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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. So back in the before times, you could stand in a designated pickup spot at more than a dozen places around the Bay Area and hop into a stranger’s car, zooming towards San Francisco in the carpool lane. Casual carpool was this completely normal and organic system of strangers carpooling with other strangers. Sometimes things got weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jahan Sagafi \u003c/strong>[00:00:34] I got into a car and the woman who was driving had her bird loose in the car. The bird cage was next to me in the back. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Before the pandemic, casual carpool was a completely organic system of pickup spots and patient passengers looking for a quick, comfortable way to head into San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Casual carpool collapsed when the pandemic hit. \u003ca href=\"https://sfcasualcarpool.my.canva.site/casualcarpool\">But now it’s been relaunched.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ci>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/i>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5435571911\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n\u003cdiv>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. So back in the before times, you could stand in a designated pickup spot at more than a dozen places around the Bay Area and hop into a stranger’s car, zooming towards San Francisco in the carpool lane. Casual carpool was this completely normal and organic system of strangers carpooling with other strangers. Sometimes things got weird.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jahan Sagafi \u003c/strong>[00:00:34] I got into a car and the woman who was driving had her bird loose in the car. The bird cage was next to me in the back. There was bird sort of mess all over the place and I immediately got out and said I’m not riding in this car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:52] But for the most part, casual carpool was just a faster and more comfortable way of getting into the city. Until, of course, the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camille Bermudez \u003c/strong>[00:01:03] Just as we were told five years ago to stay home, we’re also now being told five year later, hey, time to start coming back into the office. And so that is part of why we think now is the perfect time to bring casual carpool back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:18] Casual carpool is making a comeback, but it’s gonna depend on how many strangers decide to do the thing again. Today, the woman who is resurrecting casual carpool and how it’s going so far. So Dan, you went to the casual carpool pickup spot in Oakland on Tuesday for the relaunch. Can you set the scene for me? What did it look like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:01:50] Yeah, so I got to the garage around seven o’clock, which in traditional casual carpool times was a little on the early side.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] Dan Brekke is a transportation editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] Where this casual carpool spot is, is in a parking garage directly under the MacArthur Freeway. It’s not a cheerful spot, right? It’s kind of dingy, but it was one of the original casual carpool spots before the pandemic happened in 2020. I saw the organizer of this relaunch of the carpool, Camille Bermudez, putting up these silver balloons near the corner of Lake Park and Lake Shore to advertise the fact that there was something going on there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:02:46] I saw a few people waiting in the garage and it turned out most of them were news people. There was one car waiting, and she was waiting for riders to go into the city with her. She had a limited amount of time to wait. And so after, I don’t know, 10, 15 minutes maybe, she left. Then we’re getting to around 8 o’clock. Riders were appearing, getting in the cars, and they were taking off. Getting close to 8.30 now. There was 1 car waiting. There was a passenger in the back seat and a driver.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:03:21] I’m a reporter from KQED. If I ride along with you, can I interview you too? Yeah?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:03:30] And so I jumped in with them and we rode over to the city together just like old times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jahan Sagafi \u003c/strong>[00:03:36] She’s listening to KQED right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:03:39] It’s a great station.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jahan Sagafi \u003c/strong>[00:03:41] It is!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:46] Yeah I want to ask you about the folks that you hopped in the car with. Who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:03:52] So the people who picked me up turned out to be long time casual carpoolers and real fans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jahan Sagafi \u003c/strong>[00:03:58] I mean, it seemed like a quintessentially Bay Area thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:04:01] I met Jahan Sagafi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jahan Sagafi \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] I was trying to do the math in my head, having done it from 2009 until the pandemic, I probably rode casual carpool, you know, 1,500 times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:04:12] And Melissa Abad.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:04:14] Did you ever drive casual carpool in the past?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Abad \u003c/strong>[00:04:18] I did. I drove it quite a bit. I’ve always worked in the Presidio.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:04:24] Melissa was the driver and Jahan was the rider and I would say they were both really committed and for both of them something that impressed me was that they’re really into it sort of as an aspect of community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jahan Sagafi \u003c/strong>[00:04:41] And not just a community of people who already know each other and are loyal to each other, but people who don’t know each can pull together for that one moment and help each other out. I think that’s very Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Abad \u003c/strong>[00:04:54] There’s also some nice conversation. I have some very memorable conversations over the years and there’s nothing I’ve never felt unsafe or it’s always been a great experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:07] Why not just take transit?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:05:10] The advantages, sort of efficiency things that people talk about, are just too good. For instance, you usually don’t have to wait long for a ride. Sometimes you’re getting a ride in a really nice car. It’s cheaper for everybody, right? Because the driver in a carpool is only paying half the toll and the riders may pay nothing. And the time savings is huge. On a bad day at the Bay Bridge toll plaza, You’re saving… you know, 20, 30 minutes probably. Look, I think the main thing is comfort. I mean, people are choosing to ride in a private car that’s not crowded. Maybe somebody has some nice music on, maybe they have KQED, and it’s quiet if they want it to be, and they can talk to these strangers they’re riding with if that’s part of the ride too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:23] As someone who does try and use public transit when I can, I totally get the appeal of casual carpool. I mean, we’re talking about comfort. You always get a seat. You’re not dealing with big crowds on a BART train. But of course it went away because of the pandemic, but we’re taking now because of this relaunch. And I want to ask you more about the person behind it. Camille Bermudez. I mean what is her story and why is she so invested in making casual carpooling a thing again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:06:57] So Camille is a long time East Bay resident. She used to take the carpool with her father when she was a teenager. She went to high school in San Francisco. Her father worked on the Embarcadero downtown and she would ride in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camille Bermudez \u003c/strong>[00:07:14] It is very much something that brings neighborhoods together, or can bring neighborhoods together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:07:22] You know, she used it before the pandemic, and then for her and everybody else, it went away. And it’s never left her mind that, you know, this is something that should come back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Camille Bermudez \u003c/strong>[00:07:34] When I did move to Alameda, knowing that I had maybe more limited options, I was looking for casual carpool and that’s when I really felt this is something that’s missing from our system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:07:46] You know, Camille, she is very, very determined and driven. I got this feeling every time I talked to her. And when we were out at the Lake Park Avenue Garage the other day, I mean, you can hear it in her voice. You can hear this really high-level energy in most of her exchanges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:10] As part of her determination around getting this thing together, I know she did this whole survey. What did her survey find exactly?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:08:19] Well, what she was trying to find out was a general level of interest. And so she was asking people about their experience with it, whether they’d like to go back to it, where they would like to ride from, what time of day. She wanted to see what was viable for a relaunch. And I think where she started was, I want this thing to come back completely this summer. And she’s got reasons for thinking that’s possible. There are two main reasons. 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Within a few weeks of really looking at the data, she told me, well, we’re going to narrow our focus to three stations. One in Berkeley, one in Emeryville, one in Oakland, the Lake Park Avenue stop. And then by the time we actually got to her designated launch day, August 12, That was down to one. She felt like the numbers she saw in her survey really only supported the official relaunch of one site, the Lake Park Avenue site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:14] Could casual carpool take away from public transit? I mean, we know BART and Muni and all these other agencies are already struggling. Could casual carpool make it worse, somehow?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:10:25] There is money that goes into the agencies from every rider, right? I mean, that is true. But if you think practically about how this works, I mean there were never that many people who used casual carpool. There was one pretty thorough study done before casual car pooling ended in 2020 that showed that Bay Area-wide there were about 6,000 people who might use it. Now that 6,000 people probably split between three or four different transit agencies. So yes, there is a cost. But if you think about how those same people are getting back home, the vast majority of them are riding transit. So it’s like you’re losing half of your transit revenue from a very small number of riders. Now, we’ll see what happens going forward. I mean, if this thing takes off and there’s mass adoption, maybe that’s something to think about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:11:19] I mean, what do you make of the return of the casual carpool this week? Was it a success? Like, is casual car pool coming back? Is it safe to say?