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Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">attempted to distance himself\u003c/a> from the controversial Heritage Foundation playbook during his campaign, but he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028324/trumps-health-care-plans-are-straight-out-of-the-project-2025-blueprint\">followed it closely\u003c/a> in many of the policies he’s implemented since taking office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media on Wednesday that no executive order related to the Education Department was expected Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, fears are swirling around public schools across the country, as Trump has made repeated threats to school districts that support DEI initiatives and LGBTQ-identifying students, doubling down in his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, March 11:\u003c/strong> On Monday, U.S. District Judge Myong J. Joun granted a \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/attachments/press-docs/41%20Order%20Granting%20TRO%20_%203.10.2025.pdf\">14-day temporary restraining order (PDF)\u003c/a> blocking the Trump administration from terminating the TQP and SEED grants in California and the other plaintiff states while the states seek a preliminary injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s decision is a crucial early victory to ensure these grant dollars continue to flow and our kids get the passionate, qualified, good teachers they deserve,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said in a statement. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, March 6: \u003c/strong>California is suing the U.S. Department of Education over the termination of $600 million in grants used to train teachers and education nonprofits nationwide, Attorney General \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/rob-bonta\">Rob Bonta\u003c/a> announced Thursday amid reports about President Trump’s efforts to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65178/what-does-the-us-department-of-education-do-some-facts-about-its-role-in-schools\">unfurl the department\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta and seven other state attorneys general are asking the District Court in Massachusetts to immediately halt the funding cuts and ensure that money already approved by Congress continues flowing to teacher training programs, including at eight \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/california-state-university\">California State\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/university-of-california\">University of California\u003c/a> campuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are grants that our state is counting on to train and prepare qualified educators,” Bonta said during a press conference on Thursday. “Funds that are critical to addressing our state and nation’s teacher shortage crisis. Funds that are critical to getting teachers into rural schools, into urban schools, and into hard-to-fill positions. … Funds that improve the quality of education for our children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bonta said the Trump administration canceled Teacher Quality Partnership (TQP) and Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grants, which fund residency programs to train K–12 teachers in difficult-to-staff specialties and areas. The suit said the terminations have effectively eliminated the two programs, which are sorely needed as the country faces a teacher shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges that the Education Department unlawfully terminated the grants without due process or a “transparent, internally consistent and reasonable explanation” and that it didn’t consider the impact that the cuts would have on teacher shortages, training programs and students. It follows another suit \u003ca href=\"https://www.k12dive.com/news/education-department-sued-cuts-teacher-training-grants/741560/\">seeking to overturn the terminations\u003c/a> filed Monday by three education nonprofits in the U.S District Court of Maryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12025582\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12025582\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/gettyimages-1298372564-scaled-e1741300214483.jpeg\" alt=\"A large gray building with the words 'U.S. Department of Education' on the front.'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1391\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Department of Education headquarters in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Robert Knopes/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A Department of Education spokesperson told KQED the department does not comment on pending litigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The eight states — California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Colorado, Illinois, Maryland, New York and Wisconsin — would lose at least $250 million in grant funding, according to the lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s terminated grants across universities and nonprofits total about $148 million. CSU and UC campuses awarded eight grants totaling about $56 million received termination letters in early February, according to the lawsuit. All of the letters included repetitive and “boilerplate” language related to diversity, equity and inclusion and “waste, fraud and abuse,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the funds have already been used, he said, and about $8 million is earmarked for programs between now and September to ensure that early-career teachers are prepared to enter the classroom next fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The universities would have to look to layoffs, reduced hours for university staff and reduced or eliminated support and funding for aspiring teachers” without the money, Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Innovative Support and Preparation of Inclusive and Resilient Educators program was supposed to receive a five-year, $2.2 million grant from the Department of Education. The money would help the campus provide living-wage stipends for training teachers in its program who agree to three-year jobs in 32 high-need schools in the surrounding Central Coast area, focusing on K–12 bilingual and special education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other multimillion-dollar grants would have funded programs at Cal State Los Angeles and Chico State that target these specialties, along with hard-to-staff subjects like math and science, and encourage teachers to work in their home communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sadly, the people Trump’s hurting most of all [are] kids in rural areas, kids in urban areas, kids in high-poverty communities and high-need schools, kids who need and deserve extra support and additional resources,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shireen Pavri, the CSU’s assistant vice chancellor for educator and leadership programs, said 1 in 25 teachers across the country studies at a CSU, including 50% of California teachers. Ahead of the 2024–25 school year, California had about 25,000 teaching position vacancies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024922\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024922\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/GettyImages-2194989581-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. \u003ccite>(Anna Monkeymaker/Getty)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These grants have greatly assisted our CSU campuses in recruiting teacher candidates, in funding their schooling, and in graduating highly prepared teachers to serve all young people in the state, especially in areas of particular teacher shortage,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit comes as multiple news outlets report that the Trump administration is gearing up to issue an executive order that would direct Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to dismantle the agency — a part of Project 2025. Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998288/what-is-project-2025-donald-trump-heritage-foundation-director-steps-down\">attempted to distance himself\u003c/a> from the controversial Heritage Foundation playbook during his campaign, but he has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028324/trumps-health-care-plans-are-straight-out-of-the-project-2025-blueprint\">followed it closely\u003c/a> in many of the policies he’s implemented since taking office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on social media on Wednesday that no executive order related to the Education Department was expected Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, fears are swirling around public schools across the country, as Trump has made repeated threats to school districts that support DEI initiatives and LGBTQ-identifying students, doubling down in his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night. Many are also already dealing with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027158/how-oakland-and-sf-ended-up-among-7-ca-school-districts-who-cant-pay-their-bills\">budget crises\u003c/a> and staffing shortages as COVID-19 relief funds sunset and burnt-out teachers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61179/teacher-turnover-hits-new-highs-across-the-u-s\">leave the field\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, Superintendent Maria Su said the school district would continue to support vulnerable student populations with the help of City Attorney David Chiu and other city partners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fighting back, we are stating that the federal government does not have the ability to say what our values are In San Francisco,” Su told KQED in February. “We believe firmly that all students have the right to an education, regardless of how they identify themselves, how they want to show up in the classrooms, and we also firmly believe that all of our teachers have the right to identify how they choose to be and teach history, teach real history for our students. