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The entire altercation spanned just 40 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s grandmother, Addie Kitchen, asked the judge not to throw out the case on Friday, alleging that Jones Dickson violated her rights as the victim’s representative to timely notice that it would be dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said Jones Dickson told her, for the first time just before filing the motion on Tuesday, that the case was old and she didn’t believe it was winnable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let the jury make the decision,” Kitchen said. “If that was their decision that the officer wasn’t guilty, at least the people in Alameda would make that decision. 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"content": "\u003cp>Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson has moved to dismiss manslaughter charges against the former San Leandro Police Officer who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840071/mental-health-and-racial-justice-why-advocates-want-to-get-police-out-of-crisis-responses\">fatally shot a man in a Walmart store\u003c/a> nearly six years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family members of Steven Taylor, 33, who was shot and killed in 2020, have been waiting years for the trial of former officer Jason Fletcher, whose case has been handed back and forth between county and state prosecutors amid a revolving door of district attorneys in Alameda County in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s supporters said Jones-Dickson’s motion to drop manslaughter charges against Fletcher, 55, abandons “one of the only police accountability cases in Alameda County history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This decision is a slap in the face to Steven’s family, to the community, and to the fight for justice,” supporters wrote on social media on Wednesday. “We will not be silent while the DA shields killer cops from accountability.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On April 18, 2020, a Walmart security guard alerted police officers that Taylor, who had schizophrenia and bipolar depression, was allegedly attempting to leave without paying.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher, who was the first to arrive on the scene, moved toward Taylor, who was carrying an aluminum baseball bat. 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He said prosecutors under Price had shopped opinions from several police use-of-force experts who concluded Fletcher’s actions were not criminal, and failed to disclose those opinions to the defense.[aside postID=news_12064150 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/05/RS49486_005_Oakland_APTPGeorgeFloyd_05252021-qut-1-1020x679.jpg']During the hearing, Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates acknowledged misconduct in the office and, in an unusual move, appeared to refuse to oppose the motion, despite continued questioning from Reardon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that there has been outrageous prosecutorial misconduct,” Bates said during the hearing. “I don’t know if it rises to the level of dismissal. I think that’s for the court to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reardon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064150/judge-rejects-bid-to-toss-case-against-former-san-leandro-officer-jason-fletcher\">rejected the bid to drop charges\u003c/a>, but now, a month later, Jones-Dickson has filed a motion to dismiss the case altogether, saying her office cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Fletcher’s actions were criminal and out of line with lawful self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fletcher, in a confined space, was confronted by Taylor, who was armed, refused to comply with verbal commands, was tased twice without appreciable effect, and had verbally indicated an intention to force Fletcher to use physical force up to and including his firearm,” the motion reads. “Fletcher was left with no reasonable alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addie Kitchen, Taylor’s grandmother, said Jones Dickson told her Tuesday that the case was old and she didn’t believe it was winnable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let the jury make the decision,” Kitchen, who filed a letter asking a judge not to let the charges drop, said. “If that was their decision that the officer wasn’t guilty, at least the people in Alameda would make that decision. 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The District Attorney’s office dropped charges against eight jail staffers in connection with Monk’s death, and three staffers continue to face charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaks at a rally in front of the Rene C. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During the hearing, Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates acknowledged misconduct in the office and, in an unusual move, appeared to refuse to oppose the motion, despite continued questioning from Reardon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that there has been outrageous prosecutorial misconduct,” Bates said during the hearing. “I don’t know if it rises to the level of dismissal. I think that’s for the court to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reardon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064150/judge-rejects-bid-to-toss-case-against-former-san-leandro-officer-jason-fletcher\">rejected the bid to drop charges\u003c/a>, but now, a month later, Jones-Dickson has filed a motion to dismiss the case altogether, saying her office cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Fletcher’s actions were criminal and out of line with lawful self-defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fletcher, in a confined space, was confronted by Taylor, who was armed, refused to comply with verbal commands, was tased twice without appreciable effect, and had verbally indicated an intention to force Fletcher to use physical force up to and including his firearm,” the motion reads. “Fletcher was left with no reasonable alternative.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Addie Kitchen, Taylor’s grandmother, said Jones Dickson told her Tuesday that the case was old and she didn’t believe it was winnable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let the jury make the decision,” Kitchen, who filed a letter asking a judge not to let the charges drop, said. “If that was their decision that the officer wasn’t guilty, at least the people in Alameda would make that decision. Not the DA.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since taking office, Jones Dickson has undone many of Price’s more progressive reforms and dismissed charges against other law enforcement officers in multiple other high-profile cases, including the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12053158/alameda-da-drops-charges-against-8-involved-in-maurice-monk-case\">2021 deaths of Maurice Monk\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/da-drops-charges-against-2-alameda-county-sheriffs-deputies-over-santa-rita-jail-suicide\">Vinetta Martin\u003c/a>, who were both found dead in Santa Rita Jail cells in separate incidents. 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"content": "\u003cp>An Alameda County judge allowed a case against a former San Leandro police officer to proceed to trial on Friday after a dramatic hearing in which three former prosecutors invoked the Fifth Amendment and the current deputy district attorney acknowledged “outrageous prosecutorial misconduct” by his own office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judge Thomas Reardon denied a defense motion to dismiss charges against former San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher, 55, accused of killing Steven Taylor, 33, inside a Walmart in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher was the first officer to arrive at the store after a security guard reported that Taylor tried to leave without paying. Fletcher moved toward Taylor and tried to grab an aluminum baseball bat out of his hand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He first used his Taser, causing Taylor to stumble forward, and then shot him in the chest — all within 40 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-District Attorney Nancy O’Malley filed charges in 2020, one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849253/charges-have-been-filed-against-police-officers-in-the-bay-this-year-why-just-now\">first cases\u003c/a> charged under a change in California law that raised the legal threshold for justified police use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pamela Price succeeded O’Malley three years later, Fletcher’s lawyer, Mike Rains, filed a motion asking that the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036569/alameda-county-da-retakes-police-manslaughter-case-from-state-after-prices-recall\">be turned over to California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black woman in a suit jacket speaks at a podium, with a 'Alameda County District Attorney's Office banner behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks to reporters during a briefing in Oakland on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rains argued that Fletcher didn’t stand to have a fair trial under Price, who had worked as a progressive prosecutor before taking over the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motion was granted in March 2024, but the case returned to Alameda County this year when Reardon pointed out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">voters had recalled Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After current District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson inherited the case earlier this year, her office discovered that prosecutors under Price had sought opinions from several police use-of-force experts who concluded Fletcher’s actions were not criminal, according to court filings.[aside postID=news_12036569 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-08-KQED.jpg']Those opinions were not disclosed to the defense — a violation of the district attorney’s discovery obligations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284294-sfm24vprts01-cpy-2sw-01-0457-001/\">both sides now agree\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher’s defense filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284293-ppl-v-fletcher-20-cr-011755-defense-motion-to-dismiss-250829/\">voluminous motion to dismiss\u003c/a> in August, which was heard on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three former employees under Price invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the start of the hearing: Zachary Linowitz, who previously oversaw the case, as well as James Conger and Kwixuan Maloof, each of whom were formerly in charge of the district attorney’s unit that handles cases against public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand before you in a position where I’ve never stood before,” Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates told the judge, “bringing forth what appears to be misconduct of others in my office. I’ve never been in a court where colleagues of mine asserted their right against self-incrimination. But that happened not just once, but three times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to one of the suppressed expert opinions, Bates said, “Your honor, I believe they received information they didn’t want to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know where you get that,” Reardon said, repeatedly indicating that he was unconvinced that former prosecutors had committed any so-called Brady violations for failing to disclose evidence to the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaks at a rally in front of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reardon grilled Bates on whether the district attorney’s office agreed with the defense on any of three reasons to dismiss the case: due process violations, gross governmental misconduct or “in the interests of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that there has been outrageous prosecutorial misconduct,” Bates said. “I don’t know if it rises to the level of dismissal. I think that’s for the court to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge became more terse when Bates declined to state a clearer position. “You won’t answer the court’s question, so I think I’m done with you,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s mother and grandmother said after the hearing that they were grateful for the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge did the DA’s job,” Taylor’s grandmother, Addie Kitchen, said. “The judge had to step up and do his damn job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reardon ultimately found there had been no Brady violation and ruled that any misconduct did not warrant dismissing the case. 