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:11:29] It’s a little too early to say exactly how it’s going to play out. I mean, we’re not talking big numbers. It’s like they’ve had half a dozen carpools per day. People’s commute habits have changed dramatically since March, 2020. And what we’re expecting them to do is to reverse some choices they’ve made since the pandemic started. And I’m not so sure it’s easy to do. Camille’s goal is to get more pickup spots up and running. And she imagines all 20 plus of them going full time, just like they were in the before times by a year from now. I think that could happen, but I think if it does, it’s gonna take some heavy lifting from other volunteers. Camille can’t do it all by herself. I mean, that’s just more than one person can do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:23] And that’s not the point, right? The whole system relies on many people buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dan Brekke \u003c/strong>[00:12:27] Exactly. There’s some kind of magic element of, like people were telling me the other morning, of, you know, community and a cooperative spirit to do this. And maybe that’s a place where you look at that and you have some optimism. Because I think people do want more of that. And to the extent that casual carpool is a community endeavor, people helping people. One person used the term mutual aid when we were talking about it. I think that may offer grounds for thinking that this could be a thing going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On a Wednesday night in July, the normally quiet Glen Park branch of the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-public-library\"> San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a> hummed with the sounds of clacking sewing machines, upbeat music and people chatting. But no librarians were shushing, because for a few hours, the library had been officially transformed into a clothing repair clinic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mollie Agahi stood at the front of the line of people waiting to be matched with an expert clothing mender. She brought with her a half-completed yellow dress she hoped to turn into a nightgown, but the process was slow-going without a sewing machine at home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luckily, that wasn’t a problem for Christine Haynes, who greeted Agahi cheerfully and got to work with her tools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just going to secure it with the machine,” Haynes said. “It’s going to be lovely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haynes is one of the five sewing experts paid to work at these \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/events/2025/08/16/workshop-fix-it-clinic-clothing-repair\">Fix-It Clinics\u003c/a>, which happen once a month at library branches around San Francisco. The clinics are run by a partnership between \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfenvironment.org/\">SF Environment\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfpl.org/\">San Francisco Public Library\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.scrap-sf.org/\">SCRAP\u003c/a>, an SF-based nonprofit that promotes creative reuse. Since the clinics launched in 2023, 235 articles of clothing have been repaired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048751\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048751\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-18-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mira Musank works with a participant to repair her sweater during a Fix-It Clinic Clothing Repair workshop at the Glen Park Branch Library in San Francisco on July 16, 2025. During the workshop, teachers from SCRAP offer hands-on fixes and mending tips. SCRAP is a nonprofit creative reuse center that provides arts and environmental education using donated materials. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Danielle Grant, SCRAP’s Program Director, said the purpose of the clinics is to “inspire people to keep their clothes in their closets longer, to get the most wear out of their clothes that they can and to rethink their relationship to buying things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clinics are first-come, first-served and free to attend. Participants also don’t need to know anything about sewing — a fact that Grant said makes the workshops extra accessible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We definitely have fans,” Grant said. “There are people who show up every month.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the items repaired in July included a cozy pajama shirt with a hole in it, a multicolored tutu dress with a broken zipper and a sentimental seat cushion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mei Zhang brought a pair of her favorite jeans that were starting to wear out in the seat.[aside postID=arts_13975661 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231108-TheLab-48-BL_2000-1020x680.jpg']“I’ve tried repairing them myself by sewing over the edges, but they’re still starting to wear,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the Fix-It Clinic, Zhang said she probably would have “cried a little bit, held on to them for years and then thrown them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jeans would have been part of the 11 thousand tons of textiles that wind up in SF’s landfill every year, according to a spokesperson for SF Environment. While this is only 4% of the total landfill waste, even this small amount of textile waste can be dangerous. State and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/55/3/1.1\">global studies\u003c/a> show that synthetic fibers from clothing dumped in landfills leak microplastics into soil and water systems, and release harmful greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why removing and reducing textiles from the landfill is the city’s “top priority,” according to Freddy Coronado, who helps run the Fix-It Clinics as SF Environment’s Residential Zero Waste Assistant Coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048752\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sewing expert Tria Connell works to patch a hole in a jacket during a Fix-It Clinic Clothing Repair workshop at the Glen Park Branch Library in San Francisco on July 16, 2025. During the workshop, teachers from SCRAP offer hands-on fixes and mending tips. SCRAP is a nonprofit creative reuse center that provides arts and environmental education using donated materials. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do have really environmentally conscious people, but we consume a lot,” he said. “We launched the repair clinics to get people comfortable with the idea of extending the lifespan of clothing by repairing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California is also trying to tackle the problem of textile waste. In 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb707\">Responsible Textile Recovery Act\u003c/a>, requiring apparel and textile producers to have a plan for collecting, repairing and recycling their products. It’s the first program of its kind in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two hours, the library returned to its quiet lull. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I’ve tried repairing them myself by sewing over the edges, but they’re still starting to wear,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the Fix-It Clinic, Zhang said she probably would have “cried a little bit, held on to them for years and then thrown them out.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those jeans would have been part of the 11 thousand tons of textiles that wind up in SF’s landfill every year, according to a spokesperson for SF Environment. While this is only 4% of the total landfill waste, even this small amount of textile waste can be dangerous. State and \u003ca href=\"https://www.thenationshealth.org/content/55/3/1.1\">global studies\u003c/a> show that synthetic fibers from clothing dumped in landfills leak microplastics into soil and water systems, and release harmful greenhouse gases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why removing and reducing textiles from the landfill is the city’s “top priority,” according to Freddy Coronado, who helps run the Fix-It Clinics as SF Environment’s Residential Zero Waste Assistant Coordinator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048752\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048752\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-SFFixItClinic-19-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sewing expert Tria Connell works to patch a hole in a jacket during a Fix-It Clinic Clothing Repair workshop at the Glen Park Branch Library in San Francisco on July 16, 2025. During the workshop, teachers from SCRAP offer hands-on fixes and mending tips. SCRAP is a nonprofit creative reuse center that provides arts and environmental education using donated materials. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We do have really environmentally conscious people, but we consume a lot,” he said. “We launched the repair clinics to get people comfortable with the idea of extending the lifespan of clothing by repairing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state of California is also trying to tackle the problem of textile waste. In 2024, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202320240sb707\">Responsible Textile Recovery Act\u003c/a>, requiring apparel and textile producers to have a plan for collecting, repairing and recycling their products. It’s the first program of its kind in the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After two hours, the library returned to its quiet lull. Twenty-five people left with a beloved piece of clothing ready for another wear, which is 25 fewer things in the city’s landfill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And anyone who didn’t make it that night could always come back next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>They say good things come in threes, and for San Francisco’s music lovers, Golden Gate Park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050476/the-deadheads-are-coming-and-sf-is-ready-next-up-2-more-weekends-of-live-music\">trifecta of summer concerts\u003c/a> has been solid proof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iepe5Obqzjo\">revival\u003c/a>” of the past two music-filled weekends is set to be headlined by country star Zach Bryan, who’ll be joined by the Kings of Leon, Turnpike Troubadours and Noeline Hoffman for a one-day show hosted by Another Planet Entertainment, the concert promoter behind \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13979898/photos-outside-lands-fan-festival-fashion-and-hot-looks-2025\">Outside Lands\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group launched its \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13955656/deftones-system-of-a-down-tickets-presale-code-san-francisco-golden-gate-outside-lands\">Concerts on the Polo Fields\u003c/a> series last summer with a sold-out show by System of a Down and Deftones and has expanded this year, effectively shutting down Golden Gate Park to host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12050567/grateful-dead-fans-descend-on-san-francisco-for-three-days-of-shows\">Dead & Company\u003c/a>, Outside Lands and Bryan on consecutive weekends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan’s appearance in San Francisco is one of few he’s making this year, after wrapping up the main portion of his nearly 40-city “Quittin’ Time” tour in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, he played his first-ever stadium show in Oakland, gracing the Coliseum with his 2024 album “The Great American Bar Scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance sign to the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park. Polo was the main attraction of the field through the early 1960s, but has not been played there regularly for decades.