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He emphasized that his plan was different because arrests would be preceded by multiple offers of shelter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Simply banning camping does not end homelessness, but holding people accountable for accepting shelter and housing when it’s available can help us to ultimately end homelessness,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11979482/san-jose-mayor-matt-mahan-calls-for-urgent-action-on-homelessness-in-city-budget-plan\">has made the construction of temporary housing and shelter\u003c/a> the centerpiece of his plan to reduce homelessness in San José. 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aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Measure A is officially certified on April 3, supervisors would need a four-fifths vote to remove Corpus, following written notice and a chance to address the allegations against her, which is likely to happen given that four out of five current supervisors endorsed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo, the two supervisors who first called for Corpus to resign and pushed to get Measure A on the ballot, told reporters on Wednesday that the election still has to be certified and the board has to officially approve the election results — which may take up to 40 days — before Corpus is served with the necessary paperwork to begin the removal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029444 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/Amiri-Opening_KQED-1020x574.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029643 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/IMG_5881-KQED-1020x574.jpg']Instead of arresting Tapia, Philip resigned, making him one of the more than 100 sworn employees who quit the sheriff’s office under Corpus, according to the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The five supervisors who may ultimately vote to remove the sheriff aren’t the same five who approved putting Measure A on the ballot, as supervisors Jackie Speier and Lisa Gauthier \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/board-supervisors-welcomes-two-new-members\">took office\u003c/a> after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">supervisors voted in December\u003c/a> on the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, Measure A was endorsed by Gauthier as well as Board President David Canepa, in addition to Mueller and Corzo, meaning Corpus’ ousting is likely on its way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such a move would be historic. Voters in San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 both approved charter amendments to give their supervisors the authority to remove their sheriffs, but neither board put the issue to a vote. San Francisco’s board did so in 2012, but it didn’t reach the threshold needed to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leading up to the election, calls for Corpus to resign or be removed came across the county and beyond, receiving support from political and civic leaders at the local, state and national levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other endorsements for Measure A included former and current members of the U.S. House, state representatives, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcdems.org/san_mateo_county_democratic_party_endorses_measure_a\">San Mateo County Democratic Party\u003c/a> and leaders of nearly every city in San Mateo County. The county deputies’ union also formed a political committee to back the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Financially, the measure received little attention. According to \u003ca href=\"https://public.netfile.com/pub2/AllFilingsByMeasure.aspx?id=212872748&aid=MAT\">available financial disclosures\u003c/a>, the “Recall Sheriff Corpus” campaign raised $2,000, with half that coming from former state Sen. Jerry Hill and the other half from \u003ca href=\"https://www.chambersmc.org/jim-hartnett/\">former Redwood City Mayor James Hartnett\u003c/a>. The “Stop the Political Power Grab” campaign against Measure A reported raising nearly $2,500 in the form of a loan from Corpus herself, which went to campaign signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus, who did not respond to a request for comment, had challenged the measure in a lawsuit alleging the board overstepped its power, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled last week\u003c/a> that the election would move forward because county officials followed proper protocol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Storch, the deputies union secretary, said the election was one way to allow citizens to respond to the accusations against Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They deserve someone who is not going to be committing these abuses, who is not going to be corrupt and who’s not going to be causing all these problems, so much to the point that we had to have a special election just because of them,” Storch said, adding that he was worried Corpus “might take this as yet another opportunity to start retaliating, given what the results look like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s last results update of Tuesday night showed that of the more than 92,000 votes counted, 85.2% were in favor of Measure A. That tally does not include mail-in ballots received by Monday or later. There are nearly 445,000 registered voters in San Mateo County, although voter turnout is likely to be low in a special election with only one measure on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next batch of results will be released Thursday afternoon, according to the county election office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I look forward to working with the new Board of Supervisors to discuss a collaborative strategy moving forward,” Corpus’ statement said. “With the passage of Measure A, I now have the opportunity to appropriately challenge and disprove the allegations against me and my administration.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the board ultimately votes to remove Corpus, it may be the first board to remove an elected sheriff in California history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters on Tuesday night that the results showed that voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12012086\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12012086\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-009-JY_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Mateo County Hall of Justice in Redwood City on Monday, Dec. 11, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After Measure A is officially certified on April 3, supervisors would need a four-fifths vote to remove Corpus, following written notice and a chance to address the allegations against her, which is likely to happen given that four out of five current supervisors endorsed the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Mueller and Noelia Corzo, the two supervisors who first called for Corpus to resign and pushed to get Measure A on the ballot, told reporters on Wednesday that the election still has to be certified and the board has to officially approve the election results — which may take up to 40 days — before Corpus is served with the necessary paperwork to begin the removal process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In the meantime, we want to assure residents that the county will implement clear procedures to ensure a public, impartial and lawful process,” Mueller said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corzo said supervisors are “mindful of the serious responsibility” that voters have “decisively entrusted” them with by overwhelmingly approving the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We deeply value the sheriff’s office and the important role it plays in ensuring public safety in our county,” Corzo said. “We want to assure our residents that the services of the sheriff’s office will continue uninterrupted throughout this process, and we will move forward as quickly as possible in the best interest of the people of San Mateo County.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The election is the culmination of months of efforts to get Corpus to resign willingly, which she repeatedly refused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors found Measure A to be the quickest path to remove the sheriff following a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">third-party independent report\u003c/a> released in November that determined that “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those calling for Corpus’ removal cited the fact that she abused her power as sheriff by hiring her former campaign staffer and alleged romantic partner, Victor Aenlle, to a top, non-sworn position in her office, exerting authority over even assistant sheriffs and captains. The two denied being in a romantic relationship, despite several employees hearing remarks about it or allegedly witnessing them display their affection to each other in the office, according to \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">November’s report\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11977554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11977554\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/20231211-San-Mateo-Sheriff-018-JY_qut-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Mateo County Sheriff’s Department squad car parked outside the county Hall of Justice and Records in Redwood City. