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Email? Google?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you answered the latter and you live in California, you might find that getting your news through Google just got harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Steve Waldman, CEO, Rebuild Local News\"]‘This is Google sending a message that if the legislature passes the bill that they don’t like, that the newsrooms and residents of California will be punished for that.’[/pullquote]Google said it’s currently testing a process in which the tech conglomerate is \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">“removing links to California news websites”\u003c/a> among its search results. In a blog post announcing the move, Google’s VP of Global News Partnerships, Jaffer Zaidi, stated that Google was taking this action “to prepare” for the “possible implications” of a bill making its way through the California state legislature. The bill, called the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), would call upon \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-meta-big-tech-journalism-fee-california-lawmakers-ec3a926252f59e589e5d48b067c7904e\">tech companies to pay media outlets for posting and using their content\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the News/Media Alliance — a journalism advocacy organization — has called upon the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-04-16/news-media-alliance-google-ftc-investigation\">“investigate whether Google is violating federal law\u003c/a> in blocking or impeding their ability to find news that they rely upon for their business, their prosperity, their pleasure, their democracy and, sometimes, their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64dff94f756e010aef6c3999/t/66215bd53cc9b82db2c4f98e/1713462229252/Publisher+letter+AB+886+4.18.24.pdf\">nearly 350 local California publishers signed a letter\u003c/a> to show their support for \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64dff94f756e010aef6c3999/t/66215bd53cc9b82db2c4f98e/1713462229252/Publisher+letter+AB+886+4.18.24.pdf\">the California Journalism Preservation Act\u003c/a>. The publishers include a variety of outlets — from large newspapers like the LA Times to ethnic media newsrooms including El Sol — who said they “stand united in our efforts to preserve journalism in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Around 40 percent of Google Search results contain news articles,” the letter read. “Even when readers do click through and can see the ads on our sites, Google takes another 70% of each advertising dollar, as it controls digital advertising technology, the topic of an anti-trust suit that California has joined.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/sbaxter_sc/status/1778916761829789780\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, how could this change from Google affect how \u003ci>you \u003c/i>find California news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve noticed some gaps in your recent Google searches or are worried, you might read below to learn more about what this means for you and your local journalism ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many people in California will be affected by Google removing news links?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">the April 12 statement\u003c/a>, Google’s Zaidi wrote that the blockage would be a “short-term” test for “a small percentage of California users.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11981551,news_11979306,news_11960799\" label=\"Related Stories\"]So theoretically, if you are part of the “small percentage of California users,” when you search for a news topic in California, you will \u003ci>not\u003c/i> see articles from local publications within the state like KQED, the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/i>or the \u003ci>LA Times. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/12/google-search-blocking-california-news\">unclear how many people\u003c/a> are actually affected by this change — or \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">how long the “test” will continue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear if users can turn this test off in their settings. A Google spokesperson declined KQED’s request to provide any further information about the test — or who is affected — outside of \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">the April 12 blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is this happening now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We’re mostly viewing this as a political attack as much as it is a technical test,” said Steve Waldman, the CEO of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/\">Rebuild Local News\u003c/a>. “This is Google sending a message that if the legislature passes the bill that they don’t like, the newsrooms and residents of California will be punished for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman referenced \u003ca href=\"https://policydialogue.org/files/publications/papers/LatestVersion.pdf\">similar legislation passed in Australia and Canada\u003c/a>, which large tech companies also pushed back against.“I think, for Google, they’re looking at all these efforts to push them into providing money to publishers, and they’re thinking this is spreading around the world, and it’s creating an enormous potential liability for them,” Waldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very focused on California because they’re worried that whatever comes out of California could set the template for the rest of the United States and also for other countries,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2023, Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, began blocking news content from appearing in Canadian users’ feeds since \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/could-meta-block-news-in-australia-after-canada-ban/103576038\">Canada required the company to pay local news publications for linking to or featuring their work\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the company of “putting corporate profits ahead of people’s safety” for its decision to keep blocking news content in the country even \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-facebook-news-blocking-734a5bc05796e38a011c6c9a473efea8\">as devastating wildfires raged\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what Canadian Instagram users see when trying to access news:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11983350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of an Instagram profile that was blocked with a message that reads "People in Canada can't see this content" with a message logo with a strike through it.\" width=\"720\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2.png 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2-160x145.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta has also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1663951770052067338\">threatened\u003c/a> to do this again in California if the California Journalism Preservation Act were to pass. In May 2023, a Meta spokesperson stated that the company would “be forced to remove news from Facebook and Instagram rather than pay into a slush fund that primarily benefits big, out-of-state media companies under the guise of aiding California publishers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late March, Instagram\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980748/how-to-opt-out-of-metas-political-content-limit-on-instagram-and-threads\"> rolled out a new default setting\u003c/a> that limited posts “likely to mention governments, elections or social topics that affect a group of people and/or society at large” appearing in user’s feeds. For many, this setting was automatically set and came with little or no warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So, how can I make sure \u003cem>I\u003c/em> continue to see local news online?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regardless of whether Google’s test targets an individual in California to remove news links, Waldman said that in a landscape where news is being throttled on search or social media, audiences may need to start actively looking for it instead — since news “may not just arrive in your lap or on your screen quite the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may have to be a little more proactive in both getting it and also supporting the local media,” Waldman said. “Advertising business for local publications has kind of plummeted, and local news is not really going to survive without the support from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you noticed something different with your Google searches or otherwise suspect you might be part of Google’s test to limit news content in California for some users, there are other ways to find local coverage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visiting a news outlet’s website directly\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following your preferred news outlet on social media\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signing up for push notifications and breaking news alerts from your preferred news outlet\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your news outlet has an app, downloading and viewing articles on that platform\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your outlet has a podcast, listen to their feed on your preferred platforms like Apple Podcasts or Stitcher\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your outlet is a television or radio station, tune into that station.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Waldman said that “going into an election year that’s going to be full of misinformation,” he found it “incredibly disheartening that at the moment when we should be providing more information and more news that’s reliable … Google is temporarily choking back the availability of reliable local news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the backstory of the bill Google is resisting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill Google is responding to is AB 886 — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB886\">the California Journalism Preservation Act\u003c/a> — which, if passed, would require platforms to send “a journalism usage fee payment to each eligible digital journalism provider.” This means that Google, Facebook and other tech companies would need to pay a bargained percentage of the tech company’s ad revenue to news outlets for using media outlets’ work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In return, the newsroom must use 70% of these funds to hire new reporters or support existing staff. The bill would also prohibit tech companies from retaliating against local outlets by placing their stories lower on a search result page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 886 \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/12/google-search-blocking-california-news\">passed the California assembly in 2023\u003c/a>. It would need to pass the California Senate before being signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Related: \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill — introduced by Buffy Wicks (CA-14) — noted that over the past 10 years, newspaper advertising has decreased by 66% and staff by 44%. Critics say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/909086008/study-how-the-power-of-facebook-and-google-affects-local-communities\">Facebook and Google have played a large role in this\u003c/a> breakdown by monopolizing the digital advertising market, leaving little revenue for local news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northwestern University’s \u003ca href=\"https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/2023/report/\">“The State of Local News”\u003c/a> report hypothesized that by the end of 2024, “the country will have lost a third of its newspapers since 2005.” Over 500 journalists — \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/01/journalism-layoffs-00138517\">national and local publications\u003c/a> — lost their jobs in 2024 so far, barely over four months. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-23/latimes-layoffs-115-newsroom-soon-shiong\">the \u003ci>LA Times \u003c/i>laid off over a hundred people in January\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, there’s been a 68% drop in the number of reporters since 2005,” Waldman said. “It’s a catastrophe, and it’s totally appropriate to ask the tech companies to help pay for fixing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the journalism and First Amendment world, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/01/journalism-preservation-california-media-leverage/\">advocates of the bill\u003c/a> say it finally allows news outlets leverage over Big Tech, which they argue has gone seemingly\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/its-time-for-big-tech-to-stand-up-journalism-1234860906/\"> unchecked for years\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/01/preserving-california-journalism-bill-clickbait/\">Opponents\u003c/a> say the measure would incentivize clickbait and favor larger newsrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman said that given the bill’s current language —which is still open to potential revision — he agrees that larger out-of-state newsrooms would benefit more from the legislation than mid- to small-sized newsrooms in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to come up with some public policies that are really helping the medium and small-sized papers and family newspapers, websites, nonprofits, Black and Hispanic newspapers, public radio,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does Google say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Google’s April 12 blog post announcing the test to limit news links, the company highlights the \u003ca href=\"https://news.google.com/news-showcase/\">Google News Showcase\u003c/a>, a feed of news articles curated for users. The Google News Showcase partners with 200 new organizations in California alone, according to Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Google would now be “pausing further investments in the California news ecosystem” — including establishing new Google News Showcase partnerships, any planned expansions of Google News and the company’s product and licensing program for news organizations — “until there’s clarity on California’s regulatory environment,” Google VP Zaidi said in the blog post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaidi also claimed that “just 2% of queries on Google Search are news-related,” which he framed as part of a general shift in “the rapidly changing way people are looking for and consuming information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.techpolicy.press/the-value-of-news-content-to-google-is-way-more-than-you-think/\">a 2023 research study commissioned by Swiss media publishers\u003c/a> found that “information searches” account for \u003ca href=\"https://www.techpolicy.press/the-value-of-news-content-to-google-is-way-more-than-you-think/\">55% of all internet searches\u003c/a>, which would potentially draw from journalistic content. The research also found that the market share of Google searches that use media content results in an estimated revenue of \u003ca href=\"https://www.techpolicy.press/the-value-of-news-content-to-google-is-way-more-than-you-think/\">$440 million per year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman also noted that with a company as big as Google, “just 2%” can mean a lot. “Google does place snippets of the content on their search engines,” he said. “A lot of people just look at the snippets and never click through.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is actually getting a lot of value out of the work and money that’s been invested by the news organizations in creating content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there other legal proposals that are aiming to support journalism?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Journalism Competition & Preservation Act\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/673\">Journalism Competition & Preservation Act,\u003c/a> introduced by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 2023, allows media companies to negotiate prices directly with social media companies about the use of their work. One of the co-sponsors includes the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it were enacted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-08/chabria-column-tech-firms-news-outlets\">research from the University of Houston\u003c/a> estimates \u003ca href=\"https://policydialogue.org/files/publications/papers/LatestVersion.pdf\">Google would owe California newsrooms $1.4 billion annually\u003c/a>, which outpaces \u003ca href=\"https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/about/\">the $300 million Google provides globally\u003c/a> in grants and newsroom investments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/senamyklobuchar/status/1779195270925787556?s=46&t=7BBzFwo6eYLzJIVfAlumEQ\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California Senate Bill 1327\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Steven Glazer introduced \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1327/id/2964627\">SB 1327\u003c/a>, which proposes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ojaivalleynews.com/opinion/guest_essays/opinion-in-support-of-a-journalism-tax-credit-sb-1327-glazer/article_be128aa0-fb72-11ee-a2ba-4fea6e148bf0.html\">an employment credit\u003c/a> for California newsrooms. In the bill, local media organizations that employ local, California-based staff can get a subsidy from state taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever policy that they come up with, our main point is that there’s a catastrophe unfolding in California right now,” Waldman said of the various legal proposals to support local journalism in the state. Legislators “need to do something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, “They have to be careful that they don’t accidentally make the problem worse,” Waldman said. “They need to really be attending to the needs of medium and small sized players, including ethnic media — and not just the bigger players.