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The event was organized by SEIU Local 521, representing workers in the Santa Clara County Department of Family and Children’s Services. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Phoenix’s death, followed by the death of her mother four months later, brought a maelstrom on the department, spurring two different state investigations lambasting it for safety failures that have endangered children under its watch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>County leaders in late 2023 \u003ca href=\"https://www.ktvu.com/news/santa-clara-county-supe-wants-child-services-overhaul-after-babys-fentanyl-death\">called for an overhaul of the department\u003c/a>, and while some changes are being put into place, workers said the agency needs to first stabilize its workforce and fill gaps before trying to reorganize the entire operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Karlie Eacock, an emergency response social worker, said her team has a 50% vacancy right now, similar to some other teams in the department, and she is worried about the compounding harm on workers, families and communities the longer the issues persist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But every day, we have the opportunity to rewrite that history, to change that history. 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She said that her team at the Department of Family and Children’s Services is severely understaffed. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>County Supervisor Betty Duong said the problems with staffing in the Family and Children’s Services are, unfortunately, not unique.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Staffing and hiring are challenges that’s being felt across the county organization. So they are right to put pressure on us. That’s what we’re here for. And this is how we push forward change,” Duong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Duong said she’d soon be joining the Board of Supervisors’ Children, Seniors and Families Committee and said she looks forward to “digging in deep” into the agency’s issues that workers and other advocates are highlighting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they’re coming here in their time off or taking time out of their work day to come here, these are concerns that have to be heard, and we have to be working together on that,” Duong said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For its part, DFCS said in a statement on Tuesday that it has recently hired 20 new social workers and placed them in two teams with the biggest staffing needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Hiring additional social workers and supporting staff to best serve children and families continue to be top priorities for DFCS leadership, as we and other child welfare agencies throughout the state are facing a critical shortage of qualified applicants for open social worker positions,” the agency said.[aside label=\"More Santa Clara News\" postID=\"news_12017754,news_12015944,news_12021981\"]“DFCS is committed to recruiting additional qualified staff as quickly as possible and to partnering with staff on the development of solutions to meet the community’s need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among other issues, the agency is also being sued by the grandfather of a 6-year-old boy named Jordan Walker, who was stabbed to death in a home in San José in August 2023.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Morian Walker Sr. is alleging the county agency left his grandson in a dangerous home, even after he pleaded with the county to let him take custody of the child due to concerns about his safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency’s director, Damion Wright, submitted his resignation letter in late December and plans to step down on Friday. In his letter, Wright said his father’s death “has prompted me to reevaluate my priorities” and that he wanted to be closer to his family in Southern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The letter did not mention Phoenix’s death — which happened while he was interim co-director of the agency — or any other controversies surrounding the DFCS.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy Kinnear-Rausch, the current assistant director of the agency, will take over as acting director on Jan. 18, the county announced on Tuesday, adding that it will subsequently hire a recruiting firm and start a national search for a new director for the agency in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agency staff and their unions “will be included on interview panels and provide input to help select the right leader to guide the department in protecting the safety and well-being of children in Santa Clara County,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jennifer Celaya, who runs the nonprofit New Beginnings Family Services, which supports families dealing with the legal and child welfare systems, said the next director should be someone who is intimately familiar with the way the system works on the ground level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it’s going to take someone with integrity, morals and commitment to really show their compassion for the kids and the families,” she said, “because these kids are dying, and you’re not seeing it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 1:50 p.m., Saturday:\u003c/strong> Santa Clara Vice Mayor Anthony Becker has resigned after being convicted Thursday of lying under oath.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of Santa Clara made the announcement in a press release late Friday, including Becker’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclaraca.gov/home/showdocument?id=85656&t=638691133869363572\">letter of resignation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker’s conviction stems from a 2022 civil grand jury report which criticized the influence the San Francisco 49ers have on city politics. Becker has received financial support from the 49ers in recent elections and allegedly leaked that report to a team official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was the greatest honor, joy and privilege to serve as your representative,” Becker said in his resignation letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker was first elected to represent District 6 on theSanta Clara City Council in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker lost his race for re-election in November. The District 6 seat will remain vacant until December 17, when Kelly Cox, a Santa Clara University official who won Becker’s seat, will be sworn in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 3 p.m., Thursday: \u003c/strong>Santa Clara Councilmember Anthony Becker is guilty of felony perjury, a jury has decided, closing out a two-week trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 12-person panel in the trial of the South Bay official returned the verdict early Thursday afternoon at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse, after deliberating for only roughly three hours between Wednesday evening and Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We the jury, in the above entitled case, find the defendant Anthony Becker guilty of perjury under oath,” the court clerk said as she read the verdict.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The verdict vindicates the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, whose lead prosecutor on the case Jason Malinsky emphasized to the jury how clear the choice for guilt should be, and significantly mars Becker’s reputation as a public official.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Superior Court Judge Javier Alcala set sentencing for Jan. 31.