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Quinto died last December after his family says Antioch Police kneeled on his neck. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want 12 citizens of the county to opine,” he said. “They may just have a difficult case, and they may just have to try it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s family and civil rights groups, including the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, accused the District Attorney’s Office of “not seeking justice for Steven Taylor but … instead protecting the officer who killed him” in the days leading up to the hearing. Kitchen also wrote a letter to the court, urging the judge to reject the motion to dismiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no confidence in Mr. Bates,” Kitchen said. “I’m glad that the judge felt the need to present the case to a jury. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He first used his Taser, causing Taylor to stumble forward, and then shot him in the chest — all within 40 seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-District Attorney Nancy O’Malley filed charges in 2020, one of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849253/charges-have-been-filed-against-police-officers-in-the-bay-this-year-why-just-now\">first cases\u003c/a> charged under a change in California law that raised the legal threshold for justified police use of deadly force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Pamela Price succeeded O’Malley three years later, Fletcher’s lawyer, Mike Rains, filed a motion asking that the case \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12036569/alameda-county-da-retakes-police-manslaughter-case-from-state-after-prices-recall\">be turned over to California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black woman in a suit jacket speaks at a podium, with a 'Alameda County District Attorney's Office banner behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks to reporters during a briefing in Oakland on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rains argued that Fletcher didn’t stand to have a fair trial under Price, who had worked as a progressive prosecutor before taking over the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The motion was granted in March 2024, but the case returned to Alameda County this year when Reardon pointed out that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">voters had recalled Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After current District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson inherited the case earlier this year, her office discovered that prosecutors under Price had sought opinions from several police use-of-force experts who concluded Fletcher’s actions were not criminal, according to court filings.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those opinions were not disclosed to the defense — a violation of the district attorney’s discovery obligations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284294-sfm24vprts01-cpy-2sw-01-0457-001/\">both sides now agree\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fletcher’s defense filed a \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284293-ppl-v-fletcher-20-cr-011755-defense-motion-to-dismiss-250829/\">voluminous motion to dismiss\u003c/a> in August, which was heard on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Three former employees under Price invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination at the start of the hearing: Zachary Linowitz, who previously oversaw the case, as well as James Conger and Kwixuan Maloof, each of whom were formerly in charge of the district attorney’s unit that handles cases against public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I stand before you in a position where I’ve never stood before,” Deputy District Attorney Casey Bates told the judge, “bringing forth what appears to be misconduct of others in my office. I’ve never been in a court where colleagues of mine asserted their right against self-incrimination. But that happened not just once, but three times.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Referring to one of the suppressed expert opinions, Bates said, “Your honor, I believe they received information they didn’t want to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know where you get that,” Reardon said, repeatedly indicating that he was unconvinced that former prosecutors had committed any so-called Brady violations for failing to disclose evidence to the defense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055753\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055753\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250912-JASON-FLETCHER-HEARING-MD-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cat Brooks speaks at a rally in front of the Rene C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Sept. 12, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Reardon grilled Bates on whether the district attorney’s office agreed with the defense on any of three reasons to dismiss the case: due process violations, gross governmental misconduct or “in the interests of justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I agree that there has been outrageous prosecutorial misconduct,” Bates said. “I don’t know if it rises to the level of dismissal. I think that’s for the court to decide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge became more terse when Bates declined to state a clearer position. “You won’t answer the court’s question, so I think I’m done with you,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s mother and grandmother said after the hearing that they were grateful for the judge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The judge did the DA’s job,” Taylor’s grandmother, Addie Kitchen, said. “The judge had to step up and do his damn job.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reardon ultimately found there had been no Brady violation and ruled that any misconduct did not warrant dismissing the case. He also declined to use his discretion to end the prosecution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12036575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12036575\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/059_Antioch_AngeloQuintoMemorial_03102021_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Addie Kitchen, Grandmother of Steven Taylor, speaks during a candlelight vigil in remembrance of Angelo Quinto at Antioch City Park on March 10, 2021. Quinto died last December after his family says Antioch Police kneeled on his neck. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want 12 citizens of the county to opine,” he said. “They may just have a difficult case, and they may just have to try it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor’s family and civil rights groups, including the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, accused the District Attorney’s Office of “not seeking justice for Steven Taylor but … instead protecting the officer who killed him” in the days leading up to the hearing. Kitchen also wrote a letter to the court, urging the judge to reject the motion to dismiss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have no confidence in Mr. Bates,” Kitchen said. “I’m glad that the judge felt the need to present the case to a jury. 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"content": "\u003cp>Federal prosecutors have charged \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-leandro\">San Leandro\u003c/a> City Councilmember Bryan Azevedo, alleging he agreed to use his power as an elected official to benefit a company in exchange for his own personal financial gain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a document filed in federal court on Tuesday, Azevedo is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit honest services wire fraud and one count of making false statements to a government agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges come after months of speculation about the extent of Azevedo’s connection to an ongoing FBI corruption investigation that saw the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12022612/ex-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao-3-others-charged-with-bribery-sprawling-corruption-probe\">indictment of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, her partner Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong in January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. attorneys allege in the filing that Azevedo and two unnamed individuals conspired to obtain a contract from the city of San Leandro for a housing company in exchange for cash and kickback payments to Azevedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also accuse Azevedo of creating an LLC in his wife’s name and opening a bank account for the purpose of receiving illegal payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a meeting with reporters Tuesday afternoon, San Leandro Mayor Juan Gonzalez said he had not yet spoken with Azevedo and that, as of now, he is not requesting that the council member step down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If he pleads guilty to a felony, the (San Leandro City) Charter makes clear how we proceed. Namely, he may not be a felon and be a member of the city council,” Gonzalez said. “But if he were to plead to something else that did not rise to the level of felony, then we will cross that bridge when we get there. And of course he might be exonerated by a jury of his peers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez declined to comment on whether he had been interviewed by the FBI, saying only that the city of San Leandro cooperates with all investigations. He also referred to the situation as a “private matter” between Azevedo and the U.S. Department of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054535\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054535\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-8-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-8-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-8-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-8-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, San Leandro City Council members Fred Simon (District 4), Victor Aguilar (District 3) and Bryan Azevedo (District 2) listen as residents voice concerns during public comment about a federal investigation into Azevedo and recent lawsuits involving city leadership, at a council meeting on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the filing, Azevedo attended a 2023 trip to Vietnam sponsored by a business association. Upon returning from the trip, prosecutors allege, Azevedo agreed to use his power as a San Leandro city council member to help obtain a contract for an Oakland-based housing company that aimed to manufacture modular homes made from shipping containers. In exchange, Azevedo would receive a percentage of the sales from units the city purchased, the filing alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo has acknowledged his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended. The trip was sponsored by the Vietnamese American Business Association, led by David Duong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The housing company described in the court filing is not explicitly named.