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The sheriff’s plan includes deploying 130 additional deputies to the Tenderloin and South of Market neighborhoods, two areas where drug use, sales and overdoses are concentrated in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies will work overtime for a six-month deployment beginning this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In many cases, individuals suffering from drug addiction only seek help when they hit their lowest point, and the sad truth for many is that the low point is incarceration,” Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said at a press conference Thursday morning outside City Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Emergency Services Unit at the sheriff’s office will work with the Mayor’s Office to increase arrests for drug sellers as well as people using drugs outdoors and in public settings, particularly those who are deemed to pose a threat to themselves or others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952546\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952546\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A man in an official uniform with a starred badge pinned to it speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66153_031_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sheriff Paul Miyamoto speaks during a news conference outside City Hall Thursday morning. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Law enforcement including the San Francisco Police Department, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948062/newsom-taps-chp-national-guard-to-fight-san-franciscos-fentanyl-crisis\">the California Highway Patrol and the National Guard\u003c/a> in recent months have renewed focus on the Tenderloin and SoMa, two areas that have become central to ongoing debates over how to respond to challenges around outdoor drug use and sales, homelessness and substance use disorders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Part of the solution is making sure we have enough law enforcement on the ground in the Tenderloin, South of Market and in the Civic Center area to make sure drug dealers understand that their behavior will not be tolerated any longer in this city and that those who are struggling with addiction get the help they so desperately need,” District Attorney Brooke Jenkins told reporters at Thursday’s press conference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But public health experts have historically decried the notion put forward Thursday that jails can rehabilitate substance use disorders for many. And incarceration can make life much worse for some people seeking employment or housing upon release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some fear the approach mimics tried-and-failed approaches to cracking down on drugs in the past, which led to outsized incarceration for members of Black and brown communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Rounding up individuals for being under the influence is another war-on-drugs tactic that we know from decades of experience and research will not be effective in addressing our city’s public health crisis,” said San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju in a statement following Thursday’s press conference. “Our jails, which already subject people to frequent lockdowns, little contact with family, and no sunlight, are not well-equipped to treat individuals with substance use disorder.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952547\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952547\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A woman in a purple suit speaks into an array of microphones from an outdoor lectern, flanked by law enforcement officers and others.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS66158_040_KQED_SheriffPressConference_06082023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins speaks during Thursday’s press conference. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Numerous studies show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948421/newsoms-plan-to-crack-down-on-fentanyl-in-san-francisco-could-cause-more-harm-than-good-some-addiction-experts-say\">efforts to criminalize drug use can also lead to increased overdoses\u003c/a> once targeted operations subside, and even immediately after individual arrests themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Indianapolis, \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">researchers found that opioid overdose deaths doubled within a 500-meter radius of each drug arrest\u003c/a>. “Elevated fatal and nonfatal opioid overdoses were sustained over one, two and three weeks,” reads \u003ca href=\"https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307329\">a report published June 7, 2023, in the \u003cem>American Journal of Public Health\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One reason for the uptick in overdoses, the paper explains, is that disrupting the drug supply can drive drug users to find new suppliers who may have tainted substances, and pushing people to use drugs alone or secretly can lead to more erratic drug use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this week, Breed applauded arrests made on 25 people for public intoxication with drugs or alcohol in the Tenderloin and SoMa. 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As she saw her classmates read their letters, Nwe assumed she didn’t qualify for the program — she had arrived in San Francisco only a few months prior and hadn’t gone to kindergarten in here.[aside label='Guides from KQED' tag='audience-news']But a few weeks later, her teacher gave her an envelope from K2C. “It was kind of shocking … I don’t think this would have been possible back in my country,” she said. “I was really encouraged to save for college.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2011, K2C has continued to grow and now opens accounts for every student currently enrolled in an SFUSD school, regardless of when they entered the district. If you add up every account, the total savings amounts to roughly $15 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe says that one of her dreams, ever since she emigrated to the U.S., has been to attend an American university. However, when she learned how expensive it is in this country, she became nervous because her parents were already working multiple jobs to support her and her siblings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952123\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11952123 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An Asian youth and a white youth smile with dyed orange hair sit behind a podium and smile at an unseen audience.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65686_010_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nwe (left) speaks alongside fellow student Yadira Vazquez. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Whenever my parents tried to set money aside for me to go to college, I would feel bad because they couldn’t use it for themselves — like I was putting a burden on them,” she explained, and said that there were times it felt like going to college was not going to be financially possible. “But then my parents reassured me that it was going to be worth it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nwe and her parents decided they were going to make the most of the K2C account. Her parents would deposit small amounts whenever they had the chance, and Nwe found out that the program also offered cash incentives: Whenever students take time to explore their account or learn more about savings and personal finances, K2C rewards them by adding small amounts into their accounts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my K2C comes from scholarships I earned and from summer jobs,” Nwe explained. “Instead of giving me a check, they put it in [my account].” By the end of her senior year, Nwe was able to save a little over $1,400, which she says isn’t enough to cover tuition at UPenn, but it can cover other necessary expenses, like fees and books for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having young people learn how savings accounts work and talking about personal finances with their families are some of the goals of the K2C program, says San Francisco City Treasurer José Cisneros, who helped design the program with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2011. “It’s not about saving thousands of dollars necessarily,” Cisneros said. “If we give [students] 12 or 13 years to save money, they’re going to have something real there when they graduate high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man with a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a university emblem behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros speaks about the first class of graduates from San Francisco high schools using the K2C savings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re currently an SFUSD student — or a parent or guardian of one — and are heading into summer thinking about college, here’s a quick breakdown of how Kindergarten to College works and how to make the most of your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I access my Kindergarten to College account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C opens an account for a student automatically, as soon as they enroll in an SFUSD school and regardless of what grade they enroll in or whether they transfer in partway through the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents or guardians do not need to do anything; however, they do need to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/register-view-balance-online\">visit the K2C portal\u003c/a> and register their student’s information so they can see their account balance and start depositing. To register an account, you will need your student’s K2C account number. SFUSD mails families a letter with their student’s account number several times during elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I can’t find my K2C account number?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No worries — K2C has \u003ca href=\"https://newbusiness.sfgov.org/k2cAccountLookup/\">a tool that can help track down your account number\u003c/a>. All you need is your student’s full name, birth date and ZIP code. Once you have the number handy, go back to the K2C portal to register, create a password and check out your account. You should already have $50 dollars in there — that starting amount comes from the city and is allocated from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you have your account set up, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/how-make-deposit\">there are several ways you can make a deposit\u003c/a>, including through direct deposit, making a deposit in person or mailing a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much is my family expected to save?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each family can engage with their K2C account as much or as little as they see fit. There is no obligation from the city to use the account. Each account already comes with $50, and if you log in to your account at least once a year, the city will add another $20. There are many different types of cash incentives available: Some you can receive by learning more about your account; others are available through special student contests where students can submit original art pieces they created at school; and some are automatically available to students at select elementary schools. \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/earn-incentives\">You can review a more detailed list of incentives on the K2C website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people sit inside a large conference room and look away from the camera. Behind them, a large monitor reads out, \"Congratulations graduates!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. Every kindergartner who attends public school in San Francisco receives a college savings account automatically with a $50 incentive. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a high school senior right now. How can I withdraw what I have in my account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing out your account is pretty straightforward. If you have an automatic direct deposit set up, first make sure you stop these transfers. Then, complete a \u003ca href=\"https://etaxstatement.sfgov.org/K2COnlineForm/\">K2C Account Withdrawal Request Form\u003c/a>, where you will be asked to confirm your personal information, whether you are graduating high school and what you will be using the money for. You have several ways to receive it, including through a Zelle account transfer, a check or a transfer to a ScholarShare 529 account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have not yet graduated high school, but are transferring out of an SFUSD school (for example, you are transferring to a private school in the city or to another school district), you can also request to withdraw your funds. And if you never deposited your own money into your account, you can still request to withdraw the money the city deposited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are students enrolled in charter schools included in the K2C program? What about students in private or parochial schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most charter schools in San Francisco are included in K2C. Students at any of these schools qualify for the program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Creative Arts Charter School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thomas Edison Charter Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway Middle School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP Bayview Academy (middle school)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leadership High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Arts and Tech High School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Something important to keep in mind: According to city officials, students at KIPP Bayview Elementary (separate from KIPP Bayview Academy, the middle school) and the New School of San Francisco, a K–8 school, are not included in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C does not open accounts for students enrolled in private or parochial schools. Additionally, those currently enrolled in learning institutions affiliated with the San Francisco County Office of Education also are not eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about students who are not enrolled in a San Francisco public school? Are there programs similar to K2C in other parts of California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the creation of K2C, other cities in California have worked with school districts and nonprofit organizations to create their own versions of a universal college savings program. In Oakland, the nonprofit Oakland Promise manages two similar programs, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/kindergarten-to-college/\">Oakland Promise Kindergarten to College\u003c/a>, which helps open savings accounts for families in Oakland public schools and offers scholarships for students who graduate high school, and the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/brilliant-baby/\">Brilliant Baby program\u003c/a>, which opens college savings accounts with $500 already added, for families who recently had a baby and who qualify for Medi-Cal or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://communityinvestmentforfamilies.org/opportunity-la-0\">Opportunity L.A.\u003c/a> opens savings accounts for eligible LAUSD students, with a $50 seed deposit. And in 2022, California launched a statewide college savings initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/what-is-calkids/\">CalKIDS\u003c/a>. Two groups of young Californians are eligible for CalKIDS: children born on or after the creation of the program on July 1, 2022; and current K–12 students enrolled in any California public school who are either unhoused, enrolled in a foster youth program or are considered by the state to come from lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who open an account for their newborn can receive a seed deposit from the state of up to $100, and eligible K–12 students qualify for a $500 deposit. \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/who-is-eligible/\">You can check whether your newborn or student qualifies on the CalKIDS website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[hearken id=\"10483\" src=\"https://modules.wearehearken.com/kqed/embed/10483.js\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most of my K2C comes from scholarships I earned and from summer jobs,” Nwe explained. “Instead of giving me a check, they put it in [my account].” By the end of her senior year, Nwe was able to save a little over $1,400, which she says isn’t enough to cover tuition at UPenn, but it can cover other necessary expenses, like fees and books for class.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Having young people learn how savings accounts work and talking about personal finances with their families are some of the goals of the K2C program, says San Francisco City Treasurer José Cisneros, who helped design the program with then-Mayor Gavin Newsom in 2011. “It’s not about saving thousands of dollars necessarily,” Cisneros said. “If we give [students] 12 or 13 years to save money, they’re going to have something real there when they graduate high school.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952120\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Latino man with a suit and tie speaks from behind a dais with a university emblem behind him.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65681_004_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Treasurer José Cisneros speaks about the first class of graduates from San Francisco high schools using the K2C savings. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If you’re currently an SFUSD student — or a parent or guardian of one — and are heading into summer thinking about college, here’s a quick breakdown of how Kindergarten to College works and how to make the most of your account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How can I access my Kindergarten to College account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C opens an account for a student automatically, as soon as they enroll in an SFUSD school and regardless of what grade they enroll in or whether they transfer in partway through the year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parents or guardians do not need to do anything; however, they do need to \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/register-view-balance-online\">visit the K2C portal\u003c/a> and register their student’s information so they can see their account balance and start depositing. To register an account, you will need your student’s K2C account number. SFUSD mails families a letter with their student’s account number several times during elementary and middle school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if I can’t find my K2C account number?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No worries — K2C has \u003ca href=\"https://newbusiness.sfgov.org/k2cAccountLookup/\">a tool that can help track down your account number\u003c/a>. All you need is your student’s full name, birth date and ZIP code. Once you have the number handy, go back to the K2C portal to register, create a password and check out your account. You should already have $50 dollars in there — that starting amount comes from the city and is allocated from the city’s general fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once you have your account set up, \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/how-make-deposit\">there are several ways you can make a deposit\u003c/a>, including through direct deposit, making a deposit in person or mailing a check.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How much is my family expected to save?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each family can engage with their K2C account as much or as little as they see fit. There is no obligation from the city to use the account. Each account already comes with $50, and if you log in to your account at least once a year, the city will add another $20. There are many different types of cash incentives available: Some you can receive by learning more about your account; others are available through special student contests where students can submit original art pieces they created at school; and some are automatically available to students at select elementary schools. \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.org/k2c/my-account/earn-incentives\">You can review a more detailed list of incentives on the K2C website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952205\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952205\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg\" alt='A crowd of people sit inside a large conference room and look away from the camera. Behind them, a large monitor reads out, \"Congratulations graduates!\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/RS65689_014_KQED_Kindergarten2College_05162023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees watch a video during the ceremony. Every kindergartner who attends public school in San Francisco receives a college savings account automatically with a $50 incentive. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>I’m a high school senior right now. How can I withdraw what I have in my account?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Closing out your account is pretty straightforward. If you have an automatic direct deposit set up, first make sure you stop these transfers. Then, complete a \u003ca href=\"https://etaxstatement.sfgov.org/K2COnlineForm/\">K2C Account Withdrawal Request Form\u003c/a>, where you will be asked to confirm your personal information, whether you are graduating high school and what you will be using the money for. You have several ways to receive it, including through a Zelle account transfer, a check or a transfer to a ScholarShare 529 account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you have not yet graduated high school, but are transferring out of an SFUSD school (for example, you are transferring to a private school in the city or to another school district), you can also request to withdraw your funds. And if you never deposited your own money into your account, you can still request to withdraw the money the city deposited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Are students enrolled in charter schools included in the K2C program? What about students in private or parochial schools?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most charter schools in San Francisco are included in K2C. Students at any of these schools qualify for the program:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>Creative Arts Charter School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Thomas Edison Charter Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway Middle School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP Bayview Academy (middle school)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco Bay Academy\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>KIPP San Francisco College Preparatory\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Gateway High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>Leadership High School\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>City Arts and Tech High School\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Something important to keep in mind: According to city officials, students at KIPP Bayview Elementary (separate from KIPP Bayview Academy, the middle school) and the New School of San Francisco, a K–8 school, are not included in the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>K2C does not open accounts for students enrolled in private or parochial schools. Additionally, those currently enrolled in learning institutions affiliated with the San Francisco County Office of Education also are not eligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What about students who are not enrolled in a San Francisco public school? Are there programs similar to K2C in other parts of California?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the creation of K2C, other cities in California have worked with school districts and nonprofit organizations to create their own versions of a universal college savings program. In Oakland, the nonprofit Oakland Promise manages two similar programs, \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/kindergarten-to-college/\">Oakland Promise Kindergarten to College\u003c/a>, which helps open savings accounts for families in Oakland public schools and offers scholarships for students who graduate high school, and the \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandpromise.org/brilliant-baby/\">Brilliant Baby program\u003c/a>, which opens college savings accounts with $500 already added, for families who recently had a baby and who qualify for Medi-Cal or food stamps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Los Angeles, \u003ca href=\"https://communityinvestmentforfamilies.org/opportunity-la-0\">Opportunity L.A.