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker, who has consistently denied wrongdoing throughout his indictment and trial, stayed seated and mostly still while the verdict was read out by the court clerk, closing his eyes at times for a few seconds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Alcala ended the day’s proceedings, Becker walked quickly out of the courtroom sighing and looking visibly frustrated. He and his legal team declined to comment on the verdict after leaving court, but one of Becker’s attorneys, Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya, told KQED he plans to file an appeal in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial — which began just one day after Becker lost his bid for reelection on Nov. 6 — hinged on whether he leaked a confidential version of a civil grand jury report in 2022, and then lied about it to the grand jury as it investigated the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take very seriously in the DA’s office the fundamental idea that when you raise your hand and you walk into court and you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, that’s what’s going to happen,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said. “And defendant Becker did not do that, and he lied. And that’s perjury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 civil grand jury report, titled \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/unsportsmanlike-conduct-santa-clara-city-council_0.pdf\">\u003cem>Unsportsmanlike Conduct\u003c/em> (PDF)\u003c/a>, accused Becker and four other council members of having unethical and inappropriately close relationships with top lobbyists and officials from the San Francisco 49ers, who play in the publicly owned Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker was elected to the council in 2020 as part of a raft of city council candidates backed by millions of dollars of campaign support from the football team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy District Attorney Jason Malinsky gives his closing arguments to the jury in the perjury trial of Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office charged Becker in April 2023 with a misdemeanor for violating his duty as an elected official to keep the document confidential until its public release and with a felony perjury charge for lying to a grand jury about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors alleged that on Oct. 6, 2022 — four days before the report was set to be released to the public — Becker leaked a copy to Rahul Chandhok, who was then the top lobbyist for the 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said this case should serve as a reminder that the public expects a higher standard for elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also a reminder of the admonition that sometimes the cover up is even worse than the crime,” Rosen said. “So the thing to do when you have done something wrong is to admit what you’ve done and move on, not lie about it under oath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandhok, the prosecution’s lead witness, testified that Becker sent the report via the secure messaging app Signal. The leak allowed Chandhok and his public affairs team to craft an early response to the harshly critical report and get in front of its assertions, which the team called a “hatchet job” at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker also is alleged to have leaked the report to a reporter at \u003ca href=\"https://www.svvoice.com/\">Silicon Valley Voice\u003c/a>, a local online publication considered friendly to the 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also relied on the testimony of Becker’s fellow Councilmember Suds Jain, who testified at a criminal grand jury and during the trial that Becker told Jain in a phone call that he had leaked a copy to the reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a host of digital forensic evidence, such as remnants on Becker’s phone that show he deleted the Signal app minutes before speaking with investigators in late 2022 about the leak. Prosecutors said Becker lied to them as well about when he deleted the app and how frequently he used it to communicate with Chandhok and others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016970\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016970\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya presents his closing arguments to the jury in the perjury trial of Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During the trial, Becker’s defense team attempted to raise doubts about the trustworthiness of Chandhok — who \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014279/ex-49ers-lobbyist-admits-he-lied-about-leak-to-protect-santa-clara-council-member\">testified that he lied\u003c/a> to reporters and some of his team members about the source of the leak — as well as about the quality of the DA’s investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya, one of Becker’s attorneys, said the prosecution wore “blinders” during their investigation and wanted the jury to wear them, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The defense also tried on Tuesday to get Becker acquitted due to what they called “insufficient evidence” to convict, but Alcala quickly denied it. Late Tuesday afternoon, the defense handed Alcala a motion asking for a mistrial, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016679/closing-arguments-made-in-perjury-trial-of-santa-clara-councilmember-anthony-becker\">Alcala denied\u003c/a> the following afternoon, shortly after the jury was sent to deliberate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In support of its request for a mistrial, the defense cited several issues in the case, including that the prosecution lost an audio recording the lead investigator made on an iPhone when searching Chandhok’s home for evidence, and said Alcala’s questions to some witnesses during the trial were improper.[aside postID=news_12016679 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-1020x680.jpg']Attorneys for Becker also claimed the prosecution turned over other evidence late, and that the defense was barred from bringing in some witnesses, including Santa Clara Mayor Lisa Gillmor, to question her about whether she leaked a copy of the report to others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This prejudiced Mr. Becker because he was actively prevented from mounting a defense as to the core question of whether he leaked the report as charged and as to the perjury charge,” the defense wrote in its motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alcala, however, consistently barred that approach throughout the case, saying that whether anyone else leaked the report doesn’t change the case against Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen agreed after the trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fact that others may have done what Mr. Becker did does not excuse Mr. Becker from what he did. And we investigated everyone. And we only bring charges when we can prove them beyond a reasonable doubt to a unanimous jury,” Rosen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said the maximum penalty in state prison for perjury under oath is four years, but said he doesn’t expect Becker’s case to involve a prison term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there does need to be some accountability, whether that’s a combination of jail time and fines,” Rosen said, “because this is very serious, what the defendant did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Juan Carlos Lara contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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He and his legal team declined to comment on the verdict after leaving court, but one of Becker’s attorneys, Deputy Public Defender Christopher Montoya, told KQED he plans to file an appeal in the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trial — which began just one day after Becker lost his bid for reelection on Nov. 6 — hinged on whether he leaked a confidential version of a civil grand jury report in 2022, and then lied about it to the grand jury as it investigated the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We take very seriously in the DA’s office the fundamental idea that when you raise your hand and you walk into court and you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, that’s what’s going to happen,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said. “And defendant Becker did not do that, and he lied. And that’s perjury.