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The \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/questions.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/faqs.html\">CDC said\u003c/a> two doses of the measles vaccine are “about 97% effective” at preventing measles if you’re exposed, and one dose is “about 93% effective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the CDC, \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html\">92% of 2026 measles cases \u003c/a>nationwide have occurred in people who either aren’t vaccinated or whose vaccination status is unknown, and 4% of patients report only having one MMR shot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the CDC’s 2026 data also show that 4% of measles cases are in people who’ve had both MMR doses — as is the case with the Santa Clara patient reported Friday.[aside postID=news_12073722 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-1718981175_qut-1020x681.jpg']So-called breakthrough cases in vaccinated measles patients are not unprecedented, according to Dr. Sarah Rudman, Santa Clara County’s health officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudman said that when “there’s this much measles spreading around, both around the country and internationally,” vaccinated people can still be infected, although it’s less common. 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Rudman said that for most people who have a record of their vaccination or a childhood case of measles, “it’s not necessary to go \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073722/2026-measles-cases-mmr-vaccine-how-to-get-titer-test-immunity-antibodies-extra-dose\">check your measles immunity status\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Rudman said, for those who are vulnerable due to their medical history, an upcoming travel plan or medical treatment, “it might make sense to talk to your doctor and check your immune status.” She said this can be done by verifying vaccination records or by a blood test for proof of immunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read more about how \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073722/2026-measles-cases-mmr-vaccine-how-to-get-titer-test-immunity-antibodies-extra-dose\">\u003cstrong>titer tests can assess your immunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> against measles, and how to ask your provider about getting one.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with measles in 2026?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara case marks the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/measles.aspx\">22nd\u003c/a> measles case in California in 2026, with the county’s first confirmed measles case in a resident since May 2025. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So-called breakthrough cases in vaccinated measles patients are not unprecedented, according to Dr. Sarah Rudman, Santa Clara County’s health officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudman said that when “there’s this much measles spreading around, both around the country and internationally,” vaccinated people can still be infected, although it’s less common. Rudman clarified that the majority of cases still occur in unvaccinated people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rudman also echoed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070907/measles-san-francisco-bay-area-2026-is-there-outbreak-mmr-vaccine-booster\">the CDC’s guidance\u003c/a> that measles cases in vaccinated people tend to be less severe than in unvaccinated people. People with two MMR vaccine doses are likely to only be “moderately sick,” she said, and recovering “faster and are less infectious, which means the disease spreads less.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s one more reason why it’s so important for the community to have high rates of immunity against measles by being up to date on vaccination,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What if you have two vaccine doses but are now worried about being infected with measles? Rudman said that for most people who have a record of their vaccination or a childhood case of measles, “it’s not necessary to go \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073722/2026-measles-cases-mmr-vaccine-how-to-get-titer-test-immunity-antibodies-extra-dose\">check your measles immunity status\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Rudman said, for those who are vulnerable due to their medical history, an upcoming travel plan or medical treatment, “it might make sense to talk to your doctor and check your immune status.” She said this can be done by verifying vaccination records or by a blood test for proof of immunity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Read more about how \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073722/2026-measles-cases-mmr-vaccine-how-to-get-titer-test-immunity-antibodies-extra-dose\">\u003cstrong>titer tests can assess your immunity\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003cstrong> against measles, and how to ask your provider about getting one.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s going on with measles in 2026?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara case marks the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/Immunization/measles.aspx\">22nd\u003c/a> measles case in California in 2026, with the county’s first confirmed measles case in a resident since May 2025. It’s believed to be the Bay Area’s fourth measles case in 2026, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12070907/measles-san-francisco-bay-area-2026-is-there-outbreak-mmr-vaccine-booster\">previous cases reported by San Mateo and Napa counties.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html\">data\u003c/a>, 1,136 cases of the highly contagious disease have already been reported around the United States this year — with the majority of cases fueled by an outbreak in South Carolina. Last year saw \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html\">a total of 2,144 confirmed cases,\u003c/a> in contrast to just 285 cases in 2024.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/vrancano\">\u003cem>Vanessa Rancaño \u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Santa Clara County leaders are distancing themselves from automated license plate reader company Flock Safety due to growing concerns about the use of its data for immigration enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A split decision on Tuesday afternoon by the Board of Supervisors to effectively cut ties with Flock brings the county in league with dozens of other local governments that have canceled or paused contracts with, or otherwise separated from, the prolific license plate reader vendor in recent months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The severings follow media reports that federal agencies like Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement were able to access data from vast local Flock camera networks across the country, at times even while local police departments and city officials said they were unaware the data sharing was happening. In some cases, the data sharing went directly against local or state policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not believe the County of Santa Clara should be doing business with Flock,” District 2 Supervisor Betty Duong said at a press conference on Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flock is a problematic company, and their reported conduct and sharing of private data is incompatible with our county’s values, my personal values and the values that I promised the voters of District 2 that I would uphold, and with multiple policies that we as a board have unanimously approved in recent years,” Duong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12074576\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12074576\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1826\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-2000x1426.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-1536x1095.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/GettyImages-2247092731-2048x1461.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) are seen at the intersection of Washington and La Cienega boulevards on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2025, in Culver City, California. \u003ccite>(Kayla Bartkowski / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While there are many license plate reader vendors, Flock has become one of the largest suppliers, with tens of thousands of cameras in more than 5,000 cities and counties around the nation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board voted 3-2 in favor of amending its own policies to effectively render Flock cameras useless in Cupertino and Saratoga, two South Bay cities that currently contract with the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office for public safety services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board’s decision also applies to Los Altos Hills, though that small town’s leadership decided to terminate its contract with Flock last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because the sheriff’s office runs law enforcement for those three places, it also oversees the license plate cameras that those cities and towns use. All three have relied on Atlanta-based Flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under the newly updated county “Surveillance Use Policy” adopted by the board, the sheriff’s office will no longer access or use any data sourced from a Flock camera.