disobeys-the-courts-a-constitutional-crisis-experts-say\">has been acting against federal law and the U.S. Constitution\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The IRS has already been a target of the informal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk. Around \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/irs-drafting-plans-to-slash-as-much-as-half-of-its-90000-person-workforce-leaving-agency-dysfunctional-ap-sources-say\">7,000 probationary IRS employees were laid off\u003c/a> in February, and\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/us/politics/irs-taxes-trump-musk-federal-workers.html\"> the Trump administration is now assessing budget cuts and additional layoffs\u003c/a> that could ultimately result in the IRS reducing its workforce by up to 50%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Against this backdrop, could Trump force the IRS to go against its own laws and disclose to other federal agencies the personal information of specific taxpayers — immigrant taxpayers using their ITINs, for example?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One of the things that we’ve seen across the board with this administration is that they are acting erratically and chaotically,” said Rosenthal from the Asian Law Caucus — “and they’re trying to inspire confusion and fear, particularly among immigrant communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He points out that many of these tax privacy protections were created in response to a previous American president who tried to weaponize the IRS: Richard Nixon. In 1973, members of the Nixon administration testified to Congress that they \u003ca href=\"https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2023/03/13/timelines-in-tax-history-nixon-aide-tried-to-weaponize-the-irs-by-pressuring-the-commissioner/\">tried — and failed — to obtain from the IRS tax information about individuals that Nixon considered to be his enemies.\u003c/a> Using the IRS as a political tool would later be \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/14/archives/an-explanation-the-allegatoins-of-nixons-irs-interference-many.html\">one of the accusations Nixon faced from lawmakers who wanted to impeach him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11721589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/nixonsb-3_enl-ff57c096653782415da98c1be82a850c3c68bfd3-e1741642037958.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11721589\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2019/01/nixonsb-3_enl-ff57c096653782415da98c1be82a850c3c68bfd3-e1741642037958.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1654\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Richard Nixon speaking on a beach in Santa Barbara in March 1969. Using the IRS as a political tool would later be one of the accusations Nixon faced from lawmakers who wanted to impeach him.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, Congress passed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/94th-congress/house-bill/10612\">Tax Reform Act of 1976\u003c/a>, which established the privacy rules in the Internal Revenue Code 6103 and made it clear that \u003ca href=\"https://www.law.berkeley.edu/center-article/the-future-of-tax-privacy/\">tax returns are confidential information\u003c/a> — not public documents the president can access when desired. On March 7, \u003ca href=\"https://www.citizen.org/wp-content/uploads/1-Complaint-10.pdf\">immigration advocacy groups based out of Chicago sued IRS leadership,\u003c/a> arguing that Internal Revenue Code section 6103 “forbids Defendants from complying with requests — whether from the President, DHS, ICE, or a state — to share return or return information for purposes of immigration enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenthal said there is reason to believe that the IRS will protect its autonomy once again if challenged, just like agency employees pushed back against Nixon in the 1970s. “There are career staff in these agencies who … emphasize that everybody has the same obligation to pay taxes, and people who are doing that shouldn’t be made to fear because of their participation in the system,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Voting is underway in the April 8 special election to fill the District 3 seat on the San José City Council. The election was called \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013122/san-jose-councilmember-omar-torres-resigns-arrested\">after former Councilmember Omar Torres resigned\u003c/a> in November amid multiple criminal charges of child sex abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, engineering executive Carl Salas was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">appointed to temporarily represent the district\u003c/a>, which includes the city’s downtown and Japantown neighborhoods. Seven candidates are vying to represent the seat through 2026. If a candidate receives over 50% of the vote, they win the special election and take office before the end of April. If no candidate claims a majority, the top two finishers will compete in a runoff election on June 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s a guide to who is running and how to cast your ballot:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The candidates \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabby Chavez-Lopez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Executive Director, Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: State Sen. Dave Cortese, South Bay Labor Council, Santa Clara County Democratic Party\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030412\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Gabby Chavez-Lopez, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Philip Dolan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Knife sharpener salesman\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: N/A\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Philip Dolan, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adam Duran \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Retired lieutenant, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: Former Santa Clara County Undersheriff Ken Binder, former Santa Clara County Department of Corrections Deputy Director Bob Conroy, former Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Kevin Jensen.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Adam Duran, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matthew Quevedo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Deputy Chief of Staff, San José Mayor’s Office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: San José Mayor Matt Mahan, Rep. Sam Liccardo, former San José Mayor Tom McEnery.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030418\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Matthew Quevedo, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Irene Smith \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Financial analyst\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility. Families & Homes SJ.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Irene Smith, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony Tordillos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Chair, San José Planning Commission\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: Former Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, Santa Clara County Democratic Party, South Bay YIMBY.