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With no forced entry and Hensley holding the only other key to the apartment, he became a prime suspect.[aside postID=news_12050640 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250801-BERKELEY-OSHA-DEATH-MD-05-KQED.jpg']“It was a thorough reexamination,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hensley, who had moved to Virginia but was originally from Los Altos Hills, was arrested on Dec. 20, 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argued that Hensley made romantic overtures to Noble, which were rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made an effort one night to get romantic with her, to get physical with her. She declined it and he beat her to death,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Wagstaffe, the jurors were most impressed by the testimony of Dana Margulies, Hensley’s ex-fiancée in Virginia. She told the court that Hensley choked her “almost to unconsciousness” when she broke up with him, several years after Noble’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her graphic testimony, plus circumstantial evidence, clinched a guilty verdict of first-degree murder and a sentence of 25 years to life. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Prosecutors and family members of Kathleen Noble said Monday that they will fight parole suitability for the man convicted of her 1989 murder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-mateo-county\">San Mateo County\u003c/a> District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told KQED that Mark Hensley, 55, still constitutes a risk to public safety 23 years after his conviction. Hensley was found suitable for parole on Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case went unsolved for 10 years until Noble’s family asked the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office to reopen it, said Wagstaffe, who has a framed photo of Noble in his office — a gift from her family, for obtaining a guilty verdict in 2002.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Noble’s bludgeoned body was found in her car in East Palo Alto on March 5, 1989, more than a week after the 23-year-old was reported missing by her family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Suspicion fell strongly on Hensley, Noble’s 19-year-old co-worker and roommate. In his interview with East Palo Alto police, he kept changing his story about whether Noble had come home to their shared apartment on the night she went missing, Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But soon after, the investigation went cold, as a huge volume of other cases strained the “barebones staff” of East Palo Alto police, Wagstaffe said. In a flood of 18 other murders in the small city that year, Noble’s case drifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045700\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045700\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-021-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car is seen in Redwood City, California, on Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then, 10 years after the murder, San Mateo County Sheriff Don Horsley received a letter from Noble’s parents asking for the case to be reopened, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/2022/06/16/blog-slow-justice-for-kathleen-noble/\">Redwood City Pulse\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was such a poignant letter,” Horsley told the true crime television show \u003ca href=\"https://www.oxygen.com/murdered-by-morning/crime-news/kathleen-noble-mark-hensley-killer-cold-case\">\u003cem>Murdered by Morning\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, “that I thought we should reinvestigate it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Significant pieces of evidence from the 1989 investigation into Noble’s death were missing — including police reports, witness interviews and a polygraph taken by Noble’s boyfriend, with whom she reportedly quarreled shortly before her death, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mv-voice.com/crime/2025/08/04/man-convicted-of-1989-mountain-view-murder-found-suitable-for-parole/\">Bay City News\u003c/a> reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It appeared clear to investigators, however, from blood in and around the apartment, that Noble was killed there. With no forced entry and Hensley holding the only other key to the apartment, he became a prime suspect.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It was a thorough reexamination,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hensley, who had moved to Virginia but was originally from Los Altos Hills, was arrested on Dec. 20, 1999.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors argued that Hensley made romantic overtures to Noble, which were rejected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He made an effort one night to get romantic with her, to get physical with her. She declined it and he beat her to death,” Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Wagstaffe, the jurors were most impressed by the testimony of Dana Margulies, Hensley’s ex-fiancée in Virginia. She told the court that Hensley choked her “almost to unconsciousness” when she broke up with him, several years after Noble’s death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her graphic testimony, plus circumstantial evidence, clinched a guilty verdict of first-degree murder and a sentence of 25 years to life. Hensley \u003ca href=\"https://www.rwcpulse.com/blogs/from-the-crime-files/2022/06/16/blog-slow-justice-for-kathleen-noble/\">successfully appealed\u003c/a> and changed the conviction to second-degree murder, with a sentence of 15 years to life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hensley appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2009/10/29/murderer-deemed-not-suitable-for-parole/\">admit responsibility\u003c/a> for Noble’s death in 2016, when he told a parole board that he hit his roommate with a champagne bottle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Thursday parole hearing was attended by Noble’s sister and two brothers, all of whom strongly opposed his release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Noble, Kathleen’s twin brother, who did not attend the hearing, said the news was both a “painful shock” but something the family also expected, after attending multiple parole hearings over the years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was a cold case,” he told KQED. “He had 10 years of freedom. That time should be added onto his sentence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wagstaffe said the parole board considered the Youthful Offender Law and the Elder Parole Law, which allows for early parole consideration for people 50 or older who have served 20 or more years of their sentence. The board also noted that Hensley had not had any recent rule violations at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center state prison, ultimately finding him suitable for release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data released by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in 2019 showed that people 55 and older make up about \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2021/11/201912_DataPoints.pdf\">16% of California’s incarcerated population\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, it costs California a little more than \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/policyareas/cj/6_cj_inmatecost\">$106,000 per year\u003c/a> to keep someone in prison, according to the state Legislative Analyst’s Office. While the agency doesn’t track expenses by age group, the nonpartisan office \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/handouts/crimjust/2010/Elderly_Inmates_05_11_10.pdf\">reported\u003c/a> that in other states, it can cost two to three times more to incarcerate an older person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Su Kim, senior policy manager for parole justice nonprofit UnCommon Law, said elderly parole has been successful “in releasing elderly people who do not pose a danger and reducing exorbitant incarceration costs, all without any trade-off in public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim cited \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/research/wp-content/uploads/sites/174/2024/11/FY-2018-19-BPH-Supplemental-Recidivism-Report.pdf\">a CDCR report\u003c/a> that showed an elderly parole recidivism rate of just 2.4%, and less than 1% for crimes against a person — 20 times lower than the overall CDCR recidivism rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If parole consideration is concerned primarily with public safety,” Kim said, “then advanced age absolutely needs to be taken into consideration given the indisputable evidence that people age out of crime and violence.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a murder conviction, Hensley’s case must now go through an administrative review and then must be approved or reversed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Wagstaffe said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Noble and Wagstaffe both said they would write letters to Newsom to encourage him to reverse the decision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The effort, however, “doesn’t bring Kathleen back,” Noble said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/shossaini\">\u003cem>Sara Hossaini\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>In a surprising turn, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-mateo\">San Mateo\u003c/a> climate advocate was named to another term on a transportation advisory committee on Thursday evening after residents and some elected officials had raised concerns he could be pushed out due to his advocacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Swire, who is currently vice chair of the Community Advisory Committee for the San Mateo County Transportation Authority, was reappointed for another three years in a 4–2 vote by the Transportation Authority board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before the vote, Swire had said two board members were leading a push to oppose his reappointment, at least in part because of his advocacy against highway widening projects in San Mateo County. He has also pressed for increased safety measures for bicyclists and pedestrians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m very excited, of course, for myself and my ability to continue to serve on the CAC and be able to speak out on behalf of San Mateo residents, but I also think it’s a victory for San Mateo County residents,” Swire said. “The vote affirms our advisory committee’s role as an independent watchdog.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The discussion over whether Swire should be reappointed ended up largely focused on fresh concerns about a lack of transparency in the process of interviewing and selecting committee members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board members Rico Medina, who is also the mayor of San Bruno, and Mark Nagales, a council member in South San Francisco, voted against renewing Swire’s term, saying they had concerns that his advocacy work didn’t fit with his role as an advisory body member.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11946829\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11946829 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/IMG_2751-scaled-e1752264067878.jpg\" alt=\"Ten people stand in a row with a freeway behind them as they cut a blue ribbon and smile.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ribbon-cutting ceremony officially inaugurating the San Mateo 101 express lanes, with (sixth from left) San Bruno Mayor Rico Medina, Assemblymember Diane Papan (third from right) and Rep. 