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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/24/470710747/more-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-where-they-teach\">years\u003c/a>, Bay Area teachers have said one of their biggest concerns is finding affordable housing close to where they work. For some teachers, the fact that their salaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/better-pay-would-keep-teachers-from-quitting-but-theres-more-to-it/2022/07\">can’t keep up with the increased cost of living\u003c/a> has some considering leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more school districts across California are taking matters into their own hands by getting into the business of building housing for their teachers and staff on empty parking lots, unused office buildings and other excess land. And, in the Bay Area, two districts are turning to bond measures to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two bonds — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara/measures#measure-r\">Measure R in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanmateo/measures#measure-k\">Measure K in San Mateo County\u003c/a> — would raise $1.15 billion and $153 million, respectively, to pay for upgrades to school district facilities. Both measures include building affordable housing for teachers and staff in their descriptions for what the bond could fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures come as state leaders ask voters to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-2\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> to upgrade school facilities across California. And, as state leaders are faced with a lofty goal to plan for 2.5 million new homes statewide by 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">they are encouraging school districts to be more proactive\u003c/a> about building housing for their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a group of parents and teachers at the Cabrillo Unified School District saw other school districts develop housing for their employees and were inspired to campaign to get Measure K on the ballot. If approved by voters, most of the $153 million will be used to fix classrooms, according to members of the board. Some of the money can also be used to construct educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Unified School District’s Measure R anticipates dedicating approximately $283 million of the total $1.15 billion bond to build housing for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure supporting Measure R In San José. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renata Sanchez, president of the San José Teachers Union, said the district has seen employee vacancy rates rise, especially among instructional associates, the staff who support special education teachers, and who are often paid less than teachers. She said the bond could help keep those associates from leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody here wants to be in the business of developing land for housing,” Sanchez said. “We just feel that we’re cornered into it. We have to do something because nobody else is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of local bond measures say school districts should focus on educating their students, and that bond measures are often proposed too lightly, without thought to how they will impact future residents who have to pay back the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who owns a home is going to pay more for that home every year,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, which is opposed to both measures R and K. “And even if you’re a renter, guess where the landlord gets the money to pay these taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only a handful of school districts across the state have successfully completed construction on new workforce housing. Santa Clara Unified School District was the first district to build housing for its staff, according to the California School Board Association. The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. Another would move a magnet school to a larger campus and use the existing land to build approximately 120 apartments and townhomes. Their third site would build educator housing on what is currently a special education school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed site for educator housing on Lenzen Avenue, currently used as an employee parking lot for the San José Unified School District in San José. If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. 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The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. 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If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. 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"content": "\u003cp>On a sunny Friday morning in San José, students and teachers at Alpha: José Hernández School stream into their cafeteria. With smiles everywhere, the excitement is palpable: Students are about to meet the person that their school — a TK–8 public charter school in the city’s Eastside — is named for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, wearing his blue NASA uniform, astronaut and engineer José Hernández walks in — immediately greeted by cheers. He walks over to a lunch table with students from all different grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What grade are you guys in?” he asks. “Third!” “First!” “Fourth!” students shout back all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s in fifth?” Hernández asks, and several hands shoot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ah, you know that’s when I decided to be an astronaut,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for a portrait at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Hernández was a crew member on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-128/\">STS-128 space shuttle Discovery mission\u003c/a>, which traveled to the International Space Station (ISS.) The mission, which lasted almost two weeks and covered a total of 5.7 million miles, brought crucial maintenance supplies and scientific equipment to the ISS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández’s journey to becoming an astronaut was not easy. He was born in the small agricultural community of French Camp in San Joaquin County to a family of Mexican migrant farmworkers — and during his childhood, his family traveled back and forth between California and Michoacan, Mexico, to follow the different growing seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the school year, Hernández worked in the fields alongside his parents, picking produce on the weekends and seven days a week during the summer. But his parents always emphasized the importance of education to better oneself, he told the students assembled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/jose-hernandez-migrant-astronaut-alpha-middle-school-reach-stars/70966/\">at the school named after him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students listen to former NASA astronaut José Hernández speaks at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I told [my father] that I wanted to be an astronaut, he did two things,” Hernández said. “The first thing he did was empower my dream. He said to me, ‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’ — ‘I know you can do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing Hernández’s father did, he said, was to give him tangible advice on how to achieve that dream. “He told me, ‘You know that effort you put out picking fruits and vegetables Saturdays and Sundays, seven days during the summer?’ … and he pointed to my books on the kitchen table, and he said, ‘You put that effort there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘It’s actually a gift’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Books — and his love of reading — accompanied Hernández as he moved first through college and then the complex process of applying and training to be an astronaut. And his visit on Friday to the school that bears his name also came with good news: Gordon Philanthropies, a nonprofit organization that works to provide free books to schools in underserved communities, is donating 6,700 books to the school, alongside Hernández’s own Reaching for the Stars Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández hands out backpacks to students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the donated books are completely bilingual in English and Spanish so that students can take them home and read them together with their families. “En la casa hablábamos puro español — at home, we only spoke Spanish — and what helped me learn English era leer libros — reading books is what helped me learn English,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of students at the school come from Spanish-speaking families and are learning English as a second language, said Alpha: José Hernández School principal Julianna Parra. “We let students take books from our school … not all of our families live near a library, so that opportunity has been really important for our students,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to make sure that our students and our families know that having a different primary language is not a bad thing. It’s actually a gift — a skill they can leverage,” Parra said. “Being able to provide books that come in both languages allows for our families to see that in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for photos with students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reading in both English and the language spoken at home has been found \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/ae_fall2015goldenberg_wagner.pdf\">to help bilingual students retain and improve their home language\u003c/a> as they mature. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.scopus.com/results/citedbyresults.uri?sort=plf-f&cite=2-s2.0-0001674036&src=s&imp=t&sid=e708f65c0daed7fa25e58b397450427c&sot=cite&sdt=a&sl=0&origin=inward&editSaveSearch=&txGid=f03603ba7f558fd52def372d5c6605bd\">decades of research within education\u003c/a>, students from homes where the primary language is not English tend to lose their fluency in that language over time if only English is prioritized at school, something known as “language attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while not all students at Alpha: José Hernández School may not have the desire to follow in Hernández’s exact footsteps to become an astronaut, many of them still share his love of reading. After hearing Hernández speak, seventh grader Vernon Paul Pineda said that he especially loves reading true crime and thrillers — and when he grows up, he wants to become a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get really interested in what the book is talking about,” he said. “You just keep reading, and the book gets more interesting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>On a sunny Friday morning in San José, students and teachers at Alpha: José Hernández School stream into their cafeteria. With smiles everywhere, the excitement is palpable: Students are about to meet the person that their school — a TK–8 public charter school in the city’s Eastside — is named for.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few minutes later, wearing his blue NASA uniform, astronaut and engineer José Hernández walks in — immediately greeted by cheers. He walks over to a lunch table with students from all different grades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What grade are you guys in?” he asks. “Third!” “First!” “Fourth!” students shout back all at once.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Who’s in fifth?” Hernández asks, and several hands shoot up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ah, you know that’s when I decided to be an astronaut,” he replies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011247\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-37-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for a portrait at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 2009, Hernández was a crew member on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-128/\">STS-128 space shuttle Discovery mission\u003c/a>, which traveled to the International Space Station (ISS.) The mission, which lasted almost two weeks and covered a total of 5.7 million miles, brought crucial maintenance supplies and scientific equipment to the ISS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernández’s journey to becoming an astronaut was not easy. He was born in the small agricultural community of French Camp in San Joaquin County to a family of Mexican migrant farmworkers — and during his childhood, his family traveled back and forth between California and Michoacan, Mexico, to follow the different growing seasons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the school year, Hernández worked in the fields alongside his parents, picking produce on the weekends and seven days a week during the summer. But his parents always emphasized the importance of education to better oneself, he told the students assembled \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/jose-hernandez-migrant-astronaut-alpha-middle-school-reach-stars/70966/\">at the school named after him\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011245\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-17-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students listen to former NASA astronaut José Hernández speaks at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When I told [my father] that I wanted to be an astronaut, he did two things,” Hernández said. “The first thing he did was empower my dream. He said to me, ‘Yo pienso que lo puedes lograr’ — ‘I know you can do it.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second thing Hernández’s father did, he said, was to give him tangible advice on how to achieve that dream. “He told me, ‘You know that effort you put out picking fruits and vegetables Saturdays and Sundays, seven days during the summer?’ … and he pointed to my books on the kitchen table, and he said, ‘You put that effort there.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘It’s actually a gift’\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Books — and his love of reading — accompanied Hernández as he moved first through college and then the complex process of applying and training to be an astronaut. And his visit on Friday to the school that bears his name also came with good news: Gordon Philanthropies, a nonprofit organization that works to provide free books to schools in underserved communities, is donating 6,700 books to the school, alongside Hernández’s own Reaching for the Stars Foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011246\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-29-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández hands out backpacks to students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the donated books are completely bilingual in English and Spanish so that students can take them home and read them together with their families. “En la casa hablábamos puro español — at home, we only spoke Spanish — and what helped me learn English era leer libros — reading books is what helped me learn English,” Hernández said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of students at the school come from Spanish-speaking families and are learning English as a second language, said Alpha: José Hernández School principal Julianna Parra. “We let students take books from our school … not all of our families live near a library, so that opportunity has been really important for our students,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We really want to make sure that our students and our families know that having a different primary language is not a bad thing. It’s actually a gift — a skill they can leverage,” Parra said. “Being able to provide books that come in both languages allows for our families to see that in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011248\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241025-ASTRONAUTJOSEHERNANDEZ-40-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former NASA astronaut José Hernández poses for photos with students at Alpha: José Hernández School in San José on Oct. 25, 2024, during a backpack and book giveaway event. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reading in both English and the language spoken at home has been found \u003ca href=\"https://www.aft.org/sites/default/files/ae_fall2015goldenberg_wagner.pdf\">to help bilingual students retain and improve their home language\u003c/a> as they mature. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.scopus.com/results/citedbyresults.uri?sort=plf-f&cite=2-s2.0-0001674036&src=s&imp=t&sid=e708f65c0daed7fa25e58b397450427c&sot=cite&sdt=a&sl=0&origin=inward&editSaveSearch=&txGid=f03603ba7f558fd52def372d5c6605bd\">decades of research within education\u003c/a>, students from homes where the primary language is not English tend to lose their fluency in that language over time if only English is prioritized at school, something known as “language attrition.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while not all students at Alpha: José Hernández School may not have the desire to follow in Hernández’s exact footsteps to become an astronaut, many of them still share his love of reading. After hearing Hernández speak, seventh grader Vernon Paul Pineda said that he especially loves reading true crime and thrillers — and when he grows up, he wants to become a photographer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I get really interested in what the book is talking about,” he said. “You just keep reading, and the book gets more interesting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>A group of downtown \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> residents, including a top city staffer, are beginning a campaign to recall Councilmember Omar Torres, who is the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010529/san-jose-council-could-limit-omar-torres-power-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">subject of a police investigation\u003c/a> into alleged sexual misconduct involving a minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The residents in Torres’ District 3 said Friday that they are willing to see through a potentially months-long effort to recall him from office but hope the added pressure will force him to resign immediately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing this because enough is enough,” Matthew Quevedo, a resident and Mayor Matt Mahan’s deputy chief of staff, said at a news conference in front of City Hall. “We are building a coalition of neighbors, parents and small-business owners to begin this recall process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, who has not been formally charged with a crime and denied any wrongdoing, has faced a backlash and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12009671/san-jose-mayor-and-council-call-on-councilmember-omar-torres-to-resign-amid-sexual-misconduct-allegations\">calls for his resignation\u003c/a> from all of his council colleagues since details of the police investigation emerged this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit supporting a search warrant and GPS tracking on Torres’ car, police said they are investigating Torres on suspicion of oral copulation of a minor and abnormal interest in children, a felony and a misdemeanor, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police first started looking into claims from Torres that he was being extorted by a 21-year-old man from Chicago, Terry Beeks, with whom Torres had an online sexual relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the investigation seemed to turn to focus on Torres after police found texts from Torres to Beeks in 2022 describing the genitalia of an 11-year-old boy and writing that he had performed oral sex on a 17-year-old boy while working at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-term San José Councilmember Omar Torres is facing increasing pressure to resign following a police investigation into text messages he sent referencing sexually explicit acts with a minor. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another text exchange with Beeks about having a sexual encounter, according to the affidavit, Torres asked, “U got any homies under 18.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres’ attorney, Nelson McElmurry, did not deny the authenticity of the texts but previously characterized the conversations as “outrageous fantasy and role play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has been largely absent from public view since the investigation into him was first revealed. He has missed City Council meetings, committee meetings, and meetings of other regional boards and commissions he serves on, leading the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010529/san-jose-council-could-limit-omar-torres-power-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">strip him of his assignments\u003c/a> this week and reassign those duties to other members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was present at the last City Council meeting because I wanted to ask Omar in person for his resignation. But he was not there,” Melissa Reyes, who owns downtown’s Mesquite & Oak restaurant, said at Friday’s press conference. “We need the representation. And he was nowhere to be found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Morris, co-owner of Spicy Roy’s Caribbean Grill downtown, said the criminal investigation has stopped Torres from participating in neighborhood or business association meetings, frustrating people looking to make progress on issues such as homelessness, public safety and parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Hall in San José, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard repeatedly the frustrations of no representation at council,” said Quevedo, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff. “I’ve heard the concerns of neighbors attending meetings with a council member whose attorney tried to wave off inappropriate conversations about an 11-year-old child as simply role play and fantasy. This is simply unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council also voted this week to approve an excused absence for Torres from its Oct. 8 meeting for illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElmurry has said previously that the council member does not intend to resign, but in a late addition to the council’s rules committee meeting on Wednesday, Torres submitted a memo requesting approval to be excused from the Oct. 22, 29, and Nov. 5 meetings for a 30-day leave of absence, citing the need to protect his health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be taking a temporary leave of absence from the San José City Council, following my doctor’s recommendation … to focus on my mental health,” Torres wrote. “The allegations made against me have significantly impacted my emotional and mental well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12011106 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/04/RS48718_037_Alameda_MarioGonzalezVigil_04212021-qut-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his office would remain “fully operational” as his staff continues to serve residents, adding that he is “committed to returning to my duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules committee, however, did not take action on the memo, meaning it will not appear on Tuesday’s agenda to be considered by the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, a first-term council member, is not up for reelection next month, and his current term is set to end in December 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff, acknowledged that it could take until early 2025 to get a special recall election in place for District 3 residents, but he said he’d rather start this effort now in light of Torres’ declination to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo also dismissed the idea that his connection to Mahan could color this effort as a political play. He said he took a vacation day from his work in Mahan’s office to help organize Friday’s press conference and was working on the recall effort separately from his work duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a San Joséan first and foremost, I’m a father. I’m a husband. I’m a resident here in the neighborhood. I’ve been doing community advocacy work for the past 15 years,” Quevedo said. “And so this is my civic duty to get involved in this today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said Friday that they plan to deliver Torres a notice of intent to recall him soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some at the press conference said the criminal investigation just offers another reason to oust a council member they weren’t fond of already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Cohen, a real estate investor in downtown San José and a resident, said he wasn’t happy with Torres’ work before the investigation was revealed, alleging he didn’t do enough to care for the whole district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had good representation for 10 years,” Cohen said, calling the investigation into Torres “one more nail in the coffin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an affidavit supporting a search warrant and GPS tracking on Torres’ car, police said they are investigating Torres on suspicion of oral copulation of a minor and abnormal interest in children, a felony and a misdemeanor, respectively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police first started looking into claims from Torres that he was being extorted by a 21-year-old man from Chicago, Terry Beeks, with whom Torres had an online sexual relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the investigation seemed to turn to focus on Torres after police found texts from Torres to Beeks in 2022 describing the genitalia of an 11-year-old boy and writing that he had performed oral sex on a 17-year-old boy while working at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12009735\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12009735\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241016-OMAR-TORRES-GH-1-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">First-term San José Councilmember Omar Torres is facing increasing pressure to resign following a police investigation into text messages he sent referencing sexually explicit acts with a minor. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In another text exchange with Beeks about having a sexual encounter, according to the affidavit, Torres asked, “U got any homies under 18.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres’ attorney, Nelson McElmurry, did not deny the authenticity of the texts but previously characterized the conversations as “outrageous fantasy and role play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has been largely absent from public view since the investigation into him was first revealed. He has missed City Council meetings, committee meetings, and meetings of other regional boards and commissions he serves on, leading the council to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12010529/san-jose-council-could-limit-omar-torres-power-amid-sexual-misconduct-investigation\">strip him of his assignments\u003c/a> this week and reassign those duties to other members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was present at the last City Council meeting because I wanted to ask Omar in person for his resignation. But he was not there,” Melissa Reyes, who owns downtown’s Mesquite & Oak restaurant, said at Friday’s press conference. “We need the representation. And he was nowhere to be found.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kevin Morris, co-owner of Spicy Roy’s Caribbean Grill downtown, said the criminal investigation has stopped Torres from participating in neighborhood or business association meetings, frustrating people looking to make progress on issues such as homelessness, public safety and parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11983130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11983130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/20230801-SJCityHall-27-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">City Hall in San José, California, on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’ve heard repeatedly the frustrations of no representation at council,” said Quevedo, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff. “I’ve heard the concerns of neighbors attending meetings with a council member whose attorney tried to wave off inappropriate conversations about an 11-year-old child as simply role play and fantasy. This is simply unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The City Council also voted this week to approve an excused absence for Torres from its Oct. 8 meeting for illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElmurry has said previously that the council member does not intend to resign, but in a late addition to the council’s rules committee meeting on Wednesday, Torres submitted a memo requesting approval to be excused from the Oct. 22, 29, and Nov. 5 meetings for a 30-day leave of absence, citing the need to protect his health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I will be taking a temporary leave of absence from the San José City Council, following my doctor’s recommendation … to focus on my mental health,” Torres wrote. “The allegations made against me have significantly impacted my emotional and mental well-being.