[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg'] A \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12052003/san-leandro-lawsuit-documents-shed-light-on-company-at-center-of-oakland-fbi-probe\">lawsuit filed by former San Leandro City Manager\u003c/a> Francis Robustelli in June alleges Azevedo and fellow San Leandro City Councilmember Victor Aguilar invited her to the Oakland showroom of Evolutionary Homes in 2023. The visit was part of an effort by members of the Duong family, which owned the company, to lobby San Francisco Bay Area politicians to promote the establishment of tiny home developments in the area, Robustelli alleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli’s lawsuit claims a representative of Evolutionary Homes pitched an emergency homelessness ordinance to San Leandro officials that would allow the city to more quickly purchase homes like the ones the company aimed to sell. It was never enacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the document filed Tuesday, during the fall of 2023 and spring of 2024, Azevedo advocated for an emergency shelter ordinance that would benefit the unnamed housing company, advocated for the city to purchase units from the company and took San Leandro city officials to tour the company’s model units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, prosecutors allege, one of the unnamed co-conspirators gave Azevedo $2,000 in cash at a dinner in Alameda in exchange for using his position as an elected official to benefit the housing company. Several days later, he allegedly deposited the money into the recently opened bank account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054537\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-13-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-13-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-13-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250902_SANLEANDROCITYHALL_GH-13-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Leandro City Hall, pictured on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>San Leandro City Councilmember Victor Aguilar, reached by phone on Tuesday, declined to comment on the charges against Azevedo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In January, FBI agents raided Azevedo’s San Leandro home, two days before Thao, Jones, and Andy and David Duong were charged with conspiracy, bribery and fraud.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In May, officials with the U.S. Attorney’s Office notified Azevedo via a target letter that he, too, was the subject of a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The document filed Tuesday alleges federal investigators in January asked Azevedo whether he had received cash payments from one of the co-conspirators in November 2023 and that Azevedo responded that he had not. 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Taylor’s family has been advocating for the case to be prosecuted in the county where he lived since a judge turned it over to the state attorney general’s office last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just so thankful that we’ll be here in Alameda County,” Taylor’s grandmother, Addie Kitchen, said after the hearing. “Steven was raised here in Alameda County. He went to school in Alameda County. His friends are in Alameda County. He died in Alameda County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to prosecutors, Taylor, who had schizophrenia and bipolar depression, was holding an aluminum bat and allegedly trying to shoplift. 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He argued that Fletcher didn’t stand to have a fair trial under Price, who had worked as a progressive prosecutor before taking over the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon rejected that motion, and a dueling motion from Price to bar Rains months later, but a second motion from Rains asking to remove Price was granted in March 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains’ second motion alleged that Price had shown bias on multiple occasions, including on one instance when she posed for a photo in courthouse halls with people wearing “Justice for Steven Taylor” shirts, the same day that she filed a recusal motion against Rains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, though, Reardon turned the case back over to Alameda County against Rains’ wishes. He said that given Price’s recall and the appointment of new District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson, the recusal was no longer relevant, and Rains would need to make a new argument for Jones Dickson’s recusal if he saw fit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rains told the court that while he would prefer the case stay with the attorney general’s office, he didn’t have a factual or legal basis to request Jones Dickson’s recusal.[aside postID=news_11840071 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/RS43756_035_KQED_Oakland_Juneteenth_06192020-qut-1020x679.jpg']While the case is back under Alameda County’s jurisdiction for now, Fletcher’s attorneys are still arguing to have the entire case thrown out over behavior by Price’s former deputy district attorney, Zachary Linowitz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the motion filed last month, Rains alleged that Linowitz suppressed the statements of three use-of-force experts who were favorable to Fletcher. 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The company was converting shipping containers into housing for homeless people and attempting to sell them to local governments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-leandro\">San Leandro\u003c/a>’s city manager at the time, had been invited by two San Leandro city council members, Victor Aguilar and Bryan Azevedo, according to a lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit alleges the visit was part of an effort by members of the Duong family, who owned Evolutionary Homes, to lobby San Francisco Bay Area politicians to promote the establishment of tiny home developments in Bay Area cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli told Aguilar and Azevedo that the city had neither the funding nor the land for a tiny homes project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, the lawsuit claims, pitched an ordinance that would allow the city to more quickly purchase homes like the ones the company aimed to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli filed the lawsuit in Alameda County in June, alleging that when she opposed the proposal, Azevedo and Aguilar voiced their unhappiness. Together with another council member, they would harass and intimidate her that year and the following, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has denied the allegations and, on July 28, filed a motion to have the complaint in the case thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro on Sept. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The City will respond through the appropriate legal channels,” San Leandro Mayor Juan González said in a statement to KQED. “While we cannot comment on the specifics of pending litigation, I want to reaffirm our commitment to transparency, accountability, and the continued service to our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli declined to comment, citing the advice of her attorney. Aguilar also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo was seen at the federal building in Oakland Thursday morning, where he said he was meeting with an attorney. But he declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, her partner, Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong were indicted on bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges, questions have circulated around whether the FBI’s corruption probe extends to Azevedo, whose home was raided by federal agents in January.[aside postID=news_12022900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']Those questions only intensified after federal prosecutors notified the council member in May that he is the target of a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the contents of Robustelli’s lawsuit, together with documents released by San Leandro in response to a federal grand jury subpoena, give clues as to what the FBI may have been looking for when they raided Azevedo’s home and shed light on where the ongoing investigation could be headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Jan. 9 indictment charging Thao and the other three defendants describes an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving a housing company that is widely believed to be Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges Thao promised Oakland would purchase housing units from the company, along with other favors, in exchange for payments to Jones and negative mailers targeting her opponents in the 2022 mayoral election. All four defendants have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after FBI agents raided Thao’s home in June 2024, Azevedo defended himself from “rumors” tying him to the scandal in a \u003ca href=\"https://0201.nccdn.net/1_2/000/000/0de/bc3/june-27--2024.pdf\">letter to the editor\u003c/a> of the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to set the record straight. I don’t know anything about this alleged corruption nor do I believe that we should assume that corruption has happened until the facts come out,” Azevedo wrote, adding that he had received and reported a $2,000 campaign contribution from Andy Duong in support of his unsuccessful 2022 mayoral run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors in May notified Azevedo that he was the target of a federal investigation regarding criminal violations of federal laws, including conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and false statements in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are interested in resolving this matter short of an indictment, please have your attorney contact the undersigned,” U.S. attorneys told Azevedo in a May 12 letter. “If no contact is made with our office prior to May 30, 2025, the matter will proceed in the ordinary course of prosecution.”[aside postID=news_11993390 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GettyImages-2157862759-KQED-1020x680.jpg']To date, Azevedo has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robustelli’s lawsuit, in October 2023, while she was out sick with COVID-19, Aguilar moved to place an urgent item on the council’s agenda to discuss the potential of obtaining an emergency homelessness declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft emergency declaration, the lawsuit alleges, sought to expand the powers of the city manager and staff to bypass the city’s normally required purchasing procedures and more quickly procure tiny homes from the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges Robustelli told Aguilar and other supporters of the declaration that it was neither needed nor financially feasible for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In her role as City Manager, Ms. Robustelli was well informed of the homelessness issues in San Leandro at the time, and there simply was no state of emergency as to homelessness in San Leandro,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had also obtained funding through the state’s Project Homekey program to renovate a motel into permanent low-rent housing and establish a navigation center, according to the lawsuit, which would provide housing to the city’s homeless population. Aguilar and Azevedo were presumably aware of the funding, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Robustelli later learned, in or around 2024, that Councilmembers Azevedo and Aguilar were being pressured by the Evolutionary Homes vendor,” the lawsuit said. “Representatives for Evolutionary Homes not only pitched the proposed ordinance that would accelerate the City’s ability to purchase and install the container homes, but also wrote the proposed ordinance for City officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro city records released in response to a Jan. 14 federal grand jury subpoena included emails from 2023 between an Evolutionary Homes representative and city staff about an ordinance like the one described in Robustelli’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you so much for chatting with me today,” Julie Wedge, a consultant working with the company, wrote to deputy city manager Eric Engelbart on Sept. 19. “Attached please find the San Leandro presentation, the Evolutionary Homes flyer, and the draft language for the ordinance based on what passed today in Alameda County and what we hope will pass in Oakland later today as well.”