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Effective immediately, the sheriff’s office and the staff cannot operate, manage or touch the cameras, the data, transmission, anything from ALPRs that are operated by Flock, vended by Flock,” Duong told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the county doesn’t have the authority to force those cities to end their Flock contracts, the change in policy appears to make the images and data being logged by those cameras moot, as there isn’t another law enforcement agency to pursue leads it generates.[aside postID=news_12072077 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/SAN-JOSE-LICENSE-PLATE-READERS-11-KQED-1020x680.jpg']Cupertino City Manager Tina Kapoor confirmed Tuesday that the city’s Flock contract is active.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will be evaluating the agreement based on the county’s decision and other considerations at the moment, such as our upcoming law enforcement contract with the county and the budget,” Kapoor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duong noted that if Cupertino or Saratoga were to find new vendors for license plate readers, the sheriff’s office would likely be able to quickly resume oversight and operation of that technology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, some county leaders raised broader concerns about the technology of ALPRs, which, in Flock’s case, record not only a car’s license plate, but also its make and model, color and defining features like roof racks and bumper stickers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Susan Ellenberg voted against the change in policy on Tuesday because she feels license plate readers in general represent an “excessive invasion of privacy,” and that those concerns outweigh any public safety benefit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Flock is particularly problematic. But I differ from my colleagues in that I don’t believe they are an outlying bad actor and alternatives are not necessarily any safer,” Ellenberg said during the county board meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am really existentially troubled by the expansion of the surveillance state and its contribution to the erosion of democracy, civil liberties and other protections that actually create safe communities,” Ellenberg said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Alleviating poverty and ensuring stable housing, sufficient nutrition, access to health care and education, clean and well-lit streets, of course, create more safety than surveillance cameras, even when used under the strictest use policies,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1279px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066777\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1279\" height=\"853\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED.jpg 1279w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251210-License-Plate-Readers-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1279px) 100vw, 1279px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement agencies are deploying vehicle-tracking networks with settings that some advocates say can make local data nationally searchable. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Flock Safety)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Nick Hidalgo, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, said the county’s move was encouraging but that it does not go far enough.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no guarantee that rival ALPR vendors will do better,” he said. “These companies market their systems as easy to share with other law enforcement agencies — sharing is by design, and vendors are incentivized to facilitate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Flock Safety, Paris Lewbel, said in an emailed statement that the company “is proud of the impact our technology has had in helping solve crimes and locate missing people in Santa Clara County and across the state of California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Locally, other cities have also taken steps to back away from Flock.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mountain View’s City Council voted unanimously to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072077/as-california-cities-grow-wary-of-flock-safety-cameras-mountain-views-shuts-its-off\"> end a contract and terminate\u003c/a> automatic license plate readers on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Councilmember Ellen Kamei said the city learned a lesson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Acknowledging a situation, acting quickly and communicating openly reflects integrity and public service,” she said. “We’ve talked about how our city is known as a community for all, and being a community for all means telling the truth, even when it’s difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Cruz became the first city in California to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069705/santa-cruz-the-first-in-california-to-terminate-its-contract-with-flock-safety\">sever ties with Flock \u003c/a>in January, following similar data-sharing problems, which violate longstanding state laws against sharing ALPR data with federal agencies and other agencies out of state.[aside postID=news_12069705 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/SFFlockSafetyGetty.jpg']In the wake of those cases, where local officials blamed Flock’s software platform for the unwanted searches of their databases, the company has pushed back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Each Flock customer fully owns and controls 100% of its data. Only our customers have sole authority over if, when, and with whom information is shared,” Lewbel, the Flock spokesperson, said. “By default, vehicle data is automatically deleted after 30 days unless local law or policy requires otherwise. Flock never shares data on its own, and customers may limit, revoke or deny data access at any time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to NPR, at least 30 localities have either deactivated their Flock cameras or canceled their contracts since the beginning of 2025, with many of the changes happening this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has heightened awareness and concern around such technologies, but privacy and civil liberties advocates have long pushed back against the growing webs of long-lasting data being created about people all over the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A group of civil-liberties and immigrant-support organizations\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064587/civil-liberties-groups-sue-san-jose-over-license-plate-reader-use\"> sued San José\u003c/a> over what they allege is the city’s “deeply invasive” mass surveillance network of hundreds of Flock cameras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city, the largest in the Bay Area, holds onto all ALPR data for a year, well beyond the 30-day default of Flock, whether a car is implicated in a crime or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s new policy will also require immediate reporting to the board if any unauthorized ALPR data under county control is shared with the federal government. It will also require audits of the sheriff’s office’s compliance with the new policy every four months by the Office of Correction and Law Enforcement Monitoring.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Senior Editor\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/aemslie\">\u003cem> Alex Emslie\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Authorities arrested nearly 30 people and recovered more than 70 victims across the Bay Area during heightened human trafficking investigations around \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl LX\u003c/a>, the Santa Clara County district attorney’s office announced Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The push, led by the office’s Human Trafficking Task Force, included dozens of law enforcement agencies and community organizations that carried out nearly 40 operations in counties surrounding Santa Clara during the lead-up to the game this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the 73 victims of trafficking who were recovered, 10 were minors, including a 12-year-old in Oakland, according to the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are literally looking for that one 12-year-old or that one child or one adult whose voice isn’t heard,” said Cheryl Csiky, the executive director of advocacy group In Our Backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Advocates say the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12072253/during-super-bowl-lx-bay-area-advocates-police-renew-focus-on-human-trafficking-awareness\">heightened attention to human trafficking\u003c/a> in the Bay Area underscored the impact of collaboration in recovering victims — and could serve as a model for expanding such efforts regularly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Human trafficking happens every single day,” said Sharan Dhanoa, who directs the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking. “The hope is that we can kind of replicate that in the future and not have it just be dependent on a sporting event.