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:36 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brightly colored Catrina and Lupita dolls, a mariachi band of skeleton figurines, and clay and wood calaveras and corazóns crowd the shelves at Luz de Luna on 24th Street in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Mission District gift shop’s ceiling-length window displays are bursting with goodies for holidays, birthdays and special occasions — items that owner Denise Gonzales said many locals cherish but might not be able to afford if costs increase under \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909121/trump-addresses-congress-after-imposing-sweeping-tariffs-halting-ukrainian-aid\">President Trump’s newly announced federal tariffs\u003c/a>. More than two-thirds of the store’s inventory is handmade and imported from Mexico, according to Gonzales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The items that we sell are not a necessity, they are not like bread and butter,” Gonzales told KQED. “This is a luxury or something that we buy once in a while, so if the prices are going to go up, people won’t be able to afford us anymore, [and] that makes me nervous.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Trump announced a new 25% tariff on imports from Mexico on Monday, she worried that she would have to raise prices on the woven falsa blankets, fabrics from San Miguel, little girls’ dresses and traditional blouses, and Día de los Muertos artwork that customers rely on her shop for. Then on Thursday, Trump reversed course and suspended the tariffs. Most goods imported from Mexico, including those Gonzales carries, will get \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/trump-presidency-updates-3-6-2025\">a month-long exemption\u003c/a> — compounding the uncertainty for many businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether customers will be able to weather higher prices if Trump does instate a tariff in April is a question Gonzales has been asking herself a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12030084 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolls for sale at Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street in San Francisco, on March 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have clients that work in restaurants, and they have to [wear] a Mexican shirt,” Gonzales said. “They used to pay $40, are they going to pay $60? Can they afford that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/5-things-to-know-about-tariffs-and-how-they-work\">paid by the importer\u003c/a> bringing the goods into the U.S., not the country of origin, despite Trump’s assertions otherwise. Those higher costs are typically passed on to the consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales is still navigating how, and when, she should adjust prices. Since she hadn’t placed any orders since the tariff was announced earlier this week, she didn’t want to raise costs preemptively or risk losing sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want items to keep selling,” she said. “I don’t want to just wait and add 25% because I haven’t paid that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she knows that in the coming weeks, she’ll have to do so if the tariffs take effect since continuing to stock the store with authentic items is a priority that will cost her more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029904 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Gonzales, owner of Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street, poses for a photo at the entrance of the store in San Francisco on March 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything is handcrafted and made in Mexico and is work by the people. They live out of that money that they create,” she told KQED. “Too many times I see things on the internet, I see things much cheaper in other shops, but they are made somewhere else. They are not authentic, they are just copies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karla Dubon Castillo, who owns Tienda de Unica down the street, said many of her customers come to get canned goods, vitamins and supplements from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you buy these things, it feels [like] you’re connected to home, to your family, to what you left behind,” she told KQED in Spanish. Tienda de Unica, which translates to Unique Store, carries items from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. “It’s what allows you to live and feel like you are not so far away from home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also worried about raising prices. Castillo said that since Trump took office, her store has already been quieter. She believes some community members are staying home, worried about increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029195/border-patrol-slashed-tires-dragged-people-from-cars-bakersfield-raids-aclu-says\">immigration enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t sell as we used to sell. It’s slower, and the sales are very low, and that worries us because we have to pay bills,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029903 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Products for sale at Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street in San Francisco, on March 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a month-long delay following widespread pushback from Democrats and economic leaders, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-proceeds-with-tariffs-on-imports-from-canada-and-mexico/\">levied new 25% tariffs\u003c/a> on goods imported from Mexico and Canada under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act on Monday, saying that the flow of fentanyl and other drugs from the countries “is a national emergency and public health crisis.” The administration also imposed a 20% tariff on goods imported from China and a 10% tariff on Canadian energy products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, he signed executive orders on Thursday to give both Canada and Mexico a temporary exemption for goods that are traded under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he signed during his first term to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement and covers most imports. The pause will last until April 2; Canada and Mexico can avoid the tariffs longer if they show they have made more progress curbing fentanyl trafficking, a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call ahead of the signing, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-and-forth about where tariffs stand has been confusing for business owners like Arturo Felix, who manages Casa Lucas Market in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fruit for sale at Casa Lucas Market on 24th Street in San Francisco on March 5, 2025. President Trump recently implemented a 25% additional tariff on products imported from Mexico. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Today, I did talk to a couple of shippers, and they did start quoting me higher prices,” he said. “I didn’t even think about that, but right now I’m going back to it — I talked to these guys early in the morning — and they all did quote me like a few more dollars. It probably did hit. But this is like brand new stuff, so it’s all green, and it’s not ready to use yet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gov. Gavin Newsom called the tariffs “taxes on American families” that would drive up costs on everyday items like groceries, which Felix said is a daunting thought for customers already seeing sky-high prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029157 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/IMG_1518-1020x765.jpeg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Tomatoes recently got up to like $3 a pound’ it was so crazy, and demand did go down,” said Felix, whose father has owned the popular Mexican grocery store for more than 40 years. “When it does get too expensive, people will buy less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Customers streaming through the market on 24th and Florida streets Wednesday afternoon were buying avocados, mangoes, limes and oranges that Felix sources from Mexico for most of the year. A lot of tomatoes also come into California from British Columbia and Vancouver, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Felix said sometimes Casa Lucas can absorb price hikes from shippers — as it did when tomato prices rose — but eventually, it becomes unsustainable not to raise the store’s prices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s remaining hopeful that the tariffs won’t have a huge impact on essentials like food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would think that that would probably affect more high-priced items,” he said. “Food items are cheaper than like a car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope that everything gets settled, because food does get imported a lot from Mexico. You’d be surprised how much stuff comes from there and Canada, too,” Felix said. “Hopefully, everything gets settled up, and we can just work together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">\u003cem>Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Trump announced a new 25% tariff on imports from Mexico on Monday, she worried that she would have to raise prices on the woven falsa blankets, fabrics from San Miguel, little girls’ dresses and traditional blouses, and Día de los Muertos artwork that customers rely on her shop for. Then on Thursday, Trump reversed course and suspended the tariffs. Most goods imported from Mexico, including those Gonzales carries, will get \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/live/trump-presidency-updates-3-6-2025\">a month-long exemption\u003c/a> — compounding the uncertainty for many businesses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether customers will be able to weather higher prices if Trump does instate a tariff in April is a question Gonzales has been asking herself a lot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12030084\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12030084 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TariffsImpact_GC-10_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dolls for sale at Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street in San Francisco, on March 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I have clients that work in restaurants, and they have to [wear] a Mexican shirt,” Gonzales said. “They used to pay $40, are they going to pay $60? Can they afford that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tariffs are \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/5-things-to-know-about-tariffs-and-how-they-work\">paid by the importer\u003c/a> bringing the goods into the U.S., not the country of origin, despite Trump’s assertions otherwise. Those higher costs are typically passed on to the consumer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzales is still navigating how, and when, she should adjust prices. Since she hadn’t placed any orders since the tariff was announced earlier this week, she didn’t want to raise costs preemptively or risk losing sales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want items to keep selling,” she said. “I don’t want to just wait and add 25% because I haven’t paid that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she knows that in the coming weeks, she’ll have to do so if the tariffs take effect since continuing to stock the store with authentic items is a priority that will cost her more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029904 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-15-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denise Gonzales, owner of Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street, poses for a photo at the entrance of the store in San Francisco on March 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Everything is handcrafted and made in Mexico and is work by the people. They live out of that money that they create,” she told KQED. “Too many times I see things on the internet, I see things much cheaper in other shops, but they are made somewhere else. They are not authentic, they are just copies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karla Dubon Castillo, who owns Tienda de Unica down the street, said many of her customers come to get canned goods, vitamins and supplements from Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you buy these things, it feels [like] you’re connected to home, to your family, to what you left behind,” she told KQED in Spanish. Tienda de Unica, which translates to Unique Store, carries items from Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala. “It’s what allows you to live and feel like you are not so far away from home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s also worried about raising prices. Castillo said that since Trump took office, her store has already been quieter. She believes some community members are staying home, worried about increased \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029195/border-patrol-slashed-tires-dragged-people-from-cars-bakersfield-raids-aclu-says\">immigration enforcement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t sell as we used to sell. It’s slower, and the sales are very low, and that worries us because we have to pay bills,” she told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029903\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12029903 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-14-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Products for sale at Luz de Luna, a gift store on 24th Street in San Francisco, on March 5, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a month-long delay following widespread pushback from Democrats and economic leaders, Trump \u003ca href=\"https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-proceeds-with-tariffs-on-imports-from-canada-and-mexico/\">levied new 25% tariffs\u003c/a> on goods imported from Mexico and Canada under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act on Monday, saying that the flow of fentanyl and other drugs from the countries “is a national emergency and public health crisis.” The administration also imposed a 20% tariff on goods imported from China and a 10% tariff on Canadian energy products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Days later, he signed executive orders on Thursday to give both Canada and Mexico a temporary exemption for goods that are traded under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he signed during his first term to replace the North American Free Trade Agreement and covers most imports. The pause will last until April 2; Canada and Mexico can avoid the tariffs longer if they show they have made more progress curbing fentanyl trafficking, a senior administration official told reporters on a conference call ahead of the signing, speaking on condition of anonymity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The back-and-forth about where tariffs stand has been confusing for business owners like Arturo Felix, who manages Casa Lucas Market in the Mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029905\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250305_TARIFFSIMPACT_GC-18-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fruit for sale at Casa Lucas Market on 24th Street in San Francisco on March 5, 2025. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> Mayor Matt Mahan is proposing that unhoused people who refuse multiple offers of shelter should face arrest, arguing that they have a “responsibility” to move indoors if the city has a bed available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s plan would make San José the latest Bay Area city to escalate criminal enforcement against people experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling last year that allowed arrests for sleeping outside. With \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024327/san-jose-council-taps-engineering-executive-carl-salas-vacant-seat\">a new six-vote majority on the City Council\u003c/a>, Mahan will look to enact the enforcement measure as part of an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026437/san-jose-mayor-proposes-permanent-shift-homeless-funding-from-housing-shelter\">ambitious budget proposal that also includes a shift in city funding\u003c/a> to pay for temporary housing and shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city is making historic investments in expanding interim housing and shelter options,” Mahan told KQED. “And as we do that, we also need to hold our homeless neighbors accountable for coming indoors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal would direct the city attorney to expand the definition of trespassing in the municipal code to include occupying public space after three offers of shelter. Unhoused residents who decline shelter would first be issued a warning or a citation. If they refuse shelter after a third encounter with city staff, they would be subject to arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026580/this-bay-area-city-just-passed-the-most-extreme-encampment-ban-in-california\">the Fremont City Council passed an ordinance that banned camping for more than three consecutive nights\u003c/a>, punishable by a fine or jail time. Mahan said he was concerned that those outright bans on camping would push people experiencing homelessness into larger cities like San José. He emphasized that his plan was different because arrests would be preceded by multiple offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply banning camping does not end homelessness, but holding people accountable for accepting shelter and housing when it’s available can help us to ultimately end homelessness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">has made the construction of temporary housing and shelter\u003c/a> the centerpiece of his plan to reduce homelessness in San José. The city currently operates more than 1,000 shelter spaces — which include tiny homes, converted motels and parking lots for people living in their vehicles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor said his enforcement proposal was motivated by difficulties he said city staff faced in convincing people experiencing homelessness in South San José to move into a new 204-unit interim housing site that opened last month on Monterey Road and Branham Lane. Under current city policy, people living outdoors near a new interim housing site are given first preference for beds when the facility opens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If someone is refusing a brand new apartment with an en-suite bathroom and a kitchenette, as is the case at Branham and Monterey — where we just saw roughly one-third of people encamped in the area say ‘no’ — we are probably beyond the point where the city has the tools to help that person,” Mahan added.