\u003c/a> opens savings accounts for eligible LAUSD students, with a $50 seed deposit. And in 2022, California launched a statewide college savings initiative, \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/what-is-calkids/\">CalKIDS\u003c/a>. Two groups of young Californians are eligible for CalKIDS: children born on or after the creation of the program on July 1, 2022; and current K–12 students enrolled in any California public school who are either unhoused, enrolled in a foster youth program or are considered by the state to come from lower-income households.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Families who open an account for their newborn can receive a seed deposit from the state of up to $100, and eligible K–12 students qualify for a $500 deposit. \u003ca href=\"https://calkids.org/the-basics/who-is-eligible/\">You can check whether your newborn or student qualifies on the CalKIDS website.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"tellus\">\u003c/a>Tell us: What else do you need information about?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At KQED News, we know that it can sometimes be hard to track down the answers to navigate life in the Bay Area in 2023. We’ve published \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/coronavirus-resources-and-explainers\">clear, helpful explainers and guides about issues like COVID\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11936674/how-to-prepare-for-this-weeks-atmospheric-river-storm-sandbags-emergency-kits-and-more\">how to cope with intense winter weather\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11821950/how-to-safely-attend-a-protest-in-the-bay-area\">how to exercise your right to protest safely\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So tell us: What do you need to know more about? Tell us, and you could see your question answered online or on social media. What you submit will make our reporting stronger, and help us decide what to cover here on our site, and on KQED Public Radio, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Free Wi-Fi is a staple service of public libraries everywhere today. It’s also become a fixture of local debate around how to address homelessness in one pocket of San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are here, and they feel we don’t deserve to have Wi-Fi because we’re homeless. It’s spiteful, is what it is,” said Hollywood, who didn’t provide his last name and lives unhoused in the area surrounding San Francisco’s Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch Library.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood is one of several unhoused residents who frequent the library and connect to the internet inside as well as outside after the building closes. But last August, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2023/05/eureka-valley-library-wi-fi-after-hours-encampment-homeless/\">the branch cut off its Wi-Fi after hours\u003c/a>. It’s the only public library branch in the city that discontinues Wi-Fi at night, and the policy continues today, despite a simultaneous citywide push to increase internet access for San Franciscans with lower incomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City and library officials said the change was made after neighbors in the area complained that the free Wi-Fi was part of what attracted unhoused people to the area and contributed to crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Sunne Wright McPeak, CEO, California Emerging Technology Fund\"]‘For those who are trapped in poverty and have many other circumstances that make daily existence difficult, it is even more challenging if you’re not connected to the internet.’[/pullquote]Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, whose district includes the library branch, pushed neighbors’ concerns forward and requested that the library cut off Wi-Fi in the evenings, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dizz_h/status/1659629551381778432\">email records uncovered by Twitter user HDizz\u003c/a> show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But curtailing Wi-Fi has been only one part of a larger effort to clear sidewalks and discourage unhoused people from staying there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neighbors in that area have been dealing with repeated encampments, open-air drug sales and use, harassment of local businesses and all-around problematic situations going on for a decade at this point,” said Mandelman. “It reached its nadir in the pandemic in 2020. There were encampments on both sides of the street, the sidewalk was impassable, and the historic AIDS mural had been wildly defaced. Neighbors were being threatened. It was bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952046\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg\" alt='Writing on a brick wall that reads \"Eureka Valley Harvey Milk Branch San Francisco Public Library\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers grow at the entrance to the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nestled between the heart of the Castro and Mission Dolores Park, the Harvey Milk library branch is a gem within San Francisco’s public library system. At the entrance is a fireplace with stylish reading chairs, and beyond rows of books and LPs is a colorful kids’ section where the library hosts story times for toddlers and babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Lambert, city librarian, recently wrote in an email to library staff addressing concerns raised about the Wi-Fi hours at the Harvey Milk branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited “individuals camping on the roof of the Branch, hacking into the Branch’s electrical power, and breaking into a small closet on the exterior perimeter of the building,” among acts of vandalism that led to the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But email records obtained by HDizz show that those incidents dated back to as early as 2015, before the 2017 study on crime in the area was released, and that the library for several years pushed back against cutting off Wi-Fi at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert wrote that the Harvey Milk branch was the first to bring on a fixed security officer, however, and that other branches have since replicated that practice. He added that the library has worked with the city’s Recreation and Parks Department and Public Works to remove needles and other waste from the sidewalk area outside the library and improve landscaping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood said he feels that people like him are being blamed for city-wide problems and punished for using a public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also doesn’t plan to leave the area he’s called home base for several years, despite having a tougher time connecting online there at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know the librarians here. I talk to them all the time,” Hollywood said. But the decision to discontinue Wi-Fi at night, he added, “doesn’t help anyone. It only hurts people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Digital divide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even in high-tech San Francisco, internet access is uneven. Unlike some rural areas that struggle with connectivity, fiber-optic cables and infrastructure are available here. But for people with lower or no incomes, monthly internet plans don’t always fit the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11947169,news_11950967,news_11926891\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Nearly 124,000 San Francisco residents are eligible for discounted or free internet through the federal Affordable Connectivity Program, but only 26% of those eligible are enrolled, according to a press release from the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ShelterTech, a technology nonprofit, found that less than half of the people experiencing homelessness in the Bay Area have access to reliable internet. Often, public libraries are a primary source of internet access for them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are trapped in poverty and have many other circumstances that make daily existence difficult, it is even more challenging if you’re not connected to the internet,” said Sunne Wright McPeak, CEO of the California Emerging Technology Fund. “This is as much a problem if not more so today if you’re trying to navigate any system or get assistance, find shelter, find food and help without having the internet.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anyone, regardless of their housing status, may use free Wi-Fi at libraries, even after hours. A common example, McPeak said, is when students without enough bandwidth at home study from cars in library parking lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the pandemic, library parking lot Wi-Fi has provided a critical baseline connectivity. Among the uses, libraries reported that ‘patrons frequently used Wi-Fi in the parking lot to apply for unemployment benefits and complete job applications while we were closed to the public,’” reads a \u003ca href=\"http://ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/telecom/broadband/Keeping_Communities_Connected_030722.pdf\">March 2022 report from the American Library Association (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vast majority of libraries — 93% — kept their Wi-Fi on during the pandemic, even when their buildings were closed, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Harvey Milk is the only branch in San Francisco to not continue Wi-Fi at night, it’s not the only library in the Bay Area to do so. San Bruno’s public library also turns off its Wi-Fi network between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanbruno.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1033/WIFI-Instructions-and-FAQ-PDF?bidId=\">citing “safety reasons” (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a library with chairs, desks and bookshelves in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A library patron uses a computer at the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials recently announced a new push to get more lower-income households to sign up for free or discounted internet service. The Connect San Francisco effort started on May 11 and aims to increase enrollment in low-cost and free Wi-Fi services across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco library officials said they have received three direct emails and two public comments so far asking for the evening Wi-Fi hours to be turned back on. Residents have also started a \u003ca href=\"https://tinyurl.com/mewp95zn\">campaign to turn the hours back on\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My priority is to try to continue to reduce the number of encampments in my district and this city, and get the right kind of care to a lot of sick people,” Mandelman said. “Twenty-four-hour Wi-Fi at Harvey Milk is not among my top priorities right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Correlation conundrum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pressure to cut off the Wi-Fi at the Harvey Milk branch goes back several years. In 2017, the San Francisco Public Library, or SFPL, studied Wi-Fi usage at the Harvey Milk branch and found no correlation with the number of security incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have found no new findings since we issued that report,” said Kate Patterson, spokesperson for SFPL, in an email to KQED. “We can confirm that incidents such as vandalism and other criminal behavior at the Eureka Valley Branch Library remain low and consistent with previous years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police, fire and other emergency calls in the area have decreased since the change was implemented in August, though. In the nine months prior to July 2022, 780 incidents were recorded on the library’s block, compared with 488 in the nine months after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that drop in emergency calls can’t be directly correlated to the Wi-Fi being shut off, the library’s study suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Thornhill, legislative aide for Mandelman, pointed to a number of efforts their office has made to target the block near the library, including revitalizing a mural and helping some individuals sleeping there find permanent housing placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952043\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man sits on a bench with a library building in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebel sits outside the library. He lives unhoused in the neighborhood and often uses the library Wi-Fi from his tablet. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Obviously the presence or lack of all night WiFi isn’t going to make a huge difference on its own, but it was one of many factors on this block that created an attractive location for persistent encampments, open drug use, and associated antisocial behavior,” Thornhill said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several unhoused people who live in the area, and who use the library’s free Wi-Fi, losing the nighttime access hasn’t changed their living situation. Instead, it has made things like messaging with friends and family at night, playing games or even signing up for services more difficult, and the nights more isolating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family is here, this is my group,” Joe, who goes by Rebel and did not provide his last name, said outside the library on a recent Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky, who also didn’t provide a last name, was visiting her friends Rebel and Hollywood on Tuesday. She recently moved inside after being unhoused for several years. But she frequently comes back to spend time with her friends in the area, who all know her and her dog, Chunks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for her thoughts on neighbors’ safety concerns, Vicky said, “At the end of the day, they are one paycheck from being where we are at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman, whose district includes the library branch, pushed neighbors’ concerns forward and requested that the library cut off Wi-Fi in the evenings, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/dizz_h/status/1659629551381778432\">email records uncovered by Twitter user HDizz\u003c/a> show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But curtailing Wi-Fi has been only one part of a larger effort to clear sidewalks and discourage unhoused people from staying there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Neighbors in that area have been dealing with repeated encampments, open-air drug sales and use, harassment of local businesses and all-around problematic situations going on for a decade at this point,” said Mandelman. “It reached its nadir in the pandemic in 2020. There were encampments on both sides of the street, the sidewalk was impassable, and the historic AIDS mural had been wildly defaced. Neighbors were being threatened. It was bad.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952046\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952046\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg\" alt='Writing on a brick wall that reads \"Eureka Valley Harvey Milk Branch San Francisco Public Library\"' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65973_016_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowers grow at the entrance to the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nestled between the heart of the Castro and Mission Dolores Park, the Harvey Milk library branch is a gem within San Francisco’s public library system. At the entrance is a fireplace with stylish reading chairs, and beyond rows of books and LPs is a colorful kids’ section where the library hosts story times for toddlers and babies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Lambert, city librarian, recently wrote in an email to library staff addressing concerns raised about the Wi-Fi hours at the Harvey Milk branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He cited “individuals camping on the roof of the Branch, hacking into the Branch’s electrical power, and breaking into a small closet on the exterior perimeter of the building,” among acts of vandalism that led to the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But email records obtained by HDizz show that those incidents dated back to as early as 2015, before the 2017 study on crime in the area was released, and that the library for several years pushed back against cutting off Wi-Fi at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lambert wrote that the Harvey Milk branch was the first to bring on a fixed security officer, however, and that other branches have since replicated that practice. He added that the library has worked with the city’s Recreation and Parks Department and Public Works to remove needles and other waste from the sidewalk area outside the library and improve landscaping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hollywood said he feels that people like him are being blamed for city-wide problems and punished for using a public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also doesn’t plan to leave the area he’s called home base for several years, despite having a tougher time connecting online there at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I know the librarians here. I talk to them all the time,” Hollywood said. But the decision to discontinue Wi-Fi at night, he added, “doesn’t help anyone. It only hurts people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Digital divide\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Even in high-tech San Francisco, internet access is uneven. Unlike some rural areas that struggle with connectivity, fiber-optic cables and infrastructure are available here. But for people with lower or no incomes, monthly internet plans don’t always fit the budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But anyone, regardless of their housing status, may use free Wi-Fi at libraries, even after hours. A common example, McPeak said, is when students without enough bandwidth at home study from cars in library parking lots.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Throughout the pandemic, library parking lot Wi-Fi has provided a critical baseline connectivity. Among the uses, libraries reported that ‘patrons frequently used Wi-Fi in the parking lot to apply for unemployment benefits and complete job applications while we were closed to the public,’” reads a \u003ca href=\"http://ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/telecom/broadband/Keeping_Communities_Connected_030722.pdf\">March 2022 report from the American Library Association (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A vast majority of libraries — 93% — kept their Wi-Fi on during the pandemic, even when their buildings were closed, according to the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Harvey Milk is the only branch in San Francisco to not continue Wi-Fi at night, it’s not the only library in the Bay Area to do so. San Bruno’s public library also turns off its Wi-Fi network between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m., \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanbruno.ca.gov/DocumentCenter/View/1033/WIFI-Instructions-and-FAQ-PDF?bidId=\">citing “safety reasons” (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952049\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952049\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a library with chairs, desks and bookshelves in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65970_011_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A library patron uses a computer at the Eureka Valley/Harvey Milk Memorial Branch. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials recently announced a new push to get more lower-income households to sign up for free or discounted internet service. The Connect San Francisco effort started on May 11 and aims to increase enrollment in low-cost and free Wi-Fi services across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, San Francisco library officials said they have received three direct emails and two public comments so far asking for the evening Wi-Fi hours to be turned back on. Residents have also started a \u003ca href=\"https://tinyurl.com/mewp95zn\">campaign to turn the hours back on\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My priority is to try to continue to reduce the number of encampments in my district and this city, and get the right kind of care to a lot of sick people,” Mandelman said. “Twenty-four-hour Wi-Fi at Harvey Milk is not among my top priorities right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Correlation conundrum\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pressure to cut off the Wi-Fi at the Harvey Milk branch goes back several years. In 2017, the San Francisco Public Library, or SFPL, studied Wi-Fi usage at the Harvey Milk branch and found no correlation with the number of security incidents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have found no new findings since we issued that report,” said Kate Patterson, spokesperson for SFPL, in an email to KQED. “We can confirm that incidents such as vandalism and other criminal behavior at the Eureka Valley Branch Library remain low and consistent with previous years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police, fire and other emergency calls in the area have decreased since the change was implemented in August, though. In the nine months prior to July 2022, 780 incidents were recorded on the library’s block, compared with 488 in the nine months after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that drop in emergency calls can’t be directly correlated to the Wi-Fi being shut off, the library’s study suggests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Thornhill, legislative aide for Mandelman, pointed to a number of efforts their office has made to target the block near the library, including revitalizing a mural and helping some individuals sleeping there find permanent housing placements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11952043\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11952043\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle-aged man sits on a bench with a library building in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/06/RS65963_002_KQED_EurekaValleyLibraryWifi_05302023-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rebel sits outside the library. He lives unhoused in the neighborhood and often uses the library Wi-Fi from his tablet. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Obviously the presence or lack of all night WiFi isn’t going to make a huge difference on its own, but it was one of many factors on this block that created an attractive location for persistent encampments, open drug use, and associated antisocial behavior,” Thornhill said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For several unhoused people who live in the area, and who use the library’s free Wi-Fi, losing the nighttime access hasn’t changed their living situation. Instead, it has made things like messaging with friends and family at night, playing games or even signing up for services more difficult, and the nights more isolating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My family is here, this is my group,” Joe, who goes by Rebel and did not provide his last name, said outside the library on a recent Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vicky, who also didn’t provide a last name, was visiting her friends Rebel and Hollywood on Tuesday. She recently moved inside after being unhoused for several years. But she frequently comes back to spend time with her friends in the area, who all know her and her dog, Chunks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When asked for her thoughts on neighbors’ safety concerns, Vicky said, “At the end of the day, they are one paycheck from being where we are at.