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12073894\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12073894\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SuperBowlOpeningNight-17-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SuperBowlOpeningNight-17-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SuperBowlOpeningNight-17-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260202-SuperBowlOpeningNight-17-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A New England Patriots team member speaks with the press during Super Bowl Opening Night at the San José Convention Center in San José on Feb. 2, 2026. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For the two weeks ahead of the Feb. 8 game, the Human Trafficking Task Force set up a command center in Sunnyvale that included 20 analysts from various agencies who responded to tips and coordinated with agents from Monterey to Sacramento to make arrests, according to the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Operations that often take weeks took minutes in the enhanced Human Trafficking Tactical Operations Center,” it said in a statement on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such operations are common around the Super Bowl, and Bay Area authorities intend to focus similar anti-trafficking efforts ahead of World Cup games at Levi’s Stadium this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dhanoa said that, in part, this is because major economic draws to an area can increase demand for sex trafficking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economics drives exploitation,” she told KQED.[aside postID=news_12072253 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/IMG_1350-2000x1500.jpg']However, Dhanoa said, the high volume of arrests and recoveries is also a reflection of law enforcement agencies being able to tap into additional resources that aren’t available year-round.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This effort shows that when we’re all in a room together and have this opportunity to all work our resources in one place and our strategies, it’s a much quicker process,” Csiky said. “It just matters how much manpower is put into the effort.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Dhanoa and Csiky said the operation’s focus on recovering victims of trafficking was especially significant. 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I would be too scared.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I couldn’t risk having an arrest, and then having to dig myself out of that while I’m trying to provide housing and food for myself and my children,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071720\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071720\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-superbowlfile00030_TV_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Super Bowl Banner decorates the exterior of Levi’s Stadium in San José on Jan. 28, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dhanoa acknowledged that an unintended consequence of these operations has sometimes been arresting “individuals who don’t identify as survivors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lt. 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"content": "\u003cp>Budget shortfalls could force the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/south-bay\">South Bay\u003c/a>’s top prosecutor to abandon misdemeanor prosecutions, domestic violence cases and youth programs — leading to “tragic” consequences for public safety, according to Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During his annual State of the Office address on Tuesday, Rosen said a potential 12% cut to his office’s general fund — estimated at $19 million — would likely result in the loss of 75 to 80 employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to KQED, Rosen called his office’s work “both exceptional and extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While we’re very proud of those achievements, I have to let the residents know I’m very concerned about the budget cuts that are looming,” Rosen said. “And how it will affect everyone’s public safety in a very negative way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen’s concern comes as Santa Clara County faces a \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaracounty.gov/federalfunding\">$1 billion\u003c/a> hole. H.R. 1, or the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101910533/what-the-big-beautiful-bill-means-for-california\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act\u003c/a>, has triggered what County Executive James R. 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He noted his office has already eliminated non-mandated work, and warned that further cuts will harm legal defense services provided to residents who cannot afford an attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Balance between the two offices is critical to ensure fairness,” Silver said. “Both offices need appropriate funding to ensure a healthy criminal legal process.”[aside postID=news_12073534 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-2_qed.jpg']The County Executive’s Office, however, said that no formal budget recommendations for fiscal year 2026-2027 have been finalized. Per the county’s annual process, official proposals will be released by the County Executive on May 1, with the Board of Supervisors set to adopt a final budget by June 30.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/measure-a\">voter-approved sales tax Measure A\u003c/a>, which is expected to generate $330 million annually starting in April, the county is still projecting a $470 million deficit for the upcoming fiscal year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The hospital system and every General Fund department is being asked to make difficult reductions,” Williams said in a statement. “The fact remains that the largest share of our General Fund resources goes to public safety functions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said his office would be among those hit hard. Without the $19 million, he said prosecutors could no longer pursue misdemeanor cases — including drunk driving, domestic violence and sexual assault cases in which victims are uncooperative. 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The news on Friday came after more than a week of jury deliberation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Hanley Chew said the jury was “hopelessly deadlocked” on both charges, felony conspiracy to trespass and felony vandalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jury favored conviction by a count of 8-4 for the conspiracy charge and 9-3 for the vandalism charge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jurors affirmed to Chew on Friday that more time to deliberate on the counts would not make a difference in the outcome, after which he declared the mistrial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A mistrial ends the case against the five current and former Stanford students, but Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen has the right to retry the case, which he said Friday he would do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065944\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065944\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-VALLEYFAIRCHARGE-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-VALLEYFAIRCHARGE-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-VALLEYFAIRCHARGE-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251203-VALLEYFAIRCHARGE-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen (center) addresses the media outside the county’s Juvenile Center in San José on Dec. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This case is about a group of people who destroyed someone else’s property and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage. That is against the law, and that is why we will retry the case,” Rosen said in an emailed statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Avi Singh, one of the defense attorneys in the case, said he is grateful for the jury’s time and attention, even if a verdict wasn’t reached.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our position is that the proof was insufficient. We had a jury really wrestle with the arguments that were presented, and we are appreciative of everyday people who sacrificed so much in order to make due process real,” Singh said Friday afternoon.[aside postID=news_12066592 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251209-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-9_qed.jpg']The trial \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12069585/felony-trial-begins-for-stanford-pro-palestinian-protesters\">began on Jan. 9\u003c/a>, and closing arguments wrapped on Jan. 30. Jury deliberations began on Feb. 2. During deliberation, jurors sent notes to Chew to let him know they were having trouble reaching consensus on the first count, asking for guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chew encouraged them to continue deliberating and reach a verdict if they could. The jury also took a day off during the first week. The case stems from the actions by a group of what were originally 12 protesters, who were arrested on June 5, 2024, after they barricaded themselves inside the president’s office at Stanford in the early morning hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group refused to come out in their effort to get Stanford leaders to “address their role in enabling and profiting from the ongoing genocide in Gaza,” the group said on social media at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their action came amid a series of larger campus demonstrations aimed at pressuring the school to divest from companies that support Israel’s military bombardment in Gaza. 