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District 3, which includes Downtown and Japantown, has been without representation since November when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013122/san-jose-councilmember-omar-torres-resigns-arrested\">Torres left the job in the face of multiple criminal charges\u003c/a> of sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love this city. I grew my business here. I grew my family here,” Salas said after the council vote. “I’m so excited to have an opportunity at the end of my professional career to really try to add some value, especially at this tough time here in the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salas’ appointment gives Mahan a solid six-vote majority of support as he charts the course of city spending on homelessness and public safety. Salas said he was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989926/san-jose-council-approves-budget-with-historic-shift-in-unhoused-spending\">aligned with the mayor’s agenda of focusing city funding on interim housing\u003c/a> and shelter rather than permanent affordable housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You have to focus on the shorter-term housing,” Salas said. “It’s nothing compassionate about these people living in tents on the water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He will serve as a placeholder until the new council member is elected. The special election is scheduled for April 8. 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In a second round of voting, after Christian and Staedler were eliminated, Cohen voted for Williams and Kamei switched her support to Salas, leaving the vote split 6-4 in Salas’ favor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing the prospect of a continued deadlock, Cohen and Kamei joined the five moderates to adopt a six-vote threshold for appointment, clinching the 6-4 victory for Salas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Salas co-founded Salas O’Brien, a consulting firm for engineering and technical services, in 1978, and he currently serves as a board member for the Guadalupe River Park Conservancy and the San José Police Foundation. He was sworn in after the vote and will be thrust immediately into the city budget process. Declining sales tax revenue and rising costs of city employees and homeless housing have left the city with a $60 million shortfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989941\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989941\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240409-MAHAN-HOMELESS-JG-01_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240409-MAHAN-HOMELESS-JG-01_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240409-MAHAN-HOMELESS-JG-01_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240409-MAHAN-HOMELESS-JG-01_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240409-MAHAN-HOMELESS-JG-01_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/240409-MAHAN-HOMELESS-JG-01_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan speaks about a state audit of spending on homelessness outside City Hall on April 9, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“District 3 residents need to know that they can trust their representation at City Hall; I know Carl is committed to rebuilding that trust,” Mahan said. “They need to know that we have experienced, thoughtful people making tough budget tradeoffs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City staffers in the mayor’s office and District 3 council office have provided basic constituent services for district residents in the months since Torres submitted his resignation, just hours before he was arrested on Election Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage relative in the late 1990s. Before the relative came forward, Torres faced pressure to resign as San José police \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013122/san-jose-councilmember-omar-torres-resigns-arrested\">investigated him for allegations of sexual misconduct\u003c/a> with a different minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres was first elected to the council in 2020, representing a district that includes neighborhoods such as Downtown, Guadalupe Washington, Northside, Japantown and Luna Park. Torres was a reliably progressive vote who was backed by the city’s powerful labor movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the campaign leading up to the special election, those unions are largely lining up behind Gabby Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley — while Mahan has endorsed his former deputy chief of staff, Matthew Quevedo. The field of candidates also includes retired Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Lt. 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After taking multiple measurements from about 100 locations, his lab observed a hundreds-fold rise in the concentration of the three toxic heavy metals along the top layer of the soil.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello said his team linked the heightened levels to the fire because the concentration of the heavy metals was only elevated in the top millimeters of the soil, indicating that they were recently deposited. The spherical nanoparticles they found are also used in materials for lithium-ion batteries, connecting the contamination to the battery fire, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022726\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022726\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingFire1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A fire burns at Moss Landing Power Plant on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Iman-Floyd Carroll)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“They are clearly the type of material from a battery, so you can link directly the occurrence increasing of this toxic heavy metal to the source, which is a battery,” he said. “The line of evidence from a scientific perspective is pretty solid. There’s no other explanation as to why before the concentrations were much lower and now are much higher, and those elements are linked to those nanoparticles.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The EPA had set up nine monitoring stations to monitor the air for small particulate matter and hydrogen fluoride, a highly toxic gas emitted by lithium-ion battery fires, for the four days after the fire broke out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said that they did not detect heightened levels of the pollutants, and neither did a company hired by Vistra to detect the same two compounds. A Facebook group of almost 3,000 locals in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties, however, has amassed discussion of headaches, sore throats, nausea and other symptoms that residents believe could be related to the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Polkabla, the principal industrial hygienist with BioMax Environmental, a consulting firm specializing in hazardous materials and industrial hygiene, told KQED last week that the EPA’s air monitoring stations wouldn’t tell the full story because hydrogen fluoride likely wouldn’t be detectable once the plume of smoke was cleared. He also raised the alarm about metals like cobalt, manganese and nickel, along with lithium, and pushed for soil and water testing both at the battery facility and in nearby areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023562 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/MossLandingGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monterey