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2022 civil grand jury report, titled \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/unsportsmanlike-conduct-santa-clara-city-council_0.pdf\">\u003cem>Unsportsmanlike Conduct\u003c/em> (PDF)\u003c/a>, accused Becker and four other council members of having unethical and inappropriately close relationships with top lobbyists and officials from the San Francisco 49ers, who play in the publicly owned Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker was elected to the council in 2020 as part of a raft of city council candidates backed by millions of dollars of campaign support from the football team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016971\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016971\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241203-BECKERTRIAL-JG-4-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy District Attorney Jason Malinsky gives his closing arguments to the jury in the perjury trial of Santa Clara City Councilmember Anthony Becker at the South County Morgan Hill Courthouse on Dec. 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office charged Becker in April 2023 with a misdemeanor for violating his duty as an elected official to keep the document confidential until its public release and with a felony perjury charge for lying to a grand jury about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors alleged that on Oct. 6, 2022 — four days before the report was set to be released to the public — Becker leaked a copy to Rahul Chandhok, who was then the top lobbyist for the 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen said this case should serve as a reminder that the public expects a higher standard for elected officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s also a reminder of the admonition that sometimes the cover up is even worse than the crime,” Rosen said. “So the thing to do when you have done something wrong is to admit what you’ve done and move on, not lie about it under oath.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandhok, the prosecution’s lead witness, testified that Becker sent the report via the secure messaging app Signal. The leak allowed Chandhok and his public affairs team to craft an early response to the harshly critical report and get in front of its assertions, which the team called a “hatchet job” at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker also is alleged to have leaked the report to a reporter at \u003ca href=\"https://www.svvoice.com/\">Silicon Valley Voice\u003c/a>, a local online publication considered friendly to the 49ers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prosecutors also relied on the testimony of Becker’s fellow Councilmember Suds Jain, who testified at a criminal grand jury and during the trial that Becker told Jain in a phone call that he had leaked a copy to the reporter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was also a host of digital forensic evidence, such as remnants on Becker’s phone that show he deleted the Signal app minutes before speaking with investigators in late 2022 about the leak. 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He also said the company was “fear-mongering” by suggesting that delaying the decision could result in Good Samaritan having to close down entirely because it wouldn’t meet state earthquake safety deadlines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m troubled by the rhetoric implying that failing to pass this rezoning, especially when we were just going to postpone it a month, would result in Good Samaritan to close,” Ortiz said. “In my opinion, that’s fear-mongering of the worst kind, and you guys should be ashamed of yourselves.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Councilmember Pam Foley, who represents the area where Good Samaritan is located, said the choice was clear for her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If Good Sam closes because it cannot meet the timeline, we lose access to critical health care resources. “How can I say to my constituents and the community at large, ‘Well, that’s HCA’s fault.’ How can any of us say that?” she said. “Let’s be perfectly clear. 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And in 2004, it closed San José Medical Center shortly after buying it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other residents and mental health advocates also noted that HCA last year, citing a lack of staff, cut a 21-bed inpatient psychiatric services program at Mission Oaks Hospital in Los Gatos, which served Good Samaritan patients who needed acute mental health treatment. At the same time, it also closed Good Samaritan’s pediatric intensive care unit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m not against the development. 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But he emphasized that it was Becker who leaked the report to him first, reiterating the assertion he made during his first two days on the stand — that he had received the confidential copy of the grand jury report Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elected in 2020 as part of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11844213/why-are-the-49ers-spending-millions-on-a-city-council-race-ask-jed-york\">slate of city council candidates\u003c/a> backed by millions of dollars from the 49ers, Becker is accused of leaking a confidential civil grand jury report titled “Unsportsmanlike Conduct” to Chandhok and a local media outlet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report accuses Becker and four other council members of having unethical and inappropriately close relationships with the team, whose stadium is located in the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office charged Becker in April 2023 with a misdemeanor for violating his duty as an elected official to keep the document confidential until its public release and with felony perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After agreeing to an immunity deal with prosecutors last year, Chandhok agreed to testify that Becker sent him the report, via a secure messaging app, four days before its publication date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the third day of Becker’s trial, his defense team pointed to communications from around the time the report was leaked, noting that Chandhok had said in emails and texts with journalists and government officials that the team received the report from “multiple press outlets” or “the media,” but never mentioned Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Santa Clara City Attorney Steve Ngo on Wednesday testified that when the city received its confidential copy of the grand jury report on Oct. 5, he knew it would be a “politically charged” document, and was “concerned” it would be illegally leaked ahead of its Oct. 10 public release date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly why he emailed Santa Clara’s mayor and the entire City Council on Oct. 5, writing “DO NOT DISCLOSE CONTEXT OF REPORT UNTIL MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, at 10AM” in all caps, red, bold and underlined text, Ngo told the court\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the document was leaked anyway, Ngo emailed the Council and mayor again on Oct. 7, the day multiple media outlets published a story about the report, reiterating his advice to still not share it until the scheduled release date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the charges last year, District Attorney Jeff Rosen said Becker “violated the public’s trust” with his alleged actions.[aside label=\"more South Bay news\" tag=\"santa-clara-county\"]Becker pleaded not guilty in May 2023, and after months of delays and extensions, the trial began last week in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jury \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/unsportsmanlike-conduct-santa-clara-city-council_0.pdf\">report\u003c/a> alleges that Becker and the four other council members in question “vote in a manner that is favorable to the 49ers.” The group, it asserts, “frequently meets with registered 49ers lobbyists close in time to City Council meetings but does not reveal the substance of those meetings to the remainder of the City Council or the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandhok testified on Nov. 6 that the early access to the report allowed the 49ers to strategize in advance about how best to respond to allegations about the team’s questionable influence on local politics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/ex-49ers-lobbyist-testifies-tried-protect-santa-19899016.php\">the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> last week..