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His office later secured a grand jury indictment against the group for the two felonies, superseding the initial charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five defendants chose to go to trial: Hunter Taylor-Black, Maya Burke, Germán González, Taylor McCann and Amy Zhai.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Six of the other protesters who were initially charged in the case entered into mental health diversion programs or said late last year they planned to take a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064351/stanford-protesters-negotiating-plea-deals-as-trial-begins\">court-offered deal\u003c/a> that would include pleading guilty to misdemeanor charges, with a pathway to potential dismissal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One other protester, Jack Richardson, served as a witness for prosecutors in the grand jury indictment and is now enrolled in a youth deferred entry of judgment program, which also offers a path to dismissal, under court-supervised requirements.[aside postID=news_12073176 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260211-OAKLAND-FEDERAL-COURTHOUSE-MD-01-KQED.jpg']Defense attorneys focused their case on the motivations of the protesters, who they said were acting out of a humanitarian concern during what they view as an ongoing genocide, and fear that doing nothing would lead to more suffering in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Anthony Brass, one of the attorneys, said the actions came only after Stanford leaders ignored months of demands for discussion about divestment from companies supporting Israel’s military.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school put the students in an “impossible situation,” he said during opening statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutor Rob Baker told the jury that the case was simple, and said protesters planned and prepared for their action, including bringing equipment and tools to block doors and cover cameras. He said they caused tens of thousands of dollars in damage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Baker, in his closing arguments, told the jury that their verdict “does not mean that you are supporting genocide” or that they don’t support Palestinians, and he said he believed the defendants were good people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Singh said Friday he hopes the DA’s office takes another look at the motivations of the protesters in its decision to retry the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12069662\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12069662\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251117-STANFORDTRIAL-JG-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of supporters gathered for a rally outside the Hall of Justice in San José on Nov. 17, 2025, after a court hearing for a group of pro-Palestinian protesters indicted for breaking into the Stanford University president’s office. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“There was no question or dispute that these people were motivated by a deep commitment to human rights. And the district attorney’s office should consider that as they weigh whether the interests of justice support bringing a new case,” Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/21/us/campus-protests-arrests.html\">thousands\u003c/a> of protesters were arrested at college campuses across the country for protest-related activity over the Gaza war in 2024, few of the cases saw felony charges filed, and many of the lesser charges were eventually dropped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for the defendants and their supporters accused the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office of seeking overly harsh punishment to chill political protests and speech related to the plight of Palestinians, which the DA’s office refuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case also saw heated \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066592/arguments-over-genocide-dominate-stanford-protester-trial-hearing\">pretrial motions\u003c/a> over whether and how often the word “genocide” could be used during the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A hearing to set a date for a new trial is scheduled for Feb. 25.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Around a week before Super Bowl LX, she helped hand out booklets of photos at Santa Clara University featuring three dozen missing kids registered with the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children who are believed to be at risk for exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The point of our event is to have people visit a convenience store, their regular gas station, bring in these books and get convenience stores to realize they are the eyes and ears of our community,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12072228\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12072228\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/260203-SUPERBOWLTRAFFICKING00338_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheryl Csiky, executive director of In Our Backyard, poses for a portrait in Santa Clara on Feb. 3, 2026. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Csiky, last year, 15 out of 36 missing children were recovered within a week of the Super Bowl in New Orleans, the result of coordinated efforts with the Center and law enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The amount of investment that is provided at the time of these large events is hard to replicate at other times,” said Sharan Dhanoa, director of the South Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking, one of several local nonprofits that recently received grants to combat the issue from the NFL through the Bay Area Host Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, her group and its crisis intervention partners served 361 survivors who met the federal definition of trafficking — that is, forced, fraudulent or coercive labor. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10850616/super-bowl-week-puts-spotlight-on-increased-human-trafficking\">last time the Super Bowl\u003c/a> came to the Bay Area in 2016, more than a dozen pimps were arrested, and seven youth, as young as 14, several of whose parents had reported them missing, were reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-super-bowl-prostitution-sweep-20160209-story.html\">rescued\u003c/a> from sexual exploitation in the week leading up to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While \u003ca href=\"https://www.mccaininstitute.org/resources/reports/countering-human-trafficking-at-large-sporting-events/\">longstanding research \u003c/a>has not found a large surge in human trafficking during the Super Bowl — something experts posit could be associated with the temporarily heightened scrutiny and media attention — Dhanoa said the multi-jurisdictional cooperation and extra resources it attracts help combat the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’ve got tens of thousands of people coming to the Bay Area from all over the United States and even other parts of the world,” said Jeff Rosen, district attorney for Santa Clara County. “You wouldn’t think that illegitimate businesses would also seek to profit from that?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His office is leading an anti-trafficking task force comprised of more than 50 law enforcement officers, crime analysts and prosecutors across the region’s nine counties to intercept exploiters through undercover stings, online investigations and lots of overtime. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl\u003c/a> LX is dominating headlines this week, and with the event comes national attention on Levi’s Stadium and the city of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara\">Santa Clara\u003c/a>, which are hosting the big game this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you might not know that the large sports venue, which serves as home field for the San Francisco 49ers (yes, it can be confusing), has been at the center of a host of controversies and battles between the team’s owners and Santa Clara’s leadership since it opened its doors in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In just over a decade, the team and the city’s relationship has become so contentious that it has already spurred multiple lawsuits, two different critical reports from Santa Clara County’s civil grand jury, a criminal perjury conviction for a sitting council member and wave after wave of big money pouring into local elections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve put together a quick digest of seven of the major points in the messy relationship between Santa Clara and the 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1) Mayor Lisa Gillmor\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Gillmor, who has served on the city council for more than 20 years, has been at the forefront of just about everything to do with the team and the stadium coming to the midsize city, home to around 130,000 residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She led a campaign to approve a ballot measure paving the way for Levi’s Stadium to be built, and to be funded in part by nearly $80 million in city money, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in bonds issued by Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While initially in favor of bringing the San Francisco team to her hometown, Gillmor’s disputes with the team started quickly and publicly, due to the team’s multiple attempts to take over adjacent youth soccer fields for a parking lot. Gillmor’s husband has coached youth soccer, and her children have played the sport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071622\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12071622 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251211-MAYORSBREAKFAST-JG-2-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251211-MAYORSBREAKFAST-JG-2-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251211-MAYORSBREAKFAST-JG-2-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/251211-MAYORSBREAKFAST-JG-2-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor speaks during a panel discussion about the Super Bowl and other major sporting events coming to Levi’s Stadium in 2026 during the Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce’s Mayor’s Breakfast on Dec. 11, 2025, in Santa Clara. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gillmor didn’t respond to interview requests for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the soccer field debate, Gillmor has led the fight against what she has described as the team’s overreaches and its shortchanging of the city on revenue from events like concerts and parties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the team collects profits from NFL games, the city’s general fund is typically entitled to half of the profit from non-NFL events held at the stadium, such as concerts and corporate parties. The other half goes to the Stadium Authority, a city-run agency that operates the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were supposed to get a huge benefit from the stadium,” Gillmor said in 2023. “They’re using our police force, our fire department, our city staff, we’re all working so hard to get zero non-NFL revenue? That’s unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team has defended its management of the stadium and commissioned a 2023 report by a sports economics consulting firm that claims Levi’s has generated $2 billion of total economic impact for the broader region. A team spokesperson said team officials were unavailable for a phone interview and didn’t respond to emailed questions for this story.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2) Election spending\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>49ers owner Jed York, apparently unhappy with the resistance the organization started to receive from Gillmor and her city council allies, began in 2020 an unprecedented run of spending huge sums of money trying to engineer a council that would be friendlier to the team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the last three city council election cycles, political action committees funded by York and the team have spent more than $10 million to support preferred candidates and to oppose Gillmor and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The avalanche of money largely \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844213/why-are-the-49ers-spending-millions-on-a-city-council-race-ask-jed-york\">overwhelmed\u003c/a> any other special interest group’s money in a city with roughly 60,000 registered voters, allowing several of the team’s preferred candidates to get council seats and retain them. However, Gillmor was able to keep her mayor’s seat with support from developers and police unions.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>3) Company town\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Roger Noll, a professor emeritus of economics at Stanford University, said the downside of a large sports team coming to a suburban community is that it isn’t too difficult for the team’s owners to “get control of the local politics,” comparing Santa Clara to the “company towns” of the old west.[aside postID=news_12071211 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_010_QED-KQED.jpg']The 49ers “would never be able to do it if it were a major city,” Noll said. “There’s no way that the Sharks were ever going to control San José like the 49ers control Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, there’s no chance the Rams are going to control the city of Los Angeles, because if you have a big enough city, there are other economic sources of welfare for the city available and that can counteract this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in a small town,” he said, “they’re going to win. They’re gonna be the only people who want to contribute that amount of money to a political campaign, and they’re extremely likely to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team has supported an array of candidates over the past six years, including former Vice Mayor Anthony Becker, current Vice Mayor Albert Gonzalez, and current Councilmembers Raj Chahal, Karen Hardy, Kevin Park and Sudhansu “Suds” Jain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4) Santa Clara County civil grand jury reports\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By 2021, the “49er Five” — as the five team-backed members of the seven-person Santa Clara City Council were known — controlled the council. A county civil grand jury — made up of volunteers selected by the Superior Court’s judicial officers to examine issues of public concern — issued a report heavily critical of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 report, titled “Unsportsmanlike Conduct,” accused Becker and four other council members of engaging in unethical and inappropriately close relationships with top lobbyists and officials from the 49ers. The team’s spokesperson at the time called the report a “political hatchet job” and accused the grand jury of corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11799614 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco 49ers stretch during practice for Super Bowl LIV at the Greentree Practice Fields on the campus of the University of Miami on Jan. 30, 2020, in Coral Gables, Florida. \u003ccite>(Michael Reaves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Undeterred, the grand jury followed up with another pair of reports in 2024 called “Outplayed” and “Irreconcilable Differences.” In “Outplayed,” the grand jury asserted the city of Santa Clara had signed itself up for an unbalanced and inequitable deal with the 49ers when it agreed to the ballot measure that brought the team and Levi’s Stadium to the city. “Irreconcilable Differences” lambasted the council itself for consistent dysfunction and tumult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The broken relationships among the members of the council and the inability of council members to work together as a cohesive group have undermined the effective governance of the city,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5) ‘Three-card monte’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Noll, the economics professor, said sports venues are more often than not a losing game for communities, but football stadiums are the worst of the bunch, because they are too big to fill for most musical artists and other events, which makes it harder for a city running the stadium to collect revenue on a consistent basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noll agreed the team outplayed the city in the agreement structures, and much of the divisiveness is rooted in the city not seeing the level of returns forecasted before the stadium was a reality, but he said Santa Clara should have seen that coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051703\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign introduces passersby to Santa Clara City Hall at 1500 Warburton Avenue in Santa Clara on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was just overly optimistic, and it was obvious it was. But on the other hand, this is Hollywood coming to town, coming to a small town, and they got taken away by it,” Noll said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s on Santa Clara for not doing their homework because if they had just looked at the previous five football stadiums that were built and saw what happened after the fact versus what happened before the fact, they would have known the same thing was going to happen to them,” Noll said. “So, yes, it’s true the 49ers played some three-card monte on them. It’s their fault for falling for it. They should have known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6) Legal fights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city and the team have traded legal blows for years, fighting several lawsuits related to parking, rent payments to the city, and chiefly, how the 49ers manage the stadium through their management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also managed to cut its property tax bill by half, to $6 million, greatly reducing the money expected to flow to local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255009703-scaled-e1769191193398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Levi’s