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, ACLU attorney John Do, lead counsel on the case, said there were indications almost immediately that the city wasn’t complying with the preliminary injunction. “In early January, when we were faced with those series of atmospheric rivers, the city continued to destroy people’s survival gear right in the middle of that,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Do and his colleagues gathered declarations from 26 witnesses to dozens of enforcement actions they allege violate the court’s preliminary injunction. The witnesses include a public defender, an ACLU investigator, coalition staff and unhoused individuals who say city staff have continued to destroy their property and forced them to move as many as 20 times since the injunction was issued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950986\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950986\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg\" alt=\"A white woman standings preparing a document, wearing a blue dress, and a man and woman beside her in a large crowded hall.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/GettyImages-1321591779-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jennifer Friedenbach (right) of the Coalition on Homelessness helps people lining up to question speakers at a town hall city budget meeting at the Tenderloin Community School, in San Francisco, on March 16, 2011. \u003ccite>(Liz Hafalia/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The lawyers also draw on public dispatch data showing the city is still sending police, rather than outreach workers, to respond to complaints about homelessness, including for sit/lie enforcement, which is barred under the preliminary injunction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocating for court intervention, the lawyers write, “The preliminary injunction cannot serve its purpose of protecting Plaintiffs from the City’s unconstitutional conduct while such unlawful conduct persistently evades this Court’s review.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friendenbach said ultimately she hopes the lawsuit leads to an overhaul in how the city addresses homelessness. She argues aggressive tactics can compound trauma and be counterproductive. She wants to see a trauma-informed approach that builds trust and matches services to needs. “We’re really trying to get a more thoughtful response that’s effective, that leads to people getting off the streets,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3qcysNw\">Read a transcript of this episode.\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To many, running 7.5 miles is a loathsome task, much less a cause for celebration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But each year on the third Sunday of May, thousands of people turn what would otherwise be just your average San Francisco footrace into a moving block party complete with costumes, house parties and plenty of refreshments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one-quarter Mardi Gras, one-quarter Boston Marathon, one quarter Pride and a little bit of Halloween thrown in there, too,” said Kyle Meyers, who owns Silverback, the events company that runs Bay to Breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since it started in 1912, Bay to Breakers has changed from a run-of-the-mill footrace across the city into a one-of-a-kind event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the starting line you’ll see people throwing tortillas around like frisbees. People run in groups connected by a bungee cord in the “centipede” category. Some people run naked. Others, dressed like salmon, run the course backward, like a salmon swimming upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person I was next to lined up at the start of the race and got completely nude with no shoes on,” recalled Bay Curious listener Andrew Thomas of the time he ran the race in 2019. “I was like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna smoke this person.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not at this race. [baycuriouspodcastinfo]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took off and I couldn’t even keep up with them for a quarter mile and they did really well,” said Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running in the race got Thomas thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to know more about the history of Bay to Breakers. When did it get so wacky? When did costumes start getting introduced? There’s many races all over the country, why did this one get so uniquely San Franciscan?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story begins with one of the most infamous days in San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rallying a city’s spirits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The earthquake of April 18, 1906, ignited a fire that burned for three days and destroyed nearly 500 city blocks. An estimated 3,000 people died and half of the city’s residents were left unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years that followed, city leaders planned events to boost the civic pride and morale of San Franciscans. It’s reported that Hillard L. Baggerly, sports editor for \u003cem>The San Francisco Bulletin\u003c/em>, proposed a cross-city footrace to do just that. On New Year’s Day in 1912, 140 people lined up on the Embarcadero for the first running of the aptly named “Cross City Race.” This is the race that would eventually become known as Bay to Breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course has changed several times throughout the 100-plus years it’s been run, but it has always started near the Ferry Building — by the bay — and ended at the beach— aka, the breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-800x498.png\" alt='Black and white copy of an old newspaper featuring the headline, \"WONDERFUL TIME MADE BY THE WINNER OF RACE.\" One image shows a large crowd of race participants running, and another shows men in suits holding trophies.' width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-800x498.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-1020x636.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-160x100.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front page of ‘The San Francisco Bulletin’ on Jan. 2, 1912, reporting on the first ‘Cross City Race,’ since renamed Bay to Breakers \u003ccite>(Public domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to author Len Wallach, who wrote a comprehensive history of Bay to Breakers in 1978 called \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C1269916\">\u003cem>The Human Race\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the original Bay to Breakers route “proceeded up Golden Gate Avenue after leaving Market Street, crossing over Van Ness, the edge of the fire line of the 1906 earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notable milestones of the present-day racecourse include weaving through the wide streets of SoMa and downtown San Francisco, surmounting the challenging Hayes Street hill at Alamo Square, and passing through Golden Gate Park, starting at its panhandle before ultimately finishing at Ocean Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a specific time when costumes, or the lack of clothes altogether, became typical for Bay to Breakers, but there were a few notable moments in the race history that hinted that San Franciscans weren’t going to let it be just any normal race.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dressed for the occasion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first mention of someone running the race in a costume dates to 1940. A participant dressed up as Captain Kidd, the famed Scottish privateer, and tried to enter the race, but was denied by officials. They ended up walking two blocks down Market Street and starting the race anyway, running it holding a pirate sword and finishing last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, another person also joined the race somewhere on Market Street, after taking a $5 bet that they wouldn’t run down the city’s main thoroughfare dressed only in their nightshirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1940 was also the first time that a woman is known to have finished the race, although women weren’t allowed to officially run the full course until 1971. A young woman named Bobbie Burke, who lived in the Sunset District, disguised herself as a man, apparently well enough to fool race officials. She received a Cross City Race diploma after finishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-’70s, Wallach writes, a “carnival atmosphere” had begun to form at the race, no doubt affected by the recent Summer of Love and pop culture happenings in San Francisco. Wallach describes the scene at the 1975 race: “There were runners dressed as clowns, horses, cowboys, riverboat gamblers. There were women in long dresses and parasols, gays in drag, gentlemen in tuxedos, and band masters in uniform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Motion blurred image of a running man with a large model of an atom strapped to his chest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bay to Breakers runner dressed as an atom jogs through downtown San Francisco on May 21, 2023. The annual race is billed as a celebration of San Francisco’s personality. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The ‘Cross City Race’ gets a new name\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This renewed enthusiasm for the race was a dramatic change from just a decade before. In 1963, the Cross City Race appeared near collapse, with just 15 people registering to run. It was the culmination of a long decline. Claire M. Williams writes in her essay “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3324736\">Bay to Breakers: The Original Fun Run\u003c/a>” that “from 1937 until 1963, the average number of Cross City Race finishers per race was just thirty-five.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says this decline was due to a revolving door of sponsors that failed to adequately promote the event. But 1964 marked the beginning of a long upswing in popularity for the race. That year, \u003cem>The News-Call Bulletin\u003c/em> took over sponsorship and changed the name to Bay to Breakers. Then, in 1966, \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> bought \u003cem>The Bulletin\u003c/em> and took over sponsorship of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1975, the acceptance of women running in the race and the running boom of the 1970s greatly drove up attendance, along with improved coverage and promotion by the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em>. That year 8,000 people raced in what became known as “The Great Stampede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendance grew dramatically through the next decade, a time when a new racing category would also be added to the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The centipedes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The UC Davis Aggies Running Club ran as a centipede for the first time in 1978. The centipedes are basically a train of 13 to 15 runners connected by a bungee cord, fabric, tape or anything else that works with the centipede costume theme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centipede costumes have varied from a train of people dressed as tissue boxes, a literal centipede or a deck of cards, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, the Aggies declared that Bay to Breakers was to be the site of the “National Club Centipede Championships,” and demanded that participants keep to the strict rules set by the imaginary “International Council on Centipede Racing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I did a centipede, we were dressed up as Wonder Woman,” said Angie Longworth, a member of the San Francisco-based Impala Racing Team, a running team for women. “And people would be running by us and they were just so excited to see that costume. They said, ‘Wonder Woman, this is my dream come true!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"A dozen women wear knee length business skits, white blouses, and identical large red bowties. They are each holding a paper cutout of Dianne Feinstein's face in front of their own, like a mask.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-1020x810.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-1536x1220.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-2048x1627.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-1920x1525.