[aside postID=news_12028615 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1150473913-1020x765.jpg'] A report from city staff published in February found a much lower rate of so-called “service resistance” — just 541 people \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026630/san-jose-has-an-idea-to-bring-street-homelessness-to-functional-zero-can-it-work\">out of the estimated 5,477 who are living without shelter in the city\u003c/a>. And the same report found a low vacancy rate of just 5% across all city and county-operated shelter spaces in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For JD Marone, who lives in an encampment along the Guadalupe River in South San José, the barrier to moving indoors — even to a studio-sized tiny home — is the lack of space for his two large dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are used to being free, running and protecting my stuff,” he told KQED. “That’s probably why I still have my tools, is because of my dogs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marone would likely get preference for a spot in a nearby interim housing site on Cherry Avenue, which is set to open later this year. But he said he can’t decide between the dogs and a potential housing offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It stops me from getting work — when I go to work, that’s all I think about all day is ‘Are my dogs okay? It does limit me, it limits me a lot,” he said. “A lot of these people here have animals, so it’s going to be tough on all of us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across California, many cities have adopted tougher approaches to reducing unsheltered homelessness. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last year that banning encampments, even if no shelter space is available, is not a form of “cruel and unusual punishment” because the laws target an activity, not someone’s personal status. In the months since the ruling, police in cities such as San Diego and San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015125/tentless-amid-encampment-crackdown-unhoused-san-franciscans-storms\">have arrested hundreds of people\u003c/a> for sleeping outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Alex Lee, a Democrat who represents Fremont and parts of San José, called Mahan’s initiative “immoral, ineffective and stupid,” adding that he would explore writing state legislation to “curb the criminalization of homelessness” on the city level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The choice is you go to this tiny home or you go to jail?” Lee asked. “It’s another clear indication that the mayor is more interested in making homelessness invisible than solving it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José City Councilmember Pamela Campos said she was concerned that the policy would make “a challenging problem more challenging.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“With a criminal record, if this policy does pass, that’s only going to make it more difficult to find the jobs and the housing that are going to support self-sustainability,” Campos said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Campos told KQED she wanted to hear more details about how the policy would be implemented — and how it would affect existing police and fire response across the sprawling city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan expressed confidence that the enforcement plan would win support from the city’s police force. It was immediately embraced by police and fire union leaders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe that increasing accountability and actually focusing on getting that population into shelter, housing or a treatment center, or detoxing in the county jail for 30 days, will ultimately save a tremendous amount of police and fire capacity to respond to other calls,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council will debate the proposal, along with the rest of Mahan’s spending plan for the 2025–26 fiscal year, later this month. A final city budget will be voted on in June.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story was updated at 2 p.m. Thursday.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Many in California’s science community are reeling after last week’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101909033/trump-purge-hits-bay-area-federal-workers\">mass firings\u003c/a> within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration upended workers’ lives and raised dire concerns for the climate agency’s work going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At least seven people, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">National Weather Service employees\u003c/a> and staff at the National Marine Fisheries Service, or NOAA Fisheries, lost their jobs along the Central Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their stories are similar and heart-wrenching. The early-career federal workers are planning marriages, recently signed mortgages and were saving to buy their first homes. But last Thursday, they got an email saying they were “not fit for continued employment because your ability, knowledge, and/or skills do not fit the agency’s current needs” — many of them before their supervisors even knew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With a 5 p.m. Eastern deadline before they were locked out of their emails and accounts, they scrambled, downloading health information, salary details, performance reports and hard copies of their termination letters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three employees were fired from NOAA Fisheries’ Monterey office, including a communications specialist and two scientists, according to the researchers. Another fisheries communication expert lost his job in Santa Cruz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m heartbroken,” said Heather Welch, a research biologist at NOAA Fisheries employed to work on the NOAA Climate, Ecosystems and Fisheries Initiative. “That was definitely the job I hoped to retire in.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welch and her boyfriend bought a house a few months after she started her job in April. Now, she must figure out her next steps and hopes a remote job will fill the financial void.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029803\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1632px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029803\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/E8590326-10CD-4544-8AC6-588BF362FDD5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1632\" height=\"1224\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/E8590326-10CD-4544-8AC6-588BF362FDD5.jpg 1632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/E8590326-10CD-4544-8AC6-588BF362FDD5-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/E8590326-10CD-4544-8AC6-588BF362FDD5-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/E8590326-10CD-4544-8AC6-588BF362FDD5-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/E8590326-10CD-4544-8AC6-588BF362FDD5-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1632px) 100vw, 1632px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">NOAA’s R/V Fulmar on Oct. 15, 2015. California’s science community is reeling after last week’s mass firings at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which upended lives and cast a shadow over the agency’s critical climate work. \u003ccite>(Craig Miller/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All of a sudden, I’m a lot less mobile,” said Welch, who modeled the migration paths of species like endangered loggerhead turtles and whales with advanced tracking networks. “I can’t move to a different state and take a different job. It’s a tough time to have bought a house, both in terms of mobility and then financially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She told KQED that two others she works with also lost their jobs — communications specialist Matthew Koller and a physical scientist who could not be reached for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like a breakup of a family, and so it was really sad to walk out that door,” Welch said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029178 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/NOAAGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welch said their work flowed into each other. The physical scientist developed forecasts and ocean models for changing ocean temperatures. Welch applied that data, relating it to animals, and turned it into tools for fisheries managers. Koller summarized the work and presented it to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koller was fired after only four months of service. It took him about a year to land the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was terminated from my position at the exact same time that the training wheels were coming off,” said the 36-year-old, who recently moved to Monterey after graduate school and a fellowship. “It’s very unfortunate to have a career in the federal service cut short after putting in so much time to get this opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the three workers who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">fired from the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office\u003c/a> last week — a meteorologist, an administrative support assistant and a facilities technician — the other four NOAA staffers who lost their jobs were probationary employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of them are worried that the cuts are just the beginning of Trump’s attack on climate science, fearing that the decision could have larger ramifications for the California coastline and endangered species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029854\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12029854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Koller. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matthew Koller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since most of the workers who lost their jobs had them for short periods of time, Koller feels like the Trump administration is trying to stamp out the next generation of climate science leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future leaders of NOAA were just cut,” he said. “The people that will eventually become senior scientists and project leads and help set the agency’s policy. It’s just very dispiriting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koller also believes the layoffs cut into NOAA’s mission of trying to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coast — as well as communicating its findings to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hamstrings NOAA’s ability to fulfill that mission,” he said. “We should be investing in those programs and not terminating them because the welfare of all Americans and Californians depend on understanding our environment — and NOAA helps provide that clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to losing his job, Koller is getting married and is concerned that his firing might muddle his August nuptial plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ironically, earlier in the week, I had just put down a deposit for our wedding venue,” he said. “We put down the deposit on Wednesday, and I was unfortunately terminated on Thursday. How do we pay for a wedding without a job?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local losses are part of the Trump administration’s latest mass culling of the federal workforce, which has resulted in hundreds of firings within NOAA, one of the world’s preeminent climate research institutions. This effort is overseen by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65248/former-trump-commissioner-blasts-doge-education-data-cuts\">Department of Government Efficiency\u003c/a>, or DOGE, the newly formed entity led by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. Jared Huffman, a Democrat representing communities from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border, has criticized the firings as a betrayal of the American people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we were looking for a point at which this crazy DOGE exercise really backfired into people’s lives, I think you’ve found it with NOAA,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About 40 miles north of Monterey in Santa Cruz, another NOAA Fisheries science communications specialist is now on the hunt for a new job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029853\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029853\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Jerimiah-Oetting.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"842\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Jerimiah-Oetting.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Jerimiah-Oetting-800x599.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Jerimiah-Oetting-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Jerimiah-Oetting-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerimiah Oetting holding a Chinook salmon in August 2024, about a week before starting his job with NOAA. Oetting was fishing with family off the coast of Vancouver Island in B.C., where stock is healthy and sustains fishing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jerimiah Oetting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After stints in public media and federal agencies like the National Park Service, Jerimiah Oetting landed a full-time gig with NOAA in Santa Cruz about six months ago. He wrote about science and fish populations, like salmon and steelhead, for the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, which he said is mandated to increase and keep species of salmon from going extinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was the only person cut from his building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in public service, and I think being able to support myself as a public servant and do work that I really care about and love was a dream come true,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oetting is frustrated that the email he received said he doesn’t have the “skills, abilities, and knowledge” for the job “when clearly I possess those things.” He’s also worried about whether he and his wife can remain in Santa Cruz because the area is one of the most expensive rental markets in the country. His wife is a doctoral student and now the unit’s sole breadwinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve saved as much as we can, and that was hopefully eventually going to be a down payment on a house,” he said. “It’s turned into an emergency fund that honestly won’t last us very long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also concerned that his colleagues still at NOAA could be on the chopping block if the Trump administration goes after climate-related programs and makes more cuts to its workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that there’s closure, I’m just focused on the future and righteously angry about what happened,” he said, “but I’m also trying to figure out a way to get involved in any way I can to stop this from happening more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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It took him about a year to land the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was terminated from my position at the exact same time that the training wheels were coming off,” said the 36-year-old, who recently moved to Monterey after graduate school and a fellowship. “It’s very unfortunate to have a career in the federal service cut short after putting in so much time to get this opportunity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like the three workers who were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029178/trumps-mass-layoffs-noaa-cut-into-bay-area-weather-service\">fired from the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office\u003c/a> last week — a meteorologist, an administrative support assistant and a facilities technician — the other four NOAA staffers who lost their jobs were probationary employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of them are worried that the cuts are just the beginning of Trump’s attack on climate science, fearing that the decision could have larger ramifications for the California coastline and endangered species.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029854\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12029854\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Matthew-Koller-scaled-e1741205337982.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Koller. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Matthew Koller)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since most of the workers who lost their jobs had them for short periods of time, Koller feels like the Trump administration is trying to stamp out the next generation of climate science leadership.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The future leaders of NOAA were just cut,” he said. “The people that will eventually become senior scientists and project leads and help set the agency’s policy. It’s just very dispiriting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Koller also believes the layoffs cut into NOAA’s mission of trying to understand and predict changes in climate, weather, oceans and coast — as well as communicating its findings to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It really hamstrings NOAA’s ability to fulfill that mission,” he said. “We should be investing in those programs and not terminating them because the welfare of all Americans and Californians depend on understanding our environment — and NOAA helps provide that clarity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to losing his job, Koller is getting married and is concerned that his firing might muddle his August nuptial plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ironically, earlier in the week, I had just put down a deposit for our wedding venue,” he said. “We put down the deposit on Wednesday, and I was unfortunately terminated on Thursday. How do we pay for a wedding without a job?