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said his office would remain “fully operational” as his staff continues to serve residents, adding that he is “committed to returning to my duties.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rules committee, however, did not take action on the memo, meaning it will not appear on Tuesday’s agenda to be considered by the full council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, a first-term council member, is not up for reelection next month, and his current term is set to end in December 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo, the mayor’s deputy chief of staff, acknowledged that it could take until early 2025 to get a special recall election in place for District 3 residents, but he said he’d rather start this effort now in light of Torres’ declination to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quevedo also dismissed the idea that his connection to Mahan could color this effort as a political play. He said he took a vacation day from his work in Mahan’s office to help organize Friday’s press conference and was working on the recall effort separately from his work duties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m a San Joséan first and foremost, I’m a father. I’m a husband. I’m a resident here in the neighborhood. I’ve been doing community advocacy work for the past 15 years,” Quevedo said. “And so this is my civic duty to get involved in this today.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said Friday that they plan to deliver Torres a notice of intent to recall him soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some at the press conference said the criminal investigation just offers another reason to oust a council member they weren’t fond of already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Steve Cohen, a real estate investor in downtown San José and a resident, said he wasn’t happy with Torres’ work before the investigation was revealed, alleging he didn’t do enough to care for the whole district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We haven’t had good representation for 10 years,” Cohen said, calling the investigation into Torres “one more nail in the coffin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Details of the criminal investigation into him and his reported sexual interest in minors quickly followed. No criminal charges have been filed, and Torres has denied any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has missed several public meetings in recent weeks, including a City Council meeting on Oct. 8, which he said was due to illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The council on Tuesday approved Torres’ request to be excused for that absence, though nobody seemed eager to be the one to initiate that action. After a prolonged moment of silence, Mahan eventually spoke up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11984099\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11984099\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg\" alt=\"A white middle aged man speaks into microphones wearing a blue suit and a white collared shirt with no tie.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/San-Jose-License-Plate-Readers-08-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan at the press conference on April 25, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believe Councilmember Torres is holding his seat hostage and denying representation to the 100,000 residents of District 3. We’ve all called on him to resign. He should resign,” Mahan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the same time, after getting some insight from the city attorney, I personally am not interested in litigating whether or not he was sick two weeks ago. So, I will be supporting the motion. And moving forward, should he continue to request excused absences, I personally will want to hear a better explanation for what the illness is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only District 7 Councilmember Bien Doan voted against excusing the absence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12009590 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/SchoolLockers-1020x638.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José’s city charter states that a council member can be removed after five consecutive unexcused absences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres was not present for Tuesday’s meeting. His attorney, Nelson McElmurry, said in a text to KQED that Torres would not comment publicly until the investigation into him is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation began when Torres reported to police that he was being blackmailed by a Chicago man with whom he’d had a sexual relationship and shared illicit pictures. Torres reportedly told police that he had already sent the man $22,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recently released affidavit included texts from 2022 between Torres and the man in which Torres sent a picture of a boy he identified as his autistic 11-year-old son and shared inappropriate details about the boy’s genitalia, though the council member is not known to have any children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the texts, Torres also reportedly talked about having oral sex with a 17-year-old while working at a college and, while talking about a future sexual encounter, asked if the man had “any homies under 18.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous statements to the media, McElmurry has called the text messages “outrageous fantasy and roleplay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Thien, can you tell us a little bit more about where we are right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So this strip of San Jose has always been kind of like Little Saigon. But they opened this big place called the Grand Century. And it was supposed to be like \u003cem>the\u003c/em> Vietnamese mall, you know, like it had all the Vietnamese food, all the restaurants were here. And then, like a couple of years later, this giant lot next to Grand Century opened up. It was called Vietnam Town, the hub of like, Vietnamese culture in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’re kind of here to explore, Luke as you wrote about, a growing sort of night market scene in the Bay Area, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai : \u003c/strong>Yeah, totally, I think. You know, I grew up going to night markets when I would travel to Taiwan with my family. 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You know, where it doesn’t feel like it’s some like, fancy artisan who has like parachuted in from outside of the community to, like, promote their art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, it feels more like, these are just like people from the community. Maybe they have a shop in this mall, selling like jewelry or selling like little trinkets or gifts. And so they set up a stall outside. And so it just has that very– it just feels very natural, feels very good just to walk around and see everybody checking out all the little stalls while they’re eating their their food. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanaya: \u003c/strong>I’m Shanaya. I’m the creator of Naya’s Desk. So I sell original art through stickers. And I also hand make all of these at home, sticker sheets. I’ve been a San Jose native all my life, so this is my second time here at the Story Road Night Market. This one is really great because I love the Asian diversity here, and the community here is really good. 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And in the forefront, with this, just like, YouTube lighting, are these Vietnamese aunties pouring sugarcane juice, selling snails. An uncle is grilling. I am, I’m stunned. I think it’s the lights. It’s the lights and the music, for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, so Thien just ordered. He has a snail in his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong> And then you grab it with a toothpick. Because the snail has, like, a you know, like the shell is, like, circular. So you got to, like, kind of spin it while you open it, and you grab it. And you’ve got to dip it in this sauce. The sauce is it. And then, oh my God, they have this thing called rau răm, which I think the English title is Vietnamese Coriander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh my god. It’s so good you guys. Oh my god. So this really brings me home to my mom because, you know, we didn’t have a lot of money when we came to America. So my mom would go to the market. My mom would just have this huge pot of it and me and my mom would just sit there and just do this and eat there. And it would just be like our bonding. We never really talked, you know, it’s one of those things that is just like, oh man, this is like, my mom, you know, this is like, like my mom. Yeah. Oh my god.