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Impala, an all-women running club in San Francisco, dressed up as Dianne Feinstein for the 1988 Bay to Breakers race. \u003ccite>(Robin Kutner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Impala team uses the theme of strong women to dress up every year, picking costumes like Mrs. Incredible, Ruth Bader Ginsburg or the Statue of Liberty. Impala racer Nelda Williams recalls when the group dressed up as former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were shaking hands with people running down the street like we were politicians, and they were booing us. We got a lot of press out of that, and she loved it,” recalled Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A little too much fun\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The booing was possibly because in 1977, Feinstein, then a city supervisor, called the race “out of control” and publicly lambasted race organizers after an unofficial runner collapsed and died, despite a quick medical response. Ultimately a resolution proposed by Feinstein to investigate race procedures was vetoed by then-mayor George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also a time when the race was undergoing even more exponential growth. In 1977, the race went from just over 8,000 registered runners to 110,000 by its 75th anniversary in 1986, earning it the Guinness World Record for largest footrace in the world. Adding to the fanfare that year, KPIX Channel 5 covered the race live, stationing reporters throughout the course and following the lead runners on motorcycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay to Breakers was entering its heyday, enjoying widespread popularity and fierce competition from some of the greatest legends in the running world, like the winner of the first-ever women’s Olympic marathon, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Norwegian athlete Grete Waitz, who won the New York City Marathon nine times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as popularity increased, there was a sense that things were getting a little too wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009 the race and city leaders banned alcohol and unsuccessfully tried to ban nudity. Then-Mayor Gavin Newsom complained that the race failed to clean up after itself, leaving behind 35 tons of trash one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Low angle image taken from the grass. A red plastic cup lays in the foreground, while a piles of cans and beer boxes lay at the feet of a group of people further away.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer cans and plastic cups rest on the grass at the east end of Golden Gate Park as Bay to Breakers participants celebrate after the race on May 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the 100th anniversary of the event, a participant died after getting into a fight at the race, and in 2013 another man died when he fell off a roof at a house party. That same year, another person is believed to have jumped into the ocean and drowned after finishing the race. People in the neighborhoods next to Golden Gate Park complained of trash and lots of public urination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to be enthusiastic about something when it results on people peeing on your door, but it’s really easy to prevent that and the race organizers do a good job of that most years,” said Jason Cauthen, a board member of the NOPA Neighborhood Association. “The years when the neighbors have had the most complaints and when it’s been the biggest problem for the neighborhood is years when the race organizers have scaled back the number of Porta Potties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many people try to run the full course from the bay to the ocean, many just walk or simply head straight to the panhandle of Golden Gate Park to party. This means that in order to fully prepare for the race, organizers must take into account not only the number of people registered, but also the tens of thousands more who come to watch or participate in the more celebratory aspects of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay to Breakers keeps running\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Balancing the needs of racers, partiers, spectators, neighbors and everyone else in the city is Kyle Meyers, who owns Silverback, the company that runs Bay to Breakers. He says this year’s event had around 17,000 paid participants — with another 30,000 just joining in for the fun. That means a lot of Porta Potties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just shy of 900. Which is a substantial amount for a race that’s only 7 miles long,” said Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in athletic clothing wait in line to use portable toilets. One man waits completely naked, except for a small backpack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay to Breakers participants wait to use the restroom on Howard Street in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meyers says putting on the event means working with just about every department the city has. But despite the monumental undertaking and a certain measure of dread some locals experience when they hear of the impending traffic and crowds that come with the race, he says it’s their flagship event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether some locals either lock themselves up or get out of town that weekend, I think deep down everybody appreciates what it means for this city to hold one of the longest-standing races in the world,” said Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay to Breakers has survived two World Wars, near-zero participation, the scrutiny of politicians and even the COVID-19 pandemic. It has its detractors, but Cauthen of the NOPA Neighborhood Association says it’s an important event to protect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Bay to Breakers is a super-unique event because it combines the aspect of celebration with the aspect of a running race,” he said. “I think expressing whimsy, celebrating and having a good time with your community, and having that tie to a fitness goal and activity is a very San Francisco thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coming out of the pandemic, race attendance is much less than what it was at its peak, and the race doesn’t attract the same elite runners it once did. As Bay to Breakers continues well past its 100th birthday, Cauthen says it’s important for people to recognize that this is both a race, and a party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950719\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950719\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"A group of people partying while in costume. They are wearing inflatable innertubes designed to look like car tires, with small fake steering wheels attached.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay to Breakers participants celebrate after the race at the east end of Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When it’s treated as purely a running race or when it’s treated as purely a festival, I think that’s when it’s at the greatest risk or has the greatest problems,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bay to Breakers has run its course through San Francisco’s history, it might be fitting to say that the event has left its mark on the city. But seeing what started as a men-only fitness competition turn into the spectacle of joy, inclusivity and athleticism it is today — from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake through the Summer of Love and other highs and lows — it’s more appropriate to say that San Francisco has left its mark on Bay to Breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the starting line you’ll see people throwing tortillas around like frisbees. People run in groups connected by a bungee cord in the “centipede” category. Some people run naked. Others, dressed like salmon, run the course backward, like a salmon swimming upstream.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The person I was next to lined up at the start of the race and got completely nude with no shoes on,” recalled Bay Curious listener Andrew Thomas of the time he ran the race in 2019. “I was like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna smoke this person.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not at this race. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Bay Curious\u003c/a> is a podcast that answers your questions about the Bay Area.\n Subscribe on \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/bay-curious/id1172473406\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple Podcasts\u003c/a>,\n \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/podcasts/500557090/bay-curious\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR One\u003c/a> or your favorite podcast platform.\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They took off and I couldn’t even keep up with them for a quarter mile and they did really well,” said Thomas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Running in the race got Thomas thinking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just want to know more about the history of Bay to Breakers. When did it get so wacky? When did costumes start getting introduced? There’s many races all over the country, why did this one get so uniquely San Franciscan?” he asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The story begins with one of the most infamous days in San Francisco history.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rallying a city’s spirits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The earthquake of April 18, 1906, ignited a fire that burned for three days and destroyed nearly 500 city blocks. An estimated 3,000 people died and half of the city’s residents were left unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the years that followed, city leaders planned events to boost the civic pride and morale of San Franciscans. It’s reported that Hillard L. Baggerly, sports editor for \u003cem>The San Francisco Bulletin\u003c/em>, proposed a cross-city footrace to do just that. On New Year’s Day in 1912, 140 people lined up on the Embarcadero for the first running of the aptly named “Cross City Race.” This is the race that would eventually become known as Bay to Breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The course has changed several times throughout the 100-plus years it’s been run, but it has always started near the Ferry Building — by the bay — and ended at the beach— aka, the breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950716\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950716\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-800x498.png\" alt='Black and white copy of an old newspaper featuring the headline, \"WONDERFUL TIME MADE BY THE WINNER OF RACE.\" One image shows a large crowd of race participants running, and another shows men in suits holding trophies.' width=\"800\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-800x498.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-1020x636.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper-160x100.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Front page of ‘The San Francisco Bulletin’ on Jan. 2, 1912, reporting on the first ‘Cross City Race,’ since renamed Bay to Breakers \u003ccite>(Public domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to author Len Wallach, who wrote a comprehensive history of Bay to Breakers in 1978 called \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C1269916\">\u003cem>The Human Race\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, the original Bay to Breakers route “proceeded up Golden Gate Avenue after leaving Market Street, crossing over Van Ness, the edge of the fire line of the 1906 earthquake.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notable milestones of the present-day racecourse include weaving through the wide streets of SoMa and downtown San Francisco, surmounting the challenging Hayes Street hill at Alamo Square, and passing through Golden Gate Park, starting at its panhandle before ultimately finishing at Ocean Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There isn’t a specific time when costumes, or the lack of clothes altogether, became typical for Bay to Breakers, but there were a few notable moments in the race history that hinted that San Franciscans weren’t going to let it be just any normal race.