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Google is testing a process that removes links to California news websites from its search results to prepare for a state bill that would require the tech giant to pay media outlets for posting and using their content.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713471351,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":51,"wordCount":2204},"headData":{"title":"Why Is Google Removing News Links for Some Californians? | KQED","description":"Google is testing a process that removes links to California news websites from its search results to prepare for a state bill that would require the tech giant to pay media outlets for posting and using their content.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Why Is Google Removing News Links for Some Californians?","datePublished":"2024-04-18T19:00:25.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-18T20:15:51.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11983333/why-is-google-removing-news-links-for-some-californians","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 1:15 p.m. Thursday \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>How do you find your news: Through social media? Email? Google?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you answered the latter and you live in California, you might find that getting your news through Google just got harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This is Google sending a message that if the legislature passes the bill that they don’t like, that the newsrooms and residents of California will be punished for that.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Steve Waldman, CEO, Rebuild Local News","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Google said it’s currently testing a process in which the tech conglomerate is \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">“removing links to California news websites”\u003c/a> among its search results. In a blog post announcing the move, Google’s VP of Global News Partnerships, Jaffer Zaidi, stated that Google was taking this action “to prepare” for the “possible implications” of a bill making its way through the California state legislature. The bill, called the California Journalism Preservation Act (CJPA), would call upon \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/google-meta-big-tech-journalism-fee-california-lawmakers-ec3a926252f59e589e5d48b067c7904e\">tech companies to pay media outlets for posting and using their content\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response, the News/Media Alliance — a journalism advocacy organization — has called upon the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice to \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-04-16/news-media-alliance-google-ftc-investigation\">“investigate whether Google is violating federal law\u003c/a> in blocking or impeding their ability to find news that they rely upon for their business, their prosperity, their pleasure, their democracy and, sometimes, their lives.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Thursday, \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64dff94f756e010aef6c3999/t/66215bd53cc9b82db2c4f98e/1713462229252/Publisher+letter+AB+886+4.18.24.pdf\">nearly 350 local California publishers signed a letter\u003c/a> to show their support for \u003ca href=\"https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64dff94f756e010aef6c3999/t/66215bd53cc9b82db2c4f98e/1713462229252/Publisher+letter+AB+886+4.18.24.pdf\">the California Journalism Preservation Act\u003c/a>. The publishers include a variety of outlets — from large newspapers like the LA Times to ethnic media newsrooms including El Sol — who said they “stand united in our efforts to preserve journalism in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Around 40 percent of Google Search results contain news articles,” the letter read. “Even when readers do click through and can see the ads on our sites, Google takes another 70% of each advertising dollar, as it controls digital advertising technology, the topic of an anti-trust suit that California has joined.”\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1778916761829789780"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>So, how could this change from Google affect how \u003ci>you \u003c/i>find California news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you’ve noticed some gaps in your recent Google searches or are worried, you might read below to learn more about what this means for you and your local journalism ecosystem.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>How many people in California will be affected by Google removing news links?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">the April 12 statement\u003c/a>, Google’s Zaidi wrote that the blockage would be a “short-term” test for “a small percentage of California users.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11981551,news_11979306,news_11960799","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>So theoretically, if you are part of the “small percentage of California users,” when you search for a news topic in California, you will \u003ci>not\u003c/i> see articles from local publications within the state like KQED, the \u003ci>San Francisco Chronicle \u003c/i>or the \u003ci>LA Times. \u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But it’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/12/google-search-blocking-california-news\">unclear how many people\u003c/a> are actually affected by this change — or \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">how long the “test” will continue\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also unclear if users can turn this test off in their settings. A Google spokesperson declined KQED’s request to provide any further information about the test — or who is affected — outside of \u003ca href=\"https://blog.google/products/news/california-journalism-preservation-act-puts-news-ecosystem-at-risk/\">the April 12 blog post\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Why is this happening now?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“We’re mostly viewing this as a political attack as much as it is a technical test,” said Steve Waldman, the CEO of the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"https://www.rebuildlocalnews.org/\">Rebuild Local News\u003c/a>. “This is Google sending a message that if the legislature passes the bill that they don’t like, the newsrooms and residents of California will be punished for that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman referenced \u003ca href=\"https://policydialogue.org/files/publications/papers/LatestVersion.pdf\">similar legislation passed in Australia and Canada\u003c/a>, which large tech companies also pushed back against.“I think, for Google, they’re looking at all these efforts to push them into providing money to publishers, and they’re thinking this is spreading around the world, and it’s creating an enormous potential liability for them,” Waldman said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’re very focused on California because they’re worried that whatever comes out of California could set the template for the rest of the United States and also for other countries,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In June 2023, Instagram and Facebook’s parent company, Meta, began blocking news content from appearing in Canadian users’ feeds since \u003ca href=\"https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-13/could-meta-block-news-in-australia-after-canada-ban/103576038\">Canada required the company to pay local news publications for linking to or featuring their work\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the company of “putting corporate profits ahead of people’s safety” for its decision to keep blocking news content in the country even \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/canada-wildfires-facebook-news-blocking-734a5bc05796e38a011c6c9a473efea8\">as devastating wildfires raged\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is what Canadian Instagram users see when trying to access news:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2.png\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11983350\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2.png\" alt=\"A screenshot of an Instagram profile that was blocked with a message that reads "People in Canada can't see this content" with a message logo with a strike through it.\" width=\"720\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2.png 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-2-160x145.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meta has also \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1663951770052067338\">threatened\u003c/a> to do this again in California if the California Journalism Preservation Act were to pass. In May 2023, a Meta spokesperson stated that the company would “be forced to remove news from Facebook and Instagram rather than pay into a slush fund that primarily benefits big, out-of-state media companies under the guise of aiding California publishers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In late March, Instagram\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11980748/how-to-opt-out-of-metas-political-content-limit-on-instagram-and-threads\"> rolled out a new default setting\u003c/a> that limited posts “likely to mention governments, elections or social topics that affect a group of people and/or society at large” appearing in user’s feeds. For many, this setting was automatically set and came with little or no warning.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>So, how can I make sure \u003cem>I\u003c/em> continue to see local news online?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Regardless of whether Google’s test targets an individual in California to remove news links, Waldman said that in a landscape where news is being throttled on search or social media, audiences may need to start actively looking for it instead — since news “may not just arrive in your lap or on your screen quite the same way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You may have to be a little more proactive in both getting it and also supporting the local media,” Waldman said. “Advertising business for local publications has kind of plummeted, and local news is not really going to survive without the support from the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you noticed something different with your Google searches or otherwise suspect you might be part of Google’s test to limit news content in California for some users, there are other ways to find local coverage:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Visiting a news outlet’s website directly\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following your preferred news outlet on social media\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signing up for push notifications and breaking news alerts from your preferred news outlet\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your news outlet has an app, downloading and viewing articles on that platform\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your outlet has a podcast, listen to their feed on your preferred platforms like Apple Podcasts or Stitcher\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">If your outlet is a television or radio station, tune into that station.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Waldman said that “going into an election year that’s going to be full of misinformation,” he found it “incredibly disheartening that at the moment when we should be providing more information and more news that’s reliable … Google is temporarily choking back the availability of reliable local news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What’s the backstory of the bill Google is resisting?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The bill Google is responding to is AB 886 — \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB886\">the California Journalism Preservation Act\u003c/a> — which, if passed, would require platforms to send “a journalism usage fee payment to each eligible digital journalism provider.” This means that Google, Facebook and other tech companies would need to pay a bargained percentage of the tech company’s ad revenue to news outlets for using media outlets’ work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In return, the newsroom must use 70% of these funds to hire new reporters or support existing staff. The bill would also prohibit tech companies from retaliating against local outlets by placing their stories lower on a search result page.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AB 886 \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/12/google-search-blocking-california-news\">passed the California assembly in 2023\u003c/a>. It would need to pass the California Senate before being signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Related: \u003c/b>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">How Can I Call My Representative? A Step-by-Step Guide to the Process\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill — introduced by Buffy Wicks (CA-14) — noted that over the past 10 years, newspaper advertising has decreased by 66% and staff by 44%. Critics say that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/09/03/909086008/study-how-the-power-of-facebook-and-google-affects-local-communities\">Facebook and Google have played a large role in this\u003c/a> breakdown by monopolizing the digital advertising market, leaving little revenue for local news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Northwestern University’s \u003ca href=\"https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state-of-local-news/2023/report/\">“The State of Local News”\u003c/a> report hypothesized that by the end of 2024, “the country will have lost a third of its newspapers since 2005.” Over 500 journalists — \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/01/journalism-layoffs-00138517\">national and local publications\u003c/a> — lost their jobs in 2024 so far, barely over four months. In California, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-23/latimes-layoffs-115-newsroom-soon-shiong\">the \u003ci>LA Times \u003c/i>laid off over a hundred people in January\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, there’s been a 68% drop in the number of reporters since 2005,” Waldman said. “It’s a catastrophe, and it’s totally appropriate to ask the tech companies to help pay for fixing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the journalism and First Amendment world, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/01/journalism-preservation-california-media-leverage/\">advocates of the bill\u003c/a> say it finally allows news outlets leverage over Big Tech, which they argue has gone seemingly\u003ca href=\"https://www.rollingstone.com/culture-council/articles/its-time-for-big-tech-to-stand-up-journalism-1234860906/\"> unchecked for years\u003c/a>. \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/commentary/2024/01/preserving-california-journalism-bill-clickbait/\">Opponents\u003c/a> say the measure would incentivize clickbait and favor larger newsrooms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman said that given the bill’s current language —which is still open to potential revision — he agrees that larger out-of-state newsrooms would benefit more from the legislation than mid- to small-sized newsrooms in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to come up with some public policies that are really helping the medium and small-sized papers and family newspapers, websites, nonprofits, Black and Hispanic newspapers, public radio,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What does Google say?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Google’s April 12 blog post announcing the test to limit news links, the company highlights the \u003ca href=\"https://news.google.com/news-showcase/\">Google News Showcase\u003c/a>, a feed of news articles curated for users. The Google News Showcase partners with 200 new organizations in California alone, according to Google.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Google would now be “pausing further investments in the California news ecosystem” — including establishing new Google News Showcase partnerships, any planned expansions of Google News and the company’s product and licensing program for news organizations — “until there’s clarity on California’s regulatory environment,” Google VP Zaidi said in the blog post.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zaidi also claimed that “just 2% of queries on Google Search are news-related,” which he framed as part of a general shift in “the rapidly changing way people are looking for and consuming information.