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m curious what you all, just your impressions of the night market so far, especially Luke, compared to some of the other ones that you’ve been to around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>I mean, one of the things I really appreciate about here is just when you’re walking through and you smell the smell of that charcoal, right? And you just know it’s going to be good. And I was reading, I think Soleil Ho for The Chronicle wrote this opinion piece basically saying how it was really awesome that San Francisco has a whole bunch of night markets now, but that at a lot of them the food they said was like kind of mid. And it wasn’t because the food vendors aren’t good, but because the regulations and the fees are such that most vendors can’t afford to pay all the fees to be able to, like grill on the street to actually cook hot food. I mean, that’s one of the hallmarks of a night market is like you have, you have the fire going, you smell that charcoal. So I really appreciate that about here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Like we’re literally standing–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>Watching them make it. They’ve got like a little bamboo fan that they’re like fanning it every so often. Like, that’s like old school cooking, right? Old school street food cooking. And I do think, like, with anything else, that it requires some like know how. You know, and it requires some, like, actual outreach and connection to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I am curious for both of you and I guess starting with you first, Luke, is this the kind of thing you both would want to see more of?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai:\u003c/strong> Yeah, totally. Yeah. I think it just feels so comfortable just strolling through here. The smells, the sights. It’s such a warm kind of community feeling for for folks in San Jose. If you had this every week, you know, or at least you had it like once or twice a month, I feel like people would come out, you know, especially especially in San Jose and a lot of other neighborhoods, too. I think people would come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You seem very at home here, Thien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>I love it. This type of thing we didn’t have when we were growing up. And so now when I walk around and sometimes when I speak about it, it’s like really moving to me. Because it’s like so many years of growing up and just kind of like hiding your culture or just like experiencing it with your family. And for me, I can go to my American friends or my friends of all cultures, “Hey, let’s go to this this Vietnamese street fair.” And they will be fine with it. And every single one of this food here can be enjoyed by everybody. Like every time me and Luke go anywhere, like in the Bay Area nowadays and we see this huge, diverse crowd, we’re like always moved by it. It’s always so, feels so nice. It feels so nice to like to like have this, you know, like, and I think that’s part of the reason why we live here. Why we pay the prices that we pay to live here, you know.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai:\u003c/strong>100%. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. So I don’t know about you all, but I’m full. I’m very full.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>We have, you can’t see, but we have like two giant bags of leftovers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>Ericka’s just holding the nước mía. I hope, I hope someone at home likes sugar cane juice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Just double fisting this sugar cane juice. This was so much fun, you guys. Thank you so much for doing this. I really appreciate it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>Thanks so much for having us here. Cheers!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Special thanks to KQED food editor Luke Tsai and Thien Pham for being our guides of the Story Road Night Market. The Story Road Night Market is done for the year, but there are still a handful of night markets to still check out around the Bay Area. We’re going to leave you a link to Luke’s list of Bay Area night markets in our show notes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This episode was cut down and edited by me and senior editor Alan Montecillo. It was produced by Jessica Kariisa. We get extra support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Maha Sanad and Holly Kernan. Music Courtesy of Audio Network. The Bay is a production of KQED in San Francisco, I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, thanks for listening.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham:\u003c/strong> To me it seems like a farmer’s market almost, but at night. Right? And I guess really what a night market is, is a farmer’s market at night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra :\u003c/strong> Night markets have popped up all around the Bay Area in the last two years. And organizers and local officials are hoping that they can bring more life into some of the neighborhoods hit hardest by the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong> Especially in the Bay Area, and especially when you’re talking about some of the Asian American communities. Nothing is going to bring people out like the promise of delicious free food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So today we’re taking you to the Story Road Night Market, right in the heart of San Jose’s Little Saigon neighborhood, to see what these night markets are all about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Sponsor Message\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And we are here in San Jose on Story Road. And I’m here with..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>Luke Tsai food editor for KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>And Thien Pham, a graphic novelist and an educator based in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And we are here at this Story Road Night Market, which is a mostly Vietnamese night market at this strip mall. Thien, can you tell us a little bit more about where we are right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So this strip of San Jose has always been kind of like Little Saigon. But they opened this big place called the Grand Century. And it was supposed to be like \u003cem>the\u003c/em> Vietnamese mall, you know, like it had all the Vietnamese food, all the restaurants were here. And then, like a couple of years later, this giant lot next to Grand Century opened up. It was called Vietnam Town, the hub of like, Vietnamese culture in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>We’re kind of here to explore, Luke as you wrote about, a growing sort of night market scene in the Bay Area, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai : \u003c/strong>Yeah, totally, I think. You know, I grew up going to night markets when I would travel to Taiwan with my family. You know, as a kid eating stinky tofu, eating like giant chicken cutlets the size of my head. And so that was something I grew up with and something that after I moved to the Bay Area, I never really found. But just in the past few years and really like in the past year or two, we’ve seen this kind of explosion in night markets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the pandemic, there were so many neighborhoods that just sort of shut down. A lot of these areas were struggling. And so what a lot of sort of community organizers, community groups, local governments, kind of when they put their heads together, a lot of them looked to the night market as kind of a potentially successful model. And I think especially in the Bay Area and especially when you’re talking about some of the Asian-American communities, nothing is going to bring people out like the promise of delicious street food. And I think that’s that’s mostly why we’re here tonight to check that out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. And people are out. People are out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>We’re going to get, we’re going to try the chicken hand pie and the charcoal grilled ribs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra:\u003c/strong> Can I get the steamed tofu?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ryan Sebastian: \u003c/strong>Speaking as someone who was born and raised in East San Jose. Like, there is always a feeling that when I would travel to other places and I would say, “Why can’t we have that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>My name is Ryan Sebastian and I run Moveable Feast. We started doing food truck events here based out of San Jose. Our whole goal for the whole summer was, or the whole series, was to get 20,000 people. And we saw by backed by cell phone data that the first weekend we had 22,000 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, Story Road for many reasons, particularly in the Vietnamese community and the like Mexican-American community is so, so key. To have this in San Jose, to have it in a place that maybe isn’t always like shown in the most positive light, is incredibly important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>Family style. We’re family style.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. And what do we got here, Thien?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>We got some lobster like fried in a rice coating. Green rice, which is like a gelatinous rice. And then we have here, ee have a hand pie that has a chicken curry in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>These are the pork ribs that have some sort of, like, herb fish sauce, calamansi, sort of a little dressing, kind of garnish on top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>All right. Let’s go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>These ribs are so good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>So it’s got that little bit of tanginess on top, but the ribs are super, super tender and juicy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>Oh my god. So good. In my phone, I just have so much of just Luke, like, eating. He’s such a, like, profane eater. It’s, like, disgusting to watch him eat. But I’m also, like, I really also love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>So what’s, what’s what’s this? This is like a tofu sandwich.