County, which was initially vague about whether it would test water and soil around the power plant, announced Thursday that it would work with the state to collect water, debris and dust samples at and around the Vistra facility. A spokesperson for Vistra said the company “might” test soil “if there are indications around the site that there might be some compounds or constituents that we think need to be tested.” The company did not respond to a request for comment on Monday about what the company’s most recent plans are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county said Monday that it was currently analyzing soil and water samples with experts from the California Department of Public Health, state-level EPA and epidemiologists, looking for any potential health concerns and determining next steps. A spokesperson said they hope to provide preliminary results later this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Public health and environmental safety remain our top priorities, and we are committed to providing transparent, science-based updates to the community as we assess the findings in collaboration with our state and federal partners,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aiello’s team is also turning to assess the impact of their findings on the Elkhorn Slough, which he said is the second-largest estuary in California and one of the most diverse and essential ecosystems for hundreds of fish and bird species. It acts as a carbon sink and buffer for sea level rise, he told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to understand exactly how those particles move through the soil, whether they get in the groundwater, whether they’re getting to waterways and how they may move to the food web — from microbes in the sediments to invertebrates in the soils or in the water to fish and mammals,” Aiello said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While those particles are interacting with the environment, they will change,” he continued. “The different toxic metals will start reacting with the surroundings, so that will change a molecular form, and they might become bioavailable. That’s something that we need to study.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aside from the potential impact on the food chain, it’s also unknown how the heavy metals will affect people who live nearby or were exposed during the fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cobalt has been associated with cardiomyopathy, lung disease and hearing damage, while nickel is categorized as a carcinogen, according to the National Institutes of Health. Manganese can “cause a disorder alike to idiopathic Parkinson’s disease,” the site said, and all three have been known to cause negative effects at the cellular and molecular levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/danbrekke\">\u003cem>Dan Brekke\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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She added that the city is also evaluating the possibility of appealing the case over qualified immunity, a liability protection granted to government employees for their actions at work, provided those actions don’t clearly violate constitutional rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his 2021 lawsuit, Johnson alleged that during a group protest in front of City Hall on May 30, 2020, he was struck in the back of his leg by a dense foam projectile fired by Officer James Adgar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though several facts were in dispute – including whether Johnson was present to hear a dispersal order from police – the jury agreed that Adgar violated Johnson’s civil rights to peaceable free speech and his right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures when the officer used excessive force on him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abimael said Johnson, who works as a youth basketball coach and a paraeducator, has been significantly affected by the injury and that it has caused blood clotting and multiple pulmonary embolisms, forcing him onto a regimen of blood thinners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate what happened to him,” Bastida said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Like many other people, I think he would tell you he felt compelled to exercise his First Amendment right to protest and to free speech after the death of George Floyd,” Bastida said. “He at no point threatened anyone, an officer or otherwise, and at no point did he incite any violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='george-floyd']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson is far from the only person who was injured by police in the major wave of protests and demonstrations against police brutality in the summer of 2020 after Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s police response to the actions was heavily criticized for the level of force unleashed by officers, including projectiles like the ones that hit Johnson, as well as tear gas and baton strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later in the summer of 2020, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/police-reform-sj-lawmakers-vote-to-ban-use-of-rubber-bullets-to-control-crowds/\">approved restrictions for how police could use projectile weapons\u003c/a>, allowing officers to use them if they are directly attacked, but not purely for crowd control purposes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254651732.html\">statewide bill\u003c/a> was also passed to require stricter conditions for police use of projectiles and tear gas or other chemical agents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiple lawsuits sprung up as a result of the violence, including one signed onto by the NAACP of San Jose/Silicon Valley and led by Michael Acosta, a man who lost an eye as a result of being shot by a police projectile. 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"content": "\u003cp>The former executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association will not face any time behind bars for illegally importing opioids, a judge ruled Tuesday, bringing to a close a nearly two-year-old criminal case that sent shockwaves through the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José federal court, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee sentenced Joanne Segovia to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service, which falls largely in line with what prosecutors and her defense attorney had requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Segovia is very grateful that Judge Lee saw the case as the U.S. Attorney’s office and I saw the case,” Adam Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, told KQED after the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008434/former-san-jose-police-union-director-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids\">plea deal with federal prosecutors\u003c/a> in October, Segovia, 66, confessed to illegally importing tapentadol, a potent painkiller listed as a Schedule II controlled substance. Although such a felony carries a maximum prison term of 20 years, it was widely expected that Segovia would receive a significantly lighter sentence, as her defense team and prosecutors both supported her narrative that she was motivated by an addiction to painkillers rather than by a goal to make a profit as a drug mover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story of Joanne Segovia is the story of years of heavy opioid addiction, drug importation, self-delusion, and some very poor choices. It is not, however, the story of a drug dealer,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, wrote in a sentencing memo to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner noted in a separate court memo that his client was taking prescribed opioids under medical supervision for years due to “excruciating chronic back pain,” but her doctors eventually refused to renew them, at which point she turned to illicit drugs to help her cope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s apologetic for her actions. But most importantly, she’s healthy and sober and not likely to re-offend,” Gasner said. “I think this sends a message to the broader community that you will be punished for your actions, but that we also have compassion for who you are as an individual.