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-1920x1236.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Anthony Tordillos, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyrone Wade \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Retired family counselor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: N/A\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Positions on key issues \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San José faces a modest budget shortfall of $45.7 million in the upcoming fiscal year and deficits in future years. What is your plan to balance the city budget for the long haul? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chavez-Lopez \u003c/strong>supports the conversion of office buildings to apartments to bring more people downtown. “Once you make a destination desirable to visitors and really center that experience, it makes for a better quality of life for those that live here,” Chavez-Lopez said. “Because people who live here want to come downstairs out of their condos or their apartments.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dolan \u003c/strong>faulted the city for “giving essential services away.” He questioned how San José is “going to be able to take care of the homeless when we have to close that gap,” adding, “I don’t think government should be there to give essential services away unless it’s a time of need and a time of war or there’s an economic depression.”[aside postID=news_12026772 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/RS67526_20230801-SJCityHall-01-JYKQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003cstrong>Duran \u003c/strong>pointed to his experience managing large teams of sergeants and deputies in the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. “That was a lot of money to be managing because a lieutenant really is a manager position,” he said. Looking at the city budget, Duran said, “Before we get to cuts, let’s get more revenue,” which he believes will come if the city focuses police enforcement downtown and cuts business regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quevedo \u003c/strong>said long-term fiscal health will come by focusing spending on a few core issues: building interim housing for people experiencing homelessness, hiring police officers, funding housing construction and suspending taxes for small businesses for the first three years of the business. “Anything else, we have to really have an open and honest conversation on whether or not the city can provide those services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith \u003c/strong>touted her experience as a financial analyst with IBM and proposed implementing zero-based budgeting for one city department each year, requiring all expenses to be reapproved rather than using the previous budget as a baseline. Right now, she argued, “We don’t have that feedback loop that tells us what’s being successful and what’s not being successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tordillos \u003c/strong>called for more housing development to bolster the city’s property tax base. And he supported exploring changes to the city’s businesses tax to potentially bring in more dollars from the largest companies. “San José’s business tax is much more regressive than what we see in some other cities throughout the Bay Area,” Tordillos said. “And it brings in a lot less revenue than other cities in the Bay Area.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wade \u003c/strong>said the council should “revisit the budget and examine how we’re spending all that and make sure that we’re not doing anything wasteful.” He called for an initiative to encourage small businesses downtown to hire recent graduates from San José State University. “Have them work with the small business mom-and-pop businesses to increase their revenue and their marketing so that they can get past the first five years of development or incorporation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030419\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030419\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> District 3 voters attend a District 3 City Council candidates forum at the San José Women’s Club in San José on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San José Mayor Matt Mahan has proposed \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">\u003cstrong>permanently shifting Measure E tax dollars\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> to fund interim housing and shelter instead of permanent housing. Do you agree with his plan? How would you spend city dollars to reduce homelessness? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chavez-Lopez \u003c/strong>opposed Mahan’s plan and said “permanent supportive [housing] should be prioritized” in city spending. Chavez-Lopez recalled her experience campaigning for the Measure E real estate transfer tax in 2020. “We were telling [voters] that it was for permanent supportive housing and prevention,” she said. “So, for me, in a time when trust is at an all-time low, why are we going back on that commitment to voters?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dolan \u003c/strong>criticized spending on both interim and permanent housing and said his focus would be on prioritizing city dollars for families with children who are experiencing homelessness.“If you’re a single man, you’re kind of out of luck. You need to go get a job. If it’s drugs, you need to really pick yourself up. We can’t take care of everybody,” he said.[aside postID=news_12029843 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/240620-AffordableHousingPresser-10-BL_qed-1-1020x680.jpg']\u003cstrong>Duran \u003c/strong>said his top priority for city dollars would be to open mental health and drug treatment facilities, in coordination with the state and county government, instead of providing housing first. “Providing a home for them while leaving them in their addiction to me is the opposite of compassion,” Duran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quevedo \u003c/strong>supported Mahan’s plan and said, “Interim [housing] should definitely be the priority.” He also voiced support for rental assistance to keep people from entering homelessness. “But let’s make sure that for the population that exists on the streets right now, that we’re building the housing that they need and providing the services to help them get off the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith \u003c/strong>supported Mahan’s plan and said proponents of affordable housing “haven’t been able to build big enough or fast enough. So we have to have interim solutions for folks who are living on the streets and living in tents.” Smith diverged from Mahan in her preference for spending on large congregate shelters instead of tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tordillos \u003c/strong>opposed Mahan’s plan to permanently shift the Measure E dollars toward interim housing because it would “ignore the will of the voters who impose this tax on themselves.” He supported increased funding for interim housing in the short term but said, “Over time, we need to make sure that we’re getting back to a balanced allocation of Measure E dollars between both shelter spending as well as affordable housing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wade \u003c/strong>said his experience working in homeless shelters for San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Urban Ministries taught him that city spending should be tailored to the specific needs of each unhoused person, which could be counseling, treatment or job training. “It’s not a question of homes or temporary housing,” Wade added. “It’s an experience that has to be followed and coached until someone is stable enough to maintain their own lifestyle.