Stadium on Dec.3, 2025, in Santa Clara, California. \u003ccite>(Kirby Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the disagreements were put to bed in two different settlements, one in 2022 and another in 2024. While the team and even the city’s own press release held up the most recent settlement as a fair shake for the city, Gillmor disagreed, calling it a “loan-shark type deal” in a reply to the city’s own X social media account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noll said it’s “unique” to see how quickly the bad blood emerged in the relationship between the city and the team. “Nothing has gone as badly” elsewhere, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7) Anthony Becker perjury conviction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the most notable outcomes tied to the influence of the 49ers on local politics in Santa Clara was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014279/ex-49ers-lobbyist-admits-he-lied-about-leak-to-protect-santa-clara-council-member\">perjury trial\u003c/a> and conviction of former Vice Mayor Anthony Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a two-week trial in late 2024, Becker was found guilty of a misdemeanor for leaking an early, confidential version of the “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” grand jury report to the 49ers, and of felony perjury for subsequently lying about his actions to a grand jury as it investigated the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071956\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker, right, and Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya during Becker’s sentencing hearing at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The early access to the report allowed the 49ers to orchestrate a response to the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker resigned shortly after the conviction. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034219/former-santa-clara-official-sentenced-to-probation-after-perjury-conviction\">sentenced in 2025\u003c/a> to two years’ probation and a 40-day jail sentence that could be served through community service. His attorneys filed an appeal that is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What comes next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the current city council includes five council members supported by the 49ers, two of those spots are up for grabs during the November 2026 elections, along with the mayor’s seat, as Gillmor terms out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A shift in the makeup of the council could affect Santa Clara’s relationship with the team. Gillmor, the most vocal critic of the team’s treatment of the city, will be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s unclear if much would change, said Ann Skeet, the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11973891 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1954210828-scaled-e1770075676703.jpg\" alt=\"A man geared up in football uniform runs down a large football field, holding a football with his right hand.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">49ers running back Christian McCaffrey rushes for a 39-yard touchdown during the NFC playoff game against the Green Bay Packers at Levi’s Stadium on Jan. 20, 2024, in Santa Clara, California. \u003ccite>(Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the issues that have plagued this relationship are still going to be there. One is the political money and corporate money in politics,” Skeet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue is the underlying design of the stadium authority, which is a city board that oversees the management of Levi’s Stadium. The board members are the city council members, who Skeet said have likely contributed to some of the many conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Publicly elected officials are supposed to put the public’s interest first and think largely about what their city’s needs are, the city of Santa Clara,” Skeet said. “But they sit on this stadium authority board, and then they have to think about what’s in the best interest of the stadium, and sometimes those things conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The 49ers “would never be able to do it if it were a major city,” Noll said. “There’s no way that the Sharks were ever going to control San José like the 49ers control Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Likewise, there’s no chance the Rams are going to control the city of Los Angeles, because if you have a big enough city, there are other economic sources of welfare for the city available and that can counteract this,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But in a small town,” he said, “they’re going to win. They’re gonna be the only people who want to contribute that amount of money to a political campaign, and they’re extremely likely to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team has supported an array of candidates over the past six years, including former Vice Mayor Anthony Becker, current Vice Mayor Albert Gonzalez, and current Councilmembers Raj Chahal, Karen Hardy, Kevin Park and Sudhansu “Suds” Jain.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4) Santa Clara County civil grand jury reports\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>By 2021, the “49er Five” — as the five team-backed members of the seven-person Santa Clara City Council were known — controlled the council. A county civil grand jury — made up of volunteers selected by the Superior Court’s judicial officers to examine issues of public concern — issued a report heavily critical of the group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 report, titled “Unsportsmanlike Conduct,” accused Becker and four other council members of engaging in unethical and inappropriately close relationships with top lobbyists and officials from the 49ers. The team’s spokesperson at the time called the report a “political hatchet job” and accused the grand jury of corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11799614\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11799614 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/GettyImages-1203032743-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco 49ers stretch during practice for Super Bowl LIV at the Greentree Practice Fields on the campus of the University of Miami on Jan. 30, 2020, in Coral Gables, Florida. \u003ccite>(Michael Reaves/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Undeterred, the grand jury followed up with another pair of reports in 2024 called “Outplayed” and “Irreconcilable Differences.” In “Outplayed,” the grand jury asserted the city of Santa Clara had signed itself up for an unbalanced and inequitable deal with the 49ers when it agreed to the ballot measure that brought the team and Levi’s Stadium to the city. “Irreconcilable Differences” lambasted the council itself for consistent dysfunction and tumult.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The broken relationships among the members of the council and the inability of council members to work together as a cohesive group have undermined the effective governance of the city,” the report said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5) ‘Three-card monte’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Noll, the economics professor, said sports venues are more often than not a losing game for communities, but football stadiums are the worst of the bunch, because they are too big to fill for most musical artists and other events, which makes it harder for a city running the stadium to collect revenue on a consistent basis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noll agreed the team outplayed the city in the agreement structures, and much of the divisiveness is rooted in the city not seeing the level of returns forecasted before the stadium was a reality, but he said Santa Clara should have seen that coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051703\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051703\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250808-SANTACLARACITYHALLFILE_01515_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign introduces passersby to Santa Clara City Hall at 1500 Warburton Avenue in Santa Clara on Aug. 8, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It was just overly optimistic, and it was obvious it was. But on the other hand, this is Hollywood coming to town, coming to a small town, and they got taken away by it,” Noll said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s on Santa Clara for not doing their homework because if they had just looked at the previous five football stadiums that were built and saw what happened after the fact versus what happened before the fact, they would have known the same thing was going to happen to them,” Noll said. “So, yes, it’s true the 49ers played some three-card monte on them. It’s their fault for falling for it. They should have known.