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance sign to the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This summer, he’s played shows across Europe with stops in London and Dublin, and is expected to hit a small selection of outdoor venues in the U.S. throughout August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While after three nights of 60,000-person Dead & Company shows and last weekend’s blockbuster festival, concertgoers are likely feeling prepared — and maybe even a little tired — ahead of the grand finale, here’s what you should know before the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What time does the concert start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The park’s doors will open at 1:30 p.m., and the first act is scheduled to come on around 3 p.m., though Bryan probably won’t hit the stage until hours later. People can start lining up for entry at 12:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concert is set to end at 10:00 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s performing, and when?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another Entertainment hasn’t announced what order the bands opening for Bryan will play in, but Kings of Leon will almost certainly be last.[aside postID=arts_13976542 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/05/240524_BottleRockDay3_EG_16-1020x680.jpg']The rock band boasts a sizable audience of its own, with 22 million monthly listeners on Spotify and Top-100 hits like “Use Somebody” and “Sex on Fire.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’ve also been teasing two recent projects with Bryan: a feature on the country star’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_bWfvdeOrA\">newly-released single “Bowery\u003c/a>,” and a snippet of an unreleased song featuring Bryan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, the band \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DNTv9CHSXcR/?hl=en\">posted an audio clip\u003c/a> of the track on social media with the caption “we’re onto something (??)”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian singer-songwriter \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/2xGbY9iFLZqd9BK0YV1aKW\">Noeline Hoffman\u003c/a>, who is also featured on a Bryan track, and the country rock band \u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/artist/1YSA4byX5AL1zoTsSTlB03\">Turnpike Troubadours\u003c/a> should get the crowd warmed up.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How should I get to the show?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Any way but your car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Parking around the park is already limited, and will be reserved for neighbors during the show. The 5-Fulton and N-Judah Muni lines will offer free rides to ticketholders through their “Your Ticket, Your Fare” program, shuttling concertgoers from Ocean Beach and the Outer Richmond to Mission Bay and the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052314 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muni Metro cars run along Judah Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on March 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also drop-off points for rideshare services like Uber and Lyft, and options to purchase \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/event/zach-bryan/\">round-trip shuttle tickets\u003c/a> to and from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the Cow Palace Park and Ride and even the State Capitol Park in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike parking is also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is a limited number of VIP parking passes, they require prior purchase and are sold out on Ticketmaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Entrances and Exits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Similar to the last few weekends, there’ll be set pathways in and out of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can access the North Main Gate Entrance on 30th and JFK Drive, though Muni riders will be dropped off on Fulton and walk into the park from there. The box office for tickets is east of the bus stop, just inside the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052315 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concertgoer wears three pairs of sunglasses as he watches Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso perform at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields last weekend. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The South Gate is located at Middle Drive and Metson Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone taking the shuttles home should exit through the south tunnel or south polo field exits after the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those with VIP tickets have their own choice of quieter north and south entrances, on 36th and JFK Drive and MLK Jr. Drive, respectively. There’ll also be ADA access near the north VIP entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What can, and can’t, I bring?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Clear backpacks and bags of any size are permitted, as well as small non-clear bags, like fanny packs and purses smaller than 6” x 8” x 3”. You can also bring in an empty hydration pack as long as its capacity is less than 2.5 liters or 150 inches. Reusable water bottles are recommended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Camping chairs, stools and inflatables are not permitted, but a folding chair that doesn’t have legs or a telescoping stool can be brought in. 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The Polo Field will remain shut down until Aug. 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bryan’s appearance in San Francisco is one of few he’s making this year, after wrapping up the main portion of his nearly 40-city “Quittin’ Time” tour in December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last May, he played his first-ever stadium show in Oakland, gracing the Coliseum with his 2024 album “The Great American Bar Scene.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11663342\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11663342\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance sign to the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park. Polo was the main attraction of the field through the early 1960s, but has not been played there regularly for decades.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1200x800.jpg 1200w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-960x640.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-240x160.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-375x250.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/04/RS30490_mayoraldebate-9-qut-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance sign to the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park. \u003ccite>(Samantha Shanahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This summer, he’s played shows across Europe with stops in London and Dublin, and is expected to hit a small selection of outdoor venues in the U.S. throughout August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While after three nights of 60,000-person Dead & Company shows and last weekend’s blockbuster festival, concertgoers are likely feeling prepared — and maybe even a little tired — ahead of the grand finale, here’s what you should know before the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What time does the concert start?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The park’s doors will open at 1:30 p.m., and the first act is scheduled to come on around 3 p.m., though Bryan probably won’t hit the stage until hours later. People can start lining up for entry at 12:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concert is set to end at 10:00 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who’s performing, and when?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Another Entertainment hasn’t announced what order the bands opening for Bryan will play in, but Kings of Leon will almost certainly be last.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The 5-Fulton and N-Judah Muni lines will offer free rides to ticketholders through their “Your Ticket, Your Fare” program, shuttling concertgoers from Ocean Beach and the Outer Richmond to Mission Bay and the Financial District.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052314\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052314 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250325-ApartmentsonWestside-22-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Muni Metro cars run along Judah Street in San Francisco’s Sunset District on March 25, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There’s also drop-off points for rideshare services like Uber and Lyft, and options to purchase \u003ca href=\"https://goldengateparkconcerts.com/event/zach-bryan/\">round-trip shuttle tickets\u003c/a> to and from Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the Cow Palace Park and Ride and even the State Capitol Park in Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bike parking is also available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there is a limited number of VIP parking passes, they require prior purchase and are sold out on Ticketmaster.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Entrances and Exits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Similar to the last few weekends, there’ll be set pathways in and out of the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You can access the North Main Gate Entrance on 30th and JFK Drive, though Muni riders will be dropped off on Fulton and walk into the park from there. The box office for tickets is east of the bus stop, just inside the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052315\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12052315 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/08082025_Outsidelands_EG_082_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A concertgoer wears three pairs of sunglasses as he watches Ca7riel and Paco Amoroso perform at Outside Lands at Golden Gate Park’s Polo Fields last weekend. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The South Gate is located at Middle Drive and Metson Road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anyone taking the shuttles home should exit through the south tunnel or south polo field exits after the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those with VIP tickets have their own choice of quieter north and south entrances, on 36th and JFK Drive and MLK Jr. Drive, respectively. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:16] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. I have this vivid memory of going to a big music festival and watching one of my friends pick up this empty metal water bottle that someone had just tossed on the ground. And she was pretty irritated when she swooped it up. “That’s how people twist their ankles out here,” I remember her saying. And I’m grateful for people like her at music festivals where it’s pretty common to see trash sprinkled on the grounds after the crowds disperse at the end of a performance. And with music festivals upon us here in the Bay Area, it’s easy to take for granted all that it takes to leave no trace after a big event like Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:13] By the next morning I come back, the park looks spotless. It’s like it’s day one of the festival again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] As Golden Gate Park prepares for yet another big concert this weekend, SFGate’s Melissa Cho takes us behind the scenes at Outside Lands to see what happened to all your waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] From the most recent data that Outside Lands has provided, last year they’ve produced 321,000 pounds of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] Melissa Cho is a social video producer for SF Gate. She’s also known as SF Gate Girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Which I’ve done my calculations, and that’s roughly 71,000 chihuahuas. So that’s a lot of little dogs that are going into — I have nothing against them. But just for some simple calculation, that’s lot of dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] How is that trash generated? I mean, I’ve been to Outside Lands before. There’s a ton of vendors selling food and stuff like that, I imagine. Like, what kinds of trash are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] Lots of different types. So there’s a lot of the compost trash that gets produced by the vendors and the customers buying the food. So all of the utensils, the bowls, the plates, the cups, the food, you know, if you don’t finish your food, all of that goes into compost. And then you’re talking about wood, a lot a wood for the structure of a lot of buildings there, you now, a lot, they use wood material. There’s metal that gets produced. There’s plastic sheeting that gets produced. There’s a lot of cans and bottles and there’s also the waste that people bring into the festival because, you know, sometimes you want to bring your own snack, you know. There are different streams of waste definitely coming from not just inside the festival but outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] And how, over the years, has Outside Lands tried to tackle all of the waste that the festival produces?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] That’s a great question because Outside Lands has actually tackled the issue of sustainability since its inception in 2008. They from the beginning partnered with a company called Clean Vibes and the first ever festival 2008 for those who attended that first festival the headliners were Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, and Radiohead and back then 64% of the total waste was diverted from landfill. Fast forwarded now, it’s now 89% from our most recent data in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:56] Yeah, and you actually went to see for yourself how this all works. Who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Yes, I met Anna Barofsky, she is the co-owner of Clean Vibes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] We’ve got over 470 volunteers that are part of our waste diversion efforts here at Outside Lands to help make the magic happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] Clean Vibes is responsible for all things trash, compost, recycling at not just Outside Lands but numerous festivals across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] So, at night we get all the big stuff up and then in the light of day we get every last little candy wrapper, cigarette butt, every tiny little thing to make sure that when the gates open today it looks just as good as when they opened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] It is certainly peak season for Anna’s team in San Francisco. She’s probably at Golden Gate Park now, still getting ready for the Zach Bryan Golden Gate park festival this weekend. And then there was Outside Lands this past weekend. Before that there was Dead and Co the previous weekend. And then, there was also Lollapalooza, which Clean Vibes was also a part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Oh, wow, she’s busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] She is busy. So it’s a nationwide operation and she’s not even based here in San Francisco. She’s actually based in North Carolina. So she comes here for the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] What did you see in terms of, like, how this all works? Like, what exactly are volunteers doing with the waste at Outside Lands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:18] At around, I would say, 11.30 a.m., we golf carted to where all the volunteers were doing their morning debrief session, so that’s when the morning crew comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:06:29] Yeah, so these guys are checking in for an 1130 shift. They work, I believe, 1130 to five. And then we’ve got another shift that starts at 430, works until 1030. And then, we also have a big group of nightly after show cleanups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] The volunteer spots, they fill up in a week or two. So there’s like a high demand for volunteers to want to work at the festival because I think the main pro is that you get to go for free to the festival. But I’ve noticed that there were a lot of repeat volunteers and a lot of them were just really excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] Awesome to be able to interact with more people in a different way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] So I spoke to two veteran volunteers, one of them though, her name is Lauren Schuck, she’s been volunteering for Clean Vibes for five to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] Keep the Golden Gate Park really clean and nice and hopefully have Outside Lands continue returning back here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:26] Then after that, we went to the cabanas where they had, where I saw recycled carpet. Then we golf carted to this entire area of Golden Gate Park that’s not available and accessible to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:07:43] All right, so here we are at Middle Earth. Here’s some of my team who drive around the site collecting compost toters. And so they’ve just collected these from some of the food vendors on site. Oh, wow. They’re gonna get ready to dump a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:59] That’s where she took me to Middle Earth. It’s their sorting, their main sorting facility. I saw all the mounds of trash, all the compost, the landfill, the recyclables, the plastic sheeting, these huge dumpster bins, and there’s like a whole team of people. So Clean Vibes, they also partner with another Bay Area organization called Green Mary. Their crews together help sort out all the trash because believe it or not, sometimes people don’t dispose their trash properly in the proper bin. So if you don’t do that, then there are people who have to manually do it for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Oddly enough, one of the things people get most confused about in the compost, believe it or not, food. Food is, in fact, compost, and it’s amazing how many people question that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] So I see like tables of people, they each have their desk and then below their desk they have the three bins and then they’re sorting through the trash bags to see like okay this one is not compostable I have to fish it out of the compost bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] That’s the sound of recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] What’s like the craziest thing they’ve had to like fish out of the bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:09:25] I asked Anna that question and I think because she’s worked so many festivals it’s all a blur to her so that’s what she said. She works a lot of like camping festivals and she says that we won’t even go into that like on what she’ll find. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:16] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevara and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. I have this vivid memory of going to a big music festival and watching one of my friends pick up this empty metal water bottle that someone had just tossed on the ground. And she was pretty irritated when she swooped it up. “That’s how people twist their ankles out here,” I remember her saying. And I’m grateful for people like her at music festivals where it’s pretty common to see trash sprinkled on the grounds after the crowds disperse at the end of a performance. And with music festivals upon us here in the Bay Area, it’s easy to take for granted all that it takes to leave no trace after a big event like Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:13] By the next morning I come back, the park looks spotless. It’s like it’s day one of the festival again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:21] As Golden Gate Park prepares for yet another big concert this weekend, SFGate’s Melissa Cho takes us behind the scenes at Outside Lands to see what happened to all your waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:43] From the most recent data that Outside Lands has provided, last year they’ve produced 321,000 pounds of waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:51] Melissa Cho is a social video producer for SF Gate. She’s also known as SF Gate Girl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:02:58] Which I’ve done my calculations, and that’s roughly 71,000 chihuahuas. So that’s a lot of little dogs that are going into — I have nothing against them. But just for some simple calculation, that’s lot of dogs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] How is that trash generated? I mean, I’ve been to Outside Lands before. There’s a ton of vendors selling food and stuff like that, I imagine. Like, what kinds of trash are we talking about?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:03:28] Lots of different types. So there’s a lot of the compost trash that gets produced by the vendors and the customers buying the food. So all of the utensils, the bowls, the plates, the cups, the food, you know, if you don’t finish your food, all of that goes into compost. And then you’re talking about wood, a lot a wood for the structure of a lot of buildings there, you now, a lot, they use wood material. There’s metal that gets produced. There’s plastic sheeting that gets produced. There’s a lot of cans and bottles and there’s also the waste that people bring into the festival because, you know, sometimes you want to bring your own snack, you know. There are different streams of waste definitely coming from not just inside the festival but outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:16] And how, over the years, has Outside Lands tried to tackle all of the waste that the festival produces?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:04:26] That’s a great question because Outside Lands has actually tackled the issue of sustainability since its inception in 2008. They from the beginning partnered with a company called Clean Vibes and the first ever festival 2008 for those who attended that first festival the headliners were Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, and Radiohead and back then 64% of the total waste was diverted from landfill. Fast forwarded now, it’s now 89% from our most recent data in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:56] Yeah, and you actually went to see for yourself how this all works. Who did you meet?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:03] Yes, I met Anna Barofsky, she is the co-owner of Clean Vibes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:06] We’ve got over 470 volunteers that are part of our waste diversion efforts here at Outside Lands to help make the magic happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] Clean Vibes is responsible for all things trash, compost, recycling at not just Outside Lands but numerous festivals across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:05:24] So, at night we get all the big stuff up and then in the light of day we get every last little candy wrapper, cigarette butt, every tiny little thing to make sure that when the gates open today it looks just as good as when they opened yesterday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:37] It is certainly peak season for Anna’s team in San Francisco. She’s probably at Golden Gate Park now, still getting ready for the Zach Bryan Golden Gate park festival this weekend. And then there was Outside Lands this past weekend. Before that there was Dead and Co the previous weekend. And then, there was also Lollapalooza, which Clean Vibes was also a part of.