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Dressed for the occasion\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first mention of someone running the race in a costume dates to 1940. A participant dressed up as Captain Kidd, the famed Scottish privateer, and tried to enter the race, but was denied by officials. They ended up walking two blocks down Market Street and starting the race anyway, running it holding a pirate sword and finishing last.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That same year, another person also joined the race somewhere on Market Street, after taking a $5 bet that they wouldn’t run down the city’s main thoroughfare dressed only in their nightshirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>1940 was also the first time that a woman is known to have finished the race, although women weren’t allowed to officially run the full course until 1971. A young woman named Bobbie Burke, who lived in the Sunset District, disguised herself as a man, apparently well enough to fool race officials. She received a Cross City Race diploma after finishing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the mid-’70s, Wallach writes, a “carnival atmosphere” had begun to form at the race, no doubt affected by the recent Summer of Love and pop culture happenings in San Francisco. Wallach describes the scene at the 1975 race: “There were runners dressed as clowns, horses, cowboys, riverboat gamblers. There were women in long dresses and parasols, gays in drag, gentlemen in tuxedos, and band masters in uniform.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950741\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Motion blurred image of a running man with a large model of an atom strapped to his chest.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65588_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-012-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bay to Breakers runner dressed as an atom jogs through downtown San Francisco on May 21, 2023. The annual race is billed as a celebration of San Francisco’s personality. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The ‘Cross City Race’ gets a new name\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This renewed enthusiasm for the race was a dramatic change from just a decade before. In 1963, the Cross City Race appeared near collapse, with just 15 people registering to run. It was the culmination of a long decline. Claire M. Williams writes in her essay “\u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S93C3324736\">Bay to Breakers: The Original Fun Run\u003c/a>” that “from 1937 until 1963, the average number of Cross City Race finishers per race was just thirty-five.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams says this decline was due to a revolving door of sponsors that failed to adequately promote the event. But 1964 marked the beginning of a long upswing in popularity for the race. That year, \u003cem>The News-Call Bulletin\u003c/em> took over sponsorship and changed the name to Bay to Breakers. Then, in 1966, \u003cem>The San Francisco Examiner\u003c/em> bought \u003cem>The Bulletin\u003c/em> and took over sponsorship of the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 1975, the acceptance of women running in the race and the running boom of the 1970s greatly drove up attendance, along with improved coverage and promotion by the \u003cem>Examiner\u003c/em>. That year 8,000 people raced in what became known as “The Great Stampede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attendance grew dramatically through the next decade, a time when a new racing category would also be added to the race.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The centipedes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The UC Davis Aggies Running Club ran as a centipede for the first time in 1978. The centipedes are basically a train of 13 to 15 runners connected by a bungee cord, fabric, tape or anything else that works with the centipede costume theme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Centipede costumes have varied from a train of people dressed as tissue boxes, a literal centipede or a deck of cards, to name a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1979, the Aggies declared that Bay to Breakers was to be the site of the “National Club Centipede Championships,” and demanded that participants keep to the strict rules set by the imaginary “International Council on Centipede Racing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The first time I did a centipede, we were dressed up as Wonder Woman,” said Angie Longworth, a member of the San Francisco-based Impala Racing Team, a running team for women. “And people would be running by us and they were just so excited to see that costume. They said, ‘Wonder Woman, this is my dream come true!’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950714\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950714\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-800x636.jpg\" alt=\"A dozen women wear knee length business skits, white blouses, and identical large red bowties. They are each holding a paper cutout of Dianne Feinstein's face in front of their own, like a mask.\" width=\"800\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-800x636.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-1020x810.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-1536x1220.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-2048x1627.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/DiFi-Racing-1-1920x1525.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Members of Impala, an all-women running club in San Francisco, dressed up as Dianne Feinstein for the 1988 Bay to Breakers race. \u003ccite>(Robin Kutner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Impala team uses the theme of strong women to dress up every year, picking costumes like Mrs. Incredible, Ruth Bader Ginsburg or the Statue of Liberty. Impala racer Nelda Williams recalls when the group dressed up as former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were shaking hands with people running down the street like we were politicians, and they were booing us. We got a lot of press out of that, and she loved it,” recalled Williams.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A little too much fun\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The booing was possibly because in 1977, Feinstein, then a city supervisor, called the race “out of control” and publicly lambasted race organizers after an unofficial runner collapsed and died, despite a quick medical response. Ultimately a resolution proposed by Feinstein to investigate race procedures was vetoed by then-mayor George Moscone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was also a time when the race was undergoing even more exponential growth. In 1977, the race went from just over 8,000 registered runners to 110,000 by its 75th anniversary in 1986, earning it the Guinness World Record for largest footrace in the world. Adding to the fanfare that year, KPIX Channel 5 covered the race live, stationing reporters throughout the course and following the lead runners on motorcycles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay to Breakers was entering its heyday, enjoying widespread popularity and fierce competition from some of the greatest legends in the running world, like the winner of the first-ever women’s Olympic marathon, Joan Benoit Samuelson, and Norwegian athlete Grete Waitz, who won the New York City Marathon nine times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as popularity increased, there was a sense that things were getting a little too wild.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2009 the race and city leaders banned alcohol and unsuccessfully tried to ban nudity. Then-Mayor Gavin Newsom complained that the race failed to clean up after itself, leaving behind 35 tons of trash one year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950727\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950727\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Low angle image taken from the grass. A red plastic cup lays in the foreground, while a piles of cans and beer boxes lay at the feet of a group of people further away.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65611_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-856-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beer cans and plastic cups rest on the grass at the east end of Golden Gate Park as Bay to Breakers participants celebrate after the race on May 21, 2023. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED )\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In 2012, the 100th anniversary of the event, a participant died after getting into a fight at the race, and in 2013 another man died when he fell off a roof at a house party. That same year, another person is believed to have jumped into the ocean and drowned after finishing the race. People in the neighborhoods next to Golden Gate Park complained of trash and lots of public urination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to be enthusiastic about something when it results on people peeing on your door, but it’s really easy to prevent that and the race organizers do a good job of that most years,” said Jason Cauthen, a board member of the NOPA Neighborhood Association. “The years when the neighbors have had the most complaints and when it’s been the biggest problem for the neighborhood is years when the race organizers have scaled back the number of Porta Potties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many people try to run the full course from the bay to the ocean, many just walk or simply head straight to the panhandle of Golden Gate Park to party. This means that in order to fully prepare for the race, organizers must take into account not only the number of people registered, but also the tens of thousands more who come to watch or participate in the more celebratory aspects of the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Bay to Breakers keeps running\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Balancing the needs of racers, partiers, spectators, neighbors and everyone else in the city is Kyle Meyers, who owns Silverback, the company that runs Bay to Breakers. He says this year’s event had around 17,000 paid participants — with another 30,000 just joining in for the fun. That means a lot of Porta Potties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just shy of 900. Which is a substantial amount for a race that’s only 7 miles long,” said Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950718\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11950718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Several people in athletic clothing wait in line to use portable toilets. One man waits completely naked, except for a small backpack.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65593_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-284-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay to Breakers participants wait to use the restroom on Howard Street in downtown San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Meyers says putting on the event means working with just about every department the city has. But despite the monumental undertaking and a certain measure of dread some locals experience when they hear of the impending traffic and crowds that come with the race, he says it’s their flagship event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whether some locals either lock themselves up or get out of town that weekend, I think deep down everybody appreciates what it means for this city to hold one of the longest-standing races in the world,” said Meyers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay to Breakers has survived two World Wars, near-zero participation, the scrutiny of politicians and even the COVID-19 pandemic. 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They are wearing inflatable innertubes designed to look like car tires, with small fake steering wheels attached.