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The local losses are part of the Trump administration’s latest mass culling of the federal workforce, which has resulted in hundreds of firings within NOAA, one of the world’s preeminent climate research institutions. This effort is overseen by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/65248/former-trump-commissioner-blasts-doge-education-data-cuts\">Department of Government Efficiency\u003c/a>, or DOGE, the newly formed entity led by billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rep. 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Oetting was fishing with family off the coast of Vancouver Island in B.C., where stock is healthy and sustains fishing. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Jerimiah Oetting)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After stints in public media and federal agencies like the National Park Service, Jerimiah Oetting landed a full-time gig with NOAA in Santa Cruz about six months ago. He wrote about science and fish populations, like salmon and steelhead, for the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, which he said is mandated to increase and keep species of salmon from going extinct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he was the only person cut from his building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe in public service, and I think being able to support myself as a public servant and do work that I really care about and love was a dream come true,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oetting is frustrated that the email he received said he doesn’t have the “skills, abilities, and knowledge” for the job “when clearly I possess those things.” He’s also worried about whether he and his wife can remain in Santa Cruz because the area is one of the most expensive rental markets in the country. His wife is a doctoral student and now the unit’s sole breadwinner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve saved as much as we can, and that was hopefully eventually going to be a down payment on a house,” he said. “It’s turned into an emergency fund that honestly won’t last us very long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s also concerned that his colleagues still at NOAA could be on the chopping block if the Trump administration goes after climate-related programs and makes more cuts to its workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now that there’s closure, I’m just focused on the future and righteously angry about what happened,” he said, “but I’m also trying to figure out a way to get involved in any way I can to stop this from happening more.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:18 p.m. Wednesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Embattled San Mateo County Sheriff \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/christina-corpus\">Christina Corpus\u003c/a> continued to refuse to resign Wednesday, even after voters overwhelmingly approved a charter amendment to give supervisors the power to remove her from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">election night results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A, the only item on Tuesday’s special election ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Corpus conceded that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029453/san-mateo-county-voters-to-decide-whether-troubled-sheriff-can-be-fired-by-supervisors\">Measure A has passed\u003c/a>, which she said now entitles her to “a public evidentiary hearing before a neutral and unbiased body.” She added that she and her lawyers “are confident” she will “be vindicated through a legitimate process,” calling her record in 23 years of public service “pristine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to working with the new Board of Supervisors to discuss a collaborative strategy moving forward,” Corpus’ statement said. “With the passage of Measure A, I now have the opportunity to appropriately challenge and disprove the allegations against me and my administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board ultimately votes to remove Corpus, it may be the first board to remove an elected sheriff in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters on Tuesday night that the results showed that voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Measure A is officially certified on April 3, supervisors would need a four-fifths vote to remove Corpus, following written notice and a chance to address the allegations against her, which is likely to happen given that four out of five current supervisors endorsed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo, the two supervisors who first called for Corpus to resign and pushed to get Measure A on the ballot, told reporters on Wednesday that the election still has to be certified and the board has to officially approve the election results — which may take up to 40 days — before Corpus is served with the necessary paperwork to begin the removal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1020x574.jpg']Instead of arresting Tapia, Philip resigned, making him one of the more than 100 sworn employees who quit the sheriff’s office under Corpus, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five supervisors who may ultimately vote to remove the sheriff aren’t the same five who approved putting Measure A on the ballot, as supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-supervisors-welcomes-two-new-members\">took office\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">supervisors voted in December\u003c/a> on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A was endorsed by Gauthier as well as Board President David Canepa, in addition to Mueller and Corzo, meaning Corpus’ ousting is likely on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move would be historic. Voters in San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 both approved charter amendments to give their supervisors the authority to remove their sheriffs, but neither board put the issue to a vote. San Francisco’s board did so in 2012, but it didn’t reach the threshold needed to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, calls for Corpus to resign or be removed came across the county and beyond, receiving support from political and civic leaders at the local, state and national levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other endorsements for Measure A included former and current members of the U.S. House, state representatives, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcdems.org/san_mateo_county_democratic_party_endorses_measure_a\">San Mateo County Democratic Party\u003c/a> and leaders of nearly every city in San Mateo County. The county deputies’ union also formed a political committee to back the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financially, the measure received little attention. According to \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/AllFilingsByMeasure.aspx?id=212872748&aid=MAT\">available financial disclosures\u003c/a>, the “Recall Sheriff Corpus” campaign raised $2,000, with half that coming from former state Sen. Jerry Hill and the other half from \u003ca href=\"https://www.chambersmc.org/jim-hartnett/\">former Redwood City Mayor James Hartnett\u003c/a>. The “Stop the Political Power Grab” campaign against Measure A reported raising nearly $2,500 in the form of a loan from Corpus herself, which went to campaign signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, who did not respond to a request for comment, had challenged the measure in a lawsuit alleging the board overstepped its power, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled last week\u003c/a> that the election would move forward because county officials followed proper protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch, the deputies union secretary, said the election was one way to allow citizens to respond to the accusations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deserve someone who is not going to be committing these abuses, who is not going to be corrupt and who’s not going to be causing all these problems, so much to the point that we had to have a special election just because of them,” Storch said, adding that he was worried Corpus “might take this as yet another opportunity to start retaliating, given what the results look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s last results update of Tuesday night showed that of the more than 92,000 votes counted, 85.2% were in favor of Measure A. That tally does not include mail-in ballots received by Monday or later. There are nearly 445,000 registered voters in San Mateo County, although voter turnout is likely to be low in a special election with only one measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next batch of results will be released Thursday afternoon, according to the county election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to working with the new Board of Supervisors to discuss a collaborative strategy moving forward,” Corpus’ statement said. “With the passage of Measure A, I now have the opportunity to appropriately challenge and disprove the allegations against me and my administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board ultimately votes to remove Corpus, it may be the first board to remove an elected sheriff in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters on Tuesday night that the results showed that voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Measure A is officially certified on April 3, supervisors would need a four-fifths vote to remove Corpus, following written notice and a chance to address the allegations against her, which is likely to happen given that four out of five current