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6) Legal fights\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The city and the team have traded legal blows for years, fighting several lawsuits related to parking, rent payments to the city, and chiefly, how the 49ers manage the stadium through their management company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team also managed to cut its property tax bill by half, to $6 million, greatly reducing the money expected to flow to local schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255009703-scaled-e1769191193398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An aerial view of Levi’s Stadium on Dec.3, 2025, in Santa Clara, California. \u003ccite>(Kirby Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Many of the disagreements were put to bed in two different settlements, one in 2022 and another in 2024. While the team and even the city’s own press release held up the most recent settlement as a fair shake for the city, Gillmor disagreed, calling it a “loan-shark type deal” in a reply to the city’s own X social media account.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noll said it’s “unique” to see how quickly the bad blood emerged in the relationship between the city and the team. “Nothing has gone as badly” elsewhere, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>7) Anthony Becker perjury conviction\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the most notable outcomes tied to the influence of the 49ers on local politics in Santa Clara was the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014279/ex-49ers-lobbyist-admits-he-lied-about-leak-to-protect-santa-clara-council-member\">perjury trial\u003c/a> and conviction of former Vice Mayor Anthony Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After a two-week trial in late 2024, Becker was found guilty of a misdemeanor for leaking an early, confidential version of the “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” grand jury report to the 49ers, and of felony perjury for subsequently lying about his actions to a grand jury as it investigated the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071956\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071956\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/2025.04.04_Middleton_AnthonyBecker_018_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker, right, and Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya during Becker’s sentencing hearing at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Apr. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Florence Middleton for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The early access to the report allowed the 49ers to orchestrate a response to the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker resigned shortly after the conviction. He was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12034219/former-santa-clara-official-sentenced-to-probation-after-perjury-conviction\">sentenced in 2025\u003c/a> to two years’ probation and a 40-day jail sentence that could be served through community service. His attorneys filed an appeal that is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What comes next?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Though the current city council includes five council members supported by the 49ers, two of those spots are up for grabs during the November 2026 elections, along with the mayor’s seat, as Gillmor terms out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A shift in the makeup of the council could affect Santa Clara’s relationship with the team. Gillmor, the most vocal critic of the team’s treatment of the city, will be gone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s unclear if much would change, said Ann Skeet, the senior director of leadership ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973891\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11973891 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/GettyImages-1954210828-scaled-e1770075676703.jpg\" alt=\"A man geared up in football uniform runs down a large football field, holding a football with his right hand.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">49ers running back Christian McCaffrey rushes for a 39-yard touchdown during the NFC playoff game against the Green Bay Packers at Levi’s Stadium on Jan. 20, 2024, in Santa Clara, California. \u003ccite>(Michael Zagaris/San Francisco 49ers/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I think the issues that have plagued this relationship are still going to be there. One is the political money and corporate money in politics,” Skeet said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The other issue is the underlying design of the stadium authority, which is a city board that oversees the management of Levi’s Stadium. The board members are the city council members, who Skeet said have likely contributed to some of the many conflicts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Publicly elected officials are supposed to put the public’s interest first and think largely about what their city’s needs are, the city of Santa Clara,” Skeet said. “But they sit on this stadium authority board, and then they have to think about what’s in the best interest of the stadium, and sometimes those things conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As the Bay Area gears up to host \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/super-bowl\">Super Bowl LX\u003c/a>, cities across the region are looking for ways to cash in on one of the biggest annual sporting events in the world, this time happening in their backyard at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area Host Committee projects that football fans could generate up to $630 million across the region, including nearly $16 million in revenues directly to local governments. But those dollars won’t be distributed equally, leaving some cities feeling shortchanged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a bigger slice of the pie, obviously,” said Christine Lawson, CEO of Discover Santa Clara, the city’s marketing organization. “There’s a monetary and economic impact factor, which every city is eager to get their part of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though Santa Clara will host the big game between the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots on Feb. 8, the city is projected to rake in just a fraction of what San Francisco will claim. And after losing several major sports teams in recent years, Oakland and the East Bay are projected to get even less.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2016 Super Bowl – the first held at Levi’s – brought an estimated $240 million to the entire Bay Area, according to \u003ca href=\"https://levisstadium.com/2016/08/study-super-bowl-50-brought-240-million-boost-to-bay-area-economy/\">one analysis\u003c/a>, which factored in everything from hotel and restaurant bookings to transit ridership. More than 57% of that revenue went to San Francisco; 12.3% went to San Jose; 7.2% went to Santa Clara; 7.1% went to areas near San Francisco International Airport; and 3.7% went to Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12070880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255009703-scaled-e1769191193398.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12070880\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/GettyImages-2255009703-scaled-e1769191193398.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A general overall aerial view of Levi’s Stadium on Dec.3, 2025, in Santa Clara, California. \u003ccite>(Kirby Lee/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This year, the Bay Area Host Committee, a nonprofit established by the 49ers, estimates that San Francisco could receive up to $440 million, while Santa Clara County could bring in around $160 million and other counties such as Alameda and Contra Costa could collectively see about a $30 million boost.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City leaders across the Bay Area are working furiously to draw tourists, and their dollars, to their downtowns with live events, food tours and celebrity appearances. San José is slated to host a weekend of concerts, including by Bay Area-born hip-hop star Kehlani, along with a lineup of free activities in San Pedro Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We made it a point to have as many experiences that are free or low cost so that people can experience the Super Bowl even without a ticket to the big game,” said Frances Wong, director of marketing for Visit San José, which promotes tourism to the Silicon Valley hub.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wong hopes the widely accessible public events will draw people to the South Bay, as events the NFL plans to host in San Francisco will cost money this year, a shift from many of the offerings around the Embarcadero and Union Square during the 2016 Super Bowl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even if you’re just walking down the street and you see a bar cheering over a football game, you’re invited to grab a drink and watch with everybody else and create great memories that way,” Wong said.