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The third member of the subcommittee, Board Chair Carlos Romero, a council member in East Palo Alto, supported Swire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swire said that Romero told him one of the reasons he was targeted in the nominating subcommittee is that he showed up to a 2023 event celebrating the completion of a Highway 101 widening and express lane project to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946820/san-mateo-101-express-lanes-officially-opened-with-ceremony-but-critics-say-traffic-and-pollution-will-be-worse\">voice his opposition\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That project added a new express lane to 22 miles of 101 between the Santa Clara County line and Interstate 380, near the San Francisco International Airport. Swire has also opposed a continuation of that work, which would extend the new lanes and widen north of 380.[aside postID=news_12046673 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty-1020x678.jpg']He has also spoken out at San Mateo City Council meetings against a project that would add a direct connector from the 101 express lane to Highway 92. Swire said much of his opposition is rooted in equity concerns, as more highway lanes could lead to more traffic, and more polluted air for lower-income and disadvantaged communities near highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swire said he felt some board members were trying to remove him because of his advocacy and, in doing so, were stifling differing viewpoints on how to improve transportation locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone who volunteers for a county committee or board is an advocate in one way or another, Swire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody advocates, and when you advocate for things that certain people like, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. But when you advocate for minority opinions or things that other people like, that is questioned. So, you can’t have that inconsistency,” he said after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina and Nagales did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday, but during the board meeting, they sought to emphasize that diversity of opinion is something they value, and they said the recommendation to not reappoint Swire wasn’t based on disagreement with his views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other board members questioned the reasoning behind the recommendation against Swire and said he is a plus to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not heard any specific rule that was violated or even a timeline. I was honestly surprised to hear that this was even a recommendation,” board member Noelia Corzo, a county supervisor, said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman in a pink suit jacket stands at a podium that reads \"Kevin Mullin\" on the front. There are several people standing behind her wearing masks and holding \"Kevin Mullin\" signs.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Speier announces her endorsement of Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (behind Speier, in red tie) to succeed her in Congress, on Dec. 6, 2021, in South San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackie Speier, a board member and county supervisor who previously served in Congress, said Swire “has galvanized a lot of interest from people in the community. And I’m particularly impressed by the fact that he has ignited in young people an interest in being participatory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Julia Mates, the mayor of Belmont, abstained from voting because she didn’t have enough information about the interview process by the subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swire said hundreds of people sent letters to the board in his support, and about 15 people spoke about the issue during the meeting, mostly in favor of reappointing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of censorship is very worrying to me,” Mollie Carter, a new member of the Congestion Management and Environmental Quality Committee in San Mateo County, said to the board. “It sets a really harmful precedent to remove committee members because of their views or because it may cause some confusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Community Advisory Committee’s charge is to act “as a liaison between the public and the Board of directors, providing valuable input to the board on the projects and programs,” funded through two different countywide sales tax measures, according to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcta.com/whats-happening/community-advisory-committee\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is intended to have 15 members from around the county, in recent months it’s been operating with 12. In addition to reappointing Swire and two other members on Thursday night, the board also appointed two new members to replace two who stepped down at its last meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He has also spoken out at San Mateo City Council meetings against a project that would add a direct connector from the 101 express lane to Highway 92. Swire said much of his opposition is rooted in equity concerns, as more highway lanes could lead to more traffic, and more polluted air for lower-income and disadvantaged communities near highways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swire said he felt some board members were trying to remove him because of his advocacy and, in doing so, were stifling differing viewpoints on how to improve transportation locally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everyone who volunteers for a county committee or board is an advocate in one way or another, Swire said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody advocates, and when you advocate for things that certain people like, it doesn’t seem to be a problem. But when you advocate for minority opinions or things that other people like, that is questioned. So, you can’t have that inconsistency,” he said after the vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina and Nagales did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday, but during the board meeting, they sought to emphasize that diversity of opinion is something they value, and they said the recommendation to not reappoint Swire wasn’t based on disagreement with his views.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But other board members questioned the reasoning behind the recommendation against Swire and said he is a plus to the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not heard any specific rule that was violated or even a timeline. I was honestly surprised to hear that this was even a recommendation,” board member Noelia Corzo, a county supervisor, said at the meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11898222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11898222\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut.jpg\" alt='A woman in a pink suit jacket stands at a podium that reads \"Kevin Mullin\" on the front. There are several people standing behind her wearing masks and holding \"Kevin Mullin\" signs.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/12/RS52798_IMG_3713-qut-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jackie Speier announces her endorsement of Assemblymember Kevin Mullin (behind Speier, in red tie) to succeed her in Congress, on Dec. 6, 2021, in South San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jackie Speier, a board member and county supervisor who previously served in Congress, said Swire “has galvanized a lot of interest from people in the community. And I’m particularly impressed by the fact that he has ignited in young people an interest in being participatory.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board member Julia Mates, the mayor of Belmont, abstained from voting because she didn’t have enough information about the interview process by the subcommittee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Swire said hundreds of people sent letters to the board in his support, and about 15 people spoke about the issue during the meeting, mostly in favor of reappointing him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This kind of censorship is very worrying to me,” Mollie Carter, a new member of the Congestion Management and Environmental Quality Committee in San Mateo County, said to the board. “It sets a really harmful precedent to remove committee members because of their views or because it may cause some confusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Community Advisory Committee’s charge is to act “as a liaison between the public and the Board of directors, providing valuable input to the board on the projects and programs,” funded through two different countywide sales tax measures, according to its \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcta.com/whats-happening/community-advisory-committee\">website\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it is intended to have 15 members from around the county, in recent months it’s been operating with 12. In addition to reappointing Swire and two other members on Thursday night, the board also appointed two new members to replace two who stepped down at its last meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Republic Services \u003ca href=\"https://investor.republicservices.com/news-releases/news-release-details/republic-services-inc-reports-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2024\">reported\u003c/a> a net income of around $500 million for the first three months of 2025 alone.[aside postID=news_12046134 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250626-SJBBB-JG-5-KQED.jpg']“Your management is getting these big bonuses and these guys want to come in and lowball you,” Gomez said. “And it’s pretty much like a slap in the face.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for Republic Services responded in a statement, apologizing for “this inconvenience,” also stating that the company is “ready to continue discussions with the union to reach an agreement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Affected areas include Half Moon Bay, Daly City, San José and many cities in the East Bay, like Piedmont and Richmond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gomez said tangible impacts of the strike aren’t just from the absence of trash pickups alone, but also from drivers who are honoring the picket line by abstaining from transporting waste to landfills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Bay Area is pretty solid when it comes to labor workers, and they’re real supportive,” Gomez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Regarding residents’ reactions to the garbage buildup, Gomez said, despite expressing concern, they have been supportive of the workers’ strike overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I hope they get what they’re asking for,” said Michael Chang, a Daly City resident. His street’s regular trash pickup day is Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang admitted his surprise when Thursday morning rolled around and his street was still lined with trash bins. But he believes “the real fundamental issue is with the company.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If there’s a strike or anything like that, I think it just kind of breaks the system,” Chang said. “And there’s no alternative option.