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, \u003ca href=\"https://www.techpolicy.press/the-value-of-news-content-to-google-is-way-more-than-you-think/\">a 2023 research study commissioned by Swiss media publishers\u003c/a> found that “information searches” account for \u003ca href=\"https://www.techpolicy.press/the-value-of-news-content-to-google-is-way-more-than-you-think/\">55% of all internet searches\u003c/a>, which would potentially draw from journalistic content. The research also found that the market share of Google searches that use media content results in an estimated revenue of \u003ca href=\"https://www.techpolicy.press/the-value-of-news-content-to-google-is-way-more-than-you-think/\">$440 million per year\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waldman also noted that with a company as big as Google, “just 2%” can mean a lot. “Google does place snippets of the content on their search engines,” he said. “A lot of people just look at the snippets and never click through.”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Google is actually getting a lot of value out of the work and money that’s been invested by the news organizations in creating content.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Are there other legal proposals that are aiming to support journalism?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The Journalism Competition & Preservation Act\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/673\">Journalism Competition & Preservation Act,\u003c/a> introduced by Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar in 2023, allows media companies to negotiate prices directly with social media companies about the use of their work. One of the co-sponsors includes the late California Sen. Dianne Feinstein.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it were enacted, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-08/chabria-column-tech-firms-news-outlets\">research from the University of Houston\u003c/a> estimates \u003ca href=\"https://policydialogue.org/files/publications/papers/LatestVersion.pdf\">Google would owe California newsrooms $1.4 billion annually\u003c/a>, which outpaces \u003ca href=\"https://newsinitiative.withgoogle.com/about/\">the $300 million Google provides globally\u003c/a> in grants and newsroom investments.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"singleTwitterStatus","attributes":{"named":{"id":"1779195270925787556"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>California Senate Bill 1327\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Sen. Steven Glazer introduced \u003ca href=\"https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB1327/id/2964627\">SB 1327\u003c/a>, which proposes \u003ca href=\"https://www.ojaivalleynews.com/opinion/guest_essays/opinion-in-support-of-a-journalism-tax-credit-sb-1327-glazer/article_be128aa0-fb72-11ee-a2ba-4fea6e148bf0.html\">an employment credit\u003c/a> for California newsrooms. In the bill, local media organizations that employ local, California-based staff can get a subsidy from state taxes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Whatever policy that they come up with, our main point is that there’s a catastrophe unfolding in California right now,” Waldman said of the various legal proposals to support local journalism in the state. Legislators “need to do something,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, “They have to be careful that they don’t accidentally make the problem worse,” Waldman said. “They need to really be attending to the needs of medium and small sized players, including ethnic media — and not just the bigger players.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11983333/why-is-google-removing-news-links-for-some-californians","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_8","news_248"],"tags":["news_32707","news_2704","news_27626","news_93","news_2670","news_17996","news_33171"],"featImg":"news_11983347","label":"news"},"news_11978953":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11978953","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11978953","score":null,"sort":[1710198055000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"controversial-confidentiality-pact-shrouds-bakery-clause-in-california-minimum-wage-law","title":"Why Were Bakeries Exempt From California's Minimum Wage Law? Confidentiality Pact Only Deepens Mystery","publishDate":1710198055,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Why Were Bakeries Exempt From California’s Minimum Wage Law? Confidentiality Pact Only Deepens Mystery | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>As California prepares to enforce a new \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-minimum-wage-increase-fast-food-newsom-69c26b7f07f2647149c37677446cea30\">$20-per-hour minimum wage\u003c/a> for fast food workers next month, an unusual exemption for eateries that bake their own bread has come under scrutiny due to allegations it was initially intended to benefit a wealthy donor to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, details have been hard to come by because of a tactic rarely associated with public policymaking: a signed confidentiality agreement that prevents some private groups from talking about their negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"David Loy, legal director, First Amendment Coalition\"]‘I think the public does have a right to know how the sausage is being made, so to speak.’[/pullquote]Two sources familiar with the negotiations confirmed to The Associated Press the agreement signed last summer covered some of the private parties involved, including labor unions representing restaurant workers and the industry group for restaurants. The agreement did not include Newsom or any other public officials. They said the agreement — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/california-fast-food-law-panera-newsom-nda/60117858\">first reported by KCRA\u003c/a> — was not meant to shield the public from details that could embarrass public officials. Instead, it enabled two sides who distrust each other to come together and work out a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sources spoke only on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such agreements are common in the context of employment agreements, settlements of lawsuits, and deals involving trade secrets or intellectual property. But they’re less common in the legislative process, said David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, a group that advocates for transparency in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the public does have a right to know how the sausage is being made, so to speak. And if the deal is essentially cut between private parties and more or less rubber-stamped in the Legislature, it’s troubling that the public doesn’t get to know what deals are made,” Loy said. “On the other hand … a private organization is not obligated to produce records or comment to the media that doesn’t want to. So, I would say it’s a complicated issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Hertzberg, a former Assembly speaker and state Senate majority leader, called concerns about the confidentiality agreement “much ado about nothing.” He noted that the Legislature must vette all legislation in public. This agreement, he said, was likely just a mechanism “to start a discussion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11975340,news_11962737,news_11975229\" label=\"Related Stories\"]“What ends up happening in these situations is … you end up having people in the same room who hate each other, don’t trust each other,” Hertzberg said. “The bottom line is you need to build trust. Everything is about trust to get people even to get into the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation establishing a $20-per-hour minimum wage for restaurant workers included an oddly specific exemption for eateries with on-site bakeries that sell bread. The exemption was also in a similar bill that passed in 2022, predating the confidentiality agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg News cited unidentified sources last month in reporting that Newsom had pushed for the bakery exemption to benefit Greg Flynn, a campaign donor whose company owns 24 Panera Bread restaurants. Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-fast-food-minimum-wage-panera-afd4cb275cbfcb7a72eb2399910f0bdd\">called that allegation “absurd.”\u003c/a> His administration’s legal team then analyzed the law and said Panera Bread was likely not exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn also denied the allegations and said that starting in April, he would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-panera-bread-fast-food-faca8695e96b0f3224da2ba6d0657e3b\">pay all hourly workers\u003c/a> at his Panera Bread restaurants $20 per hour or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the mystery remains over who pushed for the bakery exemption and why it was included in the law. Even Democratic Assemblymember Chris Holden, the author of the law, said he didn’t know how it got in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in part because the origins of the law reflect the reality of public policymaking in the United States. While all legislation must be vetted in public hearings and voted on by elected officials, in many cases, bills start with private parties — including companies, trade groups, and advocacy organizations — seeking to either protect their interests or resolve problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers often act as referees on contested pieces of legislation. In the most intense conflicts, they will sometimes publicly urge both sides to talk with each other directly to resolve the thorniest issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened in California last summer when labor unions and the fast food industry were locked in an escalating conflict over workers’ rights and companies’ legal liabilities. That conflict appeared headed toward the ballot box in the form of a referendum asking voters to decide. But that path would have cost both sides millions to pay for campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Tom Umberg — chair of the powerful Judiciary Committee — implored both sides to “get to the table, stop posturing and negotiate a global settlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups, which included the Services Employees International Union and the California Restaurant Association, worked through the summer to reach an agreement that would withdraw the referendum from the ballot. That agreement turned into legislation, which eventually became a law requiring a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers beginning April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While management and labor often negotiate in the workplace, they rarely work together at the state Legislature. At the time, labor unions were actively trying to organize workers at fast-food restaurants. And the industry was fighting to avoid an expansion of its legal liability that they said would have made it much harder to do business in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minimum wage law got public hearings in the Legislature. It was also debated on the floor of the state Assembly and Senate, where lawmakers made no changes, voted on it and sent it to Newsom, who signed it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans — whose numbers in the Legislature have dwindled to the point that they have almost no power to influence legislation — have long complained that Democrats negotiate major bills in private, only to then rush them through the required hearings with no changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Assemblymember Vince Fong said he would introduce a bill this year that would ban nondisclosure agreements with public officials as part of negotiating legislation. It’s unclear if Fong’s proposal would have applied in this situation, as the confidentiality agreement did not include public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transparency in government is the foundation of our democracy. It builds trust and confidence in the public process,” Fong said. “The fact that there are organizations that are using NDAs to prevent the public from knowing what’s going on — that’s wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Alex Stack said Fong’s proposal would not change anything for their office because “the Governor’s office doesn’t sign NDAs, for legislation or anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The minimum wage law has come under scrutiny over allegations that it included a carveout that benefited a wealthy campaign donor of Gov. Gavin Newsom. ","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1710198157,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":25,"wordCount":1166},"headData":{"title":"Why Were Bakeries Exempt From California's Minimum Wage Law? 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Gavin Newsom’s campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, details have been hard to come by because of a tactic rarely associated with public policymaking: a signed confidentiality agreement that prevents some private groups from talking about their negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think the public does have a right to know how the sausage is being made, so to speak.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"David Loy, legal director, First Amendment Coalition","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Two sources familiar with the negotiations confirmed to The Associated Press the agreement signed last summer covered some of the private parties involved, including labor unions representing restaurant workers and the industry group for restaurants. The agreement did not include Newsom or any other public officials. They said the agreement — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kcra.com/article/california-fast-food-law-panera-newsom-nda/60117858\">first reported by KCRA\u003c/a> — was not meant to shield the public from details that could embarrass public officials. Instead, it enabled two sides who distrust each other to come together and work out a compromise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sources spoke only on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Such agreements are common in the context of employment agreements, settlements of lawsuits, and deals involving trade secrets or intellectual property. But they’re less common in the legislative process, said David Loy, legal director of the First Amendment Coalition, a group that advocates for transparency in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the public does have a right to know how the sausage is being made, so to speak. And if the deal is essentially cut between private parties and more or less rubber-stamped in the Legislature, it’s troubling that the public doesn’t get to know what deals are made,” Loy said. “On the other hand … a private organization is not obligated to produce records or comment to the media that doesn’t want to. So, I would say it’s a complicated issue.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bob Hertzberg, a former Assembly speaker and state Senate majority leader, called concerns about the confidentiality agreement “much ado about nothing.” He noted that the Legislature must vette all legislation in public. This agreement, he said, was likely just a mechanism “to start a discussion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11975340,news_11962737,news_11975229","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“What ends up happening in these situations is … you end up having people in the same room who hate each other, don’t trust each other,” Hertzberg said. “The bottom line is you need to build trust. Everything is about trust to get people even to get into the room.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The legislation establishing a $20-per-hour minimum wage for restaurant workers included an oddly specific exemption for eateries with on-site bakeries that sell bread. The exemption was also in a similar bill that passed in 2022, predating the confidentiality agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bloomberg News cited unidentified sources last month in reporting that Newsom had pushed for the bakery exemption to benefit Greg Flynn, a campaign donor whose company owns 24 Panera Bread restaurants. Newsom has \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-fast-food-minimum-wage-panera-afd4cb275cbfcb7a72eb2399910f0bdd\">called that allegation “absurd.”