[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005-1020x680.jpg']“Please let me know when we can bring you and any other appropriate staff and Councilmembers to our showroom to see the two model units,” Wedge said. “Looking forward to meeting you in person and please reach out with any questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attached to the email was a template for an emergency ordinance with fill-in-the-blank spaces for statistics on homelessness. Slides showing the interiors of shipping containers converted into apartments were also included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11 phone interview, Wedge said her work with Evolutionary Homes, which is no longer in business, was unpaid. She said the company reached out to multiple California cities and counties, in addition to the California National Guard, to see if they would be interested in the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was nothing illegal or improper about the proposed ordinance, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why everybody seems to think that trying to do an emergency shelter ordinance was some shady deal or some problem or issue. It’s actually good public policy,” Wedge said. “Everything around the shelter ordinance was a public process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show other city employees were hesitant to approve the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inclined to hold on passing a local emergency declaration until directed by the County to do so,” Human Services Director Jessica Lobedan responded to Engelbart and San Leandro’s Community Development Director Thomas Liao on Sept. 25. “My understanding of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961820/alameda-county-declares-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness-what-does-that-mean\">County’s declaration\u003c/a> was that it directs County staff to develop an emergency response plan. Until knowing more, it might be premature to do anything locally,” she wrote. Liao agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro, on Sept. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Liao said he didn’t think the way the ordinance was brought forward by Evolutionary Homes seemed appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t farm out the drafting of ordinances, typically. We would want to have some touch on that as staff,” he said. “We don’t take things wholesale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ultimately recommended that the city not move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to give you a heads up that some significant changes had to be made to the resolution that you provided to us because the content was not applicable to the City,” Robustelli wrote to Aguilar on Oct. 26. “Staff does not recommend moving forward with this resolution. I did not want you to be surprised about the content of my message for the 11/6 council meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 17, 2024, the city council voted to take no action on the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli eventually left the job, the lawsuit alleges, citing life-threatening health issues.[aside postID=news_12051947 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/GettyImages-1246387515-1020x680.jpg']In addition to the allegations surrounding Evolutionary Homes, Robustelli’s lawsuit claims Aguilar and San Leandro city council member Fred Simon repeatedly interfered with her duties as city manager and threatened her when she protested or refused to do their bidding. More often than not, they were assisted by Azevedo, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions, the lawsuit alleges, were in retaliation for her refusal to condone unethical behavior or support individual demands she viewed as unethical, improper or unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli alleges Simon submitted for reimbursement for mileage to and from his home and city hall and for non-city travel. Despite having medical benefits from his public employer and one other public agency, Simon also made a claim for medical reimbursement with the city for not electing medical coverage, the lawsuit alleges, enabling him to collect health benefits from three separate public entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Simon and Aguilar made increasingly obscure and demanding requests to Robustelli to force her to resign, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/DocumentCenter/View/11474/Former-CM-Complaint-Inv---1172024-Press-Release-?bidId=\">officially censured\u003c/a> council members Simon and Aguilar for interfering with Robustelli’s duties in violation of the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pauline Cutter, who was San Leandro’s mayor from 2015 to 2022, recalled Robustelli being frequently upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents are seen at 80 Maiden Lane in Oakland on June 20, 2024, carrying multiple boxes from a residence. After loading the boxes into their vehicles, the agents departed without commenting to reporters, only confirming that they had cleared the scene and no agents remained. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was pressure against Fran to do kind of the bidding of the three council members. And a city manager can’t do that. They can’t take sides,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, FBI agents raided Thao’s home and several other properties associated with the Duongs, including the Oakland offices of the recycling company, California Waste Solutions, which is owned by the Duongs and has contracts with the cities of Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> that month, Azevedo denied that he said California Waste Solutions should be awarded a city contract with San Leandro and defended his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedge said she didn’t know Evolutionary Homes was falling apart until FBI agents showed up on her doorstep the same day as the raids in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that I was going to be a witness,” Wedge said. “They thought I knew. They thought I was in those meetings,” she said, referring to meetings described in the indictment that allegedly took place between Thao, Jones and the Duongs about a pay-to-play scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not in those meetings. I didn’t know any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around seven months later, agents raided Azevedo’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails from that week, reviewed by KQED, show San Leandro city officials scrambling to nail down whether the city had ever done business with the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you please research the following business to see if the City has conducted business with them?” a city spokesperson wrote to the acting finance manager, adding: “Evolutionary Homes, LLC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of payments to the city, business licenses and financial records turned up nothing, according to the emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/bryan-azevedo-department-justice-targets-san-leandro-city-council-member-sheng-thao-corruption-investigation/16649211/\">interview\u003c/a> that was broadcast in June, Azevedo told ABC 7 that he had counted the days between when the FBI raided Thao’s home and when she was indicted. He said he was waiting to see if he would be arrested, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shouldn’t have as much stuff on me,” Azevedo said. “Because I didn’t do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether there was an arrangement between him and the Duongs, Azevedo said, “I don’t remember nothing, no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later added, “I don’t want to comment on that because no, there was no arrangement on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company, the lawsuit claims, pitched an ordinance that would allow the city to more quickly purchase homes like the ones the company aimed to sell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli filed the lawsuit in Alameda County in June, alleging that when she opposed the proposal, Azevedo and Aguilar voiced their unhappiness. Together with another council member, they would harass and intimidate her that year and the following, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has denied the allegations and, on July 28, filed a motion to have the complaint in the case thrown out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052137\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052137\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/SanLeandroGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro on Sept. 13, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The City will respond through the appropriate legal channels,” San Leandro Mayor Juan González said in a statement to KQED. “While we cannot comment on the specifics of pending litigation, I want to reaffirm our commitment to transparency, accountability, and the continued service to our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli declined to comment, citing the advice of her attorney. Aguilar also declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Azevedo was seen at the federal building in Oakland Thursday morning, where he said he was meeting with an attorney. But he declined to comment further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the months since former \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11991242/fbi-agents-raid-home-of-oakland-mayor-sheng-thao\">Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a>, her partner, Andre Jones, and David and Andy Duong were indicted on bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges, questions have circulated around whether the FBI’s corruption probe extends to Azevedo, whose home was raided by federal agents in January.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Those questions only intensified after federal prosecutors notified the council member in May that he is the target of a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the contents of Robustelli’s lawsuit, together with documents released by San Leandro in response to a federal grand jury subpoena, give clues as to what the FBI may have been looking for when they raided Azevedo’s home and shed light on where the ongoing investigation could be headed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A Jan. 9 indictment charging Thao and the other three defendants describes an alleged pay-to-play scheme involving a housing company that is widely believed to be Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The indictment alleges Thao promised Oakland would purchase housing units from the company, along with other favors, in exchange for payments to Jones and negative mailers targeting her opponents in the 2022 mayoral election. All four defendants have pleaded not guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week after FBI agents raided Thao’s home in June 2024, Azevedo defended himself from “rumors” tying him to the scandal in a \u003ca href=\"https://0201.nccdn.net/1_2/000/000/0de/bc3/june-27--2024.pdf\">letter to the editor\u003c/a> of the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12022840\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12022840\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00009-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andre Jones, longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I want to set the record straight. I don’t know anything about this alleged corruption nor do I believe that we should assume that corruption has happened until the facts come out,” Azevedo wrote, adding that he had received and reported a $2,000 campaign contribution from Andy Duong in support of his unsuccessful 2022 mayoral run.