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandhok — who left the 49ers in April 2023 to become the chief lobbyist for the U.S. Soccer Federation — also testified on Nov. 6 that Becker told him he distributed the report to a couple of local news websites and initially tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/ex-49ers-lobbyist-testifies-tried-protect-santa-19899016.php\">cover up\u003c/a> the source of the document leak by claiming that the 49ers got the report from multiple media sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant Fondo, Becker’s defense attorney, spent much of Tuesday questioning Chandhok about his communications with people besides Becker, including the Santa Clara city attorney, the county official in charge of the civil grand jury program and local reporters..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fondo asked why Chandhok would lie to or mislead those people about where he got the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questioning became more heated when Fondo zeroed in on an email exchange in which a local journalist asked Chandhok “who or what entity” leaked the report. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office charged Becker in April 2023 with a misdemeanor for violating his duty as an elected official to keep the document confidential until its public release and with felony perjury for allegedly lying to a grand jury about his actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After agreeing to an immunity deal with prosecutors last year, Chandhok agreed to testify that Becker sent him the report, via a secure messaging app, four days before its publication date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Tuesday, the third day of Becker’s trial, his defense team pointed to communications from around the time the report was leaked, noting that Chandhok had said in emails and texts with journalists and government officials that the team received the report from “multiple press outlets” or “the media,” but never mentioned Becker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Santa Clara City Attorney Steve Ngo on Wednesday testified that when the city received its confidential copy of the grand jury report on Oct. 5, he knew it would be a “politically charged” document, and was “concerned” it would be illegally leaked ahead of its Oct. 10 public release date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly why he emailed Santa Clara’s mayor and the entire City Council on Oct. 5, writing “DO NOT DISCLOSE CONTEXT OF REPORT UNTIL MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, at 10AM” in all caps, red, bold and underlined text, Ngo told the court\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the document was leaked anyway, Ngo emailed the Council and mayor again on Oct. 7, the day multiple media outlets published a story about the report, reiterating his advice to still not share it until the scheduled release date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In announcing the charges last year, District Attorney Jeff Rosen said Becker “violated the public’s trust” with his alleged actions.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Becker pleaded not guilty in May 2023, and after months of delays and extensions, the trial began last week in Santa Clara County Superior Court in Morgan Hill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The grand jury \u003ca href=\"https://santaclara.courts.ca.gov/system/files/unsportsmanlike-conduct-santa-clara-city-council_0.pdf\">report\u003c/a> alleges that Becker and the four other council members in question “vote in a manner that is favorable to the 49ers.” The group, it asserts, “frequently meets with registered 49ers lobbyists close in time to City Council meetings but does not reveal the substance of those meetings to the remainder of the City Council or the public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandhok testified on Nov. 6 that the early access to the report allowed the 49ers to strategize in advance about how best to respond to allegations about the team’s questionable influence on local politics, \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/ex-49ers-lobbyist-testifies-tried-protect-santa-19899016.php\">the\u003cem> San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> last week..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandhok — who left the 49ers in April 2023 to become the chief lobbyist for the U.S. Soccer Federation — also testified on Nov. 6 that Becker told him he distributed the report to a couple of local news websites and initially tried to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sports/49ers/article/ex-49ers-lobbyist-testifies-tried-protect-santa-19899016.php\">cover up\u003c/a> the source of the document leak by claiming that the 49ers got the report from multiple media sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Grant Fondo, Becker’s defense attorney, spent much of Tuesday questioning Chandhok about his communications with people besides Becker, including the Santa Clara city attorney, the county official in charge of the civil grand jury program and local reporters..\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fondo asked why Chandhok would lie to or mislead those people about where he got the report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The questioning became more heated when Fondo zeroed in on an email exchange in which a local journalist asked Chandhok “who or what entity” leaked the report. Chandhok responded, “I do not know. We were provided a copy from members of the media.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So are you lying today, or were you lying then when you answered that question?” Fondo asked him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chandhok clarified that he didn’t tell the journalist that he had received the report from Becker because he thought it would be detrimental to the 49ers to share information about the source of a leaked confidential report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So you lied on Oct. 9 to this reporter?” Fondo asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, I was not as transparent and truthful as what one would hope to be in all situations and circumstances,” Chandhok said. “But I also felt like I had a duty to protect the organization which I worked for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions from lead prosecutor Jason Malinsky, Chandhok also said he thought it would be “adverse” to Becker’s 2022 mayoral campaign — which the 49ers invested heavily in — if he revealed that Becker was the source of the leak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becker’s trial is scheduled to continue through the remainder of this into next week, with more than two dozen potential witnesses, only three of which have taken the stand so far.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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Meanwhile, if judges vacate their seats in the middle of their six-year terms, the governor typically appoints their replacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Judges in the Superior Court system often rotate through different assignments and oversee various civil and criminal cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The candidates in this race both work for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office: Boyarsky, 59, is the chief assistant district attorney and has worked in the office for 30 years, and Stebbins, 55, is a deputy district attorney who has 26 years of experience in the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebbins, 55, told KQED she wants to become a judge because she’s done all she can do in her current role as a deputy district attorney. In her 26 years in the office, Stebbins said, she prosecuted a vast range of criminal cases — from domestic violence and murder to environmental and consumer protection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I can’t really think of any crimes left that I haven’t prosecuted,” said Stebbins, who also teaches law enforcement agencies how to investigate sexual assault, child molestation and internet crimes cases. “But I’m not done with public service. I’m not done with the law. I specifically became a D.A. because I wanted to be in the courtroom.”