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] Oh, wow, she’s busy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:05:57] She is busy. So it’s a nationwide operation and she’s not even based here in San Francisco. She’s actually based in North Carolina. So she comes here for the summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:10] What did you see in terms of, like, how this all works? Like, what exactly are volunteers doing with the waste at Outside Lands?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:18] At around, I would say, 11.30 a.m., we golf carted to where all the volunteers were doing their morning debrief session, so that’s when the morning crew comes in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:06:29] Yeah, so these guys are checking in for an 1130 shift. They work, I believe, 1130 to five. And then we’ve got another shift that starts at 430, works until 1030. And then, we also have a big group of nightly after show cleanups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:06:44] The volunteer spots, they fill up in a week or two. So there’s like a high demand for volunteers to want to work at the festival because I think the main pro is that you get to go for free to the festival. But I’ve noticed that there were a lot of repeat volunteers and a lot of them were just really excited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] Awesome to be able to interact with more people in a different way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:04] So I spoke to two veteran volunteers, one of them though, her name is Lauren Schuck, she’s been volunteering for Clean Vibes for five to six years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lauren Schuck \u003c/strong>[00:07:13] Keep the Golden Gate Park really clean and nice and hopefully have Outside Lands continue returning back here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:26] Then after that, we went to the cabanas where they had, where I saw recycled carpet. Then we golf carted to this entire area of Golden Gate Park that’s not available and accessible to the general public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:07:43] All right, so here we are at Middle Earth. Here’s some of my team who drive around the site collecting compost toters. And so they’ve just collected these from some of the food vendors on site. Oh, wow. They’re gonna get ready to dump a few.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:07:59] That’s where she took me to Middle Earth. It’s their sorting, their main sorting facility. I saw all the mounds of trash, all the compost, the landfill, the recyclables, the plastic sheeting, these huge dumpster bins, and there’s like a whole team of people. So Clean Vibes, they also partner with another Bay Area organization called Green Mary. Their crews together help sort out all the trash because believe it or not, sometimes people don’t dispose their trash properly in the proper bin. So if you don’t do that, then there are people who have to manually do it for you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:08:42] Oddly enough, one of the things people get most confused about in the compost, believe it or not, food. Food is, in fact, compost, and it’s amazing how many people question that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:08:57] So I see like tables of people, they each have their desk and then below their desk they have the three bins and then they’re sorting through the trash bags to see like okay this one is not compostable I have to fish it out of the compost bag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Anna Barofsky \u003c/strong>[00:09:14] That’s the sound of recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:19] What’s like the craziest thing they’ve had to like fish out of the bins.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:09:25] I asked Anna that question and I think because she’s worked so many festivals it’s all a blur to her so that’s what she said. She works a lot of like camping festivals and she says that we won’t even go into that like on what she’ll find. But when I asked Lauren on what’s the craziest trash they fished out you know what they said fake IDs, a lot of fake IDs at Outside Lands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:08] Besides trash too, how else has Outside Lands tried to make the festival more sustainable?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Melissa Cho \u003c/strong>[00:10:14] The artist dressing rooms and the towers are solar powered. Outside Lands, they have a refillable water station, which I see a lot of people using. So I wasn’t able to cover this in my video due to time constraints, but Extra Food is a Bay Area nonprofit. They come in at the end of the festival every night, and they take all the surplus food and distribute it amongst people and communities who are facing food insecurity so that no food goes to waste. So that’s a really neat touch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:45] Just all around the Bay Area? Yeah, yeah. That’s amazing. 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They walk the streets, they see violations of the law, and they take appropriate actions that they can take. Is there any evidence that local law enforcement, the SWAT teams or any local law enforcement were unable to enforce the law?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 300 troops are still stationed in California, down from more than 4,000 earlier this spring. California argued the deployment violated state police power and is asking Judge Breyer to order the Trump administration to return control of the remaining troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The governor is the commander-in-chief of each state’s National Guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are rare instances where the president has taken state resources and federalized them, “most of the time it’s with [the state in] cooperation during an emergency,” Levine said, pointing to incidents like Hurricane Katrina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Deputy Attorney General Meghan Strong argued that recent incidents, such as when National Guard soldiers in Humvees arrived at Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park this July, lacked a clear cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903923\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Crosswalk2-scaled-e1643926956960.jpg\" alt=\"A lone person crossing a broad street, with the sun rising behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman crosses a large boulevard in Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The action “harms quasi-sovereign interest in the health and wellbeing of residents … Shows of force like that in MacArthur Park are designed to strike fear in civilians so they will obey and comply with law enforcement and military commands alike,” Strong said. “The operations that the federal government and the military were engaging in escalated tensions and caused further harm to the state and its civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts following the case closely say this is a unique case that has not been tested before in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution limits presidential and military power on domestic soil in the Third Amendment. But, “besides the Third Amendment, the president has huge amounts of power over the military,” Levine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Posse Comitatus Act is a relic of the Reconstruction period, passed after several southern states sought to prohibit the federal government from using the military to protect recently freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, both parties argued whether a federal judge has the authority to rein in the president’s use of the military domestically. The defendants argued that the state has no standing to base their case on Posse Comitatus because it falls under federal criminal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong said on Tuesday that the military could assist federal law enforcement at any time danger may be present and can protect federal buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of California’s lawsuit against Trump for deploying troops in Los Angeles, however, may not necessarily establish precedent in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever Breyer rules, it’s only binding on these parties, and could be persuasive in other legal cases, but not binding,” Levine said. “The president hasn’t yet moved into Republican controlled states. If he moves into Houston, he’ll have an eager conversation with Gov. Abbot. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breyer said the reasoning behind the order was vague, and asked attorneys to define legal limits on the president sending the military in to enforce federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re going to see federal officers everywhere if the president determines there’s risk,” Breyer said. “There’s a big difference between a violation of the law and the inability to address the violation of the law by (local) law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what police officers do every day. They walk the streets, they see violations of the law, and they take appropriate actions that they can take. Is there any evidence that local law enforcement, the SWAT teams or any local law enforcement were unable to enforce the law?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 300 troops are still stationed in California, down from more than 4,000 earlier this spring. California argued the deployment violated state police power and is asking Judge Breyer to order the Trump administration to return control of the remaining troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom. The governor is the commander-in-chief of each state’s National Guard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While there are rare instances where the president has taken state resources and federalized them, “most of the time it’s with [the state in] cooperation during an emergency,” Levine said, pointing to incidents like Hurricane Katrina.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Deputy Attorney General Meghan Strong argued that recent incidents, such as when National Guard soldiers in Humvees arrived at Los Angeles’s MacArthur Park this July, lacked a clear cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11903923\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11903923\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/Crosswalk2-scaled-e1643926956960.jpg\" alt=\"A lone person crossing a broad street, with the sun rising behind her.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1439\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman crosses a large boulevard in Los Angeles’ MacArthur Park neighborhood. \u003ccite>(Saul Gonzalez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The action “harms quasi-sovereign interest in the health and wellbeing of residents … Shows of force like that in MacArthur Park are designed to strike fear in civilians so they will obey and comply with law enforcement and military commands alike,” Strong said. “The operations that the federal government and the military were engaging in escalated tensions and caused further harm to the state and its civilians.