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Federal prosecutors in May notified Azevedo that he was the target of a federal investigation regarding criminal violations of federal laws, including conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds and false statements in a federal investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are interested in resolving this matter short of an indictment, please have your attorney contact the undersigned,” U.S. attorneys told Azevedo in a May 12 letter. “If no contact is made with our office prior to May 30, 2025, the matter will proceed in the ordinary course of prosecution.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>To date, Azevedo has not been charged with a crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Robustelli’s lawsuit, in October 2023, while she was out sick with COVID-19, Aguilar moved to place an urgent item on the council’s agenda to discuss the potential of obtaining an emergency homelessness declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The draft emergency declaration, the lawsuit alleges, sought to expand the powers of the city manager and staff to bypass the city’s normally required purchasing procedures and more quickly procure tiny homes from the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The suit alleges Robustelli told Aguilar and other supporters of the declaration that it was neither needed nor financially feasible for the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In her role as City Manager, Ms. Robustelli was well informed of the homelessness issues in San Leandro at the time, and there simply was no state of emergency as to homelessness in San Leandro,” the complaint reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city had also obtained funding through the state’s Project Homekey program to renovate a motel into permanent low-rent housing and establish a navigation center, according to the lawsuit, which would provide housing to the city’s homeless population. Aguilar and Azevedo were presumably aware of the funding, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991432\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991432\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/GETTYIMAGES-2158502017-KQED-1920x1281.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. postal inspectors check documents at a home tied to David Duong, one of the multiple properties searched by law enforcement that included residences to members of a politically connected family who run the city’s contracted recycling company, California Waste Solutions, in Oakland on June 20, 2024. \u003ccite>(Ray Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Ms. Robustelli later learned, in or around 2024, that Councilmembers Azevedo and Aguilar were being pressured by the Evolutionary Homes vendor,” the lawsuit said. “Representatives for Evolutionary Homes not only pitched the proposed ordinance that would accelerate the City’s ability to purchase and install the container homes, but also wrote the proposed ordinance for City officials.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Leandro city records released in response to a Jan. 14 federal grand jury subpoena included emails from 2023 between an Evolutionary Homes representative and city staff about an ordinance like the one described in Robustelli’s lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thank you so much for chatting with me today,” Julie Wedge, a consultant working with the company, wrote to deputy city manager Eric Engelbart on Sept. 19. “Attached please find the San Leandro presentation, the Evolutionary Homes flyer, and the draft language for the ordinance based on what passed today in Alameda County and what we hope will pass in Oakland later today as well.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Please let me know when we can bring you and any other appropriate staff and Councilmembers to our showroom to see the two model units,” Wedge said. “Looking forward to meeting you in person and please reach out with any questions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attached to the email was a template for an emergency ordinance with fill-in-the-blank spaces for statistics on homelessness. Slides showing the interiors of shipping containers converted into apartments were also included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an Aug. 11 phone interview, Wedge said her work with Evolutionary Homes, which is no longer in business, was unpaid. She said the company reached out to multiple California cities and counties, in addition to the California National Guard, to see if they would be interested in the homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was nothing illegal or improper about the proposed ordinance, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why everybody seems to think that trying to do an emergency shelter ordinance was some shady deal or some problem or issue. It’s actually good public policy,” Wedge said. “Everything around the shelter ordinance was a public process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails show other city employees were hesitant to approve the ordinance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m inclined to hold on passing a local emergency declaration until directed by the County to do so,” Human Services Director Jessica Lobedan responded to Engelbart and San Leandro’s Community Development Director Thomas Liao on Sept. 25. “My understanding of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11961820/alameda-county-declares-state-of-emergency-on-homelessness-what-does-that-mean\">County’s declaration\u003c/a> was that it directs County staff to develop an emergency response plan. Until knowing more, it might be premature to do anything locally,” she wrote. Liao agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12052150\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12052150\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/DowntownSanLeandroGetty-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Downtown San Leandro, on Sept. 16, 2022. \u003ccite>(Matt Gush/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In an interview, Liao said he didn’t think the way the ordinance was brought forward by Evolutionary Homes seemed appropriate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t farm out the drafting of ordinances, typically. We would want to have some touch on that as staff,” he said. “We don’t take things wholesale.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff ultimately recommended that the city not move forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wanted to give you a heads up that some significant changes had to be made to the resolution that you provided to us because the content was not applicable to the City,” Robustelli wrote to Aguilar on Oct. 26. “Staff does not recommend moving forward with this resolution. I did not want you to be surprised about the content of my message for the 11/6 council meeting.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On June 17, 2024, the city council voted to take no action on the declaration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli eventually left the job, the lawsuit alleges, citing life-threatening health issues.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In addition to the allegations surrounding Evolutionary Homes, Robustelli’s lawsuit claims Aguilar and San Leandro city council member Fred Simon repeatedly interfered with her duties as city manager and threatened her when she protested or refused to do their bidding. More often than not, they were assisted by Azevedo, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their actions, the lawsuit alleges, were in retaliation for her refusal to condone unethical behavior or support individual demands she viewed as unethical, improper or unlawful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robustelli alleges Simon submitted for reimbursement for mileage to and from his home and city hall and for non-city travel. Despite having medical benefits from his public employer and one other public agency, Simon also made a claim for medical reimbursement with the city for not electing medical coverage, the lawsuit alleges, enabling him to collect health benefits from three separate public entities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Simon and Aguilar made increasingly obscure and demanding requests to Robustelli to force her to resign, the lawsuit said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.sanleandro.org/DocumentCenter/View/11474/Former-CM-Complaint-Inv---1172024-Press-Release-?bidId=\">officially censured\u003c/a> council members Simon and Aguilar for interfering with Robustelli’s duties in violation of the city charter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon did not respond to KQED’s requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pauline Cutter, who was San Leandro’s mayor from 2015 to 2022, recalled Robustelli being frequently upset.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11991244\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11991244\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/OaklandMayorRaid01-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">FBI agents are seen at 80 Maiden Lane in Oakland on June 20, 2024, carrying multiple boxes from a residence. After loading the boxes into their vehicles, the agents departed without commenting to reporters, only confirming that they had cleared the scene and no agents remained. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was pressure against Fran to do kind of the bidding of the three council members. And a city manager can’t do that. They can’t take sides,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2024, FBI agents raided Thao’s home and several other properties associated with the Duongs, including the Oakland offices of the recycling company, California Waste Solutions, which is owned by the Duongs and has contracts with the cities of Oakland and San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his letter to the \u003cem>San Leandro Times\u003c/em> that month, Azevedo denied that he said California Waste Solutions should be awarded a city contract with San Leandro and defended his participation in a 2023 Vietnam trip that Thao and other East Bay officials also attended.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wedge said she didn’t know Evolutionary Homes was falling apart until FBI agents showed up on her doorstep the same day as the raids in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They thought that I was going to be a witness,” Wedge said. “They thought I knew. They thought I was in those meetings,” she said, referring to meetings described in the indictment that allegedly took place between Thao, Jones and the Duongs about a pay-to-play scheme.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not in those meetings. I didn’t know any of that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around seven months later, agents raided Azevedo’s home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emails from that week, reviewed by KQED, show San Leandro city officials scrambling to nail down whether the city had ever done business with the Duongs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Can you please research the following business to see if the City has conducted business with them?” a city spokesperson wrote to the acting finance manager, adding: “Evolutionary Homes, LLC.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A review of payments to the city, business licenses and financial records turned up nothing, according to the emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/bryan-azevedo-department-justice-targets-san-leandro-city-council-member-sheng-thao-corruption-investigation/16649211/\">interview\u003c/a> that was broadcast in June, Azevedo told ABC 7 that he had counted the days between when the FBI raided Thao’s home and when she was indicted. He said he was waiting to see if he would be arrested, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shouldn’t have as much stuff on me,” Azevedo said. “Because I didn’t do nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Asked whether there was an arrangement between him and the Duongs, Azevedo said, “I don’t remember nothing, no.