[aside label=\"From the 2024 Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara,Santa Clara County: Your Voter Guide to Navigate the Candidates and Issues on Your Ballot' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Voter-Guide-Local-Elections-Santa-Clara-County-1200x1200-1.png]“I feel like my breadth of knowledge, the things that I teach, the things that I do, my experience in the courtroom, make moving on to judge a natural progression,” she added “And I think I could be an asset to the bench.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky, the chief assistant district attorney, began working in the DA’s office in 1994 and told KQED he quickly became interested in prosecuting hate crimes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s actually the one main reason I wanted to become a prosecutor, is I wanted to stand up for people who were victimized simply because of who they were,” said Boyarsky, adding that he later also developed a knack for prosecuting sexual offenders, child molesters and rapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky also ran Jeff Rosen’s successful campaign for DA in 2011 and was subsequently promoted by Rosen — who he calls his “best friend” — to his current position.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It all ended up working out way better than I ever could have thought because I got to help transform and improve the District Attorney’s Office,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky said becoming a judge feels like an excellent way to continue his work in public service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to try to make the community and the world better. And I owe that in light of the sacrifice that my father and his generation made for freedom, for democracy, for the rule of law, and to serve this country,” said Boyarsky, whose father fought in World War II and helped liberate Jewish people from Nazi concentration camps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Boyarsky, who first ran unsuccessfully for judgeship in 2008, also applied for a governor’s appointment to the bench in 2007 and 2023 but was not selected either time. He said the latest application is still pending.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each candidate has received a hefty tranche of endorsements: Both have gotten the support of roughly 30 current and former judges. Rosen and George Kennedy have also endorsed Boyarsky — the DA before him — along with several other current and former district attorneys throughout the state and a broad array of politicians and civil rights groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebbins, meanwhile, is endorsed by Chiarello — the judge vacating the bench — along with Dolores Carr, a former county DA. And although the unions representing officers of the county’s two largest law enforcement agencies — San José Police and the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office — endorsed both candidates, Stebbins underscores that she collected the sole endorsement of all other police unions in the county, along with the county union that represents both deputy district attorneys and public defenders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think it speaks volumes as to how law enforcement thinks (the DA’s office is) doing that they do not support the second in command to the top law enforcement official in the county,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='More Election Coverage' tag='election-2024']Stebbins said judges need to listen to both sides carefully and be willing to work fairly with each party without getting “run over” by either side, a skill she said she has consistently demonstrated throughout her career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stebbins argues she has the on-the-ground experience to become an effective judge, noting that she still practices law daily and works in courtrooms with judges, public defenders, defendants and victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m in the courtroom every day, and a lot has changed in the law in the last decade,” she said. “So I’m actually seeing how that all plays out and what changes have been made and how that’s affecting all of the stakeholders in the system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That experience is also the basis for her biggest criticism of Boyarsky, who she said is too far removed from the current day-to-day realities of the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s “supervising the supervisors that supervise,” she said. “I’m the surgeon doing the surgeries every day. … “He’s in the medical office blocks away, hiring the doctors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also argues that Boyarsky’s rise to chief assistant “was not a rise based on merit” but rather on “a friendship.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For his part, Boyarsky points to his extensive administrative and management experience overseeing 190 attorneys as a major strength that will contribute to his efficacy on the bench.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I do is I make a lot of decisions every day, and I communicate them,” he said. “And they’re about people’s lives. 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"content": "\u003cp>For \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/03/24/470710747/more-teachers-cant-afford-to-live-where-they-teach\">years\u003c/a>, Bay Area teachers have said one of their biggest concerns is finding affordable housing close to where they work. For some teachers, the fact that their salaries \u003ca href=\"https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/better-pay-would-keep-teachers-from-quitting-but-theres-more-to-it/2022/07\">can’t keep up with the increased cost of living\u003c/a> has some considering leaving the profession altogether.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, more school districts across California are taking matters into their own hands by getting into the business of building housing for their teachers and staff on empty parking lots, unused office buildings and other excess land. And, in the Bay Area, two districts are turning to bond measures to help pay for it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those two bonds — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/santaclara/measures#measure-r\">Measure R in Santa Clara County\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/sanmateo/measures#measure-k\">Measure K in San Mateo County\u003c/a> — would raise $1.15 billion and $153 million, respectively, to pay for upgrades to school district facilities. Both measures include building affordable housing for teachers and staff in their descriptions for what the bond could fund.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The measures come as state leaders ask voters to consider a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/california/proposition-2\">$10 billion bond measure\u003c/a> to upgrade school facilities across California. And, as state leaders are faced with a lofty goal to plan for 2.5 million new homes statewide by 2030, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">they are encouraging school districts to be more proactive\u003c/a> about building housing for their staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Mateo County, a group of parents and teachers at the Cabrillo Unified School District saw other school districts develop housing for their employees and were inspired to campaign to get Measure K on the ballot. If approved by voters, most of the $153 million will be used to fix classrooms, according to members of the board. Some of the money can also be used to construct educator housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Unified School District’s Measure R anticipates dedicating approximately $283 million of the total $1.15 billion bond to build housing for staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010731\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010731\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-12-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A brochure supporting Measure R In San José. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Renata Sanchez, president of the San José Teachers Union, said the district has seen employee vacancy rates rise, especially among instructional associates, the staff who support special education teachers, and who are often paid less than teachers. She said the bond could help keep those associates from leaving the district.