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chang said that although the trash buildup hasn’t caused any significant smells or inconveniences, he can expect that to change should the strike persist through the week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also going to start causing some parking issues, maybe people will have to start moving neighbors’ trash cans to park their cars,” Chang said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he may end up taking his trash out to the landfill himself, but he’s trying to avoid that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Muñoz is the UC Berkeley Labor Center’s executive director. 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He is the longest-serving elected official in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s my time,” Stone told KQED. “I don’t want to embarrass myself,” he said with a laugh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone is a regional icon, not only because his name is on the property value assessment notices sent to hundreds of thousands of residents every year — “I call them love notes,” he said — but also because of his deep involvement in community building and political work outside of his day job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s been on \u003ca href=\"https://www.sccassessor.org/images/k2%20article/2022CURRENTCURRICULUMVITAE-LarryStone.pdf\">dozens\u003c/a> of boards, commissions, councils, task forces and advisory groups, sharing his time, knowledge and money supporting the arts, education, professional sports, economic development and housing, and has long been recognized as one of the most powerful leaders in Silicon Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046929\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046929\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/Larry-Stone-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Assessor Larry Stone is seen in front of several pallets containing hundreds of thousands of this year’s property assessment notices on June 30, 2025. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of the Santa Clara County Assessor's Office.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I’m not one to not be active. I mean, that’s not in my DNA, ever,” Stone said in his office this week, which even in the process of a move out, was still largely full of memorabilia from his life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walls and shelves are lined with framed photos of Stone with his family, or world leaders such as Fidel Castro, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, local politicians, as well as clippings from just some of the many news articles and features written about him through the decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of them – a story published in the \u003cem>Sunnyvale Sun\u003c/em> 20 years ago – focused on Stone’s prominence and ubiquity in the region even then, and noted he “won the honor of being named the 2004 ‘Royal Schmoozer’ by the San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also led campaigns to try to bring the San Francisco Giants to the South Bay in the 1980s, and later supported the effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/61898/the-as-to-san-jose-san-joseans-speak-out-pro-and-con\">bring the then-Oakland A’s to San José\u003c/a>, neither of which materialized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But his experience served the region well, as he would later help broker the deal that brought the San Francisco 49ers to Santa Clara and led the campaign to pass Measure J, which authorized the construction of Levi’s Stadium.[aside postID=news_12045682 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/20250306_SANJOSEDISTRICT3_GC-28-KQED-1020x680.jpg'] Inside the walls of the assessor’s office, Stone has presided over a greater than 500% increase in value of the assessment roll — the entire estimated value of all real property like land and buildings, and business personal property, like computers, machines and furniture — in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When he first stepped into the office in January 1995, the assessment roll was worth about $115 billion. But due in large part to the continued growth of the computing and technology industry, land, buildings and homes alike have grown in value, now worth about $725 billion altogether, Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That hasn’t changed Stone’s approach to the work, which he said is more of an art than a science, and requires an even keel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assessing property in California is already unique because of Proposition 13’s limitations on property taxes. But working in Silicon Valley, taking on tech behemoths and other private industry billionaires armed with benches of attorneys angling to pay less in property taxes can be a taxing game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, Stone said, Apple’s spaceship campus in Cupertino is “the most unique property probably in the United States,” and not something that can easily be assessed with standard metrics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A long time 49ers season ticket holder, Stone also vehemently disagreed with a decision by the county’s Assessment Appeals Board, which reduced the tax bill owed by the team for Levi’s Stadium by about half, from $12 million to $6 million annually, after the team appealed Stone’s assessment for the facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone argued the appeals board used an overly simplistic approach to value the stadium, not accounting for all the special events and concerts it hosts outside of football games, and he later sued the board, but lost in \u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/santa-clara-county-wont-appeal-san-francisco-49ers-nfl-tax-break-ruling/\">court\u003c/a> in late 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046697\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046697\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-16-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photos of Assessor Larry Stone with politicians sit on a bookshelf at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I believe that that building, the stadium, is not properly assessed. But I did all I could — my office did all we could — to arrive at an accurate value. The court disagreed,” Stone said, recalling the saga.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone didn’t grow up hoping to be an assessor, but there may have been signs early on that he’d be a good fit for the role. Sifting through a stack of personal photos, Stone pulled out a grade-school image of his smiling young face during his campaign for school secretary. His campaign promise to his classmates was written across the image: “Dependable and accurate records.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a young, single man, Stone started his professional career as an investment banker working on Wall Street in New York, living in an apartment on Manhattan’s east side with a coworker, a gig and a lifestyle he said was “heaven.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After being transferred to the Bay Area, where he met his wife Carmen and had three children, Stone and two business partners started a real estate investment firm on Sand Hill Road, where the company neighbored Kleiner Perkins, one of the most prominent venture capital firms in Silicon Valley.[aside postID=news_12046134 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250626-SJBBB-JG-5-KQED.jpg']He went on to develop very low-income housing — a San Francisco single-resident occupancy building — and an affordable apartment complex in San José, both of which he still has an ownership stake in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, who has lived in Sunnyvale since 1970, started his political career at home, running for and being elected to the City Council there in 1975, and serving two four-year terms before terming out. After waiting a city-mandated two years off the council and running again, he won two more elections, serving a total of 16 years on the council, including two turns as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From City Council to Assessor, Stone has never lost an election, running largely unopposed in his eight races for assessor. He was elected to the assessor’s office in 1994, but emphasizes that the work is not political, even though it’s an elected role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Williams, county executive of Santa Clara County, said people in the county might not realize the intricacies and the complexity involved in the work of the assessor, but said Stone has done an “outstanding” job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having confidence in the integrity and the efficacy of the property tax system is absolutely vital to every single service all of us take for granted from our local governments collectively,” Williams told KQED. “Schools, parks, roads — the list goes on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property taxes, which are raised and spent locally, account for roughly 40% of the county’s general fund budget, according to the county, and the largest chunk of those funds, about 44%, goes toward K-12 schools in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone holds a grade school photo of himself that says, ‘Vote for Larry for Secretary’ in his office at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone said he’s happy with his track record, noting that during his run of assessing the homes of everyday residents, as well as the major campuses and buildings of world-beating tech companies, he’s only added one additional staff member than was on payroll when he started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s “returned $35 million of my budget back to the general fund unspent” over his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he’s most proud of, however, is what he said is a more than 90% customer satisfaction rate, based on surveys given to residents who call, email or visit the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a government tax office. We give people news that they don’t necessarily like. I submit that over 90% customer service satisfaction rating for the assessor’s office is unheard of,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his high marks from residents, a finished assessment roll for 2025 and his office’s recent overhaul of its aging computer system software — a years-long effort — Stone felt now was as good a time to step away as any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the timing of Stone’s departure has rankled some in the county. Stone has often been quoted questioning the qualifications of his potential challengers for assessor during past elections.