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to community service, Segovia will be required to adhere to a list of conditions during probation that include ongoing drug testing, mandatory counseling and potential searches of her home. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working as the lead civilian administrator for the San José police union, Segovia had thousands of pills illegally shipped to her home over several years and redistributed some of those pills elsewhere in the U.S., authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also used the police union’s UPS account to ship drugs to other drug users in the U.S. on behalf of her supplier, “thus making the SJPOA subsidize foreign drug distribution,” Tartakovsky wrote in the memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, she came to the attention of Homeland Security investigators who were investigating a criminal network based in India that shipped illicit drugs to U.S. customers. Federal agents were suspicious of Segovia due to the “immense quantities” of pills she was receiving, Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A ‘good customer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Investigators said Segovia ordered roughly 18,000 tapentadol pills over a 17-month period in 2021 and 2022, sharing “significant quantities” of pills with two people she knew but also consuming an “extraordinarily large amount” of them herself.[aside label=\"more on the Segovia case\" tag=\"joanne-segovia\"]She was a “good customer” of her supplier, spending between as much as $27,000 on the pills in 2022 alone, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often coordinated the shipments and payments with her Indian supplier via WhatsApp and “pumped tens of thousands of dollars over the years into the coffers of these unscrupulous networks,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court Tuesday, Tartakovsky noted that there are many people in America illicitly ordering drugs off the internet because of their addictions, and that the federal government doesn’t typically charge “pure users” with crimes. But Segovia went a step further, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She became a sort of auxiliary of this Indian network. She carried water for them,” Tartakovsky said. “She did things for their benefit, like moving pills for them. And this is not some peripheral thing. This is the core of how these schemes work. They rely on Americans to re-ship for them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was not profiting off these actions, he said, but was instead “spending this massive fraction of her income” and “essentially almost bankrupting herself” to feed her addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-police-union-executive-charged-attempted-illegal-importation-fentanyl\">arrested in March 2023\u003c/a>, initially on one count of illegally importing a form of fentanyl. Prosecutors, however, later removed the fentanyl charge after admitting that a lab test of the contents of one of the packages sent to her had produced a false positive result. The charge was subsequently changed to the illegal importation of tapentadol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expressing remorse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2024, Segovia, who had maintained her innocence until that point, indicated to the court she’d be willing to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000464/former-san-jose-police-union-director-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids-in-deal-with-feds\"> accept responsibility for her crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 18 personal written statement asking the judge for leniency, Segovia expressed remorse for her actions, saying she “would do anything to take it all back,” and noted that she is heavily involved in the lives of her grandchildren and is a caretaker for her 81-year-old husband, who is ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never realized the magnitude of what I had done until a gun was pointed at me. I have never been in trouble with the law. This was something I had only seen in movies. It was the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to me,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she has also stopped taking pills since her arrest and has passed 45 random drug tests while undergoing counseling and treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this nice little life and it was all blown up in front of me,” Segovia said in court on Tuesday. “And being sober made me know how horrendous my conduct was. And I’ve never done anything but be for the law, and I’m really sorry.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other people, including her daughter, friends, neighbor and current and former San José police officers, wrote to the judge on her behalf, attesting that Segovia is a good person, loving family member and a reliable colleague who cares deeply for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired from her role as executive director of the police union shortly after her arrest in 2003. The union denied any involvement or knowledge of her actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the arrest sparked outrage among local elected officials, police critics and activists, prompting protests outside San José City Hall, with demonstrators calling for further investigations and demanding city leaders to stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police union hired a private investigator to look into whether Segovia’s actions were connected to her work, releasing the results after her conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator concluded there was “no evidence whatsoever that any POA representative had any involvement, knowledge, or suspicions regarding Segovia’s alleged criminal activities” and that all the facts indicate she acted alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors agreed with that assessment but also criticized the union for interfering in the federal investigation following Segovia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The SJPOA announced publicly after the search of Segovia’s office that it wished to cooperate with this investigation. Yet counsel for the SJPOA engaged in stonewalling, even threatening to ‘seek judicial intervention’ to stop the prosecution from reviewing Segovia’s SJPOA email contents, though the SJPOA never followed through on its threat,” Tartakovsky wrote in the court memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same week, the union walled off public access to major portions of its website, including pages that list its board members and staff — a change that its leadership said was aimed at protecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Life upended’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Segovia was a civilian employee for her entire 20-year career with the police union, Tartakovsky wrote that “she held a position that should have instilled her with firmer respect for the law and for her obligation to be truthful with law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though she has since admitted her conduct was wrong and accepted responsibility for it, Tartakovsky noted that she initially lied to federal investigators, attempting to pin everything on her housekeeper, a move he called “reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just the normal blundering dissimulation blurted out when a target is first surprised and confronted by law enforcement,” Tartakovsky wrote. After being questioned by investigators, he said “Segovia took six weeks to ponder her predicament, concocted a story” in an unsuccessful attempt to dupe investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, said in his memo to the court that Segovia initially denied her\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>crime “in a desperate attempt to preserve the secret of her addiction as the barrier between her normal and illicit life broke down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors ultimately concluded that Segovia’s actions were “not the behavior of a ‘mastermind,’ but a scared, confused, and addicted woman who saw the walls collapsing around her,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Actions of an ‘addict,’ not a ‘dealer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Judge Lee said Tuesday she had weighed all the facts of the case, and agreed Segovia’s actions appeared to be “those of an addict and not a dealer,” and she also commended Segovia on her sobriety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A conviction here is warranted. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The former executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association will not face any time behind bars for illegally importing opioids, a judge ruled Tuesday, bringing to a close a nearly two-year-old criminal case that sent shockwaves through the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San José federal court, U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee sentenced Joanne Segovia to three years of probation and 100 hours of community service, which falls largely in line with what prosecutors and her defense attorney had requested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Segovia is very grateful that Judge Lee saw the case as the U.S. Attorney’s office and I saw the case,” Adam Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, told KQED after the sentencing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008434/former-san-jose-police-union-director-pleads-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids\">plea deal with federal prosecutors\u003c/a> in October, Segovia, 66, confessed to illegally importing tapentadol, a potent painkiller listed as a Schedule II controlled substance. Although such a felony carries a maximum prison term of 20 years, it was widely expected that Segovia would receive a significantly lighter sentence, as her defense team and prosecutors both supported her narrative that she was motivated by an addiction to painkillers rather than by a goal to make a profit as a drug mover.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The story of Joanne Segovia is the story of years of heavy opioid addiction, drug importation, self-delusion, and some very poor choices. It is not, however, the story of a drug dealer,” U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor on the case, wrote in a sentencing memo to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>She was a “good customer” of her supplier, spending between as much as $27,000 on the pills in 2022 alone, prosecutors said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She often coordinated the shipments and payments with her Indian supplier via WhatsApp and “pumped tens of thousands of dollars over the years into the coffers of these unscrupulous networks,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In court Tuesday, Tartakovsky noted that there are many people in America illicitly ordering drugs off the internet because of their addictions, and that the federal government doesn’t typically charge “pure users” with crimes. But Segovia went a step further, he said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She became a sort of auxiliary of this Indian network. She carried water for them,” Tartakovsky said. “She did things for their benefit, like moving pills for them. And this is not some peripheral thing. This is the core of how these schemes work. They rely on Americans to re-ship for them.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was not profiting off these actions, he said, but was instead “spending this massive fraction of her income” and “essentially almost bankrupting herself” to feed her addiction. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was \u003ca href=\"https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-jose-police-union-executive-charged-attempted-illegal-importation-fentanyl\">arrested in March 2023\u003c/a>, initially on one count of illegally importing a form of fentanyl. Prosecutors, however, later removed the fentanyl charge after admitting that a lab test of the contents of one of the packages sent to her had produced a false positive result. The charge was subsequently changed to the illegal importation of tapentadol.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Expressing remorse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2024, Segovia, who had maintained her innocence until that point, indicated to the court she’d be willing to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000464/former-san-jose-police-union-director-expected-to-plead-guilty-to-smuggling-opioids-in-deal-with-feds\"> accept responsibility for her crime\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Dec. 18 personal written statement asking the judge for leniency, Segovia expressed remorse for her actions, saying she “would do anything to take it all back,” and noted that she is heavily involved in the lives of her grandchildren and is a caretaker for her 81-year-old husband, who is ill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never realized the magnitude of what I had done until a gun was pointed at me. I have never been in trouble with the law. This was something I had only seen in movies. It was the most traumatic thing that has ever happened to me,” she wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she has also stopped taking pills since her arrest and has passed 45 random drug tests while undergoing counseling and treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have this nice little life and it was all blown up in front of me,” Segovia said in court on Tuesday. “And being sober made me know how horrendous my conduct was. And I’ve never done anything but be for the law, and I’m really sorry.