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nobody here wants to be in the business of developing land for housing,” Sanchez said. “We just feel that we’re cornered into it. We have to do something because nobody else is.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, opponents of local bond measures say school districts should focus on educating their students, and that bond measures are often proposed too lightly, without thought to how they will impact future residents who have to pay back the debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anybody who owns a home is going to pay more for that home every year,” said Mark Hinkle, president of the Silicon Valley Taxpayers Association, which is opposed to both measures R and K. “And even if you’re a renter, guess where the landlord gets the money to pay these taxes?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"2024 Bay Area Voter Guide\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/voterguide/bayarea,Learn about every single race and measure across the nine Bay Area counties' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2024/02/Aside-Bay-Area-Voter-Guide-2024-Primary-Election-1200x1200-1.png]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, only a handful of school districts across the state have successfully completed construction on new workforce housing. Santa Clara Unified School District was the first district to build housing for its staff, according to the California School Board Association. The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. Another would move a magnet school to a larger campus and use the existing land to build approximately 120 apartments and townhomes. Their third site would build educator housing on what is currently a special education school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010729\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010729\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/20241022_SCHOOLDISTRICTHOUSING_GC-4-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed site for educator housing on Lenzen Avenue, currently used as an employee parking lot for the San José Unified School District in San José. If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. But she said she didn’t want to wait any longer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are losing teachers across the state, but in this area, at an alarming rate,” she said. “Our kids will suffer if we don’t do something soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>What housing questions do you have for KQED? \u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\">Let us know\u003c/a>:\u003c/em>\u003cbr>\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZ-ZKtuSHdeWqxooQwfEcr-oiOpdpJcf2RLZInU7aqjjQlRQ/viewform?embedded=true\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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The apartment complex, \u003ca href=\"https://www.santaclarausd.org/about-us/departments/facility-development-and-planning/teacher-housing-foundation\">named Casa Del Maestro\u003c/a>, opened in 2002 and has 70 one- and two-bedroom apartments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This summer, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11997949/california-schools-keep-losing-teachers-the-state-wants-to-help-build-homes-for-them\">Department of Education announced an initiative\u003c/a> to help schools navigate the muddy waters of housing development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the California School Board Association hosted a summit with school district staff, affordable housing advocates and researchers to look into how schools can more effectively build housing. According to Scott Roark, a spokesperson for the Department of Education, more than 150 districts across the state are now in “some stage of developing housing on district property.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Troy Flint, a spokesperson for the California School Board Association, said districts are well-positioned to develop housing because they already own the land. And he argued such projects tend to have a shorter timeline than traditional affordable housing projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The land or the buildings that the school districts own — that is under their control, and they have a lot of autonomy,” he said. “You can get from concept to people moving into housing in as little as five years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez and others in the San José Unified School District have concrete plans for where they would build the new housing if their bond passes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One project would turn an empty parking lot into 75 studio and one-bedroom apartments with parking underground. 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If approved, the project would create 75 studio and one-bedroom units. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The biggest project would transform an open field on a technical education campus into an estimated 300 two-bedroom apartments and townhomes. Sanchez said funds from Measure R could fund two of the smaller projects or the one with 300 units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if the bond measures are approved, the projects will have to go through each city’s complicated and often costly permitting process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, in Half Moon Bay, the proposed housing has already caused consternation amongst neighbors who worry the new development could be “out of character” with the existing homes. Mike Alifano, a Half Moon Bay resident and member of previous school bond oversight committees, said this is the district’s first bond measure to mention teacher housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re a community that doesn’t like a lot of change, and it’s because we want to keep this look and feel of the way things are right now,” he said. “There were other areas [the district] was looking at in different communities, and we had a bit of pushback in those communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sanchez said there have been plans to develop teacher housing in San José since 2020, but once the pandemic hit, the district had to put the projects on hold. 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"content": "\u003cp>Even in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> County, home to many of the companies and centers of innovation that have earned Silicon Valley its name, governments often do things in an old-fashioned manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when California lawmakers handed down a mandate in 2021 that all counties in the state needed to cull their property deed records to find and redact racially restrictive covenants, Santa Clara County put two employees on the daunting task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They began in 2022 what they expected might be an up to five-year project to manually sift through tens of millions of pages of paper and digitized property deed records. They were looking for racist language that barred people of specific races or ethnicities from owning properties in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it was literally eyes on paper turning pages, then it was eyes on the computer going through those same type of pages on the reels. And they did an excellent job,” said Louis Chiaramonte, the county’s assistant clerk-recorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s team only made its way through around 100,000 records, finding about 400 of the thousands of defunct racist clauses that are tucked into documents related to ownership of homes and control of blocks and neighborhoods of the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the county and \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.stanford.edu/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>, a hub for research and development into how government agencies can perform core services more efficiently, partnered to bring the power of AI language models onto the job, significantly speeding up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After curating racist covenant documents from seven counties across the nation, the RegLab researchers trained an open-source language model on those examples. They then put it to work, scanning 5.2 million Santa Clara County deed records from 1902 through 