[aside postID=news_12044954 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/SJEarthquakesGetty.jpg']After choosing to run again in 2022, only to retire in the midst of his term, Stone’s decision forced the Board of Supervisors to call for a special election to find a replacement to finish the term that runs through 2026, due to existing state and county laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1296/2025-06/press-release-special-election-called-to-fill-the-vacancy-of-the-santa-clara-county-assessor.pdf?VersionId=1Jv0eFrLsu6xgDks7HC9jVbKRyGsntVm\">approved \u003c/a>the special election for Nov. 4 of this year. If a candidate in that race doesn’t win a majority of votes, there will be a runoff election between the top two candidates on Dec. 30. The cost to run the first special election will be roughly $13 million, and roughly $26 million total if a runoff is needed, due to the voting infrastructure that is required under state law, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga, during the special June 25 meeting to approve the election, called the situation “very unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to stomach the cost of this, but we really have no legal options otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Stone’s retirement, Assistant Assessor Greg Monteverde will serve as the acting assessor, and the Board of Supervisors will appoint an interim assessor later this year, likely in August, to run the office until the special election is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2026, the assessor’s seat will be up for a standard election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he thinks the special election requirement is a “total waste of money” and said he plans to advocate for changes to requirements for such situations in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to concerns about his choice to retire now, leading to the high costs for the county, Stone said, “I didn’t create the rules. I make life choices that are best for me and best for my office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone speaks with a colleague at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, two candidates have announced their intention to run for the office in 2026, though they could also run in the special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is Saratoga City Council Member Yan Zhao, and the other is Los Altos Vice Mayor Neysa Fligor, who are both terming out of their city roles next year. Fligor, who has worked with Stone to head up the software replacement project and previously worked in the county counsel’s office, has received Stone’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Larry is a true public servant to his core,” Williams said of Stone’s decades of work, adding that whoever steps into the role next will need to carry that same passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had an incredibly effective assessor office in Santa Clara County, and I’m absolutely confident that that will continue to be the case and that’s part of the legacy that Larry leaves us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He went on to develop very low-income housing — a San Francisco single-resident occupancy building — and an affordable apartment complex in San José, both of which he still has an ownership stake in today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone, who has lived in Sunnyvale since 1970, started his political career at home, running for and being elected to the City Council there in 1975, and serving two four-year terms before terming out. After waiting a city-mandated two years off the council and running again, he won two more elections, serving a total of 16 years on the council, including two turns as mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From City Council to Assessor, Stone has never lost an election, running largely unopposed in his eight races for assessor. He was elected to the assessor’s office in 1994, but emphasizes that the work is not political, even though it’s an elected role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Williams, county executive of Santa Clara County, said people in the county might not realize the intricacies and the complexity involved in the work of the assessor, but said Stone has done an “outstanding” job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having confidence in the integrity and the efficacy of the property tax system is absolutely vital to every single service all of us take for granted from our local governments collectively,” Williams told KQED. “Schools, parks, roads — the list goes on and on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Property taxes, which are raised and spent locally, account for roughly 40% of the county’s general fund budget, according to the county, and the largest chunk of those funds, about 44%, goes toward K-12 schools in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046963\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LarryStoneRetirement-06-BL_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone holds a grade school photo of himself that says, ‘Vote for Larry for Secretary’ in his office at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Stone said he’s happy with his track record, noting that during his run of assessing the homes of everyday residents, as well as the major campuses and buildings of world-beating tech companies, he’s only added one additional staff member than was on payroll when he started.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he’s “returned $35 million of my budget back to the general fund unspent” over his career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What he’s most proud of, however, is what he said is a more than 90% customer satisfaction rate, based on surveys given to residents who call, email or visit the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a government tax office. We give people news that they don’t necessarily like. I submit that over 90% customer service satisfaction rating for the assessor’s office is unheard of,” Stone said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With his high marks from residents, a finished assessment roll for 2025 and his office’s recent overhaul of its aging computer system software — a years-long effort — Stone felt now was as good a time to step away as any.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the timing of Stone’s departure has rankled some in the county. Stone has often been quoted questioning the qualifications of his potential challengers for assessor during past elections.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>After choosing to run again in 2022, only to retire in the midst of his term, Stone’s decision forced the Board of Supervisors to call for a special election to find a replacement to finish the term that runs through 2026, due to existing state and county laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board \u003ca href=\"https://files.santaclaracounty.gov/exjcpb1296/2025-06/press-release-special-election-called-to-fill-the-vacancy-of-the-santa-clara-county-assessor.pdf?VersionId=1Jv0eFrLsu6xgDks7HC9jVbKRyGsntVm\">approved \u003c/a>the special election for Nov. 4 of this year. If a candidate in that race doesn’t win a majority of votes, there will be a runoff election between the top two candidates on Dec. 30. The cost to run the first special election will be roughly $13 million, and roughly $26 million total if a runoff is needed, due to the voting infrastructure that is required under state law, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Margaret Abe-Koga, during the special June 25 meeting to approve the election, called the situation “very unfortunate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s hard to stomach the cost of this, but we really have no legal options otherwise,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Stone’s retirement, Assistant Assessor Greg Monteverde will serve as the acting assessor, and the Board of Supervisors will appoint an interim assessor later this year, likely in August, to run the office until the special election is complete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late 2026, the assessor’s seat will be up for a standard election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stone said he thinks the special election requirement is a “total waste of money” and said he plans to advocate for changes to requirements for such situations in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to concerns about his choice to retire now, leading to the high costs for the county, Stone said, “I didn’t create the rules. I make life choices that are best for me and best for my office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12046696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12046696\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/250630-LARRYSTONERETIREMENT-14-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assessor Larry Stone speaks with a colleague at the Santa Clara County Assessor’s Office in San José on June 30, 2025. He has held the position since 1995, overseeing property assessments across the region. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, two candidates have announced their intention to run for the office in 2026, though they could also run in the special election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One is Saratoga City Council Member Yan Zhao, and the other is Los Altos Vice Mayor Neysa Fligor, who are both terming out of their city roles next year. Fligor, who has worked with Stone to head up the software replacement project and previously worked in the county counsel’s office, has received Stone’s endorsement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Larry is a true public servant to his core,” Williams said of Stone’s decades of work, adding that whoever steps into the role next will need to carry that same passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve had an incredibly effective assessor office in Santa Clara County, and I’m absolutely confident that that will continue to be the case and that’s part of the legacy that Larry leaves us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The hotline also received calls with requests for Know Your Rights materials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re just seeing people on high alert. You know, someone sees a white van or they see a uniform, they automatically think ‘Could it be ICE?’,” Barousse said. “Just given the high volume of calls, it stretches our staff, but nonetheless, we’re here as the line of defense for our immigrant community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network’s volunteers and staff respond to reports of potential ICE activity, attempt to verify enforcement actions and post alerts or informational updates on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/RRNSCC/about\">social media pages\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The network often posts updates clarifying that suspected federal immigration activity was not founded, but rather that a local police or sheriff’s operation is underway and unrelated to immigration. Verifying when ICE isn’t present can be just as important to help quell fears, Barousse said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local advocates and support network leaders say concerns about where the Trump administration’s immigration authorities will pop up next, coupled with anxieties caused by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043453/trump-mobilizes-marines-for-duty-in-los-angeles\">unprecedented deployment of the U.S. Marines\u003c/a> in Los Angeles during anti-ICE protests, are behind the spike in reports and calls in the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What happened in L.A. … I’ve never seen anything like this in my lifetime, and I’m pretty sure that’s true for everybody who’s calling,” said Huy Tran, executive director of Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network, or SIREN, which is also a part of the Rapid Response Network.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12045180\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12045180\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/060825-SEIU-ICE-Protest-TS-29_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/060825-SEIU-ICE-Protest-TS-29_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/060825-SEIU-ICE-Protest-TS-29_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/060825-SEIU-ICE-Protest-TS-29_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators protest against recent ICE immigration raids as National Guard officers stand guard in front of a federal building in Los Angeles on June 9, 2025. \u003ccite>(Ted Soqui for CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tran said the group’s goals are to be proactive in planning for the most severe situations, like federal raids taking over portions of the community, but also to boost residents’ understanding of their rights and what to expect so they don’t feel like they have to lock themselves indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to be creative, we’re trying to be prepared. 