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several other people, including her daughter, friends, neighbor and current and former San José police officers, wrote to the judge on her behalf, attesting that Segovia is a good person, loving family member and a reliable colleague who cares deeply for others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was fired from her role as executive director of the police union shortly after her arrest in 2003. The union denied any involvement or knowledge of her actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nevertheless, the arrest sparked outrage among local elected officials, police critics and activists, prompting protests outside San José City Hall, with demonstrators calling for further investigations and demanding city leaders to stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police union hired a private investigator to look into whether Segovia’s actions were connected to her work, releasing the results after her conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigator concluded there was “no evidence whatsoever that any POA representative had any involvement, knowledge, or suspicions regarding Segovia’s alleged criminal activities” and that all the facts indicate she acted alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors agreed with that assessment but also criticized the union for interfering in the federal investigation following Segovia’s arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The SJPOA announced publicly after the search of Segovia’s office that it wished to cooperate with this investigation. Yet counsel for the SJPOA engaged in stonewalling, even threatening to ‘seek judicial intervention’ to stop the prosecution from reviewing Segovia’s SJPOA email contents, though the SJPOA never followed through on its threat,” Tartakovsky wrote in the court memo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the same week, the union walled off public access to major portions of its website, including pages that list its board members and staff — a change that its leadership said was aimed at protecting them.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Life upended’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While Segovia was a civilian employee for her entire 20-year career with the police union, Tartakovsky wrote that “she held a position that should have instilled her with firmer respect for the law and for her obligation to be truthful with law enforcement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And though she has since admitted her conduct was wrong and accepted responsibility for it, Tartakovsky noted that she initially lied to federal investigators, attempting to pin everything on her housekeeper, a move he called “reprehensible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just the normal blundering dissimulation blurted out when a target is first surprised and confronted by law enforcement,” Tartakovsky wrote. After being questioned by investigators, he said “Segovia took six weeks to ponder her predicament, concocted a story” in an unsuccessful attempt to dupe investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, Segovia’s attorney, said in his memo to the court that Segovia initially denied her\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>crime “in a desperate attempt to preserve the secret of her addiction as the barrier between her normal and illicit life broke down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors ultimately concluded that Segovia’s actions were “not the behavior of a ‘mastermind,’ but a scared, confused, and addicted woman who saw the walls collapsing around her,” Tartakovsky wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Actions of an ‘addict,’ not a ‘dealer’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Judge Lee said Tuesday she had weighed all the facts of the case, and agreed Segovia’s actions appeared to be “those of an addict and not a dealer,” and she also commended Segovia on her sobriety. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A conviction here is warranted. 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She said that her team at the Department of Family and Children’s Services is severely understaffed. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Betty Duong said the problems with staffing in the Family and Children’s Services are, unfortunately, not unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staffing and hiring are challenges that’s being felt across the county organization. So they are right to put pressure on us. That’s what we’re here for. And this is how we push forward change,” Duong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duong said she’d soon be joining the Board of Supervisors’ Children, Seniors and Families Committee and said she looks forward to “digging in deep” into the agency’s issues that workers and other advocates are highlighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re coming here in their time off or taking time out of their work day to come here, these are concerns that have to be heard, and we have to be working together on that,” Duong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, DFCS said in a statement on Tuesday that it has recently hired 20 new social workers and placed them in two teams with the biggest staffing needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hiring additional social workers and supporting staff to best serve children and families continue to be top priorities for DFCS leadership, as we and other child welfare agencies throughout the state are facing a critical shortage of qualified applicants for open social worker positions,” the agency said.[aside label=\"More Santa Clara News\" postID=\"news_12017754,news_12015944,news_12021981\"]“DFCS is committed to recruiting additional qualified staff as quickly as possible and to partnering with staff on the development of solutions to meet the community’s need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other issues, the agency is also being sued by the grandfather of a 6-year-old boy named Jordan Walker, who was stabbed to death in a home in San José in August 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morian Walker Sr. is alleging the county agency left his grandson in a dangerous home, even after he pleaded with the county to let him take custody of the child due to concerns about his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s director, Damion Wright, submitted his resignation letter in late December and plans to step down on Friday. In his letter, Wright said his father’s death “has prompted me to reevaluate my priorities” and that he wanted to be closer to his family in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter did not mention Phoenix’s death — which happened while he was interim co-director of the agency — or any other controversies surrounding the DFCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Kinnear-Rausch, the current assistant director of the agency, will take over as acting director on Jan. 18, the county announced on Tuesday, adding that it will subsequently hire a recruiting firm and start a national search for a new director for the agency in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency staff and their unions “will be included on interview panels and provide input to help select the right leader to guide the department in protecting the safety and well-being of children in Santa Clara County,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Celaya, who runs the nonprofit New Beginnings Family Services, which supports families dealing with the legal and child welfare systems, said the next director should be someone who is intimately familiar with the way the system works on the ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to take someone with integrity, morals and commitment to really show their compassion for the kids and the families,” she said, “because these kids are dying, and you’re not