\u003c/a> His administration’s legal team then analyzed the law and said Panera Bread was likely not exempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flynn also denied the allegations and said that starting in April, he would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-panera-bread-fast-food-faca8695e96b0f3224da2ba6d0657e3b\">pay all hourly workers\u003c/a> at his Panera Bread restaurants $20 per hour or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, the mystery remains over who pushed for the bakery exemption and why it was included in the law. Even Democratic Assemblymember Chris Holden, the author of the law, said he didn’t know how it got in there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s in part because the origins of the law reflect the reality of public policymaking in the United States. While all legislation must be vetted in public hearings and voted on by elected officials, in many cases, bills start with private parties — including companies, trade groups, and advocacy organizations — seeking to either protect their interests or resolve problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers often act as referees on contested pieces of legislation. In the most intense conflicts, they will sometimes publicly urge both sides to talk with each other directly to resolve the thorniest issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what happened in California last summer when labor unions and the fast food industry were locked in an escalating conflict over workers’ rights and companies’ legal liabilities. That conflict appeared headed toward the ballot box in the form of a referendum asking voters to decide. But that path would have cost both sides millions to pay for campaigns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic state Sen. Tom Umberg — chair of the powerful Judiciary Committee — implored both sides to “get to the table, stop posturing and negotiate a global settlement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those groups, which included the Services Employees International Union and the California Restaurant Association, worked through the summer to reach an agreement that would withdraw the referendum from the ballot. That agreement turned into legislation, which eventually became a law requiring a $20 minimum wage for fast food workers beginning April 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While management and labor often negotiate in the workplace, they rarely work together at the state Legislature. At the time, labor unions were actively trying to organize workers at fast-food restaurants. And the industry was fighting to avoid an expansion of its legal liability that they said would have made it much harder to do business in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The minimum wage law got public hearings in the Legislature. It was also debated on the floor of the state Assembly and Senate, where lawmakers made no changes, voted on it and sent it to Newsom, who signed it into law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republicans — whose numbers in the Legislature have dwindled to the point that they have almost no power to influence legislation — have long complained that Democrats negotiate major bills in private, only to then rush them through the required hearings with no changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Assemblymember Vince Fong said he would introduce a bill this year that would ban nondisclosure agreements with public officials as part of negotiating legislation. It’s unclear if Fong’s proposal would have applied in this situation, as the confidentiality agreement did not include public officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Transparency in government is the foundation of our democracy. It builds trust and confidence in the public process,” Fong said. “The fact that there are organizations that are using NDAs to prevent the public from knowing what’s going on — that’s wrong.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom spokesperson Alex Stack said Fong’s proposal would not change anything for their office because “the Governor’s office doesn’t sign NDAs, for legislation or anything else.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11978953/controversial-confidentiality-pact-shrouds-bakery-clause-in-california-minimum-wage-law","authors":["byline_news_11978953"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_2704","news_29044","news_20482","news_2141"],"featImg":"news_11978970","label":"news"},"news_11977234":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11977234","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11977234","score":null,"sort":[1709118036000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"february-news-roundup-a-silicon-valley-assembly-race-oscar-grants-mother-gets-his-phones-back-and-fast-food-politics","title":"February News Roundup: A Silicon Valley Assembly Race, Oscar Grant's Mother Gets His Phones Back, and Fast Food Politics","publishDate":1709118036,"format":"audio","headTitle":"February News Roundup: A Silicon Valley Assembly Race, Oscar Grant’s Mother Gets His Phones Back, and Fast Food Politics | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this edition of The Bay’s monthly news roundup, Ericka, Maria and Alan talk about an assembly race where housing development has taken center stage, the mother of Oscar Grant getting his cell phones back 15 years after his killing, and how the politics of fast food are heating up in San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Links:\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976382/california-assembly-race-offers-referendum-on-state-housing-reforms\">Palo Alto’s Lydia Kou Channels Anti-Sacramento Anger in Challenge to Assemblymember Marc Berman\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11976868/oscar-grants-cellphones-returned-to-his-mother-15-years-after-notorious-police-killing-on-bart-platform\">Oscar Grant’s Cellphones Returned to His Mother, 15 Years After Notorious Police Killing on BART Platform\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-fast-food-restaurant-union-workers-question-city-council-officials-david-cohen-support/\">San José fast-food workers question city official’s support\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5122928834&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And it is time for our monthly news roundup, where I sit down with the rest of the Bay team and talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following in the month of February. I’m joined by our producer, Maria Esquinca. What’s up Maria?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello. Happy to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Happy belated year of the Dragon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. Happy belated Lunar New Year to you both. A just, I guess, a check in. How are we feeling at this point of the year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I feel like February is usually the doldrums. Certainly it’s been a cloudy and rainy few weeks. I think we’re just trying to get through the rainy weather while also gearing up for the primary on March 5th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, and honestly, I don’t know. I’m ready for spring. I did step outside my door the other day and it like, smells like spring. But I think we have some more rain coming this week. But I hope you have enjoyed the sunshine lately. Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think we’ve had like an interesting start to the year, but I’m excited for, warmer weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, yes, spring is coming. The election is coming, and today some of the stories we’ll be discussing are definitely election related, including yours, Alan, out of the South Bay. I’ll start with you. What story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yes. So the California primary is on March 5th. Everyone should have received their ballots by now. There’s a great voter guide at KQED, Dawgs Voter Guide, and I wanted to talk about a local race in Silicon Valley, specifically the race for state Assembly in District 23. So that includes Palo Alto, Mountain View and West San Jose. And it’s a race that could serve as a bit of a referendum on the state’s swing towards building more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, can you talk a little bit more, Alan, about who’s running for this seat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are four candidates, two Democrats, two Republicans. District 23 is a very Democratic district. You know, since this is a primary, the top two advance to the November election regardless of party. So you could have two Democrats, one Republican, one Democrat. But I think the reason why this race is interesting is because you have a local Democrat challenging a Democratic incumbent. This doesn’t happen all that often. I think in Democratic politics there’s very much a kind of wait your turn kind of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But the main two Democrats that our colleague Guy Mercer said he wanted to focus on is Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Koo, who is challenging the incumbent Assembly member, Mark Berman. And actually, guy’s story starts with this town hall meeting in Palo Alto at a community center. And there’s a big sign there that’s called Town Hall to save our neighborhoods. And the person leading that town hall, the person hosting that event was Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Kou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>My name is Lydia Kou. I am council member and former mayor of Palo Alto, and I’m running for state assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Lydia Kou is a city council member from Palo Alto, which has the largest block of voters in the 23rd district. And she is part of a coalition of voters in Palo Alto who are really angry at the state for making it easier to build more housing and for reducing the power of cities to block development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Their voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And Councilmember Kou isn’t shy about saying what she thinks. You know, when when asked about whether 23rd district can put off building new housing because of the number of jobs that have come to the region, she said, well, why do all those jobs need to be here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Diversify. Make some incentives for companies to have their headquarters, other places versus just all gathered here. Why is it only focused on Mountain View in Palo Alto?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So that is a pretty bold move from Lydia Kou to run against an incumbent. I’m curious what Mark Burman is saying in response. How is he responding to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Assembly Member Marc Berman has been in office since about 2016, and he has joined many Democrats in the state legislature in pushing for basically a stronger, firmer approach from the state and saying to local cities and towns, hey, you need to get on board with building new housing. You know, he says, we have a housing shortage. We have a huge imbalance of housing and jobs here in Silicon Valley. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs, and that’s just been pushed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>On the folks that can least afford it. He even says to that. It’s not just that the state should create more incentives for more housing development. The state needs to also be tough on cities that are pushing back. We want to provide them as many carrots as possible, but for decades there has been no stick. I think it will be a test to see how strong this anti development coalition in Palo Alto has gotten. And if there’s a real backlash to this sort of, you know, yimby pro housing turn that the state has been taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sweet will we’ll be watching that race in March. Thanks so much, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll discuss my story and Maria’s…Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the base news roundup for the month of February. We’re going to get right back into it with producer Maria Esquinca:. Maria, what story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So a story that I’ve been following is about Reverend Wanda Johnson. She is Oscar Grant’s mother. Most people are probably familiar with the case of Oscar Grant. He was a 22 year old black man that was shot by a Bart police officer on New Year’s Day 2009, and his death resulted in a lot of outrage. And after 15 years of asking the DA’s office for Oscar Grant’s cell phones, she finally got them back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has it taken so long?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So, according to transcend, she said that she made repeated requests to the district attorney’s office for the cell phones. And what was told to her was that the phones were mixed in with other evidence around the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>And so they didn’t know which phones. Was head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And Reverend Wanda Johnson, Oscar Grant’s mother, talked about this at a press conference with the current Alameda County District attorney, Pamela Price:, who returned the phones to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>There was no challenge finding the phones. We know which phones they that actually belong to Oscar Grant, which phones were cataloged appropriately. It was apparently an act of will not to return the phone after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And based off the reporting of Oscar Palma, who reported on this for KQED, he did reach out to former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who said no one ever asked her about the phones and that members of her team never brought this issue up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Maria, can you maybe help give us a sense of why this is such a big deal for Wanda Johnson? How does she talk about why this moment 15 years later, is so important to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>She really talked about how these cell phones almost seem like an extension of Oscar Grant, and I think she really talked about wanting to have these cell phones because of the pictures in them, because there was pictures of Oscar Grant. It was clear from listening to her at the press conference, so she was elated that she was very happy. She talked about how these phones represent another piece of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>That is being fulfilled, that I have me having my son’s property, and that’s all families want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Maria, thank you so much for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And last but not least, we’ll talk about my story, which is about how fast food chains are entering the business of local politics in San Jose. The San Jose Spotlight has been reporting on some pretty interesting examples of fast food companies doing all kinds of things. Politics in San Jose. From meeting with City Council members to donating to a bunch of political campaigns and PACs, and even hiring lobbyists to campaign against certain policies in the city, all, of course, in an election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So corporations spending money on politics, not really a new thing. But what do fast food companies want to accomplish in San Jose? Specifically, what are they pushing for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, San Jose is one of two cities in California right now that is looking into a potential policy to essentially give more worker benefits to fast food workers. And in particular, it would allow fast food workers to accrue paid time off. These workers are really pushing, have been pushing in the last couple of years in California for more rights. And this issue is sort of taking center stage in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So what are the companies that have been getting involved in this and how?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Burger King, the owner of several Popeyes locations, the owners of some McDonald’s and some Taco Bell locations have also donated to this PAC called the Strong Economy Silicon Valley PAC, which has been running some ads against certain candidates in the race for city council and also a number of new lobbyists, have sort of popped up in the city of San Jose tasked with trying to fight against this potential policy for fast food workers in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So obviously, their funding or their yeah, they’re starting to put money into some of these races. How is this impacting local politics right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So the San Jose Spotlight reported on this story from earlier this month about how the California Fast Food Workers Union, which was established also just this month, recently held a protest of San Jose City Council member David Cohen. He’s actually currently running for reelection in a really tight race. And the union was protesting because they argued that Cohen was basically walking back his support of this potential policy to expand fast food worker benefits in San Jose. He’s now saying that he’s skeptical about how to make this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And the spotlight reports that he’s also one of the councilors who met with the fast food companies, in the last three months. Cohen says that he met with them to try and work out something for both sides. But the union believes that Cohen has sort of switched up his position, because of this tight reelection race that he’s in against Assembly member Kansen Chu. And actually, the strong economy Silicon Valley PAC, which is funded by a bunch of fast food corporations, has spent $18,000 on ads against Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Why do you think this story is happening in San Jose, specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, that’s a great question because there has been a pretty unprecedented labor organizing among fast food workers all around California. But the California Fast Food Workers Union, which again, just finally formed this month, has said that San Jose has one of the largest populations of fast food workers in California. And that is part of the reason why San Jose is one of only two cities in the state that are considering this policy that would increase benefits for fast food workers. And so I think this is an example of how the union plans to make more ground in other corners of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And you you’re if you’re the companies, I imagine you feel the same way that you want to defeat policies you don’t like, candidates you don’t like. On the local level before it snowballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, that is it for the bays news roundup for the month of February. Maria and Alan, thank you both so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening to the Bay. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay local news to keep you rooted. And it is time for our monthly news roundup, where I sit down with the rest of the Bay team and talk about some of the other stories that we’ve been following in the month of February. I’m joined by our producer, Maria Esquinca. What’s up Maria?