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We’ve got to get people into a position where they can move past fear and concern and then be engaged,” Tran said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local governments in the South Bay have stepped up their contributions to organizations supporting Rapid Response Network and other immigrant defense efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San José City Council recently approved up to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043787/as-ice-fears-grow-san-jose-approves-1-5-million-to-support-immigrants\">$1.5 million for immigrant support services\u003c/a>, the largest such allocation in the city’s history by a wide margin.[aside postID=news_12043787 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED.jpg']In Santa Clara County, where about 40% of residents are foreign-born and Latinos make up roughly 1 in 4 people, supervisors have also increased spending and efforts to reassure the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between late last year and this month, the county allocated more than $8 million for immigrant support, outreach and education services in its annual budget, surpassing the previous high of roughly $6 million annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re an extraordinarily diverse community and that diversity is our strength,” County Executive James Williams said Friday. “Our county government is about taking care of those who are most in need, those who are more vulnerable, and ensuring that we have a thriving, safe and prosperous community for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barousse said with Congress preparing to allocate tens of billions for Trump’s “deportation machine,” the resources that are available locally will fall far short of what’s needed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Williams agreed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are standing up to do as much as we can and we’re doing more than anyone else to try to meet this need. 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Most of the zones are expected to remain dark until Saturday afternoon, after gusty conditions peak midday Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Winds have increased significantly today in portions of the East Bay, Sacramento Valley and Salinas Valley, combined with lowering relative humidity, leading to elevated fire danger concerns,” PG&E said in a statement Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11820077\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Camp-Fire-Aftermath.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11820077\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/Camp-Fire-Aftermath.jpg\" alt=\"A man looks over his burned home, destroyed by the Camp Fire in Nov. 2018 in Paradise. 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But after his first full year of preschool, Melchor said her son “has done a complete 360.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I ask him how he’s doing, how his day went, whatever he’s going through, he’s able to tell me everything in English and in Spanish,” she said. “Developmentally, so many things have just changed, and to me, it’s the best thing that could have happened to us.\u003cem>”\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Melchor was also counting on sending her younger son to Head Start when he’s old enough to enroll next year, so she could go back to work as a medical assistant. 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She leads classes on financial literacy, mental health awareness and ways to support children as they transition to TK or kindergarten. As part of that, she ensures children undergo dental and health checkups before they enter public schools — going as far as helping parents make appointments and finding transportation to the closest pediatric dentist in Salinas, 25 miles away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said losing Head Start would hurt working-class families who are already bracing for cuts to Medicaid and food stamps, better known as CalFresh in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to be harder for them to find medical facilities that will take them, and now they may not have a place to take their kids,” Corchado said. “It’s scary for a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-county\">Santa Clara County officials\u003c/a> celebrated the opening of a new residential treatment facility in San José on Thursday that will provide shared living space for people in jail diversion programs with mental health treatment needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The opening of what’s known as the Vermont House, just off The Alameda, will add 15 beds to the county’s growing inventory of places for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11977258/despite-progress-santa-clara-county-sees-sharp-rise-in-first-time-homelessness\">people who need transitional housing\u003c/a> and different levels of treatment or services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Having a stable and secure roof over one’s head helps to diminish all of the other challenges one may face,” Board of Supervisors President Otto Lee said Thursday during an event marking the opening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“By investing in these additional pathway-toward-treatment services, we can get more people toward care more quickly so that they can get the help they need. And by investing in these programs, we’re improving the quality of life for everyone in our community,” Lee said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Vermont House beds are spread across two homes, each of which will include a room for a live-in manager or site supervisor, and there will be “wraparound” services for tenants, including case management to help with things such as job placement or benefits applications. There will also be security on site during the week, at night and on weekends, officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044069\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044069\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-1_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A private bedroom is seen on June 12, 2025, at Vermont House in San José, a newly opened residential treatment facility for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Melissa Santos, head of people and workforce development at Community Solutions, the contractor who operates Vermont House for the county, said the program’s clients also can receive support for shopping and meal planning and therapy sessions, among other services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Essentially, the idea is independent living. We’re building their skills, and we’re helping them to gain the skills that they need to then go on with the next chapter of their lives,” Santos said.[aside postID=news_12043787 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250606-SJICEPROTEST-JG-5-KQED.jpg']The program aims to keep clients at the home for about six months to a year, and, during that time, works to find a permanent housing opportunity for them, whether it be an individual apartment or rejoining family or friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county purchased the Vermont House property from San José in January using a California Health Facilities Financing Authority grant. The city previously ran a program for housing formerly homeless veterans at the site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The house will now serve as a “middle ground for people leaving incarceration whose mental health does not require hospitalization or crisis stabilization, but would benefit from a structured treatment environment and support,” the county said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everyone, every resident here will have their own bedroom, their own space, closet, bed, beautiful light, windows and a dresser and the ability to close the door and to have privacy and security while they are proceeding on their journey back toward health,” Supervisor Susan Ellenberg said Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044070\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-4_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Susan Ellenberg speaks during an event celebrating the opening of Vermont House, a new residential treatment facility in San José for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“When residents walk through here, my anticipation and hope is that they immediately feel at home, that they feel well taken care of, that they feel comfortable,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the event on Thursday, Ellenberg and other supervisors appeared to allude to an ongoing war of words with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042370/in-san-jose-a-controversial-choice-for-unhoused-shelter-or-arrest\">San José Mayor Matt Mahan\u003c/a>, with whom they have clashed over his recently approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043418/san-jose-council-approves-mahans-shelter-enforcement-plan\">Responsibility to Shelter plan\u003c/a>, which aims to get unhoused people into temporary housing by arresting them if they refuse shelter multiple times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan has called on the county to expand shelter and treatment services as part of his campaign around the program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Every level of government bears responsibility,” Ellenberg said in an interview. “So, of course, we need to expand services, and we are working with urgency to do so. We are literally moving at the fastest speed possible in order to expand these services. I would love to see all of our cities work at that same speed to expand the supply of housing at all levels of income.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017754/meet-betty-duong-santa-clara-countys-first-vietnamese-american-supervisor\">Supervisor Betty Duong\u003c/a>, who represents the area where the Vermont House is located, said such facilities will be critical in the push to end homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044071\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044071\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/250612-SCCVERMONT-JG-3_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong speaks during an event marking the opening of Vermont House, a newly opened county-run residential treatment facility in San José for people leaving jail with mental health needs. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We know that true solutions require critical, clinical, true compassion and care. 