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, it’s like a tofu sandwiches with some pork inside. And then it looks like…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>Is that like pork floss?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>Vietnamese people eat pork floss?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>That’s our thing! We came up with pork floss, bro!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>Come on! I’m always like, this is a Chinese thing, and Thien is always like, “No, the Vietnamese invented that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>The Vietnamese invented that for sure! Chinese took that from us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mori Nguyen: \u003c/strong>My name is Mori. Last name is Nguyen. I feel like there’s a healthy amount of vendors, so and a lot of like, I don’t know what they’re called but like cool little shops that people have or like small businesses. So I like it so far.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ordered grilled squid satay. It’s really good. It’s a little on the saltier side, but I like it because I think it’s, I want to say it’s a Vietnamese style, and I really like Vietnamese style squid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>And I mean, I think the other thing I really like when you walk past is you have all these sort of like retail vendors that are mixed in also. And I think there are other markets that have that component or like, you know, one day festivals where it’ll be like, okay, we’re going to have food, but we’re also going to have people selling like crafts, or we’re also going to have people selling like clothing or jewelry. You know, where it doesn’t feel like it’s some like, fancy artisan who has like parachuted in from outside of the community to, like, promote their art.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You know, it feels more like, these are just like people from the community. Maybe they have a shop in this mall, selling like jewelry or selling like little trinkets or gifts. And so they set up a stall outside. And so it just has that very– it just feels very natural, feels very good just to walk around and see everybody checking out all the little stalls while they’re eating their their food. Yeah.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Shanaya: \u003c/strong>I’m Shanaya. I’m the creator of Naya’s Desk. So I sell original art through stickers. And I also hand make all of these at home, sticker sheets. I’ve been a San Jose native all my life, so this is my second time here at the Story Road Night Market. This one is really great because I love the Asian diversity here, and the community here is really good. Really good food and a lot of other cool artists here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>Snails! I found the snails! Should I go get it? Or do you guys want to come?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>The sea snails, the grilled sea snails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Oh! That’s what you wanted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>That’s what we wanted. Yeah. Should we go get the snails?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>You want to go try? Yeah. Yeah. It’s amazing. So right now, we’re going across the parking lot to the next mall, which is called Vietnam Town. There’s only one stall, but they got a lot of attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This is actually insane. Okay. So there is literally a deejay spinning EDM in the background. And in the forefront, with this, just like, YouTube lighting, are these Vietnamese aunties pouring sugarcane juice, selling snails. An uncle is grilling. I am, I’m stunned. I think it’s the lights. It’s the lights and the music, for sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay, so Thien just ordered. He has a snail in his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong> And then you grab it with a toothpick. Because the snail has, like, a you know, like the shell is, like, circular. So you got to, like, kind of spin it while you open it, and you grab it. And you’ve got to dip it in this sauce. The sauce is it. And then, oh my God, they have this thing called rau răm, which I think the English title is Vietnamese Coriander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh my god. It’s so good you guys. Oh my god. So this really brings me home to my mom because, you know, we didn’t have a lot of money when we came to America. So my mom would go to the market. My mom would just have this huge pot of it and me and my mom would just sit there and just do this and eat there. And it would just be like our bonding. We never really talked, you know, it’s one of those things that is just like, oh man, this is like, my mom, you know, this is like, like my mom. Yeah. Oh my god.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m curious what you all, just your impressions of the night market so far, especially Luke, compared to some of the other ones that you’ve been to around the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>I mean, one of the things I really appreciate about here is just when you’re walking through and you smell the smell of that charcoal, right? And you just know it’s going to be good. And I was reading, I think Soleil Ho for The Chronicle wrote this opinion piece basically saying how it was really awesome that San Francisco has a whole bunch of night markets now, but that at a lot of them the food they said was like kind of mid. And it wasn’t because the food vendors aren’t good, but because the regulations and the fees are such that most vendors can’t afford to pay all the fees to be able to, like grill on the street to actually cook hot food. I mean, that’s one of the hallmarks of a night market is like you have, you have the fire going, you smell that charcoal. So I really appreciate that about here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Like we’re literally standing–\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai: \u003c/strong>Watching them make it. They’ve got like a little bamboo fan that they’re like fanning it every so often. Like, that’s like old school cooking, right? Old school street food cooking. And I do think, like, with anything else, that it requires some like know how. You know, and it requires some, like, actual outreach and connection to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I am curious for both of you and I guess starting with you first, Luke, is this the kind of thing you both would want to see more of?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luke Tsai:\u003c/strong> Yeah, totally. Yeah. I think it just feels so comfortable just strolling through here. The smells, the sights. It’s such a warm kind of community feeling for for folks in San Jose. If you had this every week, you know, or at least you had it like once or twice a month, I feel like people would come out, you know, especially especially in San Jose and a lot of other neighborhoods, too. I think people would come out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>You seem very at home here, Thien.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Thien Pham: \u003c/strong>I love it. This type of thing we didn’t have when we were growing up. And so now when I walk around and sometimes when I speak about it, it’s like really moving to me. Because it’s like so many years of growing up and just kind of like hiding your culture or just like experiencing it with your family. And for me, I can go to my American friends or my friends of all cultures, “Hey, let’s go to this this Vietnamese street fair.” And they will be fine with it. And every single one of this food here can be enjoyed by everybody. Like every time me and Luke go anywhere, like in the Bay Area nowadays and we see this huge, diverse crowd, we’re like always moved by it. It’s always so, feels so nice. 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We are in the midst of an active and ongoing investigation, and as our police department uncovers the truth, that truth will be shared with the community,” the Council statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Given the appalling nature of Omar Torres’ own words and the allegations against him, we believe that he has lost the trust of the community and is no longer able to effectively serve the residents of District 3,” the statement continued. “As his own words call into question his ability to lead and make decisions on the behalf of the community, we are calling on him to resign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, a first-term councilmember who previously served as a council staffer and a community college district board member, has largely withdrawn from public view since the allegations against him were first revealed earlier this month, and further details were made public in the affidavit supporting a search warrant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation is ongoing, police officials said, and no criminal charges have been filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He has no intention of resigning, he intends to continue fully serving his constituency,” his attorney, Nelson McElmurry, said Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He absolutely wants to address the public concern surrounding the bits and pieces of information that have been released throughout the course of the investigation,” he added, emphasizing that much of what has been reported thus far has been “speculation” and doesn’t include full context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He would rather wait until the investigation is completed and then address the issue, as well as responding to everyone’s questions regarding the details,” McElmurry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later Wednesday, Mahan told KQED there is a higher bar for elected officials. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe he is fit to lead and represent our community. I was sick to my stomach as I read some of the text messages in the affidavit,” Mahan said. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan said the case is a big distraction for Torres and for a city trying to address major civic issues of homelessness, housing and crime. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s distracted by this. I’ve gone to community meetings over the last week in his district where he’s been unable to attend. 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He also told investigators that Beeks had a history of harassing his partner and his Council staff members when his demands were ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators then interviewed Beeks and seized his electronics, determining from messages on those devices that it appeared “Torres was paying Beeks for masturbation videos and nude photos” and “paying to Facetime with Beeks while he masturbated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/15/condemns-councilmember-sex-crime-investigation-minors/\">During their ongoing text correspondence, \u003c/a>Torres, in February 2022, sent Beeks a photo of a boy who he referred to as his “autistic son,” saying he was 11 years old and that he was “like daddy lol he already has a big penis haha,” according to text exchanges listed in the affidavit. He also talked about the boy’s pubic hair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres, however, does not have any children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a text exchange with Beeks the following month, Torres described performing oral sex on a 17-year-old while working at a college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another 2022 text exchange with Beeks about having a sexual encounter, Torres asked, “U got any homies under 18.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In previous statements to the media, McElmurry, Torres’ attorney, did not refute the authenticity of the text messages but downplayed their significance, calling them “outrageous fantasy and role play.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These communications do not reflect any real-world actions or intentions and were entirely fictitious,” McElmurry said. He described Beeks as a “friend-turned-stalker” of Torres’,” who steered conversations into topics that would be damaging to Torres, as part of his extortion plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>McElmurry said that Torres “felt trapped in a cycle of manipulation” and chose to take “the difficult yet honorable path, reporting the situation to law enforcement despite the significant personal risks involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he made it clear that Torres “maintains his innocence.” “He has no interest in minors. He’s never had a relationship with minors in terms of that manner,” McElmurry said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his election to the District 3 seat in 2022, Torres became the first openly gay Latino to hold a council seat in the county, according to his council website profile. Torres, 42, said he has dedicated much of his life to advocating for youth and families in San José and in the Guadalupe-Washington community where he was raised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Jose Police Officers’ Association, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/04/01/san-joses-district-3-race-candidates-aim-for-a-downtown-core-where-everyone-feels-safe/\">who supported Torres’ opponent\u003c/a> in his council race, has publicly called on him to resign and had previously expressed disappointment that Torres’ colleagues on the Council were not asking for the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Councilmember Omar Torres criminal investigation into alleged sexual misconduct with a minor will run its course, but through his criminal defense attorney, he has admitted he sent multiple text messages about an 11-year-old autistic boy’s genitals and asked for help in procuring underage minors for sex,” Sgt. 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He also told investigators that Beeks had a history of harassing his partner and his Council staff members when his demands were ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators then interviewed Beeks and seized his electronics, determining from messages on those devices that it appeared “Torres was paying Beeks for masturbation videos and nude photos” and “paying to Facetime with Beeks while he masturbated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/10/15/condemns-councilmember-sex-crime-investigation-minors/\">During their ongoing text correspondence, \u003c/a>Torres, in February 2022, sent Beeks a photo of a boy who he referred to as his “autistic son,” saying he was 11 years old and that he was “like daddy lol he already has a big penis haha,” according to text exchanges listed in the affidavit. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 12:30 p.m.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The former executive director of the San Jose Police Officers’ Association pleaded guilty on Tuesday to illegally importing opioids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joanne Segovia entered her plea in San José federal court as part of a deal with federal authorities about a year and a half after she was first charged in connection with an international drug ring that Homeland Security investigators were monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Segovia had previously maintained her innocence, \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\">she agreed in August\u003c/a> to accept responsibility for her actions as part of a deal with U.S. prosecutors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Segovia is relieved to be able to admit responsibility and culpability for what she did,” Adam Gasner, her attorney, said Monday. “As a sober person who has had time to reflect on the wrongfulness of her conduct, it’s time for her to take the next step towards closure of this case and her personal healing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While working as the lead civilian administrator for the San José police union, Segovia allegedly had thousands of illicit pills shipped to her home over several years that she ordered on both her personal and office computers and redistributed some of those pills elsewhere in the U.S., authorities said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the current plea deal, Segovia is being charged with one count of illegally importing tapentadol, a potent painkiller listed as a Schedule II controlled substance by the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More on this case\" postID=\"news_12000464,news_11988510,news_11945256\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Segovia was originally charged, in March 2023, with one count of attempting to import a form of fentanyl that authorities found on patches and stickers in a package addressed to her from China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, U.S. prosecutors in August removed that charge, saying there was an “error” in the testing of the substance, with subsequent testing showing no evidence of fentanyl in the package.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Eumi K. Lee spent much of the hearing Tuesday advising Segovia of her legal rights. Lee then asked Segovia how she chose to plead to the count against her, to which Segovia responded with one word: “Guilty.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner has attempted to portray Segovia as someone struggling with a substance use disorder, not a kingpin or drug distributor, who became involved in a drug shipping network as a result of her vulnerability and addiction, saying she was taken advantage of by other bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both the original and current charge, Segovia could face a maximum of 20 years in prison. Her sentencing hearing is scheduled for Jan. 21, 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Tuesday’s hearing, Gasner suggested that probation, rather than incarceration, would be a suitable punishment for Segovia, who he said is recovering from addiction and deserves compassion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t believe additional incarceration will reduce the chance that Ms. Segovia would be a recidivist or increase the chance she’d be a recidivist,” he said outside the courthouse. “I believe that her being convicted of this very serious crime and making these admissions and having to be supervised is certainly a punishment for what she has done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From October 2015 to January 2023, Segovia had at least 61 drug shipments mailed to her home from various overseas origins, according to last year’s original criminal complaint against her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the shipping information for the packages claimed they contained innocuous items like “wedding party favors,” “gift makeup,” and “chocolate and sweets,” investigators alleged they contained drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between July 2019 and January 2023, officials intercepted five shipments intended for Segovia, finding thousands of pills, including the synthetic opioids tramadol and tapentadol, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008475\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1858px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged women with dyed blond hair exits a courthouse.