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65608_20230521_ksuzuki_baytobreakers-812-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bay to Breakers participants celebrate after the race at the east end of Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When it’s treated as purely a running race or when it’s treated as purely a festival, I think that’s when it’s at the greatest risk or has the greatest problems,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As Bay to Breakers has run its course through San Francisco’s history, it might be fitting to say that the event has left its mark on the city. But seeing what started as a men-only fitness competition turn into the spectacle of joy, inclusivity and athleticism it is today — from the ashes of the 1906 earthquake through the Summer of Love and other highs and lows — it’s more appropriate to say that San Francisco has left its mark on Bay to Breakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:45 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family and friends gathered inside the historic Third Baptist Church of San Francisco on a foggy Thursday morning to say their final goodbyes to Banko Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the nearly 100 guests dressed in red and white, with matching flowers at the front of the church spelling “Banko.” Some had “Long Live” and “Justice for Banko Brown” painted from shoulder to shoulder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The room hummed with soft greetings and babies cooing as guests settled into pews.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950733\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950733\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65870_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-053-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65870_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-053-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65870_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-053-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65870_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-053-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65870_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-053-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65870_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-053-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rev. Amos C. Brown stands next to family and friends of Banko Brown inside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rev. Amos Brown, president of the San Francisco branch of the NAACP and pastor of Third Baptist Church, who is not related to Banko Brown, consoled the mourners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a sad day. The loss of Banko gives us pain, it gives us anguish,” he said. “We’ve always been focused on the good coming, the people who need good in their lives. This is a house of help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The service was interrupted as guests began shouting at each other. After a scripture reading, some of the people who identified as Brown’s parents had been acknowledged; apparently, others who had played a role in his life were upset about being omitted. Some guests had to be restrained from charging at others, and several were escorted outside as police officers walked down the aisle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brown’s stepmother, Barbara Brown, pleaded with the group to calm down. “You need to be respectful. We are in a church,” she said. “We are here for Banko Brown.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/1661800210639753216\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After about 10 minutes, Rev. Brown resumed his speech, evoking the classic novel \u003cem>Lord of the Flies\u003c/em>, saying it reflected the fighting that had just broken out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Those boys were on this airplane,” Brown said, referring to the book. “Unfortunately, the airplane crashed in the Pacific. And when the airplane crashed, only the boys survived. These otherwise dignified white boys become savages.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950740\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950740\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65871_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-183-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Banko Brown’s stepmother, Barbara Brown, tries to keep people calm after arguments erupted. People spoke out angrily after a scripture reading acknowledged only some of those who identified as Brown’s parents. ‘This is not showing any respect,’ Brown said. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is what America has done to you,” he continued, turning to the people in the pews. “You are somebody. You are made in the image of God, but America has defined you. … Banko’s death will not be in vain.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 27, Walgreens security guard Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony shot and killed Brown after Brown allegedly attempted to shoplift from the store’s Market Street location.[aside label=\"related coverage\" tag=\"banko-brown\"]Brown, a 24-year-old transgender Black man, was unarmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On May 1, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced she would not file charges against Anthony. City leaders and members of the public \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948964/san-francisco-supervisors-raise-pressure-on-da-to-release-video-of-banko-brown-killing\">called for Jenkins\u003c/a> to release the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949558/district-attorney-releases-video-of-banko-brown-shooting-at-walgreens-wont-files-charges-against-security-gaurd\">store’s surveillance footage\u003c/a>, which she did on May 15.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The six-minute video shows Anthony confronting Brown as he attempts to exit the store. The two scuffle before Anthony wrestles Brown to the ground. After Anthony lets Brown stand up, Brown grabs his bag and turns to leave. As Brown is on the store’s threshold, he turns around and gestures toward Anthony. Brown is moving backward when he’s shot by Anthony, who fires only once. A passerby attempts to revive Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950736\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950736\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1282\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65880_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-415-qut-1536x1026.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barbara Brown embraces another attendee outside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Anthony told investigators that Brown “repeatedly threatened to stab him,” according to the 25-page report released by Jenkins, who said she didn’t believe she could prove a case against Anthony beyond a reasonable doubt. Police did not recover a knife from Brown’s bag or the scene. \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/criminal-justice/banko-brown-protesters-rage-outside-walgreens-after-da-jenkins-decision/\">Hundreds marched on Market Street\u003c/a> to protest Jenkins’ decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the footage was released, San Francisco supervisors unanimously called on state \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11950595/banko-browns-supporters-applaud-attorney-generals-decision-to-review-killing-after-sf-da-passes-on-prosecution\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> and the U.S. Department of Justice to step in to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11949763/group-of-sf-lawmakers-seek-state-federal-intervention-in-banko-brown-killing-after-da-declines-to-prosecute\">review the fatal shooting\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Bonta agreed to review the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove (in black jacket), cousin of Banko Brown, and other pallbearers carry Brown’s coffin out of Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Burris, a civil rights attorney representing Brown’s family, plans to file lawsuits against Walgreens and Kingdom Group Protective Services, the security company that employed Anthony. Walgreens has since cut ties with KGPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who attended the funeral, welcomed Bonta’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many questions in the community, and it’s important there is a process and as many eyes on this investigation so that it moves forward in the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of Banko Brown’s funeral embrace outside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kim also questioned the training of armed security guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw with the Walgreens incident is that [security guards] usually get less than a day of training before they are given guns,” she said. “That’s a big responsibility to carry. That, to me, feels like the question that needs to be answered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members continued crying after the service. Some shared memories of Brown, who had a distinct style and loved shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother raised a lot of us. We used to cook together,” said De’von Hamilton, Brown’s cousin. “Thanksgiving dinners, [Banko] would help with the greens. I would help with the turkey and we would season together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950739\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950739\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65895_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-581-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove leans over to kiss the window of the hearse bearing Brown’s coffin as it pulls away from Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another cousin, Harrishiana Lee, believes the family will get justice for Brown’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My cousin didn’t deserve to go out like this. His mom is going to get justice for her baby,” Lee said. “It’s not fair, he’s been through a lot as it is. For him to overcome everything he’s been through only to be gunned down — he don’t deserve that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Malcolm Smeed, Brown’s brother and one of the pallbearers at the funeral, remembered how creative and artistic Brown was, pointing to some of the airbrushed artwork on the jackets of mourners that was in honor of Brown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jackie Louis, Brown’s sister, simply said, “The world did not deserve Banko.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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On Wednesday, Bonta agreed to review the evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950737\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950737\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65885_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-486-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Calvin Breedlove (in black jacket), cousin of Banko Brown, and other pallbearers carry Brown’s coffin out of Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Burris, a civil rights attorney representing Brown’s family, plans to file lawsuits against Walgreens and Kingdom Group Protective Services, the security company that employed Anthony. Walgreens has since cut ties with KGPS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim, who attended the funeral, welcomed Bonta’s review.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many questions in the community, and it’s important there is a process and as many eyes on this investigation so that it moves forward in the right way,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950738\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950738\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS65889_05252023_bankobrownfuneral-531-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attendees of Banko Brown’s funeral embrace outside Third Baptist Church. \u003ccite>(Kori Suzuki/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kim also questioned the training of armed security guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we saw with the Walgreens incident is that [security guards] usually get less than a day of training before they are given guns,” she said. “That’s a big responsibility to carry. That, to me, feels like the question that needs to be answered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members continued crying after the service. Some shared memories of Brown, who had a distinct style and loved shoes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandmother raised a lot of us. We used to cook together,” said De’von Hamilton, Brown’s cousin. “Thanksgiving dinners, [Banko] would help with the greens. 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