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It’s underneath Highway 85, kind of right on the banks of the Guadalupe River, and it’s behind this big Almaden Ranch shopping center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:31] What really interested me about this encampment is right next to it, San Jose’s building a new tiny home community. And anyone who’s living in the encampament is getting offered kind of first dibs for moving into the site when it opens later this year. And so it raises the question of like, are people gonna take the offer? Why or why not? Since I first started visiting this camp, probably back in January, it has gotten in smaller and smaller. People have taken up offers of shelter, but some folks are still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] Have they said anything to you guys about giving you a spot there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:02:09] No, they said it was backed already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:11] Butch Larson and David Garcia are among them, and they’ve both been living at this camp near Cherry Avenue for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Yeah, I mean, do they have any interest in the tiny homes being built, the stone throw away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:26] They don’t. They like to do repairs. They have a lot of tools with them. 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They want a spot in the interim housing, but there are some folks like, like Butch Larson and David Garcia who say, no, they’re not going to accept that offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:35] And it’s really that slice of folks who have come into focus for Mayor Matt Mahan in recent months, right? How has the city tried to answer this hesitation that we’re seeing from people like Butch and David to accept these sort of interim shelter offers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Yeah, it’s been a balance of kind of carrots and sticks. Like I said, you know, there’s this outreach and the people who are encamped immediately around these shelter sites are getting first priority. But they’re also setting up the city as a no encampment zone around the shelter sites. So ultimately these are the encampments that are going to be cleared first. And it’s really what’s at the center of this policy that the mayor is rolling out now, this responsibility to shelter policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:25] I’ve come to believe that it is ineffective, politically infeasible, and frankly, cruel to those suffering from addiction and mental illness to only focus on the people who want help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:37] He’s saying once we offer people shelter, heated times, multiple times, and they’re still turning it down, that’s when we’re gonna bring in the police to potentially make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:48] I actually think the person who’s saying, no, I don’t want to come indoors, I don’t wanna help, I’d rather move down the block to the next neighborhood than come indoors is a real problem. Those are the folks who most need our help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] And this is sort of a way of like forcing people’s hands to accept this interim shelter, right? Why this approach? Why the threat of arrest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:11] Yeah, I think he sees it as kind of a middle path between letting encampments proliferate in the city, but then also not the approach pursued by other Bay Area cities like Fremont, for example, or elsewhere in California, like in Fresno, cities that have banned camping without offering housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] We don’t want to be cruel. The goal here is not to send anyone to jail, nor will that be the outcome of enforcing responsibility to shelter. The only point is when we’re doing everything we can and asking our community to invest millions, and ultimately, actually, it’s been billions of dollars statewide to end homelessness, people have got to, at a minimum, agree to come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:49] Mahan has tried to pitch responsibility to shelter. It’s like a middle ground between that. They’re gonna clear encampments, but they’re always gonna proceed that with an offer of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:59] I mean, which kind of raises the question, does San Jose have enough shelter to offer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:05] It doesn’t. There’s a city report that was out on this earlier this year that I think has a few really pertinent statistics. One is just the raw number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, which this report pegged at 5,477 people in San Jose. When you combine city shelter, interim housing, county shelter, there’s probably a little more than 3,000 units. There is not enough shelter for every person who is experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The second data point that I think is relevant here is how many people are actually resisting shelter and services. And this report says in San Jose, that’s around 10% of people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Now, it’s a moving number, right? At some encampments, you’ll have a 20% of people say no, or 30, but I think this is really at the heart of the discussion here. And it’s difficult number to pin down because these are humans. There was a guy I talked to at the Cherry Ave encampment who said, you know, he’s been battling depression and an outreach worker came to him, offered a spot in interim housing, and he turned it down. And he said, I’ve regretted that ever since. Like I was just having a really bad day. And I told that person, I’m not interested, go away. And ever since then, I’ve been regretting that. And if they came back, I would say yes. So it’s a really difficult statistic to pin down, but I think it’s at the heart of this question of, how many people are actually refusing shelter and would be impacted by this initiative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Right, and I feel like what’s interesting is that this policy that city council is voting on really puts to the center of the photo, I feel, like of what’s happening here. The people who aren’t accepting shelter, when it seems like there’s, I mean, there’s a demand issue, but also a supply issue here. If the stated goal is to try and compel unhoused people to accept help. Say you are arrested. I mean, what would happen to you next under this plan in an ideal world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:17] Depends on whose ideal world, but I would say like the way the mayor has crafted this is once, you know, someone is arrested. The city’s plan is to take that person to this mission street recovery station. It’s a 24 hour drop off site. It’s run by the county for people who are having like a mental health crisis or honestly just for people to sober up. But there’s no agreement for that right now. So as of now, San Jose police would take this person experiencing homelessness to the county jail. Give them a citation, and then the sheriff’s office says they’ll be released right there. They’re not going to lock people up for this. Then this person would, you know, come back to court for their arraignment or for their first court appearance. You’d have someone from the San Jose City Attorney’s Office asking the judge, hey, can we place this person in a diversion court, court order treatment? You’d the public defender there, maybe they’re pushing back against the terms of a treatment plan or asking for the case to be dismissed. But if the person does make it that far, they’re gonna be in this rigorous behavioral health court. And I actually spent some time in one of those courts this week. And you know, clients there, they’re getting support from a judge, they’re get support from caseworker, but they have to show up to their appointments, to their counseling, and they have these constant check-ins with the judge to make sure that’s happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:44] And there’s some people who don’t see that as a very realistic scenario, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:50] Yeah, that’s absolutely right. I mean, first of all, I think we should just predicate this with like, not everyone who’s refusing shelter has a behavioral health issue. If people are being routed in that direction, is that even going to capture the needs of everybody who is refusing shelter? I heard some skepticism on that front. There’s a lot of skepticism among people who work in county government. And ultimately, once someone is arrested by San Jose police, they’re then transferred over to the hands of the county government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:19] I am quite kind of skeptical of the use of the criminal legal system to address the homelessness problem our community is kind of wrestling with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] When I talked to, for example, the acting public defender in Santa Clara County, Damon Silver, he said, you know, after that person is arrested, taken to the jail, and then immediately released, he basically said, like, it’s wildly optimistic to expect them to then show up to even their first court hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] They’re struggling to survive. For us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is, and then successfully arriving at court, I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure to appear rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And then if they don’t show up, the judge can say, no more citations, this person needs to be brought into custody. So then that does increases the chances that someone will spend time in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] So what you create is this kind of negative cycle of arrest, re-arrest, detention, loss of property, loss of connection, and then all the resources it’s consuming to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] Fundamentally, everyone I talked to who’s involved in this behavioral health treatment program said, if you don’t have housing, your treatment is not going to work. And Damon Silver, the public defender, says the county just doesn’t have enough of that housing for treatment right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:47] It will ultimately, in our opinion, result in a lot more harm and be counterproductive to the goals, which is, in essence, get people out of homelessness, than achieve what the stated goal is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] Coming up, why Mayor Matt Mahan thinks this policy will help unlock the rest of his homelessness agenda. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:20] How am I supposed to make sense of all of this, Guy? I mean, if this policy that the city council is voting on next week is really about compelling people to accept help, but there’s actually not even enough help to offer, I mean what really is the goal here then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:41] Yeah, I mean, I would lay out two other big pieces of this that I think is kind of through the lens that the mayor is thinking of it. One is to use these arrests to force action by the county government, to push judges to order people into mental health or substance use treatment, to push the county, the board of supervisors to build more housing for people who are going through treatment. I think Mahan sees like, look, the city is spending a lot of money and doing a lot to stand up these shelters. And for the people who are not accepting those, he wants the county to take on a greater role to provide that kind of housing. So part of this is a forcing function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] I don’t control what happens on the county side, and much of that is determined by the state. Counties are essentially subsidiaries of the state, but I’m not going to be silent on what’s needed there either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:31] The other I would say is political. It’s been hard historically to get neighborhoods to accept homeless housing. It’s a big part of Mahan’s time as mayor to try to do that, to try and expand the shelter system, the interim housing system in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] The deal we’re making with the community is, if you allow us to build these solutions with your tax dollars, you are going to see a meaningful improvement. In fact, in the vicinity of the site, we’re going to end the era of encampments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:01] And he’s saying if we spend the money and we open this interim housing and there’s still an encampment right outside of the interim housing, there’s no way that people are gonna continue to support these shelter sites being built in their neighborhoods. So that political piece I think is also key.