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Hello. Happy to be here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And our senior editor, Alan Montecillo. Hey, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Hey. Happy belated year of the Dragon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yes. Happy belated Lunar New Year to you both. A just, I guess, a check in. How are we feeling at this point of the year?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>I feel like February is usually the doldrums. Certainly it’s been a cloudy and rainy few weeks. I think we’re just trying to get through the rainy weather while also gearing up for the primary on March 5th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, and honestly, I don’t know. I’m ready for spring. I did step outside my door the other day and it like, smells like spring. But I think we have some more rain coming this week. But I hope you have enjoyed the sunshine lately. Maria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I think we’ve had like an interesting start to the year, but I’m excited for, warmer weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, yes, spring is coming. The election is coming, and today some of the stories we’ll be discussing are definitely election related, including yours, Alan, out of the South Bay. I’ll start with you. What story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Yes. So the California primary is on March 5th. Everyone should have received their ballots by now. There’s a great voter guide at KQED, Dawgs Voter Guide, and I wanted to talk about a local race in Silicon Valley, specifically the race for state Assembly in District 23. So that includes Palo Alto, Mountain View and West San Jose. And it’s a race that could serve as a bit of a referendum on the state’s swing towards building more housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, can you talk a little bit more, Alan, about who’s running for this seat?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>There are four candidates, two Democrats, two Republicans. District 23 is a very Democratic district. You know, since this is a primary, the top two advance to the November election regardless of party. So you could have two Democrats, one Republican, one Democrat. But I think the reason why this race is interesting is because you have a local Democrat challenging a Democratic incumbent. This doesn’t happen all that often. I think in Democratic politics there’s very much a kind of wait your turn kind of energy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>But the main two Democrats that our colleague Guy Mercer said he wanted to focus on is Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Koo, who is challenging the incumbent Assembly member, Mark Berman. And actually, guy’s story starts with this town hall meeting in Palo Alto at a community center. And there’s a big sign there that’s called Town Hall to save our neighborhoods. And the person leading that town hall, the person hosting that event was Palo Alto City Council member Lydia Kou.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>My name is Lydia Kou. I am council member and former mayor of Palo Alto, and I’m running for state assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Lydia Kou is a city council member from Palo Alto, which has the largest block of voters in the 23rd district. And she is part of a coalition of voters in Palo Alto who are really angry at the state for making it easier to build more housing and for reducing the power of cities to block development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Their voices are being diminished or eliminated through these housing laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And Councilmember Kou isn’t shy about saying what she thinks. You know, when when asked about whether 23rd district can put off building new housing because of the number of jobs that have come to the region, she said, well, why do all those jobs need to be here?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Lydia Kou: \u003c/strong>Diversify. Make some incentives for companies to have their headquarters, other places versus just all gathered here. Why is it only focused on Mountain View in Palo Alto?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So that is a pretty bold move from Lydia Kou to run against an incumbent. I’m curious what Mark Burman is saying in response. How is he responding to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So Assembly Member Marc Berman has been in office since about 2016, and he has joined many Democrats in the state legislature in pushing for basically a stronger, firmer approach from the state and saying to local cities and towns, hey, you need to get on board with building new housing. You know, he says, we have a housing shortage. We have a huge imbalance of housing and jobs here in Silicon Valley. We’ve done a terrible job in Silicon Valley of creating the housing we need to house all the people that are taking those jobs, and that’s just been pushed down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>On the folks that can least afford it. He even says to that. It’s not just that the state should create more incentives for more housing development. The state needs to also be tough on cities that are pushing back. We want to provide them as many carrots as possible, but for decades there has been no stick. I think it will be a test to see how strong this anti development coalition in Palo Alto has gotten. And if there’s a real backlash to this sort of, you know, yimby pro housing turn that the state has been taking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Sweet will we’ll be watching that race in March. Thanks so much, Alan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And after the break, we’ll discuss my story and Maria’s…Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And welcome back to the base news roundup for the month of February. We’re going to get right back into it with producer Maria Esquinca:. Maria, what story have you been following this month?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So a story that I’ve been following is about Reverend Wanda Johnson. She is Oscar Grant’s mother. Most people are probably familiar with the case of Oscar Grant. He was a 22 year old black man that was shot by a Bart police officer on New Year’s Day 2009, and his death resulted in a lot of outrage. And after 15 years of asking the DA’s office for Oscar Grant’s cell phones, she finally got them back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why has it taken so long?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So, according to transcend, she said that she made repeated requests to the district attorney’s office for the cell phones. And what was told to her was that the phones were mixed in with other evidence around the case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>And so they didn’t know which phones. Was head.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And Reverend Wanda Johnson, Oscar Grant’s mother, talked about this at a press conference with the current Alameda County District attorney, Pamela Price:, who returned the phones to Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Pamela Price: \u003c/strong>There was no challenge finding the phones. We know which phones they that actually belong to Oscar Grant, which phones were cataloged appropriately. It was apparently an act of will not to return the phone after.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>And based off the reporting of Oscar Palma, who reported on this for KQED, he did reach out to former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who said no one ever asked her about the phones and that members of her team never brought this issue up to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And Maria, can you maybe help give us a sense of why this is such a big deal for Wanda Johnson? How does she talk about why this moment 15 years later, is so important to her?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>She really talked about how these cell phones almost seem like an extension of Oscar Grant, and I think she really talked about wanting to have these cell phones because of the pictures in them, because there was pictures of Oscar Grant. It was clear from listening to her at the press conference, so she was elated that she was very happy. She talked about how these phones represent another piece of her life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Reverand Wanda Johnson: \u003c/strong>That is being fulfilled, that I have me having my son’s property, and that’s all families want.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>All right. Well, Maria, thank you so much for that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And last but not least, we’ll talk about my story, which is about how fast food chains are entering the business of local politics in San Jose. The San Jose Spotlight has been reporting on some pretty interesting examples of fast food companies doing all kinds of things. Politics in San Jose. From meeting with City Council members to donating to a bunch of political campaigns and PACs, and even hiring lobbyists to campaign against certain policies in the city, all, of course, in an election year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>So corporations spending money on politics, not really a new thing. But what do fast food companies want to accomplish in San Jose? Specifically, what are they pushing for?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, San Jose is one of two cities in California right now that is looking into a potential policy to essentially give more worker benefits to fast food workers. And in particular, it would allow fast food workers to accrue paid time off. These workers are really pushing, have been pushing in the last couple of years in California for more rights. And this issue is sort of taking center stage in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So what are the companies that have been getting involved in this and how?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Burger King, the owner of several Popeyes locations, the owners of some McDonald’s and some Taco Bell locations have also donated to this PAC called the Strong Economy Silicon Valley PAC, which has been running some ads against certain candidates in the race for city council and also a number of new lobbyists, have sort of popped up in the city of San Jose tasked with trying to fight against this potential policy for fast food workers in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>So obviously, their funding or their yeah, they’re starting to put money into some of these races. How is this impacting local politics right now?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So the San Jose Spotlight reported on this story from earlier this month about how the California Fast Food Workers Union, which was established also just this month, recently held a protest of San Jose City Council member David Cohen. He’s actually currently running for reelection in a really tight race. And the union was protesting because they argued that Cohen was basically walking back his support of this potential policy to expand fast food worker benefits in San Jose. He’s now saying that he’s skeptical about how to make this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And the spotlight reports that he’s also one of the councilors who met with the fast food companies, in the last three months. Cohen says that he met with them to try and work out something for both sides. But the union believes that Cohen has sort of switched up his position, because of this tight reelection race that he’s in against Assembly member Kansen Chu. And actually, the strong economy Silicon Valley PAC, which is funded by a bunch of fast food corporations, has spent $18,000 on ads against Chu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Why do you think this story is happening in San Jose, specifically?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah, well, that’s a great question because there has been a pretty unprecedented labor organizing among fast food workers all around California. But the California Fast Food Workers Union, which again, just finally formed this month, has said that San Jose has one of the largest populations of fast food workers in California. And that is part of the reason why San Jose is one of only two cities in the state that are considering this policy that would increase benefits for fast food workers. And so I think this is an example of how the union plans to make more ground in other corners of the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And you you’re if you’re the companies, I imagine you feel the same way that you want to defeat policies you don’t like, candidates you don’t like. On the local level before it snowballs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Well, that is it for the bays news roundup for the month of February. Maria and Alan, thank you both so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Esquinca: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. And I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thank you so much for listening to the Bay. Talk to you next time.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11977234/february-news-roundup-a-silicon-valley-assembly-race-oscar-grants-mother-gets-his-phones-back-and-fast-food-politics","authors":["8654","11802","11649","11898"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19182","news_2704","news_551","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11639691","label":"source_news_11977234"},"news_11976969":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11976969","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11976969","score":null,"sort":[1708945229000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"a-growing-right-to-repair-culture-in-california","title":"A Growing ‘Right to Repair’ Culture in California","publishDate":1708945229,"format":"audio","headTitle":"A Growing ‘Right to Repair’ Culture in California | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cdiv class=\"c-message_kit__blocks c-message_kit__blocks--rich_text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"c-message__message_blocks c-message__message_blocks--rich_text\" data-qa=\"message-text\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer\" data-qa=\"block-kit-renderer\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper p-block_kit_renderer__block_wrapper--first\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_block\" dir=\"auto\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"p-rich_text_section\">\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>When one of your appliances or electronics breaks, do you buy a new one or try to fix it yourself?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Manufacturers have made it hard for consumers to fix their own stuff. But people have been pushing back in what’s called the “right to repair” movement. KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman takes us to a “Fixit clinic” in Redwood City, where people learn how to fix their broken items.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC9641462784\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra, and welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. So lately, I’ve been watching my boyfriend deal with a messed up laptop, which is less than a year old. First, he spent at least an hour on the phone with someone from Dell. Then he had to buy a USB drive for some software thing I couldn’t really understand.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Anyway, neither thing solved his problem. Finally, a Dell employee came to his house and actually, that didn’t solve his problem either. So at this point, fixing his laptop has become so inconvenient that it feels like the only reasonable solution would be to just buy a new laptop. But this disposable culture doesn’t have to be the norm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>Well, there’s so much stuff in our built environment that’s easily fixable, and people don’t even think that repair is possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>This year, a new right to repair law will go into effect in California, and that’ll help make it easier for everyday people to fix their own stuff. 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They’re facilitated by volunteers. And these volunteers are basically handy people who are down to spend a Saturday morning helping people fix their things. And the kind of people that are coming in are just everyday people. And they have something, an appliance, an electronic that they really like, but it’s broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Fix it coaches are basically standing over your shoulder and telling you what to do, and then the person who brings in the item is performing the repair mostly themselves. So it’s really much more of an educational opportunity than just sort of a repair service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And you mentioned this is primarily run by volunteers. 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Can you tell me about Nancy Harris?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So, Nancy Harris lives in Moss Beach, which is about 25 miles away. It’s on the coast. And she brought in this magic bullet blender.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>And I’m so tired of buying a new one. I would love to fix this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>All right, let’s see. I’ve worked on one of the bigger ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This was actually the fourth magic bullet blender that she’s owned. As she walked in, she was matched with this volunteer named Alex Schmitt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>And Alex Schmitt lives in the county. Works in software. Says he likes to tinker.