\" width=\"1858\" height=\"1238\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008475\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED.jpg 1858w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241008-SEGOVIA-JG-1-KQED-1536x1023.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1858px) 100vw, 1858px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanne Segovia, the former executive director of the San José Police Officers’ Association, leaves federal court in San José on Oct. 8, 2024, after pleading guilty to smuggling opioids into the U.S. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In court on Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Tartakovsky, the lead prosecutor in the case, revealed as of yet unreported details of the investigation, including that Segovia ordered more than 17,000 tapentadol pills between April 2021 and September 2023 for what he said was her personal use. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Investigators previously said they seized drugs both at her house and her office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations against Segovia, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1641311111306940418\">which San José Mayor Matt Mahan at the time called “disturbing,\u003c/a>” sent shockwaves through the South Bay last year, sparking protests outside City Hall amid demands that city leaders stop taking donations from the powerful police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But police union representatives have long denied that any officers or other civilian staffers knew about Segovia’s actions. The union fired her shortly after the allegations surfaced and said the organization was fully cooperating with federal investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also launched an internal investigation looking into possible changes within the organization to beef up oversight and accountability and root out issues like this sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union doesn’t plan to release the findings of that investigation until Segovia’s case is concluded, Tom Saggau, a union spokesperson, told KQED. Shortly after the allegations surfaced last year, the police union insisted it was working to transparently address the concerns around the allegations aimed at Segovia, with Sean Pritchard, its president, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/04/13/opinion-san-jose-poa-is-transparently-taking-action/\">penning an opinion piece\u003c/a> in The Mercury News about the organization’s efforts to ensure public trust in the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that same week, the union \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-police-officers-association-union-sjpoa-hides-website-pages-after-scandal/\">walled off access to major portions of its website\u003c/a>, including pages that list its board members and staff, which now require a member login to view — a change that Pritchard said was aimed at protecting its members and staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sean Allen, a retired Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Department sergeant and board member of Lodge 65 of the California Fraternal Order of Police, said he still questions how Segovia’s criminal actions went undetected in an organization full of police officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How this got under their nose, I just don’t believe that’s possible,” Allen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Police departments, police personnel, law enforcement personnel at all levels tend to try to keep their issues internal,” he added. “And many times, they go without resolution. They simply don’t want the public to know what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Saggau called Allen’s comments “silly.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a silly thing for an individual to say that everybody that’s interacted with Ms. Segovia for over 20 years should have known that she was doing whatever it was she was doing,” he said. “By his implication, then if any of his coworkers have crossed the line, he should have known about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Segovia was officially the executive director of the police union, Saggau and some former police union officials described her as more of an “office manager” with a limited scope of responsibilities. Following the allegations, Saggau even referred to her as the “grandma” of the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner, meanwhile, underscored that Segovia’s actions were “separate from her employment” at the police union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Her private actions should not look negatively upon her employer or the police in any way. They did not participate or engage or assist her in this endeavor,” he said. “And so, therefore, I hope that the trust that the public has in the police in Santa Clara County remains high.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Lee then asked Segovia how she chose to plead to the count against her, to which Segovia responded with one word: “Guilty.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gasner has attempted to portray Segovia as someone struggling with a substance use disorder, not a kingpin or drug distributor, who became involved in a drug shipping network as a result of her vulnerability and addiction, saying she was taken advantage of by other bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under both the original and current charge, Segovia could face a maximum of 20 years in prison. 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The union fired her shortly after the allegations surfaced and said the organization was fully cooperating with federal investigators.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It also launched an internal investigation looking into possible changes within the organization to beef up oversight and accountability and root out issues like this sooner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union doesn’t plan to release the findings of that investigation until Segovia’s case is concluded, Tom Saggau, a union spokesperson, told KQED. 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The decision, which followed forfeits by Boise State University last week and Southern Utah University last month, came amid mounting pressure from Wyoming lawmakers, including \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/GovernorGordon/status/1841234858468917535\">Gov. Mark Gordon\u003c/a>, who wrote on social media platform X: “I am in full support of the decision by @wyoathletics to forego playing its volleyball match against San Jose State. 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A panel of appeals court judges on Sept. 10 agreed the case should be dismissed, saying it is too soon to challenge the fee portion of the law because it hasn’t been implemented yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No real threat of injury currently exists because the city has not set a precise collection date for the fee,” the panel of judges wrote in their decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More San José Coverage' tag='san-jose']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former San José Mayor Sam Liccardo, who championed the ordinance while in office, said the ruling is vindicating, and he hopes it will help strengthen the resolve of other local leaders looking to push back on the “epidemic” of gun violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got called or approached by more than a couple dozen mayors who all told me at one time or another, ‘We really want to do this, and my city attorney won’t let me until we find out that you get through the litigation first,’” Liccardo said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we hope that this will spur the grassroots activity in communities throughout the country, particularly in states like California, where we have communities that are more eager to see sensible gun regulation in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tim Bittle, chief counsel for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, said the appeals court ruling was “no surprise,” but he still maintains the fee portion of the law is wrong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It bothers me that it’s on the books, that it’s still enacted, but I guess…it’s like hibernating,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked if his group plans to revive litigation against the city once the fee portion of the law is put into place, Bittle said “yes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just going to monitor what the city does in the future,” he said. “We’re still very interested.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Prevost and Liccardo acknowledge that more legal challenges could lie ahead as enforcement of the ordinance progresses but feel confident those efforts would fail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pioneering efforts are hard, particularly when there are powerful groups on the other side,” Liccardo said. “And certainly, many state legislatures have introduced measures like this only to see them die on the vine under the pressure of the gun lobby. 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