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The calls to remove Corpus came shortly after the publication of that report by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom the county hired last year to investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints against Aenlle. Cordell found that many of those complaints were merited and found the department needed new leadership. Since taking office in early 2023, she wrote, Aenlle and Corpus ran the department with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That included targeting Carlos Tapia — president of the deputies union and vocal critic of Corpus — by criminally accusing him of committing time-card fraud. District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe soon found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support the accusations,\u003c/a> clearing Tapia of any wrongdoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The captain who was tasked with arresting Tapia, Brian Philip, would later allege in a lawsuit against Corpus and the county that accusing someone of time-card fraud was what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The stadium is also the home field of the San José State University Spartans baseball team, which rents use of the park from the Giants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While professional baseball has been played in some form in the stadium since it opened in 1942, the team known as the San José Giants has played at the stadium since 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2021, the team has been owned by Diamond Baseball Holdings, which owns more than 40 minor-league teams. DBH is, in turn, owned by Menlo Park-based private equity firm Silver Lake, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.silverlake.com/purpose/\">has more than $100 billion in assets\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a change enacted by Major League Baseball in 2021 to increase standards for player development and safety, the park is required to undergo a major renovation, including new clubhouses, batting cages, renovated dugouts and a regraded field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029450 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/BoxingGetty-1020x701.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The risk was that if we couldn’t ensure that the improvements would happen, that Major League Baseball would insist the San José Giants play elsewhere. It was with that understanding and urgency that we came together and were able to work out a plan that met all three parties’ needs,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The result is a 25-year lease through 2050, in which the team will put up about $20 million for the required upgrades, which team officials said they need to complete by Opening Day of the 2026 season, a little more than a year away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city, which is currently working to close a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026772/san-jose-faces-60-million-budget-shortfall-as-negotiations-begin\">$60 million budget gap\u003c/a> for the current year, will reimburse DBH for about $5 million of that cost. Klein said the city will spread the payments out over seven years beginning in fiscal year 2027–28, when the city’s budget picture is expected to be a bit rosier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So, to keep the Giants here, invest in our stadium, it makes financially, from the city point of view as a real estate holder, a lot of sense,” Klein said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To further help “level out the deal” for DBH, Klein told the council at its Tuesday meeting that the city will forgo all revenue it currently collects from the naming rights contracts for the stadium and video board rentals or advertisements, which is used to fund maintenance and upkeep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead, DBH will keep that money, estimated at about $3 million over the 25 years of the lease. The team will also pay an increased rent of $40,000 annually, double its current $20,000, and that money will be put into a shared account the team can draw on to pay for maintenance needs, with city approval, city staff said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lastly, the city pledged to rent the rights to build a cell phone tower on the property to a wireless carrier, and to turn that money over to DBH, as well. Under a standard 15-year term, city staff said the telecommunications lease could generate about $675,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ben Taylor, the president of the San José Giants, said the team and its ownership group are making the largest single investment in the history of the stadium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This agreement solidifies the ballpark for decades as a memory-making place for really what makes San José what it is, and it’s the people of this city,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the upgrades will benefit the team, it will also mean the facilities are in better shape for college and high school teams that use it, as well as for roughly 100 or more non-baseball events ranging from Chamber of Commerce barbeques to blood drives and fundraisers that are hosted there annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the reality is that this is a community asset, and having participation from the city is recognition of that,” Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan, during the council meeting on Tuesday, said the San José Giants represent the best the city has to offer, and he’s happy to see the deal come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is accessible, family-friendly fun. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”[aside postID=news_12029072 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/ChristinaCorpusGetty.jpg']Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.[aside postID=news_12018543 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_1748-scaled.jpg']Charter amendments are also rare. Only 14 of California’s 58 counties are charter counties, meaning they have greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">2001 opinion (PDF)\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer affirmed that a county charter can give supervisors more options to remove a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus had previously alleged the board lacked the authority to put a charter amendment before voters, but last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled\u003c/a> that the board had acted within the law and that Corpus was not protected from removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, voters in two other California charter counties have granted their boards the authority to remove their sheriff — San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 — but neither went through with using that power. L.A. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 10:15 p.m. Tuesday:\u003c/strong> San Mateo County voters appear to have overwhelmingly approved \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a historic measure\u003c/a> to give the Board of Supervisors temporary authority to fire Sheriff Christina Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it passes and the board removes Corpus, it could be the first elected body in California history to oust a sworn, elected law enforcement officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.livevoterturnout.com/ENR/sanmateocaenr/17/en/HmL9Y_Index_17.html\">preliminary election results\u003c/a>, more than 85% of votes cast were in favor of Measure A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Calling it “an expedited recall,” Eliot Storch, secretary of the union representing San Mateo County deputies, told reporters that the results showed voters “recognize that swift action was necessary to stem the turmoil that has engulfed the sheriff’s office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Although Measure A might have been unusual, Sheriff Corpus’ unprecedented corruption and her contempt for the guardrails of accountability forced the community’s hand,” Storch said. “Today’s vote was simply democracy in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story:\u003c/strong> Corpus hasn’t even completed her first term as the county’s first female and first Latina sheriff, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015538/timeline-whats-going-on-with-the-san-mateo-county-sheriffs-office\">calls for her resignation have abounded\u003c/a> from inside her department and across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In November, a scathing \u003ca href=\"https://sanmateocounty.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=13544883&GUID=95923619-2B6F-477A-8684-CD64124A3BAA\">408-page report\u003c/a> concluded her leadership was beset with “lies, secrecy, intimidation, retaliation, conflicts of interest, and abuses of authority” and said, “nothing short of new leadership can save this organization that is in turmoil, and its personnel demoralized.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several lawsuits have echoed similar concerns about her and her office’s former executive director, Victor Aenlle, who was alleged to have been in a romantic relationship with Corpus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those in favor of Measure A say it’s needed because Corpus “created a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026356/lawsuit-alleges-continued-intimidation-retaliation-at-san-mateo-sheriffs-office\">retaliatory and abusive work environment\u003c/a>, used racial and homophobic slurs, and effectively handed control of the office to an unqualified individual with whom the sheriff had an inappropriate relationship,” according to the ballot item.