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took about a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What our project really shows is there’s a very different and compelling path forward to achieving these kinds of tasks that don’t suffer the kinds of cost overruns that have historically really plagued government technology contracting,” said Daniel Ho, a professor and the director of the RegLab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-06/l-a-county-will-remove-racist-restrictive-covenant-language-from-millions-of-documents\">outsourced the work\u003c/a> to a contractor for about $8 million in a process expected to take about seven years to finish, Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiaramonte said the RegLab model helped Santa Clara County accelerate the process of flagging and mapping about 7,500 restrictive covenants. From there, the covenants are reviewed and sent to the county’s lawyers for final approval before a new, modified version of the deed is recorded. About 4,500 have been completed, and the original deeds remain unchanged for historical reference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just amazing. I’m very thankful that this opportunity presented itself, and we’re able to work with them, Chiaramonte said. “And it appears that this language model tool that they have is extremely effective and has produced meaningful changes to how we could approach things in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county employees who started the work will shift their focus to manually culling through the remaining records from 1850 to 1901 — most of which were handwritten — and digitizing newer records from after 1981.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/static/maps/dotmap_embedded.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Map by \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faiz Surani, one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">research paper on the project\u003c/a>, noted that the curation of examples and the training of the open-source model was the bulk of the front-end work, and it needed to be precise. The team trained the model to recognize not just simple keywords but also to identify a covenant even when a document scan is degraded, common strings of words and where in the document covenants are often located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask ChatGPT to detect racial covenants, it’ll do a decent job out of the box,” Surani said. “The challenge is when you are going over 5 million, 10 million, 20 million records, you need to be virtually perfect, or else you’re going to be missing something or you’re going to be buried under a pile of false positives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani and Ho said the model has so far shown itself to be nearly 100% accurate in finding covenants in the records it searched. In all, the AI-based technology was able to save about 86,000 person-hours for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racist covenants and restrictions often included racial epithets. The covenants were less often seen in the very early 20th century because it was still legal to zone by race. After the nation outlawed that practice as unconstitutional in 1917, deed restrictions became more commonplace as a way to use private transactions to maintain segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The language in these covenants became more targeted and explicit. Deed records reveal widespread exclusion of specific ethnic groups, including African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and other non-Caucasian communities. Terms such as ‘Negro,’ ‘Mongolian,’ and ‘colored’ were commonly employed to delineate the racial boundaries of acceptable property owners and tenants,” the RegLab’s research paper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1953px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1953\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png 1953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-800x251.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1020x320.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-160x50.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1536x481.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1920x602.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1953px) 100vw, 1953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of racist covenant clauses found in thousands of Santa Clara County deed records that were flagged by an AI-powered tool from Stanford University’s RegLab. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Stanford RegLab)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ho said he is optimistic the technology could be used to help governments look for other violations of California’s fair housing laws, including protections based on veteran status, family status, income and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani said that as someone who identifies as Asian American, he was struck by the bluntness and banality of how the covenants were included in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be one provision which says, you know, you have to install a sewage tank. The next provision, only Caucasians may live here. The next provision, you can’t construct an outhouse here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani said another “gut punch” was how the research helped crystallize the widespread nature of the covenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find entire towns — not just neighborhoods — towns that were racially restricted from their founding,” Surani said, such as Redwood Estates, an unincorporated town along Highway 17 in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were heavy concentrations around Stanford and even a city-owned cemetery in San José with dozens of covenants allowing only white people to be interred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Ho said the research showed that in 1950, about a decade after the peak use of covenants, about one in every four housing units in the county was under some sort of racially restrictive covenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='santa-clara']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He estimates that about 10 developers were responsible for roughly a third of all the covenants in the county, suggesting that a small group had a major influence on how Santa Clara County was plotted and built.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some successful developers, like Joseph Eichler, chose not to include such covenants in their home tracts, “contrary to some historical scholarship, which notes that at that time, you would have lost business and would have gone out of business by not including that,” Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walter Wilson, a co-founder of the Minority Business Consortium and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11988184/african-american-cultural-center-planned-for-south-bay-gets-federal-grant\">an advocate for African Americans and Black people in the South Bay\u003c/a>, said these long-unenforceable covenants were one of the biggest ways long-term wealth was concentrated in the hands of a few and laid the foundation for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984246/less-than-1-of-santa-clara-county-contracts-go-to-black-and-latino-businesses-study-shows\">ongoing systemic discrimination\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That still continues to this day by design,” Wilson said. “Among those people in those communities and the folks who control the politics, there’s almost an unwritten word, where they won’t even say it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But you don’t see very many Black people in Cupertino. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Even in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara\">Santa Clara\u003c/a> County, home to many of the companies and centers of innovation that have earned Silicon Valley its name, governments often do things in an old-fashioned manner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So when California lawmakers handed down a mandate in 2021 that all counties in the state needed to cull their property deed records to find and redact racially restrictive covenants, Santa Clara County put two employees on the daunting task.