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later added, “I don’t want to comment on that because no, there was no arrangement on that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a fire station in the East Bay, on Meekland Avenue, with a mosaic depicting big homes in a pastoral landscape. It evokes a time long ago when this area, the stretch of the East Bay flats sandwiched between San Leandro and Hayward, was known for its orchards. \u003ca href=\"https://cargocollective.com/davidburke/Public-Projects-by-Hungry-Ghost-Studio\">A local artist named David Burke created the mosaic\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the artist’s friend, Sam Hopkins, learned about the project at the Cherryland Fire Station, he remembered slogging through traffic on the 238 connector between I-580 and I-880 and seeing somewhat mystifying signs that said “entering Cherryland” and “entering Ashland.” He thought to himself, “Where’s Cherryland?” When Hopkins finally stopped by to see his friend’s work at \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/ecd/projects/cherryland_fire_station.htm\">the single-engine fire station\u003c/a>, he noticed something. “It says Alameda County Fire Department,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he looked it up, he realized that sprinkled throughout the densely residential East Bay flats are several unincorporated areas, two of which are called Ashland and Cherryland. Hopkins hadn’t even realized they were there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wondered: “What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an ‘unincorporated’ community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places wedged between San Leandro and Hayward are urban now and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities, but also come with consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation, housing protections and a sense of community identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcome to unincorporated Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land. That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works. And, they often pay lower property taxes because of this setup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County depend on the county for those things, which often confuses new residents to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Barros, a longtime San Lorenzo resident and community advocate, walks through a neighborhood in the unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department,” said Keith Barros, a longtime resident of Ashland, giving an example of a mixup. “[But if] you call the San Leandro Police Department, it’s like, ‘I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents who live in cities like Oakland or Hayward don’t have this problem because police and fire are among the many services provided by their city governments, funded by local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big issue Barros, a former UPS driver, has been fighting for is formal recognition of their community identity on legal mail. Until recently, unincorporated residents had to list the nearest city as their official addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, Ashland residents would list their addresses with San Leandro, even though they aren’t part of the city. Earlier this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/addresschange.htm\">county successfully petitioned the U.S. Postal Service\u003c/a> to allow it to list the community, like Cherryland or Ashland, as its official address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ashland Youth Center in an unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there have been other wins as well. Barros advocated for building the \u003ca href=\"https://reachashland.org/\">REACH Ashland Youth Center\u003c/a> on a once-blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go,” Barros said. “It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no hyperlocal government to reach out to for help. Instead, residents like Barros have to go to the county board of supervisors, where they’ve had limited success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, there’s more of a transient population that lives here,” Barros said. “A lot of renters, they’ve been kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barros said even though Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have bigger, countywide issues on their plates. Unincorporated residents said it has been hard to get them to pay attention to their local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t like injustice,” Barros said. “I don’t like it when things are not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barros spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. In 2020, they formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/edenareavision/documents/EALICommunityProfile.pdf\">Eden Area\u003c/a> is the collective term for a 25-square-mile section of unincorporated area that includes Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, Fairview, and San Lorenzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their voices are being heard, and they’re there,” Barros said. “Their opinions are making their way up to where they need to, at the [County] Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Organizing to protect tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power,” said Claudia Albano, deputy chief of staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas. “The only people who had community power were the landlords, the real estate industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home under construction in Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been Albano’s job over the past eight years to bring different community groups together and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass. They are more vulnerable to eviction in a power imbalance favoring landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been terrible,” said Elena Torres, a low-income renter in the area. “Like in my case, I have a two-year battle with my landlord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.[aside postID=news_12044710 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/P1000647_qed.jpg']“They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking [for it] to be fixed, you are out,” Torres said. “Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience prompted Torres to get involved with a social justice group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.myedenvoice.org/\">My Eden Voice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/In-the-Shadows-of-Eden-Report.pdf\">issued a report\u003c/a> that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction, all while having no clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go and make a complaint that he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything because it’s his property,” Torres said. “So you have to go to the actual court and go through the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite winning in court, Torres said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having and they didn’t do anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres, evicted from her previous home in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, holds a drawing her daughter made during their housing struggle at their new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row,” she said. “The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Torres and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year, she and her daughter moved in with a friend — who was also facing eviction — while her husband lived in their only car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres kept reaching out to the county for help, but she was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres stands outside her new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025, after being displaced from her previous home in an unincorporated area — a change that led her to get involved with My Eden Voice, where she now advocates for housing justice. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones dealing with landlords,” she said. “They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of discussion, \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/eden-area-renters-win-key-vote-in-years-long-battle-for-tenants-rights/#:~:text=For%20single%20mother%20Zuleny%20Pais,Board%20can%20protect%20our%20families.%E2%80%9D\">Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections\u003c/a> in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Renting in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. After six months living separately in makeshift accommodations, Torres recently found her family a new place to live together under one roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> On the east side of the bay, towns fan out across the flatlands, sandwiched between the East Bay hills and the water. Oakland is the biggest, of course, but drive south from there and you’re soon in San Leandro, Hayward, Union City and Fremont. But there are some far less well-known communities hidden in that same stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachel Osajima: \u003c/strong>Thank you for being here for the Ashland-Cherryland community identifier ribbon cutting ceremony. \u003cem>(sounds of crowd cheering)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland are two unincorporated communities wedged between San Leandro and Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bill Ouirk: \u003c/strong>They want to be recognized as communities. As Ashland, as Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The thing is, it’s really easy to miss these places. That’s why \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_6_29_16/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Identifier_Mural_Draft_report_6_29_16.pdf\">the county commissioned a muralist \u003c/a>to paint an overpass on East 14th Street. One side reads Ashland and the other Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barisha Spriggs: \u003c/strong>We’re very proud of this accomplishment. That this will be a lasting memento to all of our unincorporated communities for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious listener, Sam Hopkins, was one of the many people who hadn’t thought much…if ever… about these places until recently. His friend was asked to work on a mosaic at a fire station in Cherryland. When Sam heard that, he thought to himself: Where’s Cherryland? And when he saw on the map that both Ashland and Cherryland are smack in the middle of the East Bay, he got curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/strong>What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an “unincorporated” community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places are definitely urban now, and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities. Today on the show, we’ll explain what it means for an area to be “unincorporated.” It turns out living in one of these communities has big consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation and housing protections. I’m Katrina Schwartz, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is the second most populous county in the Bay Area…after Santa Clara. Oakland is the biggest city, but the county stretches all the way out to Livermore in the East and Fremont in the South. It’s a big swath of land, and about half of it is “unincorporated,” including two areas known as Cherryland and Ashland. KQED reporter Brian Krans set out to discover more about the day-to-day realities of living in an unincorporated area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans:\u003c/strong> About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, people who live in unincorporated communities like Cherryland and Ashland depend on the county for those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This is 94578, which is a San Leandro zip code. But it’s not, it’s not the city of