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those against it, however, call it “a political power grab” that “strips voters of their power to elect an independent sheriff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Measure A doesn’t directly remove Corpus from office, but if voters pass it with a simple majority, it would grant supervisors the authority to do so with a four-fifths board vote through 2028, when Corpus’ first term would otherwise end. After 2028, that authority would expire unless renewed by voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Offenses for which the board could remove the sheriff include violating the law in a professional capacity, “flagrant or repeated” neglect of duties, misappropriating public funds, falsifying documents, or obstructing an investigation. The board could vote to remove Corpus after she’s been served with a written notice and an opportunity to be heard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12014320\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12014320\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg\" alt=\"A small Latina woman stands at a podium in front of multiple microphones, with people standing behind her.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-800x530.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-1020x676.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/GettyImages-1459218782-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus speaks during a press conference in downtown Half Moon Bay on Jan. 23, 2023, after a gunman killed seven farmworkers. The first woman and first Latina to serve as sheriff in the county, Corpus is now accused of abusing her power. \u003ccite>(Nhat V. Meyer/MediaNews Group/East Bay Times via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Corpus chose not to be interviewed by retired Judge LaDoris Cordell, whom county officials hired last year to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014310/san-mateo-county-supervisors-to-hold-vote-of-no-confidence-in-sheriff-christina-corpus\">investigate an “unprecedented” number of complaints\u003c/a> against Aenlle. He was Corpus’ campaign manager before she created the unsworn position of executive director with an annual salary of almost $247,000. She requested pay raises for him three separate times, all of which the county denied.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cordell found there was substantial evidence that Corpus and Aenlle were in an extramarital romantic relationship, which both deny, despite allegedly publicly displaying affection in front of employees, being seen traveling to Hawaii together, and Corpus describing Aenlle to one employee as “jealous and protective.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hours before Cordell’s report was released, Carlos Tapia, president of the San Mateo County Deputy Sheriff’s Association — and a vocal critic of Corpus — was arrested by his fellow deputies on suspicion of time-card fraud, which the district attorney later found there was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018543/san-mateo-county-da-throws-out-charges-against-sheriffs-union-president\">no evidence to support\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then-Capt. Brian Philip was tasked with arresting Tapia, but he resigned in protest. He’s since filed a lawsuit against the county, alleging that making accusations of time-card fraud is what “leadership of San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office [does] when it wants to retaliate against an employee.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Philip was one of several people Corpus recruited to help lead her office who would soon quit in protest or publicly call on her to resign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing sergeants and deputies in the Sheriff’s Office have endorsed Measure A, as have U.S. Reps. Anna Eshoo and Kevin Mullin, as well as Supervisor Noelia Corzo-Solorzano, who helped lead the charge to get it on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Voters have \u003ca href=\"https://smcacre.gov/elections/events/march-4-2025-special-election-last-day-vote\">until 8 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/a> to return their ballots. Those postmarked by election day must be received by March 11 to be counted. The county elections office reports that 78,751 mail-in votes were cast as of Friday — about 18% of all registered voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials will start posting return results beginning at 8:10 p.m., 10 minutes after drop boxes and vote centers close.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should San Mateo County voters approve Measure A and supervisors ultimately oust Corpus, it may be the first time in state history that an elected board removes an elected law enforcement official from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisors had floated the idea of a recall campaign against Corpus, but they opted for the charter amendment because it would be quicker, with election day coming only three months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.smcgov.org/ceo/news/county-supervisors-advance-charter-amendment-ask-voters-power-remove-sheriff\">supervisors voted\u003c/a> to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12016445/san-mateo-county-board-asks-voters-for-authority-to-remove-sheriff-christina-corpus\">place Measure A on the ballot\u003c/a>. A recall vote would have had to wait until 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, even \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12018283/california-sheriffs-are-rarely-removed-from-office-san-mateo-is-trying-anyway\">recall elections against sheriffs are rare\u003c/a>, as the last known successful one was in Plumas County in 1976, according to available records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California sheriffs are rarely removed from office outside of a regular election, in which they often enjoy strong incumbent advantages. When they do lose reelection bids, they’re most often replaced by challengers from inside their own departments, just as Corpus did in the 2022 primaries when she defeated her former boss, Carlos Bolanos — who faced \u003ca href=\"https://abc7news.com/gun-permits-san-mateo-county-sheriff-carlos-bolanos-favoring-donors/12547330/\">internal allegations\u003c/a> of favoring campaign donors when issuing concealed carry gun permits.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Charter amendments are also rare. Only 14 of California’s 58 counties are charter counties, meaning they have greater autonomy over their elections and elected officials. A \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/opinions/pdfs/01-408.pdf\">2001 opinion (PDF)\u003c/a> from then-Attorney General Bill Lockyer affirmed that a county charter can give supervisors more options to remove a sheriff, district attorney or other elected official for cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Corpus had previously alleged the board lacked the authority to put a charter amendment before voters, but last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12029072/embattled-san-mateo-county-sheriff-loses-bid-to-block-vote-that-could-end-in-her-removal\">a judge ruled\u003c/a> that the board had acted within the law and that Corpus was not protected from removal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Similarly, voters in two other California charter counties have granted their boards the authority to remove their sheriff — San Bernardino County in 2001 and Los Angeles County in 2022 — but neither went through with using that power. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva lost his reelection bid as the Board of Supervisors was seeking to remove him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s board attempted to remove then-Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi in 2012 after he pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor false imprisonment of his wife, but the board fell two votes shy of the required 9–of–11 majority to have him removed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>More than 1,500 bus drivers, train operators and maintenance workers in the South Bay could go on strike over wage negotiations, though how soon is unclear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After six months of contract talks between the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/santa-clara-valley-transportation-authority\">Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority\u003c/a> and workers represented by the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 265, a new contract is still not signed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So far, the two sides have just not been able to agree,” Stacey Hendler Ross, a VTA spokesperson, said Tuesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Union workers last month authorized a strike if necessary, and with the previous contract expired as of Monday night, the strike threat is looming over the ongoing discussions. Workers represented by ATU make up nearly 70% of the agency’s employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Monday afternoon, VTA officials issued a warning to transit riders that they may need to make alternative transportation plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12005816\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12005816\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/240617-VTAfile-01-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority bus drives on Meridian Avenue in San José on June 17, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“What we’re concerned about at this point, now that the union has taken a strike vote, is that 100,000 customers a day have a way to get to work and school and wherever they need to go,” Hendler Ross said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And so it’s our responsibility that if we are not able to provide service, we need to give them adequate time to prepare,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raj Singh, the union president, said there is no date picked for a strike, and it’s unlikely workers would strike in the next few days. The union’s members will meet on Friday to discuss the negotiations and the potential for a strike, Singh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the talks, at no point in time has the union ever said, ‘Hey, come March 4, we’re walking out.’ And even to this very moment, we don’t have a hard set date on when there might be a possible strike,” Singh said. “We’re hoping that they reach out, and maybe we can go back to the table and try to see if something can be done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12028615 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/GettyImages-1150473913-1020x765.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The latest offer from VTA to the union is a 9% raise spread over three years, with 4% offered in the first year, then 3% and 2%, respectively, in the latter years. 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When the rain returns later in the week, it will be unusually focused on Southern California, dropping just about an inch across Northern California counties that bore the brunt of February’s winter weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The National Weather Service said there’s about a 50% chance the Bay Area will get light rain on Tuesday before the odds increase throughout Wednesday and into Thursday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the rainfall will occur south of San José, and the Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey’s Santa Lucia Mountains could get about an inch of rainfall. 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He said it’s not uncommon for the radars to need maintenance, especially since they are often on mountaintops and spin constantly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s unfortunate when we don’t have a replacement part on hand, and there’s rain also coming because that’s where we really rely on the radar to see through the clouds and what’s happening in the rain,” Flynn told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12029178 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/NOAAGetty-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said that the replacement part is expected to arrive in the next day or so and that NWS is working to have the radar repaired before the next round of rain begins Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn called the series of showers “beneficial rains” that won’t mirror \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12026874/bay-area-heavy-rain-flooding-landslides-thousands-without-power\">February’s deluges\u003c/a> — less than half an inch of rainfall is predicted throughout most of the Bay Area, and the San Mateo and Santa Clara coasts are expected to top out at about one inch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These are “amounts that are noticeable, measurable, might not be the most comfortable thing to go and walk your dog in, but it’s not a big flooding concern,” Flynn said. “It more helps fill up the reservoirs, it’s good as we get to the drier months ahead for the state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike the atmospheric river-fueled storms that have dominated the Bay Area’s winter weather so far, this series will bring more evenly distributed rain throughout the state, with the low-pressure systems hanging in the Central Valley and reaching Southern California. The storms will also be considerably colder since there’s less moisture gathering in the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means the Sierra Nevada can expect significant snowfall throughout the week after getting 6 to 12 inches around the mountains this past weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I would assume it’ll [be] pretty much on par with what we got over the weekend for each of these [systems],” Flynn said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday and Saturday should be dry — though cold and windy — before rain returns Sunday, dropping up to an inch of rain across the Bay Area. Flynn said the National Weather Service is starting to see hints that a larger storm system could be gearing up to hit the region in the middle of next week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Enjoy the short periods of dry weather,” the NWS’s forecast discussion said Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San José leaders have announced a new and controversial plan as part of their efforts to end street homelessness. ‘Homeward Bound’ will offer to send unhoused residents to family or friends who are willing to take them in. Mayor Matt Mahan says it’s an additional tool to get people off the streets, while some homelessness advocates say it’s an ineffective and inhumane approach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Links: \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12028615/san-jose-adopts-controversial-plan-to-bus-homeless-people-out-of-the-city\">San José Adopts Controversial Plan to Bus Homeless People Out of the City\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. 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People have a lot of different feelings about how it should be approached, but most people seem to agree that it’s a major problem that the city should be doing all it can to solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:39] And so what has the city been doing about homelessness, especially the mayor, Matt Mahan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:01:46] So Mayor Matt Mahan, since taking office and even during his initial campaigns, you know, he’s been pushing for what he called basics, right? Back to basics was one of his campaign slogans about public safety and about homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] I want us to act with a greater sense of urgency. I think we have have a true humanitarian crisis on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] And what he’s done now since having the governing power for a couple of years is really push things toward shorter term solutions. The city has said that with their current shelter space, both with places run by the county and by the city, but within the bounds of San Jose, there are several thousand people who still do not have places to go right now, even as the city plans to in the next several months and coming years more than triple its temporary shelter space, there’s still going to be a shortage for a long time, even in some very optimistic projections. And so in the past, while the city has kind of taken a mixed approach towards supporting things like permanent affordable housing and supportive housing with services, so people have a place to live forever, and also supported some short -term solutions like temporary shelters, Mayor Matt Mahan has really pushed it toward a focus almost entirely on short -term. like temporary shelters, like sanctioned encampments, like safe parking sites, and now this latest program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] We’re talking now, Joseph, speaking of this latest program, because last Tuesday, the city of San Jose announced that it would be launching a pilot program called Homeward Bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:26] Yeah, so the mayor and the city’s director of housing, Eric Solivan, came out and essentially told folks at a press conference that the city is putting up $200,000 of its housing funds to help support a pilot program to buy train or bus tickets for people who are unhoused in the city, so long as they have somewhere to go in another part of the city or another part of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] Homeward Bound offers one way out. If our outreach workers can offer people family reconnection services immediately, that saves a bed in our shelter system for someone who truly doesn’t have anyone to support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:06] The city is willing to help facilitate their transportation and get them to this place where they may become, you know, housed and more stable. And it’s not a new idea. Other cities have tried this, but in San Jose, this would be the first time the city is officially kind of supporting it from its own housing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:27] I want to know about the details here. Like, how is that going to work? Are they going to take a survey? Like, hey, who has family that could take them in? Who is this intended for? How is this going to work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:38] Yeah so technically anybody who’s currently unhoused is eligible. If you are one of the many thousands living on the streets of San Jose and trying to find a better situation you have the prerequisites already. Outreach