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts following the case closely say this is a unique case that has not been tested before in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. Constitution limits presidential and military power on domestic soil in the Third Amendment. But, “besides the Third Amendment, the president has huge amounts of power over the military,” Levine said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Posse Comitatus Act is a relic of the Reconstruction period, passed after several southern states sought to prohibit the federal government from using the military to protect recently freed slaves after the Emancipation Proclamation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, both parties argued whether a federal judge has the authority to rein in the president’s use of the military domestically. The defendants argued that the state has no standing to base their case on Posse Comitatus because it falls under federal criminal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Strong said on Tuesday that the military could assist federal law enforcement at any time danger may be present and can protect federal buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The outcome of California’s lawsuit against Trump for deploying troops in Los Angeles, however, may not necessarily establish precedent in other jurisdictions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever Breyer rules, it’s only binding on these parties, and could be persuasive in other legal cases, but not binding,” Levine said. “The president hasn’t yet moved into Republican controlled states. If he moves into Houston, he’ll have an eager conversation with Gov. Abbot. Until we get to another blue state, we might not face this problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED reporter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/bkrans\">Brian Krans\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jsmall\">Julie Small\u003c/a> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> nonprofit accused of bribing a city department head is being forced to consider closure this fall as officials seek to cut off its city funding for five years, its attorneys said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Collective Impact, a Western Addition-based nonprofit, was suspended from receiving city funding in October after media reports uncovered that its executive director, James Spingola, had been living with the head of San Francisco’s Human Rights Commission, which had awarded it millions of dollars in grants over the previous five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004947/sf-mayor-breed-pushes-back-against-corruption-criticism-from-opponents\">scandal\u003c/a> led to HRC Executive Director Sheryl Davis’ sudden \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12004687/mayor-breed-taps-new-sf-human-rights-director-as-misspending-scrutiny-intensifies\">resignation last September\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026600/sfs-black-social-equity-program-mired-in-scandal-being-revived-rebranded\">sank confidence\u003c/a> in then-Mayor London Breed’s signature \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862094/sf-mayor-breed-unveils-plan-for-reinvesting-120-million-from-police-into-black-communities\">Dream Keeper Initiative\u003c/a>, an offshoot of the commission that funded grants benefitting San Francisco’s Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu’s office laid out new details of the alleged corruption in court documents filed Monday, ahead of an administrative hearing next week at which attorneys for Collective Impact plan to argue to restore the nonprofit’s eligibility for city funds. Chiu’s office is seeking to extend the funding ban for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that were to happen, attorneys for Collective Impact said in their own filings, the nonprofit would likely have to shut down all of its programs by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor of San Francisco London Breed, right, listens to Cornel West address the crowd at Dreaming Forward: Advancing Prosperity for San Francisco’s Diverse Black Communities, held by the Human Rights Commission/Dreamkeeper Initiative at the San Francisco Public Library on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this week’s filings from the city attorney’s office, Chiu doubled down on allegations that Davis and Collective Impact had an unethical relationship, revealing new evidence showing that her relationship with the nonprofit she previously led goes much further than sharing a home and car with its executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Collective Impact repeatedly violated state law, the San Francisco Municipal Code, and\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>the terms of its various grants,” Chiu wrote in the pre-hearing statement. “It misappropriated public funds to provide gifts to Davis and her son. Davis then made funding determinations that favored Collective Impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Collective Impact is an irresponsible contractor that should be debarred for the maximum period of time,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s office \u003ca href=\"https://sfcityattorney.org/2025/03/20/city-attorney-blocks-nonprofit-from-city-funding-after-investigation-reveals-illegal-gifts-and-conflicts/\">initiated the debarment proceedings\u003c/a> against Collective Impact in March, alleging that Spingola failed to disclose his personal relationship with Davis and that the nonprofit bribed Davis in exchange for city funds.[aside postID=news_12026600 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250214-Dream-Keeper-Returns-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Before taking over the Human Rights Commission in 2016, Davis was Collective Impact’s executive director from 2011 to 2016. At the time, Chiu said she was also employed by the San Francisco public defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she left Collective Impact before starting at HRC, Davis continued to sign official documents on behalf of the nonprofit through February 2017, according to the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court filings said that she is still a signatory on Collective Impact’s bank account and that the nonprofit has a corporate credit card in her name to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu also alleges that over a period of five years, Davis and Spingola — who have lived together since 2016 — signed six grant agreements topping $6 million on behalf of the Human Rights Commission and Collective Impact, respectively. During that time, neither disclosed their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Collective Impact is accused of paying more than $19,000 in graduate school tuition for Davis’ son, $18,400 to support her personal work, including marketing a personal book and podcast, and thousands more to treat her to luxury accommodations and flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for a trip Davis and Spingola took to a Martha’s Vineyard conference where she was a keynote speaker, the nonprofit falsely billed expenses to an Educational Pathways grant awarded to Collective Impact through the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, according to the city attorney’s office. The terms of the grant expressly barred spending on conferences and travel.[aside postID=arts_13979600 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/240122-PORTSMOUTHSQUARE-11-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg']While Chiu argued that Collective Impact should be disbarred over the repeated bribery allegations and ethics concerns, the nonprofit said in its own filings ahead of next week’s hearing that it fills a critical role in the community, and needs access to city funding to continue that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Collective Impact, which began as a community-based nonprofit provider of a small afternoon program for roughly 40 elementary and middle schoolers, grew into its current role as one of the most respected and beloved Black-led organizations, serving the needs of hundreds of traditionally underserved youth and families in the Western Addition,” its pre-hearing statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys Lauren Kramer Sujeeth and Si Eun Amber Lee wrote that since Collective Impact’s city funding was frozen last fall, it has spent $2 million privately funding summer programs for 125 students. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Attorney David Chiu’s office laid out new details of the alleged corruption in court documents filed Monday, ahead of an administrative hearing next week at which attorneys for Collective Impact plan to argue to restore the nonprofit’s eligibility for city funds. Chiu’s office is seeking to extend the funding ban for five years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If that were to happen, attorneys for Collective Impact said in their own filings, the nonprofit would likely have to shut down all of its programs by October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052053\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052053\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-2000x1333.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-1238843236-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor of San Francisco London Breed, right, listens to Cornel West address the crowd at Dreaming Forward: Advancing Prosperity for San Francisco’s Diverse Black Communities, held by the Human Rights Commission/Dreamkeeper Initiative at the San Francisco Public Library on Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In this week’s filings from the city attorney’s office, Chiu doubled down on allegations that Davis and Collective Impact had an unethical relationship, revealing new evidence showing that her relationship with the nonprofit she previously led goes much further than sharing a home and car with its executive director.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Collective Impact repeatedly violated state law, the San Francisco Municipal Code, and\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>the terms of its various grants,” Chiu wrote in the pre-hearing statement. “It misappropriated public funds to provide gifts to Davis and her son. Davis then made funding determinations that favored Collective Impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Collective Impact is an irresponsible contractor that should be debarred for the maximum period of time,” he continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu’s office \u003ca href=\"https://sfcityattorney.org/2025/03/20/city-attorney-blocks-nonprofit-from-city-funding-after-investigation-reveals-illegal-gifts-and-conflicts/\">initiated the debarment proceedings\u003c/a> against Collective Impact in March, alleging that Spingola failed to disclose his personal relationship with Davis and that the nonprofit bribed Davis in exchange for city funds.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Before taking over the Human Rights Commission in 2016, Davis was Collective Impact’s executive director from 2011 to 2016. At the time, Chiu said she was also employed by the San Francisco public defender’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though she left Collective Impact before starting at HRC, Davis continued to sign official documents on behalf of the nonprofit through February 2017, according to the city attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Court filings said that she is still a signatory on Collective Impact’s bank account and that the nonprofit has a corporate credit card in her name to this day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiu also alleges that over a period of five years, Davis and Spingola — who have lived together since 2016 — signed six grant agreements topping $6 million on behalf of the Human Rights Commission and Collective Impact, respectively. During that time, neither disclosed their relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around the same time, Collective Impact is accused of paying more than $19,000 in graduate school tuition for Davis’ son, $18,400 to support her personal work, including marketing a personal book and podcast, and thousands more to treat her to luxury accommodations and flights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To pay for a trip Davis and Spingola took to a Martha’s Vineyard conference where she was a keynote speaker, the nonprofit falsely billed expenses to an Educational Pathways grant awarded to Collective Impact through the city’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development, according to the city attorney’s office. The terms of the grant expressly barred spending on conferences and travel.