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What will you do to restore trust in city government and strengthen communication \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014643/omar-torres-resigns-from-san-jose-city-council-is-arrested\">\u003cstrong>with District 3 residents after the Torres scandal\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong>? \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Chavez-Lopez \u003c/strong>pointed to the fact she hasn’t run for office or served in government. “It is a real plus because I have been serving in the community and really establishing deep-rooted relationships here.” She referred to herself as “a community organizer at heart” who “will continue to make sure that residents are informed that they have all the information available to them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dolan \u003c/strong>supported creating an easily accessible online directory that could store information about city departments, making it easier for residents to find where to report specific issues. “So a person … can get on there and say, ‘Bumpers in the street,’ and the search will take you to the [department] and why they’re putting these little bumpers in the street. I want everything to be so transparent.”[aside postID=news_12014643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003cstrong>Duran \u003c/strong>said “the bruise to the community” from the Torres scandal was deep. He cited his work in the county jail as evidence of his commitment to public service. “I was always that guy trying to serve, even inside behind the walls … so this is all part of my journey in helping people and serving my community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quevedo \u003c/strong>said that trust will be built if residents receive high-quality services. “I think long before even the [Torres] incident that occurred, there has been an erosion of trust in providing services,” he said. He said the council’s decision to fill the seat through a special election rather than a longer-term appointment will make residents feel that their voice is being heard at City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith\u003c/strong> called for more opportunities for public feedback on development and criticized the city’s recent elimination of public hearings for housing in already-developed areas, known as infill development. “Where does infill go? That goes into D3,” Smith said. “So they’ve completely eliminated our voice on public infill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tordillos \u003c/strong>said he would gain voter trust through his decision not to accept campaign donations from corporations or lobbyists. “Some folks in our community feel like special interests often have more of a voice at City Hall than actual residents and community members,” Tordillos said. “So I’m running and rejecting corporate money.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Wade \u003c/strong>proposed developing an advisory board of residents and groups, including “community activists, community leaders, churches, schools [and] nonprofits” that would propose ideas to inform his work. “The community has a better feel for what they want and need to be done, and they can direct those services,” he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>How to vote? \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Election officials are mailing ballots to registered voters in District 3, which also includes the Washington-Guadalupe, Naglee Park and Northside communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ballots can be returned at drop boxes at the Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters’ office, San José City Hall, Biblioteca Latinoamericana Branch Library, Joyce Ellington Branch Library, East San José Carnegie Library and the Santa Clara County Civic Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>In-person voting\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For voters who prefer to cast in-person ballots, the county is opening two voting locations on March 29. The location will be open daily from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. through April 7 and from 7 a.m.–8 p.m. on election day, April 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Joyce Ellington Branch Library Community Room\u003c/strong>, 491 East Empire St., San José.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Olinder Community Center Community Room\u003c/strong>, 848 East William St., San José.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>A third voting location will open on April 5. The location will be open daily from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. April 5–7 and from 7 a.m.–8 p.m. on April 8.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Center for Employment Training Banquet Room\u003c/strong>, 701 Vine St., San José.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>The candidates \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gabby Chavez-Lopez\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Executive Director, Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: State Sen. Dave Cortese, South Bay Labor Council, Santa Clara County Democratic Party\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030412\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1348\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-800x539.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-1020x687.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-160x108.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-1536x1035.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-2-KQED-1920x1294.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Gabby Chavez-Lopez, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Philip Dolan\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Knife sharpener salesman\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: N/A\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030414\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030414\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Philip Dolan, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Adam Duran \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Retired lieutenant, Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: Former Santa Clara County Undersheriff Ken Binder, former Santa Clara County Department of Corrections Deputy Director Bob Conroy, former Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department Capt. Kevin Jensen.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030415\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030415\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-5-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Adam Duran, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matthew Quevedo\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Deputy Chief of Staff, San José Mayor’s Office\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: San José Mayor Matt Mahan, Rep. Sam Liccardo, former San José Mayor Tom McEnery.