workers who work for the city currently or who contract with the city through a non -profit who are already going out to talk to unhoused people on a daily or weekly basis and learn about their living situation and ask them about their needs well they’re essentially just going to be adding one more question into something that they might already be talking with them about, and that question’s going to be, hey, do you think you have a family member or a friend or someone from your past who would be willing to put you up? And if that conversation develops into, you know, the right opportunity being there, that outreach worker can verify some of those details with, like, a phone call to a family member or a friend and try to ensure that all that is correct and that there’s a person willing to accept someone on the other end. And then if that all lines up, they can help them buy a bus or train ticket right there on the spot, or maybe within a couple of days and get this person set up and on their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:44] And this would be a bus or train ticket to potentially anywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:05:49] Anywhere. Yeah, it sounds like anywhere that can be reached by bus or train up to a $1 ,000 limit is what the city said they will spend on each person. At least in the early going here, that’s going to be on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:01] You know, I know that you can, through this program, get transported to another part of San Jose. It’s not just to get people out of the area. But I do think embedded in this story is this idea that I hear a lot, which is that people come to cities in California, like San Jose, San Francisco, LA, from other parts of the country because it’s a better place to live outside. It’s warmer and there’s more resources to essentially take advantage of. How true is that in San Jose? Do we even know how many people living outside in San Jose are from out of town versus in the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:06:40] It’s a common misconception that a lot of people who are unhoused might come to places like San Jose for, you know, more generous handouts or better weather, but the data doesn’t really support that. What we have seen in surveys from city and county officials who who work with the unhoused is that the large majority of people living on the streets of San Jose right now report that their last known physical address was in San Jose or in Santa Clara County, which is a broad place. but certainly they’re not necessarily, you know coming from afar before they became homeless they were living here or living in this region when whatever the circumstances were that occurred to make them lose their houses\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:26] As you said, this is new for San Jose, but isn’t new in general. And this certainly isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this idea. Do we have any examples, recent examples or otherwise, of this type of program in action?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Absolutely. One of the best programs, I guess, to make a comparison for here in the Bay Area is San Francisco. In San Francisco, they had a program called Homeward Bound, which is the same name as the San Jose program that’s been running for about 20 years. That program was started by then -mayor Gavin Newsom in San Francisco. The issue there is we’ve had some kind of mixed results in terms of understanding how successful it has been. Some of the issues might be, okay, so the person gets set up with this ticket, they end up where they’re going, and maybe even they call the back to let them know. that, yes, I’ve made it to so -and -so’s place, and things are going good. But who knows what happens to them a week, a month, three months, a year out? Are they becoming homeless in another city or another portion of the city? Are they struggling in some way? Is their life improving in a marked way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Jamie Chang \u003c/strong>[00:08:37] The lack of a bus ticket home is not the root cause of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:08:41] I spoke with Dr. Jamie Chang, she’s an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, and she has raised some concerns about whether or not the program does enough to find out if it is a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Jamie Chang \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] There is very, very little evidence as to the long -term success of these programs. We don’t really know what happens to people once they’re dropped off at their destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:09:03] And that’s why some people have concerns about whether or not the program is doing what it actually intends to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Jamie Chang \u003c/strong>[00:09:09] While these programs might temporarily be effective at removing people from an area without a system in place to ensure their success elsewhere, I’m skeptical about its overall efficacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:27] Okay, so people like Mayor Matt Mahan say, this is just one tool in the toolbox. We’re trying a lot of things. If you have a loved one who can take care of you somewhere else, we will help you get there. People like Dr. Chang are warning that there’s not a lot of data or evidence that this really works, at least based on San Francisco’s experience. I gotta imagine there are critics based in San Jose as well who think that this is a bad idea, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:09:54] Yeah, one of the people I spoke with is Gail Osmer, and she’s a long -time advocate for people who are unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gail Osmer \u003c/strong>[00:10:01] I don’t agree with it. Some people do want to go home and it works for them and I think it’s a great idea, but I think mainly it’s going to be a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:12] But her biggest concern when I spoke with her about this is, you know, a few things. First of all, a trust element. She’s not really certain that folks who are in the unhoused community who might have a little bit of, you know, distrust of authority figures and stuff, or someone they may not know in an outreach worker very closely, that they’re just going to start spilling all these details about their friends or family or their past lives or somebody who might be able to take them in. You know, it may not be a subject they want to talk about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gail Osmer \u003c/strong>[00:10:37] Do you think the unhoused are going to trust a stranger or somebody they don’t really know to give them information or even talk to them about going home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:47] The second problem she had, of course, is just similar to Dr. Chang, is the verification of where they’re going to end up. And, you know, she raised an example, of course, that the city, even through its best efforts and good faith, may not actually be able to verify what kind of home environment people are going to be sent to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gail Osmer \u003c/strong>[00:11:04] But there’s a lot of problems that people have probably at home, you know, and we don’t know the home environment. What if somebody is clean and sober and they send them home or whatever, and they’re in a home where there’s, you know, alcoholism?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] The connotation with hearing about bus or train tickets being offered for unhoused people to essentially leave the area, it does sometimes strike people the wrong way. One of the concerns that Gail Osmer raised with us was that she believes the mayor might be doing this for the wrong reasons. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:01:07] Homelessness in San Jose is a major problem. Over 6 ,300 people counted as homeless in some of the latest numbers. Usually those counts are considered undercounts, so it’s a significant problem. People have a lot of different feelings about how it should be approached, but most people seem to agree that it’s a major problem that the city should be doing all it can to solve.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:01:39] And so what has the city been doing about homelessness, especially the mayor, Matt Mahan?