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>While Chiu argued that Collective Impact should be disbarred over the repeated bribery allegations and ethics concerns, the nonprofit said in its own filings ahead of next week’s hearing that it fills a critical role in the community, and needs access to city funding to continue that mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Collective Impact, which began as a community-based nonprofit provider of a small afternoon program for roughly 40 elementary and middle schoolers, grew into its current role as one of the most respected and beloved Black-led organizations, serving the needs of hundreds of traditionally underserved youth and families in the Western Addition,” its pre-hearing statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys Lauren Kramer Sujeeth and Si Eun Amber Lee wrote that since Collective Impact’s city funding was frozen last fall, it has spent $2 million privately funding summer programs for 125 students. They said if the nonprofit were to lose city funding for five years, it would be forced to close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even with funding from non-city sources, Collective Impact anticipates a complete shutdown of its programs by October 2025, which will undoubtedly have an injurious effect on many Western Addition youth and families,” the brief reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said the city attorney’s office would not be able to meet the “willful misconduct” standard required for debarment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing is scheduled to begin on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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And by Camille Bermudez, the Alameda resident who has nearly single-handedly organized the carpool relaunch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As drivers and riders began to roll into the squat concrete structure on Lake Park Boulevard at 7 a.m., Bermudez played the role of carpool concierge and emcee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bermudez greeted other commuters like old friends, gave newbies a heads-up on how the system is supposed to work at the Lake Park location, and even introduced reporters to arriving carpoolers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We just had one successful carpooler!” she said after the first of half a dozen or so carpools rolled out toward a freeway on-ramp. “We’re thrilled to be back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051486\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051486\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-CASUAL-CARPOOL-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camille Bermudez in Oakland, near where the Casual Carpool pick-up location will be under the 580 freeway, on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is Chuy,” she said, introducing a new acquaintance, San Ramon resident Chuy Perez, as he pulled up in an SUV. “Chuy is a casual carpooler from years before, and he just told me he’s been commuting for about 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez, a technician for AT&T, said he’s been perplexed that it has taken so long for the carpool to return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve periodically been looking online to see what’s been going on,” he said. “I couldn’t understand why it’s taken so long to get it back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Lee, who drives from the East Bay to teach at San Francisco’s A.P. 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In the case submitted to a panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday, his attorneys wrote that the court’s denial of his motion to throw out the indictment charging him with fraud “undermine[s] every aspect of the district court’s grand jury decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In 2021, Kelly — a Black man — was indicted by a federal grand jury,” his attorney, Steven Kalar, wrote in a brief to the court. “Not a single Black person sat on this grand jury. This fact is not surprising, because the venire [or jury pool] from which that grand jury was constituted suffered from dramatic underrepresentation of Black citizens.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar also argued that the court allowed the government to introduce “improper” evidence during trial and made mistakes in the jury’s instructions that confused their deliberative process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, Kelly was indicted on a bank fraud charge over allegations that he took bribes from permit expediter \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11873494/sf-corruption-saga-continues-permit-expediter-walter-wong-to-repay-1-7-million\">Walter Wong\u003c/a>, who pleaded guilty and later testified against him. He was later accused of additional “honest services” fraud, and in a superseding indictment filed in 2022, he was charged with nine counts related to fraud in connection with the bribery scheme involving Wong and a separate accusation that he defrauded a loan company of more than $1 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kelly is one of more than a dozen city officials and contractors who were embroiled in a wide-ranging corruption probe that became public in 2020 with the indictment of then-Public Works Director \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923588/disgraced-former-sf-public-works-chief-mohammed-nuru-sentenced-to-7-years-for-bribery-scheme\">Mohammed Nuru\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11955456\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11955456\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a suit and tie and carrying a backpack walks down a sidewalk.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/07/RS66889_230711-HarlanKelly-02-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former San Francisco public utilities chief Harlan Kelly walks out of the Philip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on July 11, 2023, during his corruption trial this week. A jury convicted Kelly. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nuru and many of those implicated pleaded guilty, but Kelly maintained his innocence through a weekslong trial in 2023 and since \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955753/jury-convicts-top-sf-official-in-corruption-trial-here-are-5-takeaways\">his conviction\u003c/a> on six of the wire and bank fraud charges in 2024. He is serving a four-year prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, his appeal, which was first filed just days after his conviction last year, was submitted to the 9th Circuit, which said it would decide whether to overturn his conviction based on written briefs and the case’s existing record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here’s what those briefs argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an opening brief filed in December, Kalar — who was appointed as Kelly’s attorney six months earlier when Kelly could no longer afford representation — wrote that the court first erred when it dismissed Kelly’s appeal of his 2022 indictment.[aside postID=news_12051475 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2018/07/RS29855_COURTHOUSE_007-qut-1180x788.jpg']Kalar said that, through an independent statistician, Kelly provided evidence that the federal grand jury that indicted him was selected from a pool of citizens that systematically underrepresented Black people, violating the Sixth Amendment, Jury Selection and Service Act, and the 5th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Black citizens were underrepresented in this grand jury venire by a shocking 49% — three standard deviations away from the expected composition,” the brief said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors disagreed, arguing that the court summoned 2,000 eligible grand jurors and followed its randomized protocols for selecting the panel that heard the government’s case. They said the court’s analysis found no legally significant underrepresentation of Black jury members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While a comparative disparity test showed that there was some statistically significant underrepresentation of Black people in the grand jury pool, the prosecutors said it didn’t rise to the legal bar needed to qualify in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar called the cases the government relied on to draw that legal line “inapposite or unpersuasive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12020020\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12020020\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2300/12/GettyImages-2174968250-e1736293413905.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco City Hall in November 2024. \u003ccite>(James Carter-Johnson/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In addition to his objection to the verdict as a whole, Kalar also made a more pointed argument for appealing Kelly’s convictions on two counts related to “honest services” fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kalar argued that during trial, the court allowed the government to introduce improper evidence related to those charges, which were based on allegations that Kelly accepted bribes, including a lavish meal and a five-star hotel stay from Wong in exchange for helping his companies get a leg up on city contract proposals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite objections from Kelly’s attorneys ahead of trial, the court allowed prosecutors to show evidence of San Francisco’s ethics rules and regulations in court. Kalar wrote that this should not have been permitted, since honest services fraud “cannot be based on the violation of a city or state regulation.[aside postID=news_12051261 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250303-AntiochPolice-13-BL_qed-1.jpg']“This error was compounded by instructional error,” he continued in the original appeal brief. “The court misadvised the jury on the permissible use of ‘ethics’ evidence, permitting the jury to improperly use that evidence to convict Kelly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The government’s lawyers responded that no actual evidence of the ethics laws — like Statements of Economic Interest and San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance Declarations that Kelly submitted — were ever actually presented in court. Some former Public Utilities Commission workers who testified did speak to the Sunshine Ordinance and other ethics laws, but the government wrote that Kelly doesn’t seem to be objecting to anything said in testimony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also said that, according to the rules given to the jury in his original trial, they were only allowed to “use evidence of the defendant’s knowledge of, and compliance with city ethics rules in deciding whether the defendant knowingly violated his fiduciary duty as a public official,” not whether he committed honest services fraud more broadly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s unclear when the three-judge panel reviewing Kelly’s case will decide whether to overturn all or part of his conviction. If the judges uphold his conviction, Kelly is expected to get out of prison in October 2027.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He is currently serving his term at the Federal Prison Camp in Duluth, Minnesota.