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030418\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030418\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-13-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Matthew Quevedo, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Irene Smith \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Financial analyst\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: Citizens for Fiscal Responsibility. Families & Homes SJ.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030416\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030416\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-8-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Irene Smith, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anthony Tordillos\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Chair, San José Planning Commission\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: Former Santa Clara County Supervisor Ken Yeager, Santa Clara County Democratic Party, South Bay YIMBY.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12030417\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1288\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-800x515.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-1020x657.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-160x103.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-10-KQED-1920x1236.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> City Council District 3 candidate, Anthony Tordillos, speaks at a candidates forum at the San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> Woman’s Club in San Jos\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">é\u003c/span> on March 6, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tyrone Wade \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Retired family counselor\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Key Supporters: N/A\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>Positions on key issues \u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San José faces a modest budget shortfall of $45.7 million in the upcoming fiscal year and deficits in future years. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Duran \u003c/strong>pointed to his experience managing large teams of sergeants and deputies in the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office. “That was a lot of money to be managing because a lieutenant really is a manager position,” he said. Looking at the city budget, Duran said, “Before we get to cuts, let’s get more revenue,” which he believes will come if the city focuses police enforcement downtown and cuts business regulation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Quevedo \u003c/strong>said long-term fiscal health will come by focusing spending on a few core issues: building interim housing for people experiencing homelessness, hiring police officers, funding housing construction and suspending taxes for small businesses for the first three years of the business. “Anything else, we have to really have an open and honest conversation on whether or not the city can provide those services,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Smith \u003c/strong>touted her experience as a financial analyst with IBM and proposed implementing zero-based budgeting for one city department each year, requiring all expenses to be reapproved rather than using the previous budget as a baseline. Right now, she argued, “We don’t have that feedback loop that tells us what’s being successful and what’s not being successful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Tordillos \u003c/strong>called for more housing development to bolster the city’s property tax base. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The comments come over a week after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">84 people were arrested\u003c/a> in the raid at Jefferson Square Park in the Western Addition. Most of those were cited for loitering, according to Police Department data, and only three were arrested on suspicion of dealing drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders the park, called the operation “pretty amazing” at Thursday’s town hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029050\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-2-scaled-e1740693709582.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029050\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-2-scaled-e1740693709582.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco police arrested 84 people during a massive overnight raid at Jefferson Square Park on Feb. 26, 2025. \u003ccite>(Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The raid at 16th and Mission streets on Wednesday night only resulted in four arrests and the seizure of 28.5 grams of narcotics, according to the SFPD.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The two raids are part of a multi-agency effort between the Sheriff’s Department, the Police Department and the Department of Public Works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the operation’s efficacy — and the SFPD’s overall block-by-block approach to drug market enforcement — has raised concerns. Supervisor Jackie Fielder said this week that she plans to call a hearing at next week’s Board of Supervisors meeting \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029456/supervisors-probe-san-franciscos-crackdown-outdoor-drug-use-dealing\">to reassess the city’s approach\u003c/a>. She is urging the use of Zurich’s “Four Pillars Strategy,” which makes use of law enforcement, drug prevention, treatment and harm reduction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People have been displaced because of enforcement actions around the city to the Mission. And [residents] want to see people get help and connected to treatment. They want to see the end of public drug use,” Fielder told KQED. “That’s why I’m calling for this hearing because we can’t take a neighborhood-by-neighborhood approach. That’s exactly how we got here. We need something comprehensive so that we’re not continuing this cat-and-mouse game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Jefferson Square Park raid came after “a lot of people” who were selling or doing drugs in the Tenderloin and SoMa neighborhoods moved following pressure from law enforcement, Scott \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">said last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It just became untenable,” he said then.