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:14:17] When you get that kind of thing that comes in your neighborhood, you say, what’s going on? But okay, they said they’re gonna spread it out through the rest of the city. Here we go, what, five years later, we have 50% of the tiny homes and the safe parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:30] One of the people I think has a real stake in this is this guy Issa Ajilouny. He lives in a South San Jose neighborhood that has taken on a lot of the shelter sites, a good proportion of the sites that the city has set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] We want to be treated well and we don’t appreciate when they’re moving people in and then they’re taking from the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:49] Issa Ajlouny is the head of this local committee that was set up to kind of be a go between from the city to the neighborhoods around these shelter sites. And Issa says since the site has opened, you know, he does hear complaints from neighbors about there’s still encampments around or we’re hearing issues from going on at the\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:15:10] I’m trying to be the person that says, hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to them and try to help them. But in turn, we needed to be treated as good neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:15:23] He feels like neighbors are not completely satisfied with how things have gone since the site has opened. And in his opinion, it’s really incumbent upon the city to, in his words, like throw them a bone. And so he supports the mayor’s plan to kind of step up enforcement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:15:43] I’m one of those that feel like it’s okay to push someone a little bit to get help. Just like we do with our kids, we push them a little, we discipline them to help them grow up in the right way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:15:56] The final vote on this policy is coming soon. Obviously, Matt Mahan is for it. What would need to happen next? And who else has come out in support?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:08] Yeah, so the final vote is Tuesday, alongside the San Jose city budget. And in addition to his allies in the council, Mahan also has gotten the support of the police union in San Jose, the fire union in Santa Jose, and their leaders have argued that, you know, clearing encampments, getting people into the care of the county is gonna ease the burden on the work that kind of their officers have to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] And who’s come out against this proposal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:35] So you have some progressives on the city council who are opposed, and really, all of the county government leadership has been the biggest opponents of this plan. From the board of supervisors, then you have the sheriff, the district attorney, the county executive, they’ve all weighed in with criticism of Mahan’s plan, basically saying it’s not gonna be workable. They don’t feel like this is, A, the best use of law enforcement resources to have, you know, be arresting people, bringing them into the jail. Um, and they pointed back to the fact that the shortage of housing is ultimately going to be a factor that’s going to, you know, hurt any, any kind of effort. And nothing is going to successful until you have more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:18] I mean, what am I supposed to make of that Guy? The fact that the city and county officials are really split on whether this is the best and most effective way to address homelessness. 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Whether or not those two groups can work together and work it out, I think is gonna kind of play a key role in the success of this initiative and also future initiatives that overlap between housing and behavioral health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:18:31] And I mean, Guy, if this passes, how would we know if it’s working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:18:37] I asked Mahan about this, like, what would success look like for responsibility to shelter? And he said, you know, getting everyone indoors is the goal, but specifically for people who are turning down shelter, getting them into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:18:50] If we intervene earlier and get people connected to appropriate services, we have a much better shot at helping them turn their lives around and better manage an addiction or a mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:19:03] As we explored, that’s a complicated path. Will that happen? We’ll have to see. And then on the second piece of the political support for future interim housing, we’ll have see whether this can help the shelter program expand. If clearing encampments and showing to neighborhoods that have accepted shelter, that their neighborhood is gonna look a lot different and better after this plan goes into place, will that help the city expand interim housing into other areas? Does this help Mahan go to the whole West side of the city, which has no shelter and say, look, here’s my pitch for why you should accept it. Because I also think the other side of that coin is the people who live near shelters right now do feel like they’re taking on an outsized burden as far as having interim housing in their neighborhood. And if those projects and those facilities are spread out more throughout the city maybe you won’t have as much of a dynamic of residents feeling like I need something in return. 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You’ve seen the examples we have in San Jose where there have been RVs or encampments cleared is that oftentimes, yes, the immediate area where the clearing happens looks a lot different, but then a mile away, a few blocks away, then the encambment moves over there, the RVs move over there. So I don’t think anyone is under the illusion that this is gonna be like an overnight fix.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:05] I know you went to an encampment in San Jose. What did it look like and who did you meet when you were out there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:13] So this is an encampment off of Cherry Avenue in South San Jose. It’s underneath Highway 85, kind of right on the banks of the Guadalupe River, and it’s behind this big Almaden Ranch shopping center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:01:31] What really interested me about this encampment is right next to it, San Jose’s building a new tiny home community. And anyone who’s living in the encampament is getting offered kind of first dibs for moving into the site when it opens later this year. And so it raises the question of like, are people gonna take the offer? Why or why not? Since I first started visiting this camp, probably back in January, it has gotten in smaller and smaller. People have taken up offers of shelter, but some folks are still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:05] Have they said anything to you guys about giving you a spot there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:02:09] No, they said it was backed already.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:11] Butch Larson and David Garcia are among them, and they’ve both been living at this camp near Cherry Avenue for years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:19] Yeah, I mean, do they have any interest in the tiny homes being built, the stone throw away?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:26] They don’t. They like to do repairs. They have a lot of tools with them. They’re concerned that they won’t be able to bring the tools into the tiny homes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:02:45] Yeah, they tried to give me a tiny home. That was bulls–t. Couldn’t have any visitors, most of all, right? Even in jail, you get visitors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:02:52] They don’t really feel comfortable moving in. And I think, look, the tiny homes are pretty low barrier. They don’t do drug testing there. You can bring in pets, you can come in and out. But at the end of the day, comfort is a feeling and they don’t feel comfortable making that move.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Butch Larson \u003c/strong>[00:03:12] I’ve been telling everybody out here about how you’re the first person to go to jail over this s–t, and I’ve been out here the longest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:17] And others I’ve talked to at the encampment feel differently. They want a spot in the interim housing, but there are some folks like, like Butch Larson and David Garcia who say, no, they’re not going to accept that offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:35] And it’s really that slice of folks who have come into focus for Mayor Matt Mahan in recent months, right? How has the city tried to answer this hesitation that we’re seeing from people like Butch and David to accept these sort of interim shelter offers?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:03:57] Yeah, it’s been a balance of kind of carrots and sticks. Like I said, you know, there’s this outreach and the people who are encamped immediately around these shelter sites are getting first priority. But they’re also setting up the city as a no encampment zone around the shelter sites. So ultimately these are the encampments that are going to be cleared first. And it’s really what’s at the center of this policy that the mayor is rolling out now, this responsibility to shelter policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:25] I’ve come to believe that it is ineffective, politically infeasible, and frankly, cruel to those suffering from addiction and mental illness to only focus on the people who want help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:04:37] He’s saying once we offer people shelter, heated times, multiple times, and they’re still turning it down, that’s when we’re gonna bring in the police to potentially make arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:04:48] I actually think the person who’s saying, no, I don’t want to come indoors, I don’t wanna help, I’d rather move down the block to the next neighborhood than come indoors is a real problem. Those are the folks who most need our help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:01] And this is sort of a way of like forcing people’s hands to accept this interim shelter, right? Why this approach? Why the threat of arrest?