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>There is one of these that the tabs may have broken off. And it looks like there may be jams. Oh. So.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, Nancy basically described the problem. When she plugs it in, the motor of the blender just starts whirring immediately, and she can’t get it to turn off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>When you’ve got it plugged in, it’s supposed to not immediately start, but start when you put the top on and screw it and you’re ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Alex says, okay, well, let’s let’s take a look. And within a few minutes, really, he diagnoses the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>So now the question is, will it spin the way that you’re having the issue with. Yeah it will. Okay. You mentioned it leaks. Yes. So whatever whatever leaked in there has sort of gummed up these plastic elements that depress the switch on the bottom to the point that they got stuck on the lower end. And so it was always on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So the all of the gunk, all of the smoothie and coffee and all the things that Nancy Harris has blended over the past few years has sort of seeped down into this switch that activates the motor. So it was actually diagnosed really quickly and simply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>And that would do it for you. But the big thing is cleaning, and I’m guessing we have some Q-tips and some alcohol that we can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. Did she get it fixed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it took her and Alex Schmitt about an hour to fix the blender, and it did end up getting fixed. Basically, it just needed to be cleaned. They really just went in there with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol and sort of freed up all the sticky stuff that was making the motor stuck in the on position. They even found like a small family of bugs living in the motor. So there’s all these little discoveries that they make along the way. And.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what happened when Nancy and Alex got the magic bullet working again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>As Nancy Harris walked out with her fixed to working magic bullet blender, volunteers took the magic bullet blender, held it aloft and yelled, you know, magic bullet blender fixed. Nancy Harris, she said she was overjoyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>We fixed something that had been broken and driving me crazy for at least a year and a half. It just saved me a lot of time and energy, and I learned how to fix it myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You know, you could really see this, like, sort of contagious look of excitement and happiness. And that’s kind of shared by the whole room when you know something gets fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>It’s not saves you, what, 100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again, I’m really, really, really happy about it. And I feel very empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how exactly have manufacturers made it harder for us to fix our own stuff? Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It does for some reason, also feel like a thing of the past. Like this idea that we as consumers can fix things ourselves. Like, I mean, I’m just thinking also about my partner’s laptop, which he’s been trying to get fixed for like the past two weeks. And at this point he’s like, God, I should just buy a new laptop at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, what you’re talking about is what’s called a repair monopoly. Basically, a manufacturer will, you know, not make their parts or tools or information necessary to repair their item accessible to consumers, basically forcing people to have to go to them to, get their thing repaired. Some companies will use, like, proprietary screw heads to put their devices together, or they’re not designed to be serviced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s even something called parts pairing with electronics, where parts are paired to the serial number of your, say, computer. And if you put in a different part, it will throw an error code when you know you try to turn it back on. There’s also this idea of planned obsolescence, right, where, you know, companies are basically making things to break because it’s more profitable for them to sell you something new as opposed to have you repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, you know, manufacturers make it harder to repair their things, which means that your local shop can’t repair them. So then there’s, you know, these shops go out of business, and pretty soon the only place you can get the thing repaired is the company that made it. They can charge whatever they want, they can take as long as they want, or they can tell you it’s not able to be repaired, even if maybe it is, and force you to buy a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how then is all have people actually tried to combat this disposable culture, this culture of buying new? On a larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Over the past decade, really? And earlier than that as well, we’ve started to see this rise of what’s called the right to repair movement. And basically, in a nutshell, right to repair says if you bought an item, you have the right to repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And tell me what that has looked like in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So we’re seeing a lot of people interested at the community level in repairing their own things, but it’s actually translated into a movement in state governments to put this kind of legislation on the books. So here in California last year, there was a law passed, and it’s basically a right to repair law goes into effect July 1st this year. And so it changed how manufacturers have to make repair accessible basically to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Right now, consumers in California are protected by this thing called the song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act. And basically that says that if a manufacturer makes an implied or expressed warranty on a product, then they need to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to repair that item available for a certain amount of years after the last model is produced, depending on how much that item costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This new California law is really moving that forward. So this California law applies to appliances and electronics, and it basically says that if an item cost between $50 and 9999, then the manufacturer has to make the parts, tools and information necessary to repair that item available for three years after the last production date of the model. If that item is more than 9999, then the manufacturer needs to make the parts, tools, and information available for seven years after the last production date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of hope in the right to repair movement that with a state like California passing a right to repair law, that it’s really going to build momentum in the in the nationwide right to repair movement. And we’re starting to see that this year. So far, 24 states are considering right to repair legislation. And that’s just at the last count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So it sounds like this law is really about giving people the tools to fix things themselves. Was there any pushback on this law?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, writer repair gets a lot of pushback, and it’s mostly from, you know, big electronics companies like Apple. And then you have ag equipment companies like John Deere have historically pushed back against right to repair legislation. Apple lobbied heavily against this law and then came on in support of it at the last second, when they saw that it had basically, a guaranteed chance of passing or that it was going to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming back to the Fixit clinic that you went to in Redwood City. I imagine we’re going to see more of these kinds of clinics. In other cities, it seems like there’s already a lot of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, it’s it’s definitely possible. The San Mateo County Office of Sustainability is partnering with the library system there to bring a different fix it clinic every month to different libraries in the county. Fix it clinic also has a presence on on the social platform discord. Have hundreds of members on that platform. And the founder of Fix It clinic, Peter Mui:, actually told me that they have people in Africa or Europe and spread out all throughout the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>So we basically, during the pandemic, launched a Global Fixers server on discord that allowed us to extend repair to anybody on the planet who has an internet connection and can get on discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I spoke with a representative from the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability, and she said that basically their demand is far exceeding capacity. There’s a ton of interest in these kinds of events throughout San Mateo County. And as we’re seeing sort of throughout the nation in the world at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why do you think that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I think as humans, really, we have this natural inclination to want to fix things. Peter Mui: would say that we are repairers at heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>Because when that thing starts working again and they are the ones who fixed it, you know, it’s like Easter, you know, it’s really it’s a really wonderful feeling that we don’t want to deprive anybody of. You want to empower these people to be able to repair stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I mean, personally, you know, I, I used to have an old pickup truck, and I actually replaced the clutch on my pickup truck one time, and I went to my mechanic friend and told him about the experience. And he said, you know, that’s a feeling you can’t buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You’re very welcome. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Azul was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of First Come Music and Blue Sessions. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. 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When she plugs it in, the motor of the blender just starts whirring immediately, and she can’t get it to turn off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>When you’ve got it plugged in, it’s supposed to not immediately start, but start when you put the top on and screw it and you’re ready to go.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Alex says, okay, well, let’s let’s take a look. And within a few minutes, really, he diagnoses the problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>So now the question is, will it spin the way that you’re having the issue with. Yeah it will. Okay. You mentioned it leaks. Yes. So whatever whatever leaked in there has sort of gummed up these plastic elements that depress the switch on the bottom to the point that they got stuck on the lower end. And so it was always on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So the all of the gunk, all of the smoothie and coffee and all the things that Nancy Harris has blended over the past few years has sort of seeped down into this switch that activates the motor. So it was actually diagnosed really quickly and simply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alex Schmitt: \u003c/strong>And that would do it for you. But the big thing is cleaning, and I’m guessing we have some Q-tips and some alcohol that we can work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Okay. Did she get it fixed?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. So it took her and Alex Schmitt about an hour to fix the blender, and it did end up getting fixed. Basically, it just needed to be cleaned. They really just went in there with cotton swabs and rubbing alcohol and sort of freed up all the sticky stuff that was making the motor stuck in the on position. They even found like a small family of bugs living in the motor. So there’s all these little discoveries that they make along the way. And.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, what happened when Nancy and Alex got the magic bullet working again?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>As Nancy Harris walked out with her fixed to working magic bullet blender, volunteers took the magic bullet blender, held it aloft and yelled, you know, magic bullet blender fixed. Nancy Harris, she said she was overjoyed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>We fixed something that had been broken and driving me crazy for at least a year and a half. It just saved me a lot of time and energy, and I learned how to fix it myself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You know, you could really see this, like, sort of contagious look of excitement and happiness. And that’s kind of shared by the whole room when you know something gets fixed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Nancy Harris: \u003c/strong>It’s not saves you, what, 100, $200 every couple of years when this happens again, I’m really, really, really happy about it. And I feel very empowered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming up, how exactly have manufacturers made it harder for us to fix our own stuff? Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>It does for some reason, also feel like a thing of the past. Like this idea that we as consumers can fix things ourselves. Like, I mean, I’m just thinking also about my partner’s laptop, which he’s been trying to get fixed for like the past two weeks. And at this point he’s like, God, I should just buy a new laptop at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, what you’re talking about is what’s called a repair monopoly. Basically, a manufacturer will, you know, not make their parts or tools or information necessary to repair their item accessible to consumers, basically forcing people to have to go to them to, get their thing repaired. Some companies will use, like, proprietary screw heads to put their devices together, or they’re not designed to be serviced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s even something called parts pairing with electronics, where parts are paired to the serial number of your, say, computer. And if you put in a different part, it will throw an error code when you know you try to turn it back on. There’s also this idea of planned obsolescence, right, where, you know, companies are basically making things to break because it’s more profitable for them to sell you something new as opposed to have you repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So, you know, manufacturers make it harder to repair their things, which means that your local shop can’t repair them. So then there’s, you know, these shops go out of business, and pretty soon the only place you can get the thing repaired is the company that made it. They can charge whatever they want, they can take as long as they want, or they can tell you it’s not able to be repaired, even if maybe it is, and force you to buy a new one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Well, how then is all have people actually tried to combat this disposable culture, this culture of buying new? On a larger scale.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Over the past decade, really? And earlier than that as well, we’ve started to see this rise of what’s called the right to repair movement. And basically, in a nutshell, right to repair says if you bought an item, you have the right to repair it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>And tell me what that has looked like in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>So we’re seeing a lot of people interested at the community level in repairing their own things, but it’s actually translated into a movement in state governments to put this kind of legislation on the books. So here in California last year, there was a law passed, and it’s basically a right to repair law goes into effect July 1st this year. And so it changed how manufacturers have to make repair accessible basically to the public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Right now, consumers in California are protected by this thing called the song Beverly Consumer Warranty Act. And basically that says that if a manufacturer makes an implied or expressed warranty on a product, then they need to make the parts, tools, and information necessary to repair that item available for a certain amount of years after the last model is produced, depending on how much that item costs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>This new California law is really moving that forward. So this California law applies to appliances and electronics, and it basically says that if an item cost between $50 and 9999, then the manufacturer has to make the parts, tools and information necessary to repair that item available for three years after the last production date of the model. If that item is more than 9999, then the manufacturer needs to make the parts, tools, and information available for seven years after the last production date.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>There’s a lot of hope in the right to repair movement that with a state like California passing a right to repair law, that it’s really going to build momentum in the in the nationwide right to repair movement. And we’re starting to see that this year. So far, 24 states are considering right to repair legislation. And that’s just at the last count.