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:01:46] So Mayor Matt Mahan, since taking office and even during his initial campaigns, you know, he’s been pushing for what he called basics, right? Back to basics was one of his campaign slogans about public safety and about homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:01:59] I want us to act with a greater sense of urgency. I think we have have a true humanitarian crisis on the streets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:02:06] And what he’s done now since having the governing power for a couple of years is really push things toward shorter term solutions. The city has said that with their current shelter space, both with places run by the county and by the city, but within the bounds of San Jose, there are several thousand people who still do not have places to go right now, even as the city plans to in the next several months and coming years more than triple its temporary shelter space, there’s still going to be a shortage for a long time, even in some very optimistic projections. And so in the past, while the city has kind of taken a mixed approach towards supporting things like permanent affordable housing and supportive housing with services, so people have a place to live forever, and also supported some short -term solutions like temporary shelters, Mayor Matt Mahan has really pushed it toward a focus almost entirely on short -term. like temporary shelters, like sanctioned encampments, like safe parking sites, and now this latest program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:03:13] We’re talking now, Joseph, speaking of this latest program, because last Tuesday, the city of San Jose announced that it would be launching a pilot program called Homeward Bound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:26] Yeah, so the mayor and the city’s director of housing, Eric Solivan, came out and essentially told folks at a press conference that the city is putting up $200,000 of its housing funds to help support a pilot program to buy train or bus tickets for people who are unhoused in the city, so long as they have somewhere to go in another part of the city or another part of the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Matt Mahan \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] Homeward Bound offers one way out. If our outreach workers can offer people family reconnection services immediately, that saves a bed in our shelter system for someone who truly doesn’t have anyone to support them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:06] The city is willing to help facilitate their transportation and get them to this place where they may become, you know, housed and more stable. And it’s not a new idea. Other cities have tried this, but in San Jose, this would be the first time the city is officially kind of supporting it from its own housing department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:04:27] I want to know about the details here. Like, how is that going to work? Are they going to take a survey? Like, hey, who has family that could take them in? Who is this intended for? How is this going to work?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:38] Yeah so technically anybody who’s currently unhoused is eligible. If you are one of the many thousands living on the streets of San Jose and trying to find a better situation you have the prerequisites already. Outreach workers who work for the city currently or who contract with the city through a non -profit who are already going out to talk to unhoused people on a daily or weekly basis and learn about their living situation and ask them about their needs well they’re essentially just going to be adding one more question into something that they might already be talking with them about, and that question’s going to be, hey, do you think you have a family member or a friend or someone from your past who would be willing to put you up? And if that conversation develops into, you know, the right opportunity being there, that outreach worker can verify some of those details with, like, a phone call to a family member or a friend and try to ensure that all that is correct and that there’s a person willing to accept someone on the other end. And then if that all lines up, they can help them buy a bus or train ticket right there on the spot, or maybe within a couple of days and get this person set up and on their way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:05:44] And this would be a bus or train ticket to potentially anywhere in the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:05:49] Anywhere. Yeah, it sounds like anywhere that can be reached by bus or train up to a $1 ,000 limit is what the city said they will spend on each person. At least in the early going here, that’s going to be on the table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:06:01] You know, I know that you can, through this program, get transported to another part of San Jose. It’s not just to get people out of the area. But I do think embedded in this story is this idea that I hear a lot, which is that people come to cities in California, like San Jose, San Francisco, LA, from other parts of the country because it’s a better place to live outside. It’s warmer and there’s more resources to essentially take advantage of. How true is that in San Jose? Do we even know how many people living outside in San Jose are from out of town versus in the city?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:06:40] It’s a common misconception that a lot of people who are unhoused might come to places like San Jose for, you know, more generous handouts or better weather, but the data doesn’t really support that. What we have seen in surveys from city and county officials who who work with the unhoused is that the large majority of people living on the streets of San Jose right now report that their last known physical address was in San Jose or in Santa Clara County, which is a broad place. but certainly they’re not necessarily, you know coming from afar before they became homeless they were living here or living in this region when whatever the circumstances were that occurred to make them lose their houses\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:07:26] As you said, this is new for San Jose, but isn’t new in general. And this certainly isn’t the first time I’ve heard of this idea. Do we have any examples, recent examples or otherwise, of this type of program in action?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:07:42] Absolutely. One of the best programs, I guess, to make a comparison for here in the Bay Area is San Francisco. In San Francisco, they had a program called Homeward Bound, which is the same name as the San Jose program that’s been running for about 20 years. That program was started by then -mayor Gavin Newsom in San Francisco. The issue there is we’ve had some kind of mixed results in terms of understanding how successful it has been. Some of the issues might be, okay, so the person gets set up with this ticket, they end up where they’re going, and maybe even they call the back to let them know. that, yes, I’ve made it to so -and -so’s place, and things are going good. But who knows what happens to them a week, a month, three months, a year out? Are they becoming homeless in another city or another portion of the city? Are they struggling in some way? Is their life improving in a marked way?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Jamie Chang \u003c/strong>[00:08:37] The lack of a bus ticket home is not the root cause of homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:08:41] I spoke with Dr. Jamie Chang, she’s an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, and she has raised some concerns about whether or not the program does enough to find out if it is a success.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Jamie Chang \u003c/strong>[00:08:53] There is very, very little evidence as to the long -term success of these programs. We don’t really know what happens to people once they’re dropped off at their destination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:09:03] And that’s why some people have concerns about whether or not the program is doing what it actually intends to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Dr. Jamie Chang \u003c/strong>[00:09:09] While these programs might temporarily be effective at removing people from an area without a system in place to ensure their success elsewhere, I’m skeptical about its overall efficacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:09:27] Okay, so people like Mayor Matt Mahan say, this is just one tool in the toolbox. We’re trying a lot of things. If you have a loved one who can take care of you somewhere else, we will help you get there. People like Dr. Chang are warning that there’s not a lot of data or evidence that this really works, at least based on San Francisco’s experience. I gotta imagine there are critics based in San Jose as well who think that this is a bad idea, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:09:54] Yeah, one of the people I spoke with is Gail Osmer, and she’s a long -time advocate for people who are unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gail Osmer \u003c/strong>[00:10:01] I don’t agree with it. Some people do want to go home and it works for them and I think it’s a great idea, but I think mainly it’s going to be a failure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:12] But her biggest concern when I spoke with her about this is, you know, a few things. First of all, a trust element. She’s not really certain that folks who are in the unhoused community who might have a little bit of, you know, distrust of authority figures and stuff, or someone they may not know in an outreach worker very closely, that they’re just going to start spilling all these details about their friends or family or their past lives or somebody who might be able to take them in. You know, it may not be a subject they want to talk about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gail Osmer \u003c/strong>[00:10:37] Do you think the unhoused are going to trust a stranger or somebody they don’t really know to give them information or even talk to them about going home?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:10:47] The second problem she had, of course, is just similar to Dr. Chang, is the verification of where they’re going to end up. And, you know, she raised an example, of course, that the city, even through its best efforts and good faith, may not actually be able to verify what kind of home environment people are going to be sent to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gail Osmer \u003c/strong>[00:11:04] But there’s a lot of problems that people have probably at home, you know, and we don’t know the home environment. What if somebody is clean and sober and they send them home or whatever, and they’re in a home where there’s, you know, alcoholism?