San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith Barros knows all about the headaches that come with being unincorporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a lot of times, residents themselves don’t know that \u003cem>where they live\u003c/em> is unincorporated, leading to mistakes like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>So, okay, I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department. You call the San Leandro Police Department. It’s like, I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>East Bay residents who live in cities don’t have this problem. If they need to call the police or fire department, it’s a city service. But for the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County, it’s not that simple. They depend on county-level services, like the sheriff or county fire department, in an emergency. And as so often happens, that adversity has made residents even more invested in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Because I think those of us here, number one, we want to hold on to our own identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith is proud that he’s from unincorporated Alameda County and has worked to gain recognition for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Where we happen to be standing right now, this used to be a blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Take the Ashland REACH center where we’re standing. Keith advocated hard to get this youth center built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go. It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no city council to complain to when things need doing. Instead, residents like Keith have to go to the county board of supervisors. And it’s been tough to get folks organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, are more there’s more of a transient population that lives here. A lot of renters, and they’ve been, they’re kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith says even though the Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have big countywide issues on their plates. It’s hard to get them to pay attention to local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>I really don’t like injustice. I don’t like it when things are not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>He spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. They finally formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a> in 2020. “Eden Area” is the collective name for Ashland and Cherryland and several other nearby unincorporated areas together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>They’re being heard. Their voices are being heard, and they’re there. Their opinions are, you know, are making their way up to where they need to, at the Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Claudia Albano is the Deputy Chief of Staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley … who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Claudia Albano: \u003c/strong>The only people who had community power were the small the landlords, the real estate industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>It has been Claudia’s job over the past eight years to bring together different community groups and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass, making them more vulnerable to eviction. That’s left an imbalance of power in communities like Ashland and Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Low-income renters like Elena Torres have paid the price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It has been terrible. Like in my case, I have a two-years battle with my landlord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>She says she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking to be fixed, to have any reparation. You are out. Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The experience prompted Elena to get involved with a social justice group called My Eden Voice. Two years ago, the organization issued a report that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction. And they don’t have clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>If you go and make a complaint, he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything, because it’s his property. So you have to go to the court, to the actual court, and go through the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Despite winning in court, Elena said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres:\u003c/strong> I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having, and they didn’t do anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year. She and her daughter moved in with a friend who was also facing eviction, while her husband lived in their only car. Elena kept reaching out to the county for help, but was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>We are the ones dealing with landlords. They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Elena didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Elena Torres: \u003c/strong>It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row. The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>After five years of discussion, Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Living in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. Especially now that Elena recently found a new place for her family and they’re celebrating being under one roof together — a first in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> That was KQED reporter Brian Krans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our question-asker, Sam Hopkins. His question won a Bay Curious voting round. You can vote on what we cover next, by heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">kqed.org slash baycurious\u003c/a>. And while you’re there, consider making a donation to KQED. As you may have heard, this is a perilous time for public media and every little bit helps to support the shows you love. Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. With extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien and everyone on team KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. San Francisco Northern California Local.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Have a great week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He wondered: “What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an ‘unincorporated’ community?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places wedged between San Leandro and Hayward are urban now and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities, but also come with consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation, housing protections and a sense of community identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Welcome to unincorporated Alameda County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land. That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works. And, they often pay lower property taxes because of this setup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County depend on the county for those things, which often confuses new residents to the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048404\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048404\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-14-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Barros, a longtime San Lorenzo resident and community advocate, walks through a neighborhood in the unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department,” said Keith Barros, a longtime resident of Ashland, giving an example of a mixup. “[But if] you call the San Leandro Police Department, it’s like, ‘I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>East Bay residents who live in cities like Oakland or Hayward don’t have this problem because police and fire are among the many services provided by their city governments, funded by local taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big issue Barros, a former UPS driver, has been fighting for is formal recognition of their community identity on legal mail. Until recently, unincorporated residents had to list the nearest city as their official addresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, for example, Ashland residents would list their addresses with San Leandro, even though they aren’t part of the city. Earlier this year, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/cda/addresschange.htm\">county successfully petitioned the U.S. Postal Service\u003c/a> to allow it to list the community, like Cherryland or Ashland, as its official address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-33-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Ashland Youth Center in an unincorporated area of Alameda County on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And there have been other wins as well. Barros advocated for building the \u003ca href=\"https://reachashland.org/\">REACH Ashland Youth Center\u003c/a> on a once-blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go,” Barros said. “It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no hyperlocal government to reach out to for help. Instead, residents like Barros have to go to the county board of supervisors, where they’ve had limited success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, there’s more of a transient population that lives here,” Barros said. “A lot of renters, they’ve been kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048408\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048408\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-31-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign for Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Barros said even though Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have bigger, countywide issues on their plates. Unincorporated residents said it has been hard to get them to pay attention to their local needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really don’t like injustice,” Barros said. “I don’t like it when things are not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barros spent years organizing his neighbors to push for their own advisory council that would advocate for Ashland and Cherryland to the county board. In 2020, they formed the \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/bc/emac/aboutus.htm\">Eden Area Municipal Advisory Council\u003c/a>. The \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/edenareavision/documents/EALICommunityProfile.pdf\">Eden Area\u003c/a> is the collective term for a 25-square-mile section of unincorporated area that includes Ashland, Cherryland, Castro Valley, Fairview, and San Lorenzo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Their voices are being heard, and they’re there,” Barros said. “Their opinions are making their way up to where they need to, at the [County] Board of Supervisors, because that’s our governing body.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Organizing to protect tenants\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the first issues the council worked on was renter protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The thing about representing the unincorporated area, when we looked at it, it had no community power,” said Claudia Albano, deputy chief of staff for Alameda County Supervisor Nate Miley, who represents most of the urban unincorporated areas. “The only people who had community power were the landlords, the real estate industry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048407\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-30-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A home under construction in Cherryland, an unincorporated area of Alameda County, on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It has been Albano’s job over the past eight years to bring different community groups together and help them advocate for themselves. And one of the biggest issues is that renters in unincorporated areas aren’t protected by rental laws that individual cities pass. They are more vulnerable to eviction in a power imbalance favoring landlords.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been terrible,” said Elena Torres, a low-income renter in the area. “Like in my case, I have a two-year battle with my landlord.