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said increased coordination between departments, including the district attorney’s office, is part of the reason why some areas have gotten under control over the years and has helped the city deal with those who are displaced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city’s coordination is better than it’s been in probably ever with all of us working together,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott also credited District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’ office for its part in prosecuting offenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These cases are being prosecuted. When they go to jury trials, her and her team are getting jury verdicts,” he said Thursday. “It sends a message that we’re not going to tolerate this in our city,”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, San Francisco had only three felony convictions for drug dealing cases, Jenkins said at Thursday’s town hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are up to about 70% of our convictions for drug dealing that are felonies,” she said. “We are not backing down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Oakland residents concerned about the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-coliseum\">uncertain Coliseum deal\u003c/a> may finally get some relief next week if Alameda County supervisors follow through on their plan to conclude negotiations with developers on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a special meeting on Thursday afternoon, Board President David Haubert said that he expects the deal with the African American Sports and Entertainment Group to come back before supervisors at its regularly scheduled meeting on March 11, “hopefully done and completed.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The project is one that is going to provide economic vitality to an area that needs it,” Haubert said. “I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again: As goes Oakland, so goes all of Alameda County. So this opportunity before us is important, and I remain steadfastly supportive of getting it done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11992883/oakland-city-council-passes-budget-amid-concerns-over-pending-coliseum-sale\">elusive development project\u003c/a> from AASEG, a Black-owned development group led by Oakland locals, has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11987346/oakland-to-sell-coliseum-to-black-led-developer-group-after-as-depart\">in the works since May\u003c/a>. It hinges on deals with the city of Oakland and the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland-as\">Oakland A’s\u003c/a> for their respective 50% stakes in the 155-acre property the baseball team vacated last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Bobbitt, AASEG’s managing partner, has said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12003025/east-oakland-students-share-bold-vision-for-coliseum-revamp-with-new-owners\">group plans to reimagine the parcel\u003c/a> to bring jobs, housing and entertainment to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/east-oakland\">East Oakland\u003c/a>, an area that’s been neglected for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12006776\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12006776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240926-LAST-AS-HOME-GAME-MD-09KQED-5-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Oakland Coliseum after the final Oakland A’s game on Sept. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The city of Oakland \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997946/oakland-reaches-deal-on-105-million-coliseum-sale-to-stave-off-budget-cuts\">signed a deal\u003c/a> with the group in July after relying on the $100 million windfall from the real estate transaction to balance its fragile budget. That went south shortly after since the A’s deal with the group stalled at the Alameda County Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AASEG has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12007771/new-oakland-coliseum-sale-deal-raises-questions-about-delayed-payment-and-citys-budget\">fallen behind on the payment schedule\u003c/a> outlined in the city deal, saying it was waiting to secure the A’s half of the property before continuing to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County is involved because it owned the A’s half of the land until 2019, and the team’s purchase of the property is still pending. The county must assign that purchase from the A’s to AASEG before the deal is final.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the A’s reached a deal with AASEG in August, supervisors stalled on transferring the sale to the developers in the fall. Pressure increased when Oakland began implementing severe budget cuts in an attempt to address its financial crisis, which worsened without the guaranteed Coliseum fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland implemented a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010521/oaklands-fiscal-crisis-budget-cuts-coming-even-with-coliseum-sale\">contingency budget\u003c/a> last fall after the sale stalled, resulting in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027749/oakland-reverses-several-layoffs-amid-scramble-close-massive-budget-deficit\">layoffs\u003c/a> and public safety cuts, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12020393/2-oakland-fire-stations-close-amid-budget-crisis-more-could-follow\">closure of two fire stations\u003c/a>. The city has been able to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029499/oakland-halts-plan-close-4-fire-stations-amid-budget-crisis\">reduce its massive funding shortfall\u003c/a> through cuts to police overtime spending and increased parking enforcement revenue, but it is still struggling to patch a $89 million hole by the end of the fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=arts_13970567 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/01/GettyImages-51549727.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, Alameda County supervisors gave staff a term sheet and a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022106/alameda-county-moves-closer-to-oakland-coliseum-sale-final-vote-expected-in-30-days\">30-day deadline\u003c/a> to finalize the AASEG deal. They blew past the deadline but seem to be honing in on an agreement this week, according to Bobbitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Thursday’s closed-door meeting with the county’s negotiating team, he told KQED that January’s board resolution gave “30 days for us to kind of get this draft completed. That came and went, we got some extra time, but we really feel like we want to try to come out of this with a definitive timeline today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said of about nine items on the term sheet, there were “a few open items” that still needed to be resolved.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are waiting on two documents from OAC [Oakland Athletic Club] and AASEG to finish negotiations that include the quit claim deed and a release related to litigation,” Kimberly Gasaway, director of Alameda County’s general services agency, said during Thursday’s meeting. “We expect to receive these tomorrow at our next negotiation meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tuesday will be a big day for the county — arguably bigger for the city of Oakland — if AASEG can get through one of the final hurdles to becoming the new owners of the historic site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason why we’ve been so steadfast and so committed and had so much perseverance and commitment is because we love Oakland, and we’re from Oakland,” Bobbitt told KQED. “We’re really excited on being part of the resurgence of Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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