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:11:21] The connotation with hearing about bus or train tickets being offered for unhoused people to essentially leave the area, it does sometimes strike people the wrong way. One of the concerns that Gail Osmer raised with us was that she believes the mayor might be doing this for the wrong reasons. She said essentially that he wants unhoused people out of sight and out of mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Gail Osmer \u003c/strong>[00:11:48] I think this is just a way to get rid of the unhoused from the mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:11:56] So all that said, Joseph, what’s next for the program? I know it was just announced on Tuesday. What has the city said? How will we know if it’s working?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:12:07] Yeah, so, you know, as far as the city officials have told us, this can pretty much be implemented immediately and get started right away. The city did say it is going to emphasize that upfront verification. It’s gonna do all it can through its teams and its workers to ensure that the person or place that they are helping an unhoused person reach in the end is a good place for them. As far as whether the follow -up is actually going to be there, it sounds like the city is not going to put a lot of resources into that. So what kind of data and what kind of qualitative evaluation the city is gonna put into deciding whether or not to. continue or expand this program in the future after its initial run, it still kind of remains to be seen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo \u003c/strong>[00:12:53] We should say this is one of many things San Jose is doing. You know, it’s a $200 ,000 pilot program, which is not a lot of money for a city of San Jose size, definitely a lot of money for a regular person. But what does this story tell us about the city’s priorities when it comes to homelessness and housing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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It is set to start as soon as this week and will provide up to $1,000 for bus and train tickets as far away as the East Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Many of the people living and dying on our streets have a loved one who cares for them,” Mahan said during a Tuesday press conference outside City Hall. “Many have connections and ties to places they can’t reach. And each one has a different story, a different reason for being on the streets.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, a local advocate for unhoused people and a Bay Area homelessness researcher are skeptical the program will be effective and are concerned about the lack of follow-up and limited data from similar programs run in other cities. In San Francisco, which has \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-people-bus-program-19257394.php\">had similar programs\u003c/a> running for two decades, the success of those efforts has been hard to track, and of what data there is, the \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/22/homeless-humboldt-bus-san-francisco-other-states/\">results are mixed\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan acknowledged the program, which will be funded with $200,000 of city money and run by its outreach workers or contractors, will not be a fit for everyone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But it’s the right program for anyone trying to get home, trying to restart their lives and reconnect with family or friends who are willing to help,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The program doesn’t have any firmly defined goals or benchmarks, but Mahan and city officials said San José will be collecting information about who uses it and plan to analyze that when deciding whether to expand the effort in the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For Gail Osmer, an advocate who regularly assists unhoused people with finding resources and services, the program feels like the wrong approach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Out of sight, out of mind,” Osmer said, adding that she feels Mahan is just using this program as a way to shift homelessness off of San José’s list of things to address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Do you think the unhoused are going to trust a stranger or somebody they don’t really know to give them information or even talk to them about going home?” Osmer said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026437]She also expressed concern that the city wouldn’t be able to ensure people remain housed and safe wherever they end up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What if somebody is clean and sober, and they send them home, and they’re in a home where there’s alcoholism?” Osmer said. “I think this is just a way to get rid of the unhoused.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, a \u003ca href=\"https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/the-homelessness-response-system/problem-solving/relocation-assistance-programs/\">data dashboard\u003c/a> from the city’s Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing shows that 1,159 people used one of the city’s three relocation assistance programs from Fiscal Year 2022 to present. However, the dashboard does not include any data about where people end up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-homeless-people-bus-program-19257394.php\">San Francisco Chronicle reported last year\u003c/a> that about 60% of people remained with their friends or family after follow-ups. The rest could not be tracked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lack of clear data on the outcomes for people using the program concerns Dr. Jamie Chang, an associate professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Social Welfare, whose research focuses on homelessness and substance use treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that while these programs might temporarily be effective at removing people from an area, without a system in place to ensure their success elsewhere, I’m skeptical about its overall efficacy,” Chang told KQED. “We don’t really know what happens to people once they’re dropped off at their destination.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also said the programs should be monitored and tracked closely so they are not used to coerce people to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12026630]Erik Soliván, San José’s director of housing, said the city has evaluated San Francisco’s program and plans to have case managers speak with the person who would be taking in their unhoused friend or family member upfront to verify that it will be safe and stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The learning from the San Francisco model is that we have to do some due diligence and put an expectation on the individual that once you land, call us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, there won’t be too many restrictions in place, and there won’t be continued follow-up once a person has made it to their landing spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to require a family member because maybe it’s a friend. We’re not going to require that the landing place be a particular house because maybe it’s an ADU they’re living in. There’s lots of options,” Soliván said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He added that outreach workers will be authorized to spend up to $500 during routine conversations with unhoused people to set them up with transportation or up to $1,000 after receiving a supervisor’s approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re going to have iPads and phones to make that transaction available. 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Peña Lopez suffered a panic attack and was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Mountain View.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hodges said the violent arrest and failure to show a warrant marked only the beginning of a series of concerning actions from the immigration agency. When she was eventually able to speak with Peña Lopez at the hospital, she said ICE agents refused to leave the room so they could speak privately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Lopez’s family alleges that he was mistreated in the hospital and that they were not allowed to see him for more than 24 hours after his arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They shackled him to his bed, prevented him from contacting his family, and kept him isolated from his loved ones,” the family \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DGb7CE_STDA/?img_index=1\">said in a statement\u003c/a> on Sunday afternoon. “He shared that the ICE agents beat him up in an alley after taking him from the house.