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Attorneys for California began presenting their case that President Donald Trump’s deployment of federalized California National Guard troops and U.S. Marines to Los Angeles earlier this summer \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043314/california-to-sue-trump-for-sending-national-guard-troops-into-la-after-ice-protests\">violated federal law\u003c/a> that prohibits the military from performing police functions on U.S. soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Trump called up the National Guard following civil unrest, as his administration began mass deportations and raids across Los Angeles and other cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through Attorney General Rob Bonta, Gov. 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Tensions in the city remain high after the Trump administration called in the National Guard against the wishes of city leaders following two days of clashes with police during a series of immigration raids.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Guard troops stand outside the Metropolitan Detention Center on June 8, 2025, in Los Angeles. \u003ccite>(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State attorneys also called William B. Harrington, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for Task Force 51, which oversaw the combined 4,700 National Guard troops and Marines deployed to L.A. 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"content": "\u003cp>When Armando Herrera got out of drug treatment last year, he returned to the streets of\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\"> San Francisco\u003c/a> — still unhoused, but in a better place than he’d been in years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’d kicked his addiction to alcohol and meth, regained a sense of confidence and reconnected with his kids. Ten months away from the chaos of street life had given him something like stability. But back outside, he found the ground had shifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before rehab, he could set up his tent in one spot and leave it there for weeks. Now, the rules of survival had changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You can’t leave [your tent],” he said. “The first time, they give you a warning. The second time, they give you a ticket. The third time you go to jail.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So these days, he camps near an industrial building with two others, but never for very long. They arrive late, set up after dark and break down again before sunrise in a daily cycle of, as he puts it, “Go and come back, go and come back, go and come back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046792\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250701-GRANTSPASS-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armando Herrera Vargas (left) talks with a friend at The Gubbio Project in San Francisco on July 1, 2025, with his belongings nearby. The project provides a safe place for unhoused people to rest during the day inside local churches. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That routine has kept Herrera out of jail, but it hasn’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/housing\">gotten him off the street\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A decade into homelessness, he’s navigating a new and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12046259\">more aggressive era of street enforcement\u003c/a> in San Francisco, one shaped by last year’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991340/supreme-court-says-laws-criminalizing-homeless-camping-do-not-violate-constitution\">U.S. Supreme Court ruling\u003c/a> giving cities broad authority to punish people for sleeping outside, even when there are no shelter beds available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since then, some 50 cities statewide have passed or strengthened anti-camping ordinances, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5257640\">May report\u003c/a> from UC Berkeley. San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/09/30/nx-s1-5094930/supreme-court-homeless-camps-san-francisco\">leaned into a tougher stance\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since July of last year, the city conducted at least 471 encampment sweeps and placed over 900 people into shelters. Meanwhile, police arrested more than 1,100 people for “lodging without permission,” essentially public camping, and the city’s district attorney \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/District-Attorney-Cases-Prosecuted/dcjk-vw8q/data_preview\">filed charges\u003c/a> in just over 250 of those cases. So far, about 100 \u003ca href=\"https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/District-Attorney-Case-Resolutions/ynfy-z5kt/data_preview\">have been resolved\u003c/a>, most through diversion programs that allow people to avoid a criminal record if they meet certain conditions.[aside postID=news_12050701 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-SHELTERFAMILIES-08-BL-KQED.jpg']Those efforts have reshaped the streets and changed the lives of unhoused residents like Herrera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera has a warm, slightly weary demeanor, with a smile that reveals straight white teeth and deep creases around his brown eyes. He’s 53 and has lived in San Francisco for three decades. He said he moved here from Mexico City and married an American citizen. He had three kids, a home and a furniture restoration business. Then it all unraveled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been kinda like chaos for the last 15 years,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The details and timeline of his story are a little murky. He said after the 2008 financial crisis, his business failed, then he worked for someone else in the furniture business until a job injury ended that, too. He said his wife died, and he lost contact with his kids. His disability benefits provided enough income to pay for a place to live or for food and essentials, but not both. In 2014, he lost his home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a while, he got by in cheap hotels, selling what he had until there was nothing left.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s when I started seeing people putting tents everywhere,” he said. “I was like, ‘Well, might as well do the same,’ since I really got no place to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11998912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11998912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/08/240801-ENCAMPMENT-SWEEPS-MD-01_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A man experiencing homelessness packs up his belongings in anticipation of an encampment sweep by San Francisco’s Department of Public Works around Showplace Square on Aug. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He camped with others for safety and a sense of belonging. “Being homeless and then being alone, you just feel like you don’t belong,” he said. “That’s when depression comes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually, he was arrested for possessing a stolen bike — something he said he bought off the street. From jail, he entered a diversion program, which led him to rehab. That’s where he was when the Supreme Court handed down its decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Mayor London Breed was among the first in the state to begin enforcing a crackdown on public camping, vowing to make people sleeping outside “so uncomfortable on the streets of San Francisco that they have to take our offer [of shelter]” in part by authorizing police to issue citations, which could lead to misdemeanors.[aside postID=news_12050263 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250722-ShelterFamilies-09-BL_qed.jpg']Back outside, Herrera found fewer tents and fewer familiar faces. “All the people that I knew back then, they’re gone,” he said. “I don’t know if it’s because they have housing now … they just totally disappear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To keep from getting ticketed, Herrera learned to stay mobile. He got a storage unit and bought an electric scooter, lashing a city garbage can to it so he could haul his supplies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to carry all the stuff everywhere you go,” he said. “It’s a pain in the butt being in the street and not being comfortable and not being in a place where you can lay your head and take a nap.” He said it’s exhausting to be around people constantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the ways the new era has made Herrera’s life harder, he said there are some upsides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crackdown on encampments has changed the way housed residents treat him. In the past, when he had a messy camp near businesses, he said owners dumped water on his tent, and once, he suspects, even set fire to it. “They were always calling the cops,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now that he moves his tent daily, he said some of those same business owners smile at him. “They do treat me differently,” he said. “They always say hi.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046789\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046789\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250617-GRANTSPASSDECISIONANNI-03-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kathy Vaughn, a tenant organizer and peer counselor with Tenderloin Housing Clinic, stands near her apartment in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco on June 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the parts of the city hardest hit by homelessness, business owners and residents have long said encampments make their lives miserable — driving away customers and forcing them to dodge syringes and human waste on the sidewalk. Some say things have improved since the sweeps ramped up. Others say not much has changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Kathy Vaughn, a Tenderloin resident, the difference is personal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just felt like nobody gave a damn,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before, she had to walk in the street, dodging cars, to avoid the tents that stretched from her doorway to the corner store. “It was like literally a nightmare to try to get through this neighborhood,” she said.[aside postID=news_12049612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250723-SHELTERFAMILIES-05-BL-KQED.jpg']Vaughn was homeless herself once, and said she has empathy for unhoused people, but she supports the city’s more aggressive approach. “I love my neighborhood. I love the people,” she said. “I wanna see it even better.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera said he didn’t like the old status quo either. He hated feeling like a nuisance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s better for both of us. I never thought it was a good thing,” he said of setting up camp in front of businesses and apartment buildings. “I did it because I needed it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While he may be keeping a lower profile now and making life easier for business owners and housed residents, he’s still homeless. He said he wants to work. He had a job with the Salvation Army for a few months, and eventually hopes to get back to restoring furniture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I need a place I can stay so I can go on with my life,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He recently got a break: his social worker told him some housing had finally opened up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was like ‘No, I can’t believe it!’ I almost started crying,” he said. “I gave her a big hug.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herrera had few details about the offer at the time, but was expecting to move in within the next few weeks. It’s not clear if that happened. He hasn’t answered his phone since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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