[aside postID=news_12071347 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Moscone_Super_Bowl_closures.jpg']Compared with other Bay Area cities, San Francisco’s great advantage for the Super Bowl is its vast hotel market and ability to host tourists traveling in from Seattle, Boston and all over the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while city leaders may publicly bemoan the 49ers’ failure to make the Super Bowl this year, those looking at game revenue say teams traveling across state lines actually bring in more money than visitors from across the state’s bridges and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say a Southern California team gets in, that might be a two-night stay [for a fan], but if an East Coast team comes in, that’s a four- or five-night stay,” said Anna Marie Presutti, CEO of the San Francisco Travel Association. “The beauty of it is that they’ll come into the neighborhoods and become tourists before the big game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a think tank focused on the nine-county region, said “the real economic impacts” from Super Bowl 50 in 2016 were from “people that are outside of the region and outside of this state coming here to spend new dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the Bay Area hosted the Super Bowl, San Francisco’s hotel occupancy rates reached nearly 90%, according to Presutti. But the city’s tourism industry took a hard hit during the pandemic. Now, she’s hoping the game will not only give the industry a much-needed boost, but that sparkly images of the city on TVs around the world will inspire skeptical travelers to visit the Bay Area in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants and other venues are already seeing bookings go up in the days leading up to the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071804\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071804\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_001_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicki Ewell, NFL vice president of fan events and engagement, speaks with reporters during a media first look as the NFL begins transforming the Moscone Center into Super Bowl Experience ahead of Super Bowl LX, Jan. 30, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Business looks like it is going to be booming,” said Amy Cleary, director of public policy for the Golden Gate Restaurant Association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cleary expects smaller businesses will see some uptick in traffic around the game also. Unlike with some other major events, such as the\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967004/thousands-are-coming-to-sf-next-week-heres-how-itll-affect-life-in-the-city\"> Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) conference\u003c/a>, when high-security levels prompted the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966960/san-francisco-is-clearing-homeless-encampments-ahead-of-apec\">closure of several streets downtown\u003c/a> and blocked foot traffic to some local establishments, she’s projecting smaller coffee shops and other local staples will reap the benefits of more people around town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is simpler than APEC. Then, you had certain areas in the city which you could not access. And if you obviously operated your business in those zones, that was really problematic,” Cleary said. Obviously there is security for Super Bowl-related things, but it is not at that level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not all will be winners, however. Some \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2026/01/16/super-bowl-lx-clean-zone/\">street vendors\u003c/a> in Santa Clara have already been told they must clear their regular trading posts to make way for Super Bowl activities, sending them to less busy parts of the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Security will also pose a significant cost to any city in the Bay Area that’s hoping to court tourists, whether they’re traveling from far away or across town.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Economists would pretty much agree on the one real down side for the city of Santa Clara: They confront the risk,” said Michael Kevane, professor of economics at Santa Clara University. “The city has to spend a lot of money on prevention, on disaster preparedness, overtime for police and fire to be prepared for that eventuality.”[aside postID=news_12071370 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/260128-SUPERBOWLFILE00037_TV-KQED.jpg']In August 2025, Santa Clara officials estimated that it would cost the city more than \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/post/super-bowl-lx-santa-clara-estimates-60th-anniversary-game-could-cost-63-million-when-levis-stadium-hosts-2026/17669428/\">$6 million\u003c/a> to host this year’s Super Bowl, primarily for event security and policing. The Bay Area Host Committee is reimbursing Santa Clara about $6.2 million to cover event expenses, according to their \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaraca.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/88749/639034860541370000\">agreement\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s Super Bowl comes during a particularly fraught time in big cities across the country, as demonstrations have escalated in recent weeks after federal immigration enforcement officials killed multiple protestors in Minneapolis. Ahead of the football game, Bay Area cities are preparing for the possibility of immigration officers and protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the reimbursements, some Santa Clara leaders have criticized the high cost of hosting the event, especially since the city takes in such a small portion of the regional revenue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara City Council passed an agreement with the Bay Area Host Committee and the stadium’s operations company, StadCo, last fall. But Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor and Vice Mayor Kelly Cox voted against the deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know why we aren’t asking for a letter of credit for this. This is a massive risk,” Cox said at a \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.granicus.com/player/clip/2398?view_id=1&redirect=true\">meeting\u003c/a> in September 2025 when the agreement was approved. Gillmor echoed her concerns, saying, “The onerous system you have to go through to get reimbursed is unlike anything I’ve ever seen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12071805\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1983px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12071805\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1983\" height=\"1322\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED.jpg 1983w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/013026_SUPERBOWLECONOMICDEV_GH_007_QED-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1983px) 100vw, 1983px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A forklift moves across the Moscone Center floor as preparations begin for Super Bowl Experience, Jan. 30, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But even this year’s mind-boggling revenue estimates (which are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/97920/economist-challenges-estimates-on-super-bowl-benefits-to-the-bay-area\">not always agreed upon\u003c/a>) for cities who will claim a significant portion, like San Francisco, won’t close looming budget deficits (around $1 billion in the city’s case).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You’re not talking about dollars that’ll be big enough to fill budget gaps,” said Bellisario of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. “But the spending that does occur will have sales tax implications. Some people might be hired for a short amount of time. Maybe some people will be hired even for a longer amount of time. All of these things add to the economic vitality of the place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Super Bowl is only the tip off for world-class sporting events taking place in the region. The Bay Area Host Committee estimates that the region will generate roughly $1.4 billion across all counties between the Super Bowl, last year’s NBA All Star Game and FIFA World Cup in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re the first city in history to host both the Super Bowl and FIFA in the same year,” said Lawson of Discover Santa Clara. “We’re vying for everybody’s time and attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Compared with other Bay Area cities, San Francisco’s great advantage for the Super Bowl is its vast hotel market and ability to host tourists traveling in from Seattle, Boston and all over the globe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And while city leaders may publicly bemoan the 49ers’ failure to make the Super Bowl this year, those looking at game revenue say teams traveling across state lines actually bring in more money than visitors from across the state’s bridges and highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let’s say a Southern California team gets in, that might be a two-night stay [for a fan], but if an East Coast team comes in, that’s a four- or five-night stay,” said Anna Marie Presutti, CEO of the San Francisco Travel Association. “The beauty of it is that they’ll come into the neighborhoods and become tourists before the big game.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jeff Bellisario, executive director of the Bay Area Council Economic Institute, a think tank focused on the nine-county region, said “the real economic impacts” from Super Bowl 50 in 2016 were from “people that are outside of the region and outside of this state coming here to spend new dollars.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The last time the Bay Area hosted the Super Bowl, San Francisco’s hotel occupancy rates reached nearly 90%, according to Presutti. 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