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokesperson said Thursday evening that Peña Lopez was not following commands from officers who could not see inside his car’s tinted windows, and they struck it three times until it cracked. Peña Lopez was not dragged from the car, ICE said, but rather “exited his vehicle unassisted and was fully cooperative as arresting officers took him into custody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The spokesperson also said the allegation that Peña Lopez was beaten by officers is “absolutely inaccurate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Lopez was not shown a warrant while being arrested, ICE acknowledged, though the spokesperson claims it was not shown because shortly after exiting the car, Peña Lopez began experiencing a medical event and needed aid from the officers, followed by the paramedics. Once at the hospital, officers didn’t allow family or an attorney to visit with him until it was clear he was medically stable, ICE said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family said that Peña Lopez has health conditions, including a blood clot, heart issues, a spinal disorder and knee injuries, and that he collapsed and struggled to breathe after the arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was not just an arrest; it was an assault on his dignity, his health, and his rights,” the statement said. “This violent act against him has left our entire family and community heartbroken and enraged.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12027607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/09/GettyImages-184795463-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has yet to produce records about his case, Hodges said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This feels really indicative of an environment politically that is empowering ICE to act with even more impunity, even more recklessness and cruelty than we’re accustomed to,” Hodges said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An ICE spokesperson said Peña Lopez was previously deported from the U.S. in 2013, illegally re-entered at some point after that, and was targeted for arrest because of his criminal record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Lopez was previously convicted of disregarding safety and evading police in November 2016 in San Luis Obispo County, as well as assault with a deadly weapon with force in March 2020 in Santa Clara County, ICE said. He was also convicted of a DUI in September 2020 in Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Peña Lopez has a wife and a 3-year-old daughter and has lived in Sunnyvale for about 13 years, his family and attorney said. Hodges said information about his immigration status or the reason he was arrested isn’t clear yet due to the lack of records from ICE.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want a full investigation of what happened to him that day,” said Jesus Ruiz, an organizer with the Rapid Response Network of Santa Clara County. “We are reaching out to local congresspeople to get the support to launch an investigation of what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Saturday night, Peña Lopez was released from the hospital and was transferred overnight to the Golden State Annex Detention Center in McFarland, in the Central Valley, Hodges said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, Peña Lopez had another panic attack at the facility and was taken to a hospital, but he wasn’t told which one, Hodges said he told his family. After returning to the detention facility on Sunday night, he was denied access to medications and was not fed, Hodges said, adding that she and the family are worried about his health and well-being.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want justice for Ulises, and we will fight to ensure that no one else has to endure such brutality,” his family’s statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Community members and supporters read the family’s statement at a vigil at the Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Sunday for Jocelynn Rojo Carranza. The 11-year-old girl in Texas died by suicide this month after classmates had bullied her and threatened to call ICE to deport her parents, according to her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This whole narrative that this new administration is painting on the undocumented community, it carries consequences,” said Ruiz, the Rapid Response Network organizer, adding that it trickles down “to those enforcing immigration law and feeling that they can treat the undocumented community as less than humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/calam\">\u003cem>Christopher Alam\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story has been updated to include a more detailed response from ICE than was available at the time of original publication.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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The neighborhood was inundated in February 2017 during a major flood. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The project is also tied to a massive renovation and seismic retrofit underway at Anderson Dam in Morgan Hill, which could increase the flows into Coyote Creek when storm surges occur to stop the dam from overflowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven areas that were chosen for the first phase of walls are considered the most vulnerable to flooding because they are low-lying and are near sections of the creek where additional water would flow after a tunnel diversion portion of the dam upgrade is completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Officials said the walls, which will vary slightly depending on where they are installed, can withstand a storm surge like the one seen on President’s Day weekend in 2017, when rushing waters overtopped the banks of Coyote Creek, overrunning parks, roads and homes, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11328162/san-jose-flooding-14000-told-to-evacuate\">triggering evacuation\u003c/a> orders or advisories for tens of thousands of people.[aside postID=news_12026630 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/SantaClaraCountyHomelessnessGetty1-1020x680.jpg']“I think those of us who were living here in San José in 2017, we all have some sort of personal story,” Valley Water board member Shiloh Ballard said during the announcement. “We know someone, or we experienced it personally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city of San José faced significant criticism in the days and months after the flood, including in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11612712/the-san-jose-flood-what-went-wrong-and-how-the-city-plans-to-fix-it\">report it commissioned\u003c/a> that gave the city an “F” for its level of foresight regarding the storm. The report also lambasted its late notification to many residents, some of whom received evacuation orders after floodwaters were already at their door.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saraí Rojas, a resident of the Olinder-McKinley neighborhood, lives in an apartment near the creek and said she is happy to see the floodwalls largely completed near her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s important work. I want to think it’s a good use of tax dollars … because, though I didn’t live here in 2017, I’ve seen the pictures and the extent of all the damage. 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Santa Clara Valley Water District announced the near completion of roughly 9,000 feet of new floodwalls in several areas of the city to protect against a 20-year flood risk. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong said the work being recognized this week is about more than just managing waterways.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whenever we talk about the flood of 2017, when we talk about the impending doom of future potential floods, we see people and families. And that’s what it comes down to,” Duong said. “When floods happen time and time again, it is always the most vulnerable families, seniors on fixed incomes, families with small children, who are going to be suffering the most.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first phase of Valley Water’s project cost about $117 million, officials said, and the next phase, which would add about 17,000 more feet of walls, passive barriers and earthen berms, is estimated to cost $221 million.[aside postID=news_12024565 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250129-SCCTURF-JG-3-1020x680.jpg']Robert Yamane, the lead project engineer, said the passive barriers will be made of aluminum interlocking structures that will lay flat until water levels rise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s around park areas, so people can still get into the park, and it’s not blocking all lines of sight into the park,” Yamane said. “So they lie down flat, kind of adjacent to the sidewalks, and then they’ll float up and then lock into place with some struts.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Hakes, chief operating officer of watersheds at Valley Water, said the water district attempted to plan a project in 2011 in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers that would have offered a significantly higher level of protection — enough to withstand a 100-year-flood — but the costs were too high in the view of the Corps, and the project was scrapped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said residents and business owners in the areas with the new walls have been patient and supportive of the current project, which has been a long time coming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are many community members here who are breathing a little bit of a sigh of relief that this project is completing,” he said, “and they’re getting the protection that they’ve sought for a long time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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