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:11] Yeah, I think he sees it as kind of a middle path between letting encampments proliferate in the city, but then also not the approach pursued by other Bay Area cities like Fremont, for example, or elsewhere in California, like in Fresno, cities that have banned camping without offering housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:05:29] We don’t want to be cruel. The goal here is not to send anyone to jail, nor will that be the outcome of enforcing responsibility to shelter. The only point is when we’re doing everything we can and asking our community to invest millions, and ultimately, actually, it’s been billions of dollars statewide to end homelessness, people have got to, at a minimum, agree to come indoors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:05:49] Mahan has tried to pitch responsibility to shelter. It’s like a middle ground between that. They’re gonna clear encampments, but they’re always gonna proceed that with an offer of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:05:59] I mean, which kind of raises the question, does San Jose have enough shelter to offer?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:06:05] It doesn’t. There’s a city report that was out on this earlier this year that I think has a few really pertinent statistics. One is just the raw number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness, which this report pegged at 5,477 people in San Jose. When you combine city shelter, interim housing, county shelter, there’s probably a little more than 3,000 units. There is not enough shelter for every person who is experiencing unsheltered homelessness. The second data point that I think is relevant here is how many people are actually resisting shelter and services. And this report says in San Jose, that’s around 10% of people who are experiencing unsheltered homelessness. Now, it’s a moving number, right? At some encampments, you’ll have a 20% of people say no, or 30, but I think this is really at the heart of the discussion here. And it’s difficult number to pin down because these are humans. There was a guy I talked to at the Cherry Ave encampment who said, you know, he’s been battling depression and an outreach worker came to him, offered a spot in interim housing, and he turned it down. And he said, I’ve regretted that ever since. Like I was just having a really bad day. And I told that person, I’m not interested, go away. And ever since then, I’ve been regretting that. And if they came back, I would say yes. So it’s a really difficult statistic to pin down, but I think it’s at the heart of this question of, how many people are actually refusing shelter and would be impacted by this initiative?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Right, and I feel like what’s interesting is that this policy that city council is voting on really puts to the center of the photo, I feel, like of what’s happening here. The people who aren’t accepting shelter, when it seems like there’s, I mean, there’s a demand issue, but also a supply issue here. If the stated goal is to try and compel unhoused people to accept help. Say you are arrested. I mean, what would happen to you next under this plan in an ideal world?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:08:17] Depends on whose ideal world, but I would say like the way the mayor has crafted this is once, you know, someone is arrested. The city’s plan is to take that person to this mission street recovery station. It’s a 24 hour drop off site. It’s run by the county for people who are having like a mental health crisis or honestly just for people to sober up. But there’s no agreement for that right now. So as of now, San Jose police would take this person experiencing homelessness to the county jail. Give them a citation, and then the sheriff’s office says they’ll be released right there. They’re not going to lock people up for this. Then this person would, you know, come back to court for their arraignment or for their first court appearance. You’d have someone from the San Jose City Attorney’s Office asking the judge, hey, can we place this person in a diversion court, court order treatment? You’d the public defender there, maybe they’re pushing back against the terms of a treatment plan or asking for the case to be dismissed. But if the person does make it that far, they’re gonna be in this rigorous behavioral health court. And I actually spent some time in one of those courts this week. And you know, clients there, they’re getting support from a judge, they’re get support from caseworker, but they have to show up to their appointments, to their counseling, and they have these constant check-ins with the judge to make sure that’s happening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:44] And there’s some people who don’t see that as a very realistic scenario, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:09:50] Yeah, that’s absolutely right. I mean, first of all, I think we should just predicate this with like, not everyone who’s refusing shelter has a behavioral health issue. If people are being routed in that direction, is that even going to capture the needs of everybody who is refusing shelter? I heard some skepticism on that front. There’s a lot of skepticism among people who work in county government. And ultimately, once someone is arrested by San Jose police, they’re then transferred over to the hands of the county government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:19] I am quite kind of skeptical of the use of the criminal legal system to address the homelessness problem our community is kind of wrestling with.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:10:29] When I talked to, for example, the acting public defender in Santa Clara County, Damon Silver, he said, you know, after that person is arrested, taken to the jail, and then immediately released, he basically said, like, it’s wildly optimistic to expect them to then show up to even their first court hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:10:46] They’re struggling to survive. For us to expect that they’re likely going to be able to manage both the transportation, the monitoring of when their court date is, and then successfully arriving at court, I think we’re going to anticipate a large failure to appear rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:03] And then if they don’t show up, the judge can say, no more citations, this person needs to be brought into custody. So then that does increases the chances that someone will spend time in jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:12] So what you create is this kind of negative cycle of arrest, re-arrest, detention, loss of property, loss of connection, and then all the resources it’s consuming to do that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:11:30] Fundamentally, everyone I talked to who’s involved in this behavioral health treatment program said, if you don’t have housing, your treatment is not going to work. And Damon Silver, the public defender, says the county just doesn’t have enough of that housing for treatment right now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Damon Silver \u003c/strong>[00:11:47] It will ultimately, in our opinion, result in a lot more harm and be counterproductive to the goals, which is, in essence, get people out of homelessness, than achieve what the stated goal is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:03] Coming up, why Mayor Matt Mahan thinks this policy will help unlock the rest of his homelessness agenda. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:20] How am I supposed to make sense of all of this, Guy? I mean, if this policy that the city council is voting on next week is really about compelling people to accept help, but there’s actually not even enough help to offer, I mean what really is the goal here then?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:12:41] Yeah, I mean, I would lay out two other big pieces of this that I think is kind of through the lens that the mayor is thinking of it. One is to use these arrests to force action by the county government, to push judges to order people into mental health or substance use treatment, to push the county, the board of supervisors to build more housing for people who are going through treatment. I think Mahan sees like, look, the city is spending a lot of money and doing a lot to stand up these shelters. And for the people who are not accepting those, he wants the county to take on a greater role to provide that kind of housing. So part of this is a forcing function.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:19] I don’t control what happens on the county side, and much of that is determined by the state. Counties are essentially subsidiaries of the state, but I’m not going to be silent on what’s needed there either.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:13:31] The other I would say is political. It’s been hard historically to get neighborhoods to accept homeless housing. It’s a big part of Mahan’s time as mayor to try to do that, to try and expand the shelter system, the interim housing system in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:13:47] The deal we’re making with the community is, if you allow us to build these solutions with your tax dollars, you are going to see a meaningful improvement. 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He lives in a South San Jose neighborhood that has taken on a lot of the shelter sites, a good proportion of the sites that the city has set up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:14:44] We want to be treated well and we don’t appreciate when they’re moving people in and then they’re taking from the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:14:49] Issa Ajlouny is the head of this local committee that was set up to kind of be a go between from the city to the neighborhoods around these shelter sites. And Issa says since the site has opened, you know, he does hear complaints from neighbors about there’s still encampments around or we’re hearing issues from going on at the\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Issa Ajlouny \u003c/strong>[00:15:10] I’m trying to be the person that says, hey, neighborhood, we need to be good neighbors to them and try to help them. 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And who else has come out in support?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:08] Yeah, so the final vote is Tuesday, alongside the San Jose city budget. And in addition to his allies in the council, Mahan also has gotten the support of the police union in San Jose, the fire union in Santa Jose, and their leaders have argued that, you know, clearing encampments, getting people into the care of the county is gonna ease the burden on the work that kind of their officers have to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:16:32] And who’s come out against this proposal?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Guy Marzorati \u003c/strong>[00:16:35] So you have some progressives on the city council who are opposed, and really, all of the county government leadership has been the biggest opponents of this plan. From the board of supervisors, then you have the sheriff, the district attorney, the county executive, they’ve all weighed in with criticism of Mahan’s plan, basically saying it’s not gonna be workable. They don’t feel like this is, A, the best use of law enforcement resources to have, you know, be arresting people, bringing them into the jail. Um, and they pointed back to the fact that the shortage of housing is ultimately going to be a factor that’s going to, you know, hurt any, any kind of effort. And nothing is going to successful until you have more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:17:18] I mean, what am I supposed to make of that Guy? The fact that the city and county officials are really split on whether this is the best and most effective way to address homelessness. 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