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres said she asked her landlord to get rid of a roach infestation and to fix things like a broken furnace and water heater. Instead, he evicted her from the one-bedroom apartment she shared with her husband and daughter.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“They have no real cause for eviction, but they decide only because you are asking [for it] to be fixed, you are out,” Torres said. “Eviction is a business practice for them, in order to not take the responsibilities. And it’s not fair.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience prompted Torres to get involved with a social justice group called \u003ca href=\"https://www.myedenvoice.org/\">My Eden Voice\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two years ago, the organization \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/In-the-Shadows-of-Eden-Report.pdf\">issued a report\u003c/a> that found many residents in unincorporated areas are forced to live in housing that would normally be considered uninhabitable, endure verbal abuse from landlords, and live in fear of eviction, all while having no clear avenues to get help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you go and make a complaint that he’s harassing you, if you call the sheriff, the sheriff can’t do anything because it’s his property,” Torres said. “So you have to go to the actual court and go through the process.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite winning in court, Torres said her landlord was set on evicting her one way or another. She pleaded to her representatives on the county board of supervisors for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I even sent them letters. I tell them the situation. I tell them the issues that the tenants are having and they didn’t do anything,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048399\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048399\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-05-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres, evicted from her previous home in an unincorporated area of Alameda County, holds a drawing her daughter made during their housing struggle at their new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Torres didn’t want to move to a nearby city with stricter rental protections already in place because her daughter is thriving at her current school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not that simple because my daughter has been an honor student for eight years in a row,” she said. “The only thing I can give my daughter is education. That’s a legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Torres and her family were forced out of their apartment in January of this year, she and her daughter moved in with a friend — who was also facing eviction — while her husband lived in their only car.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Torres kept reaching out to the county for help, but she was frustrated at their response and the slow pace of change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12048396\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12048396\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250716-CherrylandUnincorporated-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elena Torres stands outside her new home in Hayward on July 16, 2025, after being displaced from her previous home in an unincorporated area — a change that led her to get involved with My Eden Voice, where she now advocates for housing justice. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are the ones dealing with landlords,” she said. “They are not the ones losing everything. I lose everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After five years of discussion, \u003ca href=\"https://ebho.org/eden-area-renters-win-key-vote-in-years-long-battle-for-tenants-rights/#:~:text=For%20single%20mother%20Zuleny%20Pais,Board%20can%20protect%20our%20families.%E2%80%9D\">Alameda County supervisors passed just cause protections\u003c/a> in February, which included protecting families from being evicted during the school year and ending retaliatory evictions after tenants attempt to assert their rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These “just cause” protections are rights that tenants in other Bay Area cities have long enjoyed. Renting in an unincorporated community just got a little bit easier. After six months living separately in makeshift accommodations, Torres recently found her family a new place to live together under one roof.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> On the east side of the bay, towns fan out across the flatlands, sandwiched between the East Bay hills and the water. Oakland is the biggest, of course, but drive south from there and you’re soon in San Leandro, Hayward, Union City and Fremont. But there are some far less well-known communities hidden in that same stretch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rachel Osajima: \u003c/strong>Thank you for being here for the Ashland-Cherryland community identifier ribbon cutting ceremony. \u003cem>(sounds of crowd cheering)\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland are two unincorporated communities wedged between San Leandro and Hayward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Bill Ouirk: \u003c/strong>They want to be recognized as communities. As Ashland, as Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>The thing is, it’s really easy to miss these places. That’s why \u003ca href=\"https://www.acgov.org/board/bos_calendar/documents/DocsAgendaReg_6_29_16/GENERAL%20ADMINISTRATION/Regular%20Calendar/Identifier_Mural_Draft_report_6_29_16.pdf\">the county commissioned a muralist \u003c/a>to paint an overpass on East 14th Street. One side reads Ashland and the other Cherryland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Barisha Spriggs: \u003c/strong>We’re very proud of this accomplishment. That this will be a lasting memento to all of our unincorporated communities for years to come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious listener, Sam Hopkins, was one of the many people who hadn’t thought much…if ever… about these places until recently. His friend was asked to work on a mosaic at a fire station in Cherryland. When Sam heard that, he thought to himself: Where’s Cherryland? And when he saw on the map that both Ashland and Cherryland are smack in the middle of the East Bay, he got curious.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/strong>What is the history behind Ashland and Cherryland, two unincorporated communities in the East Bay? What defines an “unincorporated” community?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz: \u003c/strong>Named for the cherry orchards and ash trees that used to grow in this area in the early 1900s, these places are definitely urban now, and they deal with some of the same issues as other Bay Area communities. Today on the show, we’ll explain what it means for an area to be “unincorporated.” It turns out living in one of these communities has big consequences for residents’ ability to access political representation and housing protections. I’m Katrina Schwartz, stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda is the second most populous county in the Bay Area…after Santa Clara. Oakland is the biggest city, but the county stretches all the way out to Livermore in the East and Fremont in the South. It’s a big swath of land, and about half of it is “unincorporated,” including two areas known as Cherryland and Ashland. KQED reporter Brian Krans set out to discover more about the day-to-day realities of living in an unincorporated area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans:\u003c/strong> About 10% of Alameda County’s population lives on unincorporated land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means they aren’t part of any of the county’s cities and don’t have city departments for public services like fire, police or public works.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, people who live in unincorporated communities like Cherryland and Ashland depend on the county for those things.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This is 94578, which is a San Leandro zip code. But it’s not, it’s not the city of San Leandro.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith Barros knows all about the headaches that come with being unincorporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says a lot of times, residents themselves don’t know that \u003cem>where they live\u003c/em> is unincorporated, leading to mistakes like this one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>So, okay, I live in San Leandro, so I’m gonna call the San Leandro police department. You call the San Leandro Police Department. It’s like, I’m sorry, you’re not in our jurisdiction. You need to call the Alameda County Sheriff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>East Bay residents who live in cities don’t have this problem. If they need to call the police or fire department, it’s a city service. But for the roughly 150,000 people who live in unincorporated Alameda County, it’s not that simple. They depend on county-level services, like the sheriff or county fire department, in an emergency. And as so often happens, that adversity has made residents even more invested in their community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Because I think those of us here, number one, we want to hold on to our own identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith is proud that he’s from unincorporated Alameda County and has worked to gain recognition for the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Where we happen to be standing right now, this used to be a blighted property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Take the Ashland REACH center where we’re standing. Keith advocated hard to get this youth center built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>This area has needed something like this. The youth of this area, for a long time, just didn’t have a place to go. It gives them a sense of community, a sense of identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>The youth center feels like a victory on a lot of fronts because one of the most difficult aspects of being unincorporated is that there’s no city council to complain to when things need doing. Instead, residents like Keith have to go to the county board of supervisors. And it’s been tough to get folks organized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Keith Barros: \u003c/strong>Ashland and Cherryland, in particular, are more there’s more of a transient population that lives here. A lot of renters, and they’ve been, they’re kind of disenfranchised from the political process, because they haven’t really had any representation of any kind. There’s no city council, nothing like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Brian Krans: \u003c/strong>Keith says even though the Alameda County supervisors are their elected representatives, they have big countywide issues on their plates. 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Especially now that Elena recently found a new place for her family and they’re celebrating being under one roof together — a first in six months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Katrina Schwartz:\u003c/strong> That was KQED reporter Brian Krans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to our question-asker, Sam Hopkins. His question won a Bay Curious voting round. You can vote on what we cover next, by heading to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/baycurious\">kqed.org slash baycurious\u003c/a>. And while you’re there, consider making a donation to KQED. As you may have heard, this is a perilous time for public media and every little bit helps to support the shows you love. Thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Curious is produced in San Francisco at member-supported KQED. Our show is made by Gabriela Glueck, Christopher Beale and me, Katrina Schwartz. 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