supervisors endorsed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo, the two supervisors who first called for Corpus to resign and pushed to get Measure A on the ballot, told reporters on Wednesday that the election still has to be certified and the board has to officially approve the election results — which may take up to 40 days — before Corpus is served with the necessary paperwork to begin the removal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Instead of arresting Tapia, Philip resigned, making him one of the more than 100 sworn employees who quit the sheriff’s office under Corpus, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five supervisors who may ultimately vote to remove the sheriff aren’t the same five who approved putting Measure A on the ballot, as supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-supervisors-welcomes-two-new-members\">took office\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">supervisors voted in December\u003c/a> on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A was endorsed by Gauthier as well as Board President David Canepa, in addition to Mueller and Corzo, meaning Corpus’ ousting is likely on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move would be historic. Voters in San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 both approved charter amendments to give their supervisors the authority to remove their sheriffs, but neither board put the issue to a vote. San Francisco’s board did so in 2012, but it didn’t reach the threshold needed to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, calls for Corpus to resign or be removed came across the county and beyond, receiving support from political and civic leaders at the local, state and national levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other endorsements for Measure A included former and current members of the U.S. House, state representatives, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcdems.org/san_mateo_county_democratic_party_endorses_measure_a\">San Mateo County Democratic Party\u003c/a> and leaders of nearly every city in San Mateo County. The county deputies’ union also formed a political committee to back the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financially, the measure received little attention. According to \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/AllFilingsByMeasure.aspx?id=212872748&aid=MAT\">available financial disclosures\u003c/a>, the “Recall Sheriff Corpus” campaign raised $2,000, with half that coming from former state Sen. Jerry Hill and the other half from \u003ca href=\"https://www.chambersmc.org/jim-hartnett/\">former Redwood City Mayor James Hartnett\u003c/a>. The “Stop the Political Power Grab” campaign against Measure A reported raising nearly $2,500 in the form of a loan from Corpus herself, which went to campaign signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, who did not respond to a request for comment, had challenged the measure in a lawsuit alleging the board overstepped its power, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled last week\u003c/a> that the election would move forward because county officials followed proper protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch, the deputies union secretary, said the election was one way to allow citizens to respond to the accusations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deserve someone who is not going to be committing these abuses, who is not going to be corrupt and who’s not going to be causing all these problems, so much to the point that we had to have a special election just because of them,” Storch said, adding that he was worried Corpus “might take this as yet another opportunity to start retaliating, given what the results look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s last results update of Tuesday night showed that of the more than 92,000 votes counted, 85.2% were in favor of Measure A. That tally does not include mail-in ballots received by Monday or later. There are nearly 445,000 registered voters in San Mateo County, although voter turnout is likely to be low in a special election with only one measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next batch of results will be released Thursday afternoon, according to the county election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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hate.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The UC said in a statement that it “is unwavering in its commitment to combating antisemitism and protecting everyone’s civil rights.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“We continue to take specific steps to foster an environment free of harassment and discrimination for everyone in the university community,” it said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016604\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016604\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/230817-UC-BERKELEY-CAMPUS-MD-02_qed-800x533.jpg 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It’s being used to discipline and criminalize forms of protest and free speech that have been on UC Berkeley campus since at least the free speech movement.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">State Sen. Scott Wiener (D–San Francisco), who co-chairs the state’s Legislative Jewish Caucus, has previously criticized protests against Israeli military actions in Gaza for, at times, engaging in antisemitism, including \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12006193/ucsf-campus-faces-uproar-after-doctor-allegedly-targets-israeli-student-on-social-media\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">calling out a UCSF professor for social media posts\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> about an Israeli student. 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In the trust’s defense, it also quotes four board members Trump appointed during his first term in office, and it highlights the public-private partnership’s financial self-sufficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Presidio Trust is a national treasure, and the Presidio Trust Act is one of the most creative efforts I have seen in government,” said Thomas Fargo, who Trump appointed to the board in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust’s report is in response to a Feb. 19 executive order from the Trump administration that aimed to all but eliminate four federal agencies. 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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to eliminate the Presidio Trust, the federal agency that runs and protects the Presidio of San Francisco, a national historic landmark since 1962. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The report lists the broad statutory powers written in the Presidio Trust Act, which Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi (D–San Francisco) said was written to withstand attacks, whether they came from the federal government or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028300/trump-order-revives-fears-real-estate-push-san-franciscos-presidio\">private sector interests\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We knew we would be under assault because there were people who just didn’t want something new like that, so we had a strong statutory bill,” she said last month, adding that “statutory” simply means functions that are protected by law. “We knew we were breaking ground, and we were not going to leave it broken. 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It says that a seven-member board, whose members are selected by the current president and the secretary of the interior when their four-year terms expire, will oversee the powers and management of the trust and that the trust is authorized to appoint and pay employees, including an executive director, as it sees fit.[aside postID=news_12027864 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/DSC_1576_qed-1-1020x676.jpg']It also gives the trust blanket power to manage properties within the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Trust may adopt, amend, repeal, and enforce bylaws, rules and regulations governing the manner in which its business may be conducted and the powers vested in it may be exercised, including rules and regulations for the use and management of the property under the Trust’s jurisdiction,” the statute reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also says the agency will retain any revenue — which its \u003ca href=\"https://wp.presidio.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Revised-Fiscal-Year-2025-Budget-November-15-2024-accessible.pdf?_ga=2.176228513.52663699.1741197762-1103286321.1737736316\">2025 interim budget (PDF)\u003c/a> estimates will be around $46 million — and use it to maintain and improve its properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Presidio Trust had not received regular appropriations from Congress since 2013, when it was required to become financially independent. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029072 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg']Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.