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>So it sounds like this law is really about giving people the tools to fix things themselves. Was there any pushback on this law?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah. I mean, writer repair gets a lot of pushback, and it’s mostly from, you know, big electronics companies like Apple. And then you have ag equipment companies like John Deere have historically pushed back against right to repair legislation. Apple lobbied heavily against this law and then came on in support of it at the last second, when they saw that it had basically, a guaranteed chance of passing or that it was going to pass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Coming back to the Fixit clinic that you went to in Redwood City. I imagine we’re going to see more of these kinds of clinics. In other cities, it seems like there’s already a lot of interest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I mean, it’s it’s definitely possible. The San Mateo County Office of Sustainability is partnering with the library system there to bring a different fix it clinic every month to different libraries in the county. Fix it clinic also has a presence on on the social platform discord. Have hundreds of members on that platform. And the founder of Fix It clinic, Peter Mui:, actually told me that they have people in Africa or Europe and spread out all throughout the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>So we basically, during the pandemic, launched a Global Fixers server on discord that allowed us to extend repair to anybody on the planet who has an internet connection and can get on discord.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I spoke with a representative from the San Mateo County Office of Sustainability, and she said that basically their demand is far exceeding capacity. There’s a ton of interest in these kinds of events throughout San Mateo County. And as we’re seeing sort of throughout the nation in the world at this point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Why do you think that is?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I think as humans, really, we have this natural inclination to want to fix things. Peter Mui: would say that we are repairers at heart.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Peter Mui: \u003c/strong>Because when that thing starts working again and they are the ones who fixed it, you know, it’s like Easter, you know, it’s really it’s a really wonderful feeling that we don’t want to deprive anybody of. You want to empower these people to be able to repair stuff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>I mean, personally, you know, I, I used to have an old pickup truck, and I actually replaced the clutch on my pickup truck one time, and I went to my mechanic friend and told him about the experience. And he said, you know, that’s a feeling you can’t buy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>Azul, thank you so much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman: \u003c/strong>You’re very welcome. Thank you.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra: \u003c/strong>That was Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, a reporter for KQED. This 25 minute conversation with Azul was cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. Alan Montecillo is our senior editor. He scored this episode and added all the tape music courtesy of First Come Music and Blue Sessions. The Bay is a production of listener supported KQED in San Francisco. I’m Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening, peace.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11976969/a-growing-right-to-repair-culture-in-california","authors":["8654","11785","11802","11649"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_19182","news_2704","news_551","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11974709","label":"source_news_11976969"},"news_11974283":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11974283","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11974283","score":null,"sort":[1706738458000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"police-can-no-longer-ask-do-you-know-why-i-pulled-you-over-in-california-heres-why","title":"Police Can No Longer Ask 'Do You Know Why I Pulled You Over?' in California — Here's Why","publishDate":1706738458,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Police Can No Longer Ask ‘Do You Know Why I Pulled You Over?’ in California — Here’s Why | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Police officers in California can no longer ask, “Do you know why I pulled you over?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s because of a new state law that came into effect on Jan. 1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2773\">Assembly Bill 2773\u003c/a>, passed in 2022 by the state government and sponsored by Assemblymember Chris Holden, D-41, \u003ca href=\"https://a41.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220622-assemblymember-holdens-public-safety-bill-package-moves-through-senate\">now requires an officer making a traffic stop to “state the reason for the stop before asking any questions”\u003c/a> — and the reason also needs to be officially documented in any reports that officer makes. The law also extends to pedestrian stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One exception is if an officer “\u003ca href=\"https://a41.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220622-assemblymember-holdens-public-safety-bill-package-moves-through-senate\">reasonably believes that withholding the reason for the stop is necessary\u003c/a> to protect life or property from imminent threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/sites/spsf.senate.ca.gov/files/ab_2773_analysis.pdf\">Holden said his “goal” with this bill was\u003c/a> “to promote equity and accountability in communities across California” and that the new law “brings transparency to service of protecting our public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do experts believe this law will play out in the coming year? And what should you know about your rights if you are pulled over while driving in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#whattoknow\">\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: What to know about being pulled over in 2024\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What is the background of the new law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AB 2773 is intended to limit what are called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-police-pretext-stop-18577175.php\">pretext stops\u003c/a>” — when a police officer pulls a motorist over for a minor infraction, like a broken taillight — to be able to then search the vehicle for illegal items like drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black motorists across California are far more likely to be stopped by the police than their white counterparts, according to research by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/publications/research/2022-10-06/high-cost-traffic-stops\">nonprofit organization San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2022 report by the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2024.pdf\">Black individuals made up almost 13% of traffic stops — despite only making up 5% of California’s population (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11927758]Oakland Privacy — an \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandprivacy.org/\">organization focused on citizen privacy and promoting oversight around surveillance techniques\u003c/a> — wrote in support of this new bill, saying it \u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/sites/spsf.senate.ca.gov/files/ab_2773_analysis.pdf\">“addresses a problem that has taken lives and ended in tragedy far too often.” (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nonemergency traffic stops for busted taillights or expired registration should, we can all agree, never end in death and violence, and yet they do,” wrote the organization. “\u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/philando-castile\">Philando Castile\u003c/a> was pulled over for a busted taillight in 2016. He did not survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/\">a thousand people have been shot and killed by the police\u003c/a> in the past twelve months, according to January data from \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>. \u003cem>The Post\u003c/em>’s analysis using data from 2015 shows that Black people are shot and killed by police at more than twice the rate of White people. Hispanic Americans are also shot and killed at a disproportionate rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Privacy’s statement also noted that many people naturally become frightened when pulled over, especially if the officer is not explaining the reason for the stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the ‘know your rights’ pamphlets (which by the most optimistic of estimates will reach only a fraction of the population), it is difficult to control these feelings, which can be interpreted by law enforcement officers as having ‘something to hide,’” said the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These reactions are “going to be exacerbated,” said Oakland Privacy, when it comes to groups “that have difficult relationships with law enforcement due to racial profiling or previous encounters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A simple explanation of the reason for the stop at the beginning can do a lot to prevent fear, panic and the urge to flee,” they said. “The role of law enforcement is to enforce the law, not to play cat and mouse games to try to provoke people into doing the wrong thing and causing the encounter to spiral out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanāe Buffington, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://calblacklawyers.org/cabl-officers/\">California Association Of Black Lawyers (CABL)\u003c/a>, said AB 2773 was a good idea — explaining that before the passage, officers could \u003ca href=\"https://www.greghillassociates.com/may-police-lie-about-the-reason-for-traffic-stop.html#:~:text=Brief%20Synopsis%3A%20The%20police%20may,for%20making%20such%20a%20stop.\">also give false reasons for pulling someone over\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will give the driver an understanding of why they’re being pulled over. I hear many stories from persons that are of diverse backgrounds being pulled over by police officers, and they have absolutely no reason,” she said. “They don’t know why they’re being pulled over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buffington said she sees this being a particular issue for individuals who have recently completed parole or probation, who find that history makes them more of a target for traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has some of the highest traffic penalties in the country, with some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927758/california-traffic-penalties-are-highest-in-us-and-disproportionately-affect-black-and-latinx-drivers-report-finds\">even exceeding $200 over a small speeding ticket.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is the exception to the new law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the exceptions to AB 2773 is when an officer “reasonably believes that withholding information for the reason of the stop is necessary to protect property or life right from imminent threat.” Only in this instance is a police officer exempted from giving a reason for a traffic stop under this new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11871364,news_11955465,news_11821950\" label=\"More on your rights:\"]“If you’re going to save another person from being harmed or killed possibly, I’m in agreement with that exception,” Buffington said, adding she was not sure if property should have been included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the exception gives officers discretion to “pick and choose when they’re going to withhold certain information specifically about the reason for the stop,” Buffington said. That’s “going to open up the door to disproportionate impact on certain races,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [the officer] has some biases, he may be more likely to withhold some information if he stops a Black or brown person […] I think that opens up the door for racial profiling,” Buffington said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whattoknow\">\u003c/a>What to know about being pulled over in 2024?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Buffington said that as of Jan. 1, if you’re pulled over by the police while driving, you can ask the officer why you are being pulled over — and then wait for an explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if an officer still does not give a reason?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case that an officer does not give a reason for the stop, Buffington said you should ask specifically to speak to an attorney — and not say anything further to the police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially if the motorist feels like it may be going in a situation that can possibly end up in that person being detained,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if the officer wants to search my car?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a motorist, you are protected against “unreasonable searches and seizures” under the Fourth Amendment, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.westcoastdefense.com/faqs/vehicle-search-with-a-warrant-in-california/\">an officer would need a warrant to search your car\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t consent to the search and seizure. Let the police officer go and get a warrant. Because at that point, there has to be probable cause,” Buffington said. By then, another set of eyes will be on your case — who will determine if there is enough cause to search your vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this situation, a motorist should again ask for an attorney — but without providing any other potentially incriminating details, Buffington said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at that point, if the officer is going to arrest the motorist, then he will do that,” Buffington said. “But at least if there is a preliminary hearing, or there’s a trial later on down the line, the officer will not be able to use that incriminating statement in a proceeding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When ‘knowing your rights’ isn’t always enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Northern California ACLU has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-police-interactions-black-and-brown-people\">developed a guide specifically for Black and brown people\u003c/a> in regards to their rights in police interactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buffington said it helps for citizens to know about their rights and not “letting the police officer just tell them anything.” But she also said she knows about the fear and anxiety that comes with these interactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a police officer with the ability to alter your life in ways that are just unimaginable,” she said. “What would you do in that situation? You’re going to acquiesce, right? […] ‘I don’t want to resist or, I don’t want to be confrontational or combative because then things can really snowball out of control.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for future lawmaking, Buffington said she supported more exposure of policing practices in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CABL is sponsoring AB 797, which would require cities and counties to establish independent civilian commissions to look into the use-of-force cases by the police. The bill is sponsored by Akilah Weber, D-79. “Giving the community the opportunity to be a part of policies and procedures that essentially affects us all,” Buffington said. “I think that’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another California bill, SB 50 by Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), also seeks to outlaw pretext stops altogether — rather than just limiting them, as AB 2773 does. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/pretext-stops-california-18360581.php\">This bill would have banned police officers from stopping drivers for more minor infractions\u003c/a> like an issue with a single brake light or headlight or the lack of a registration tag. SB 50, while approved by the state Senate in early 2023, later stalled in the Assembly — but will be taken up again this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Assembly Bill 2773 now requires an officer making a traffic stop to 'state the reason for the stop before asking any questions' — but there's an exception. 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The law also extends to pedestrian stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One exception is if an officer “\u003ca href=\"https://a41.asmdc.org/press-releases/20220622-assemblymember-holdens-public-safety-bill-package-moves-through-senate\">reasonably believes that withholding the reason for the stop is necessary\u003c/a> to protect life or property from imminent threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/sites/spsf.senate.ca.gov/files/ab_2773_analysis.pdf\">Holden said his “goal” with this bill was\u003c/a> “to promote equity and accountability in communities across California” and that the new law “brings transparency to service of protecting our public.