seeing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County officials have reached a deal with the nation’s largest private hospital operator to purchase Regional Medical Center in East San José and fold it into the public health care system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county announced the “definitive agreement” on Monday afternoon, saying it would pay Nashville-based HCA Healthcare $150 million for the 258-bed hospital, with the deal set to close on April 1, pending regulatory approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The price and timeline details add clarity to the county’s rough plan to buy the facility, which it initially \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12001214/santa-clara-county-plans-to-buy-east-san-jose-hospital-to-reverse-cuts-to-care\">announced in August\u003c/a>, following months of community outcry about major service cutbacks under HCA’s watch. The county has pledged to reverse those cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The scaling back of health services at RMC has hit East San José hard. The County’s purchase and saving of Regional Medical Center, located in the heart of one of the most marginalized and historically disadvantaged areas of our county, is essential to restore critical healthcare access,” county Supervisor Betty Duong, who represents the area, said in a statement. “I am so proud of our county staff and Board of Supervisors for making this happen, and I look forward to seeing full services return to Regional Medical Center as soon as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deal comes a little less than a year after HCA announced its intention to make major service reductions at the hospital, which also houses the only trauma center on the east side of the county — setting off months of protests and demonstrations opposing the cuts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company had previously planned to shutter the hospital’s trauma center, eliminate its severe heart attack services and reduce stroke services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>HCA partially backed off those plans in mid-July after a group of health care workers, community members, patient advocates and elected officials decried the cuts, alleging the company was prioritizing profit margins over people’s health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=news_12015224,news_11999936,news_11996422]County officials warned, \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/2024-05/impact-assessment-final.pdf?VersionId=76kKMmMNBS.DDrTkkIa.TB08YZkvCUqI\">in an April report\u003c/a>, that cutting services at the hospital could have a “cascading effect” on Santa Clara Valley Healthcare, placing undue pressure on the county public health system that already manages three hospitals and a series of clinics and health centers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company ultimately downgraded the facility’s trauma center, offering lower levels of care and relying more heavily on transferring patients to other facilities miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also trimmed its severe heart attack services instead of eliminating them altogether and reduced stroke services from “comprehensive” to just above “primary” levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The cuts at the hospital were “unacceptable,” Susan Ellenberg, president of the county Board of Supervisors, said in Monday’s statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When the trauma center was downgraded, we immediately saw impacts at Valley Medical Center and other parts of our health system. 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Moore, at one point, stood between protesters and officers as he tried to ease tensions in downtown San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under his leadership, the NAACP also filed a lawsuit against the city in support of a group of protesters who were victims of police violence. The city later settled for more than $3 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those who knew him best said Moore was unafraid to lend his voice to discussions about particular policies or practices, even if it meant, at times, challenging the views of someone he had worked closely with or considered a friend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors President Susan Ellenberg said Moore was highly regarded because he was consistently well-read on the issues he advocated for and because of his respect for the humanity of others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He absolutely argued and got into it and was vociferous and pounded on the table. But it was always, always about issues,” Ellenberg said. “I never once heard Rev. 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Instead, judges will only decide whether card rooms can continue to offer the disputed games.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stakes are high since some cities receive nearly half of their budgets from taxes on card rooms, meaning a tribal victory in court could jeopardize money for police, firefighters and other local services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, nearly two-thirds of the budget for the small city of Hawaiian Gardens and almost half for the city of Commerce, both in Los Angeles County, come from local card rooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Jose City Councilmember Sergio Jimenez told lawmakers in July that the city receives $30 million each year from card rooms, enough to fund 150 police officers or 133 firefighters. Jimenez said that money’s in jeopardy if the tribes end up prevailing in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The card room industry claims the games are legal and that the attorney general’s office has approved each of them over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag='tribes' label='More Tribal News']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit comes after tribes persuaded lawmakers last year to pass \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/bills/ca_202320240sb549?slug=CA_202320240SB549&_gl=1*1jz7mmg*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzEzMzQuNTcuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.\">SB 549\u003c/a> in what was one of the most costly political fights of the two-year legislative session that concluded last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers, many of them with large tribal casinos in their districts, pushed for the gambling measure, while a smaller group of lawmakers with card rooms in their districts opposed it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It followed a failed 2022 sports betting initiative that the tribes spent millions of dollars to sponsor and that included a similar provision that would have let the tribes sue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opposing gambling interests donated at least $4.3 million to the 120 members of the Legislature since January 2023, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://digitaldemocracy.calmatters.org/?_gl=1*1jz7mmg*_gcl_au*Nzk3MzE2MDMuMTczMTAyMjU2Mg..*_ga*Mjk2NjI4MjAxLjE3MzEwMjI1NjI.*_ga_5TKXNLE5NK*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzEzMzQuNTcuMC4w*_ga_DX0K9PCWYH*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.*_ga_GNY4L81DZE*MTczNTkyOTQ4My4zNS4xLjE3MzU5MzA2NDkuMC4wLjA.\">Digital Democracy database\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Facing what they saw as an existential threat, card rooms responded to SB 549’s introduction with a massive lobbying blitz. 