[aside postID=news_12018543 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_1748-scaled.jpg']Charter amendments are also rare. Only 14 of California’s 58 counties are charter counties, meaning they have greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">2001 opinion (PDF)\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer affirmed that a county charter can give supervisors more options to remove a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus had previously alleged the board lacked the authority to put a charter amendment before voters, but last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled\u003c/a> that the board had acted within the law and that Corpus was not protected from removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, voters in two other California charter counties have granted their boards the authority to remove their sheriff — San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 — but neither went through with using that power. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva lost his reelection bid as the Board of Supervisors was seeking to remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s board attempted to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife, but the board fell two votes shy of the required 9–of–11 majority to have him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:45 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After last Wednesday’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028996/san-francisco-police-arrest-84-people-in-overnight-drug-market-raid-at-city-park\">overnight mass drug arrest\u003c/a>, one San Francisco supervisor is demanding a hearing to reassess the city’s approach to tackling outdoor drug use and dealing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mission District Supervisor Jackie Fielder plans to announce the hearing at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors Meeting, urging the city to consider a successful strategy in Zurich’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014887/sf-report-offers-zurich-style-overdose-prevention-plan\">Four Pillars Strategy\u003c/a>” that combines drug prevention, treatment, harm reduction and law enforcement. Her call follows San Francisco police’s recent crackdown on drug users and dealers, following Mayor Daniel Lurie’s promise to reduce drug-related activity in public spaces.\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>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder’s push for the Four Pillars strategy comes after a November report from the Budget and Legislative Analyst, which found the city has already adopted some elements of Zurich’s approach. Like San Francisco today, Zurich faced a public drug use crisis in the 1980s and 1990s. However, the report highlighted a key gap: San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/BLA.Zurich_4_Pillars.111924.a.pdf\">lack of sufficient collaboration\u003c/a> between police, health officials and social service providers, which were essential to Zurich’s success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police arrested nearly 90 people last Wednesday night at Jefferson Square Park, many for loitering or having outstanding warrants on drug-related charges, and seized about 550 grams of narcotics, according to the Police Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12029042\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12029042\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/123_1-scaled-e1740692245681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"900\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers carried out a sweeping drug market raid on the evening of Feb. 26, 2025, in Jefferson Square Park. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Sebastian Luke)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The operation took place after residents complained about increased drug use and dealing at the park, which is located directly across the street from the Department of Emergency Management’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since January, local law enforcement has increased pressure in areas like the Sixth Street corridor in South of Market and the Tenderloin, both of which have become widely known as visible hot spots for outdoor drug markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The escalated police approach has so far included increased arrests of drug users and dealers, alongside the establishment of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028499/can-sfs-new-triage-centers-help-solve-the-addiction-crisis\">new triage center on Sixth Street\u003c/a> where people can walk in to get connected to various social and health services. The site is also intended to serve as a police command center, where officers can hand off people they arrest or detain for drugs over to sheriff’s deputies. However, police have not yet used the site for any arrest processing, according to SFPD officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029248 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/230911-MattieScottFreedomWest-019-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a result of the heightened pressure in certain neighborhoods, drug markets have shifted into new parts of the city, including near the 16th Street BART station and, until just before Wednesday’s raid, Jefferson Square Park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We had a lot of community concern about what was happening, and we believe a lot of it was because of the pressure that we put on the Mid-Market and Tenderloin and people looking for somewhere to go where they can hang out and do these types of activities,” Police Chief Bill Scott told KQED. “Operations like these will continue throughout the city for as long as necessary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie’s homelessness policy chief, Kunal Modi, acknowledged some of the shortcomings of the city’s approach to Sixth Street over the weekend. 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Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. 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We heard the community, and this operation shows what’s possible when agencies work together to take real action,” Supervisor Stephen Sherrill, whose district borders Jefferson Square Park, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/scsherrill/status/1895178573927063598\">posted on X\u003c/a> the day after the raid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the block-by-block enforcement approach is also costly — something police will be forced to confront as the city stares down a nearly $900 million budget shortfall and departments are required to make deep cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a very resource-heavy type of operation, but we do plan to do more because it’s a good way to at least intermittently deal with that displacement,” Scott told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors representing the Tenderloin and South of Market recently \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027784/sf-supervisors-call-for-outside-expert-to-lead-drug-market-crackdown\">put forward their own proposal\u003c/a> for how the city could tackle outdoor drug markets. Their approach, inspired by a model developed by law enforcement expert David Kennedy, focuses on clearing drug markets by arresting violent drug dealers and giving nonviolent dealers a choice of either mandatory social programs or jail time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Matt Dorsey and Bilal Mahmood, who introduced the idea, told KQED that they see the idea working within the Four Pillars model.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fielder said she’s still researching her colleagues’ proposal but likes elements of it, including efforts to increase job training programs to redirect youth and adults away from the drug trade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors Shamann Walton, Matt Dorsey, Bilal Mahmood and Chyanne Chen plan to co-sponsor the Four Pillars hearing, according to representatives from Fielder’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we just focus on [law enforcement], we’re going to continue to see lopsided and geographically narrow and intermediate success, not long-term successes,” Fielder said. “That’s what the Four Pillars is all about, long-term solutions and not just headline-grabbing actions that we’ve had for many decades in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Addiction and homelessness experts, as well as Fielder, have raised concerns about the longer-term strategy for dealing with street-level challenges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What is taking place is a return to very failed policies of the past, and we’re not going to see any improvement in the issues that folks are really concerned about in San Francisco, like housing and poverty and street-based drug use,” said Anna Berg, a licensed clinical social worker and the program director for the Harm Reduction Therapy Center. “We know that the highest rates of overdose occur post-arrest and incarceration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott said drug treatment services were offered but did not say whether anyone accepted them. SFPD did not respond to requests for further data or information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024434\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024434\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-28-BL-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The city right now is going all in on just enforcement and some attempts to connect people to treatment, but it’s unclear what exactly those offers are,” Fielder said. “We need to scale up our treatment system and invest in prevention as well. 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