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They began in 2022 what they expected might be an up to five-year project to manually sift through tens of millions of pages of paper and digitized property deed records. They were looking for racist language that barred people of specific races or ethnicities from owning properties in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I mean, it was literally eyes on paper turning pages, then it was eyes on the computer going through those same type of pages on the reels. And they did an excellent job,” said Louis Chiaramonte, the county’s assistant clerk-recorder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s team only made its way through around 100,000 records, finding about 400 of the thousands of defunct racist clauses that are tucked into documents related to ownership of homes and control of blocks and neighborhoods of the South Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s when the county and \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.stanford.edu/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>, a hub for research and development into how government agencies can perform core services more efficiently, partnered to bring the power of AI language models onto the job, significantly speeding up the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After curating racist covenant documents from seven counties across the nation, the RegLab researchers trained an open-source language model on those examples. They then put it to work, scanning 5.2 million Santa Clara County deed records from 1902 through 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It took about a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What our project really shows is there’s a very different and compelling path forward to achieving these kinds of tasks that don’t suffer the kinds of cost overruns that have historically really plagued government technology contracting,” said Daniel Ho, a professor and the director of the RegLab.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles County, for example, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-06/l-a-county-will-remove-racist-restrictive-covenant-language-from-millions-of-documents\">outsourced the work\u003c/a> to a contractor for about $8 million in a process expected to take about seven years to finish, Ho said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chiaramonte said the RegLab model helped Santa Clara County accelerate the process of flagging and mapping about 7,500 restrictive covenants. From there, the covenants are reviewed and sent to the county’s lawyers for final approval before a new, modified version of the deed is recorded. About 4,500 have been completed, and the original deeds remain unchanged for historical reference.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just amazing. I’m very thankful that this opportunity presented itself, and we’re able to work with them, Chiaramonte said. “And it appears that this language model tool that they have is extremely effective and has produced meaningful changes to how we could approach things in the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county employees who started the work will shift their focus to manually culling through the remaining records from 1850 to 1901 — most of which were handwritten — and digitizing newer records from after 1981.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/static/maps/dotmap_embedded.html\" width=\"1000\" height=\"700\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\" frameborder=\"0\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Map by \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">Stanford University’s RegLab\u003c/a>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Faiz Surani, one of the co-authors of the \u003ca href=\"https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/\">research paper on the project\u003c/a>, noted that the curation of examples and the training of the open-source model was the bulk of the front-end work, and it needed to be precise. The team trained the model to recognize not just simple keywords but also to identify a covenant even when a document scan is degraded, common strings of words and where in the document covenants are often located.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you ask ChatGPT to detect racial covenants, it’ll do a decent job out of the box,” Surani said. “The challenge is when you are going over 5 million, 10 million, 20 million records, you need to be virtually perfect, or else you’re going to be missing something or you’re going to be buried under a pile of false positives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani and Ho said the model has so far shown itself to be nearly 100% accurate in finding covenants in the records it searched. In all, the AI-based technology was able to save about 86,000 person-hours for the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The racist covenants and restrictions often included racial epithets. The covenants were less often seen in the very early 20th century because it was still legal to zone by race. After the nation outlawed that practice as unconstitutional in 1917, deed restrictions became more commonplace as a way to use private transactions to maintain segregation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The language in these covenants became more targeted and explicit. Deed records reveal widespread exclusion of specific ethnic groups, including African Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and other non-Caucasian communities. Terms such as ‘Negro,’ ‘Mongolian,’ and ‘colored’ were commonly employed to delineate the racial boundaries of acceptable property owners and tenants,” the RegLab’s research paper said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12010146\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1953px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12010146\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1953\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED.png 1953w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-800x251.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1020x320.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-160x50.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1536x481.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241018-Covenant-Example-2-KQED-1920x602.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1953px) 100vw, 1953px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of racist covenant clauses found in thousands of Santa Clara County deed records that were flagged by an AI-powered tool from Stanford University’s RegLab. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Stanford RegLab)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ho said he is optimistic the technology could be used to help governments look for other violations of California’s fair housing laws, including protections based on veteran status, family status, income and religion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani said that as someone who identifies as Asian American, he was struck by the bluntness and banality of how the covenants were included in contracts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There will be one provision which says, you know, you have to install a sewage tank. The next provision, only Caucasians may live here. The next provision, you can’t construct an outhouse here,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Surani said another “gut punch” was how the research helped crystallize the widespread nature of the covenants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We find entire towns — not just neighborhoods — towns that were racially restricted from their founding,” Surani said, such as Redwood Estates, an unincorporated town along Highway 17 in the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were heavy concentrations around Stanford and even a city-owned cemetery in San José with dozens of covenants allowing only white people to be interred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Overall, Ho said the research showed that in 1950, about a decade after the peak use of covenants, about one in every four housing units in the county was under some sort of racially restrictive covenant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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