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The boxes of persimmons were harvested from the orchard this season. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Saying goodbye to more than a farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Now that we’re finally at the end, it’s kind of sad,” James Tsukuda said while standing at the base of a persimmon tree last week. “A lot of our long-time customers are heartbroken,” he said. “They’re still hoping for a chance that the sale won’t go through. It’s been tough for a lot of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past several weeks, customers, new and old, have been stopping by to buy the daily haul of persimmons piled high in white crates at the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people purchased more than 20 pounds, a testament to the quality and their desire to hold onto a little bit more of what they’ll soon no longer have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenyu Li, an engineer who lives in Milpitas and used to live in North San José, has been frequenting the stand for nearly 20 years and came by on a recent Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish we could’ve done something to save it,” Li said. “It always held a special place in my heart. It’s really sad to know they will be gone.”[aside postID=news_11999500]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other customers lamented the trope of bucolic settings being continually swapped out for blocks of housing, warehouses and office parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley is like a concrete jungle. 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Her late husband, Eiji Tsukuda, originally farmed a plot of land nearby, growing strawberries and raspberries until a forced eminent domain sale to make way for the Orchard School District pushed them off the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the family started leasing farmland from the Sakauyes. After he fell ill with cancer, Eiji Tsukuda handed off the farming duties at the current stand to James about 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018176\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg\" alt=\"A person with white hair and glasses, smiles while wearing a maroon top. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyo Tsukuda smiles while talking with a friend at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miyo Tsukuda said the “most enjoyable” thing for her has been talking with all the customers, and she’ll miss coming to the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get up in the morning, every morning, you tell yourself, ‘I have to get ready to go to work.’ I’m not going to have that anymore,” she said. “In a way, maybe it’s a good time to retire. But I’ll miss this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said while his mom may have been looking forward to retiring just a few years ago, now that the fruit stand is being forced to shut down, she’s reluctant to let go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been such a big part of her life for such a long time,” he said. “She’s made a lot of friends here. And so have I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said he’ll probably take his own tools with him when he leaves the farm for the last time but isn’t interested in any other keepsakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know about taking anything to remember the place by. That might actually be depressing,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018177\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018177\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a brown hat in the background and many ripe persimmons in the foreground.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0969-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda harvests persimmons in the orchard at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Next steps for development\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In preparation for the development, most everything left on the land will be leveled, including rows of crops, planters, historic barns, buildings and pump houses. However, preservationists have managed to work out a plan with the developer to preserve one house to serve as a link to the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home that once belonged to Eiichi Sakauye — a prominent farmer and civic figure in Santa Clara County for decades — will eventually be relocated 10 miles south to History Park, where it will be restored and used as a showcase to tell his story and the story of Japanese American histories in the South Bay.[aside postID=news_12000118]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bill Schroh Jr., the head of History San Jose, which operates History Park, said the plan is estimated to cost $1 million, and about $800,000 in donations has been pledged so far from a handful of donors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A coalition of organizations and individuals, including the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, the Preservation Action Council of San Jose, Hanover Company, Vice Mayor Rosemary Kamei, Councilmember David Cohen, members of the Sakauye family and History San Jose, collaborated to ensure the house won’t be flattened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Kamei and others pushed during an August council meeting to see the home restored on the site where it currently sits, that didn’t pan out, in part due to the city’s parks department not having enough funding to sustain it there. The developer and Eiichi Sakauye’s daughters also didn’t support preserving the home on the land but were willing to back a plan to have it relocated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those involved in the plan to save the home say that even though it will be relocated, its preservation is a big win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we were looking at even a few months ago was this possibility that the entire site would be leveled, the house would be demolished, and nobody would speak up against it,” said Ben Leech, the president of the Preservation Action Council. “So the fact now that the house looks like it’s being saved and moved to History Park, it’s a sea change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vanessa Hatakeyama, the director of the Japanese American Museum, said the partnerships and work that went into the plan have yielded more than just the preservation of a historic house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really helped strengthen the fabric of San Jose’s historic preservation community. And so that’s something that we’re incredibly proud of,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018173\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018173\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248.jpg\" alt=\"A person carries boxes as he walks through several trees full of persimmons.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1248-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">James Tsukuda carries plastic boxes through the orchard at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The farm stand is offering up its last haul of persimmons to customers old and new in the last week of business before the land they farm is developed with apartments and townhomes. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Hanover plans to temporarily relocate the home onto another portion of the Sakauye farm to allow construction work to begin, and the home could be moved to History Park by the summer of next year, Hatakeyama said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Okkes Gozdas, a resident of the area near the farm, said he comes to the stand almost every day during the summer for fresh produce, and frequents during the fall for persimmons, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s happy Eiichi Sakauye’s home will be preserved but feels the community is suffering a big loss with farming on the land coming to an end.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the place. When you come here, you feel different,” Gozdas said. “The sad part is the new generations cannot experience coming here.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This persimmon harvest, coming to a close in just about a week, marks what will likely be the last farm work to ever take place on this land, as a developer plans to build nearly 1,500 apartments and townhomes here, along with a public park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Japanese American family with a rich farming history in the South Bay, the Sakauyes, has decided to sell the 22-acre plot their family has owned since 1907, and on which the Tsukudas have operated their stand for the last four decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While plans for development have long loomed over the property, an air of finality and resignation has settled over the land in the last several months after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12000118/san-jose-council-oks-development-of-historic-japanese-american-farm-for-housing\">San José City Council approved the housing plans in August\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hanover Company, the Houston-based developer, expects to begin work in February.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018179\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12018179 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432.jpg\" alt=\"Many persimmons in the back of a van\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1432-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Tsukuda carries an electric fruit scale to the stand before opening up for business in San José, CA, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. The boxes of persimmons were harvested from the orchard this season. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>Saying goodbye to more than a farm\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Now that we’re finally at the end, it’s kind of sad,” James Tsukuda said while standing at the base of a persimmon tree last week. “A lot of our long-time customers are heartbroken,” he said. “They’re still hoping for a chance that the sale won’t go through. It’s been tough for a lot of them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the past several weeks, customers, new and old, have been stopping by to buy the daily haul of persimmons piled high in white crates at the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several people purchased more than 20 pounds, a testament to the quality and their desire to hold onto a little bit more of what they’ll soon no longer have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wenyu Li, an engineer who lives in Milpitas and used to live in North San José, has been frequenting the stand for nearly 20 years and came by on a recent Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish we could’ve done something to save it,” Li said. “It always held a special place in my heart. It’s really sad to know they will be gone.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other customers lamented the trope of bucolic settings being continually swapped out for blocks of housing, warehouses and office parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Silicon Valley is like a concrete jungle. And finding a farm in the middle of it, finding nice produce in the middle of it, is very comforting,” said Heral Lakhani, of Fremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many customers said they buy their fruits and veggies at the stand because of the quality of the produce, the affordable prices and, most importantly, for the friendly relationships they form with the Tsukuda family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018178\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018178\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702.jpg\" alt=\"Two people sit in sun and shade at a farm stand with a white board behind them.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_1702-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Inez Lismonde sits with Miyo Tsukuda and her son John Tsukuda at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>The Tsukuda Family\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda’s mother, Miyo Tsukuda, has long been one of the smiling faces customers see at the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent weeks, she has started asking customers to take photos with her that she prints out and puts in a scrapbook to help her remember everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My face is starting to get a lot of wrinkles,” she said with a laugh while reviewing some of the photos last week. “I said, ‘My goodness, when did I get old?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She was born in a concentration camp in Arkansas, where her family was sent during World War II. They were among the thousands of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during the war and lost possessions and property, such as homes and farmland. Her late husband, Eiji Tsukuda, originally farmed a plot of land nearby, growing strawberries and raspberries until a forced eminent domain sale to make way for the Orchard School District pushed them off the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the family started leasing farmland from the Sakauyes. After he fell ill with cancer, Eiji Tsukuda handed off the farming duties at the current stand to James about 20 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018176\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg\" alt=\"A person with white hair and glasses, smiles while wearing a maroon top. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241211_Tsukuda-Farm-Close_DMB_0843-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miyo Tsukuda smiles while talking with a friend at the Tsukuda Fruit Stand in San José on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Miyo Tsukuda said the “most enjoyable” thing for her has been talking with all the customers, and she’ll miss coming to the stand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You get up in the morning, every morning, you tell yourself, ‘I have to get ready to go to work.’ I’m not going to have that anymore,” she said. “In a way, maybe it’s a good time to retire. But I’ll miss this place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said while his mom may have been looking forward to retiring just a few years ago, now that the fruit stand is being forced to shut down, she’s reluctant to let go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s been such a big part of her life for such a long time,” he said. “She’s made a lot of friends here. And so have I.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Tsukuda said he’ll probably take his own tools with him when he leaves the farm for the last time but isn’t interested in any other keepsakes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know about taking anything to remember the place by. 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