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But how do experts believe this law will play out in the coming year? And what should you know about your rights if you are pulled over while driving in California?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keep reading for our guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jump straight to:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"#whattoknow\">\u003cstrong>Jump straight to: What to know about being pulled over in 2024\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>What is the background of the new law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>AB 2773 is intended to limit what are called “\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-police-pretext-stop-18577175.php\">pretext stops\u003c/a>” — when a police officer pulls a motorist over for a minor infraction, like a broken taillight — to be able to then search the vehicle for illegal items like drugs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Black motorists across California are far more likely to be stopped by the police than their white counterparts, according to research by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.spur.org/publications/research/2022-10-06/high-cost-traffic-stops\">nonprofit organization San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to a 2022 report by the Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory, \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/media/ripa-board-report-2024.pdf\">Black individuals made up almost 13% of traffic stops — despite only making up 5% of California’s population (PDF)\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11927758","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Oakland Privacy — an \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandprivacy.org/\">organization focused on citizen privacy and promoting oversight around surveillance techniques\u003c/a> — wrote in support of this new bill, saying it \u003ca href=\"https://spsf.senate.ca.gov/sites/spsf.senate.ca.gov/files/ab_2773_analysis.pdf\">“addresses a problem that has taken lives and ended in tragedy far too often.” (PDF)\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nonemergency traffic stops for busted taillights or expired registration should, we can all agree, never end in death and violence, and yet they do,” wrote the organization. “\u003ca href=\"https://exhibits.stanford.edu/saytheirnames/feature/philando-castile\">Philando Castile\u003c/a> was pulled over for a busted taillight in 2016. He did not survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/\">a thousand people have been shot and killed by the police\u003c/a> in the past twelve months, according to January data from \u003cem>The Washington Post\u003c/em>. \u003cem>The Post\u003c/em>’s analysis using data from 2015 shows that Black people are shot and killed by police at more than twice the rate of White people. Hispanic Americans are also shot and killed at a disproportionate rate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Privacy’s statement also noted that many people naturally become frightened when pulled over, especially if the officer is not explaining the reason for the stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Despite all the ‘know your rights’ pamphlets (which by the most optimistic of estimates will reach only a fraction of the population), it is difficult to control these feelings, which can be interpreted by law enforcement officers as having ‘something to hide,’” said the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These reactions are “going to be exacerbated,” said Oakland Privacy, when it comes to groups “that have difficult relationships with law enforcement due to racial profiling or previous encounters.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A simple explanation of the reason for the stop at the beginning can do a lot to prevent fear, panic and the urge to flee,” they said. “The role of law enforcement is to enforce the law, not to play cat and mouse games to try to provoke people into doing the wrong thing and causing the encounter to spiral out of control.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanāe Buffington, president of the \u003ca href=\"https://calblacklawyers.org/cabl-officers/\">California Association Of Black Lawyers (CABL)\u003c/a>, said AB 2773 was a good idea — explaining that before the passage, officers could \u003ca href=\"https://www.greghillassociates.com/may-police-lie-about-the-reason-for-traffic-stop.html#:~:text=Brief%20Synopsis%3A%20The%20police%20may,for%20making%20such%20a%20stop.\">also give false reasons for pulling someone over\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That will give the driver an understanding of why they’re being pulled over. I hear many stories from persons that are of diverse backgrounds being pulled over by police officers, and they have absolutely no reason,” she said. “They don’t know why they’re being pulled over.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buffington said she sees this being a particular issue for individuals who have recently completed parole or probation, who find that history makes them more of a target for traffic stops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California also has some of the highest traffic penalties in the country, with some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11927758/california-traffic-penalties-are-highest-in-us-and-disproportionately-affect-black-and-latinx-drivers-report-finds\">even exceeding $200 over a small speeding ticket.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>What is the exception to the new law?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>One of the exceptions to AB 2773 is when an officer “reasonably believes that withholding information for the reason of the stop is necessary to protect property or life right from imminent threat.” Only in this instance is a police officer exempted from giving a reason for a traffic stop under this new law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11871364,news_11955465,news_11821950","label":"More on your rights: "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“If you’re going to save another person from being harmed or killed possibly, I’m in agreement with that exception,” Buffington said, adding she was not sure if property should have been included.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, the exception gives officers discretion to “pick and choose when they’re going to withhold certain information specifically about the reason for the stop,” Buffington said. That’s “going to open up the door to disproportionate impact on certain races,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If [the officer] has some biases, he may be more likely to withhold some information if he stops a Black or brown person […] I think that opens up the door for racial profiling,” Buffington said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"whattoknow\">\u003c/a>What to know about being pulled over in 2024?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Buffington said that as of Jan. 1, if you’re pulled over by the police while driving, you can ask the officer why you are being pulled over — and then wait for an explanation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if an officer still does not give a reason?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case that an officer does not give a reason for the stop, Buffington said you should ask specifically to speak to an attorney — and not say anything further to the police officer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Especially if the motorist feels like it may be going in a situation that can possibly end up in that person being detained,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What if the officer wants to search my car?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As a motorist, you are protected against “unreasonable searches and seizures” under the Fourth Amendment, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.westcoastdefense.com/faqs/vehicle-search-with-a-warrant-in-california/\">an officer would need a warrant to search your car\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Don’t consent to the search and seizure. Let the police officer go and get a warrant. Because at that point, there has to be probable cause,” Buffington said. By then, another set of eyes will be on your case — who will determine if there is enough cause to search your vehicle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this situation, a motorist should again ask for an attorney — but without providing any other potentially incriminating details, Buffington said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think at that point, if the officer is going to arrest the motorist, then he will do that,” Buffington said. “But at least if there is a preliminary hearing, or there’s a trial later on down the line, the officer will not be able to use that incriminating statement in a proceeding.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>When ‘knowing your rights’ isn’t always enough\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The Northern California ACLU has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aclunc.org/our-work/know-your-rights/know-your-rights-police-interactions-black-and-brown-people\">developed a guide specifically for Black and brown people\u003c/a> in regards to their rights in police interactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buffington said it helps for citizens to know about their rights and not “letting the police officer just tell them anything.” But she also said she knows about the fear and anxiety that comes with these interactions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a police officer with the ability to alter your life in ways that are just unimaginable,” she said. “What would you do in that situation? You’re going to acquiesce, right? […] ‘I don’t want to resist or, I don’t want to be confrontational or combative because then things can really snowball out of control.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for future lawmaking, Buffington said she supported more exposure of policing practices in general.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>CABL is sponsoring AB 797, which would require cities and counties to establish independent civilian commissions to look into the use-of-force cases by the police. The bill is sponsored by Akilah Weber, D-79. “Giving the community the opportunity to be a part of policies and procedures that essentially affects us all,” Buffington said. “I think that’s important.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another California bill, SB 50 by Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena), also seeks to outlaw pretext stops altogether — rather than just limiting them, as AB 2773 does. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/pretext-stops-california-18360581.php\">This bill would have banned police officers from stopping drivers for more minor infractions\u003c/a> like an issue with a single brake light or headlight or the lack of a registration tag. SB 50, while approved by the state Senate in early 2023, later stalled in the Assembly — but will be taken up again this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11974283/police-can-no-longer-ask-do-you-know-why-i-pulled-you-over-in-california-heres-why","authors":["11867"],"categories":["news_6188","news_28250","news_8"],"tags":["news_32707","news_2704","news_20625"],"featImg":"news_11974291","label":"news"},"news_11971672":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11971672","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11971672","score":null,"sort":[1704421226000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"no-business-as-usual-as-protesters-disrupt-day-1-of-new-legislative-session","title":"No Business-as-Usual as Protesters Disrupt Day 1 of New Legislative Session","publishDate":1704421226,"format":"audio","headTitle":"No Business-as-Usual as Protesters Disrupt Day 1 of New Legislative Session | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>The 2024 legislative session is just underway and in addition to agenda items like closing a massive $68 billion budget deficit, the governor and lawmakers face many big issues on the docket. 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Eventually, he called for a recess and adjourned a few minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of the lawmakers left the floor. Protesters cheered when officials turned off the lights in the chamber, holding up the flashlights on their phones as they continued to sing, which included a lengthy call-and-response chant from the gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Jews and Californians, Assembly members, we call on you to join us in demanding a cease-fire now,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11971602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand on a balcony waving their phones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1536x1059.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-2048x1412.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1920x1324.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the lights had been turned off, protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza use the lights from cell phones to demonstrate during the first day of the California legislative session in Sacramento on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said he supports First Amendment rights but added, “The only real impact from today’s protest is that the Legislature was prevented from doing the people’s work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of groups come to the Capitol every year to express their diverse viewpoints, but their free-speech actions do not impede the Legislature’s work,” he said. “While this is a tense and difficult moment for communities in California and across the world, our job in the Legislature is to stay focused on the issues we can affect here in our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s protest was organized by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-college-protests-c94bb0cd246bcc692de86b76b9b2a8cf\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, IfNotNow and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Binya Kóatz, a Jewish teacher and artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Americans have “not only the right but the responsibility to stop business as usual as long as our country is giving a blank check to Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"israel, gaza\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Kóatz said the groups chose to protest at the California Legislature because, while those lawmakers do not control federal money sent to Israel, “we know that state Legislatures have the ear of their national counterparts in California and that getting this body to call for a cease-fire now can put California at the forefront of the national movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time protesters have called for a cease-fire disrupted events in California’s capital. In November, protesters forced their way inside a Sacramento convention hall and prompted the California Democratic Party to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-democrats-schiff-porter-lee-senate-endorsement-efab466366b5a3a57d7edea813324390\">cancel some events\u003c/a> during their nominating convention. And last month, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-christmas-tree-lighting-prerecorded-ceremony-7a6688964175a0da32b2a88427ab284c\">canceled an in-person Christmas tree lighting ceremony\u003c/a> after protesters planned an action at the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters did not disrupt the state Senate, which held its session as scheduled and included lawmakers giving speeches in memory of former U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-dead-c831f3228ac44faa9653234570bb8ce9\">died in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, it was a day of disruptions at state capitols. A bomb threat emailed to officials in multiple states \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/state-capitol-threat-evacuation-lockdown-dfef5fbb98ec6572474807c260533b05\">prompted evacuations\u003c/a> of statehouse offices or buildings in Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana. Other states — including Missouri, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Wyoming — received threats but did not evacuate. The brief email threat made no mention of a motive and did not reference the Israel-Hamas war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s legislative session, which runs through Aug. 31, is expected to be dominated by decisions on artificial intelligence and the massive budget deficit. But as Wednesday’s protest showed, the ongoing fallout from the Israel-Hamas war and its \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-03-2024-3b77b0c36bf2cd9922b7a484234bef5f\">climbing death toll\u003c/a> will likely have an impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Legislative Jewish Caucus sent a letter to state lawmakers on Wednesday, calling for the creation of a committee to explore policy changes to protect the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have our own criticisms of Israel. We want the war to end,” said Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of the Jewish caucus. “We also know the cease-fire resolutions we see at the local level have at times gone off the rails in terms of dredging up a lot of anti-Jewish hate, and that causes a lot of fear in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said his 3-year-old child now has to walk through metal detectors to enter his preschool at a local synagogue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of fear and anxiety and tension is unlike anything I have ever seen in my lifetime,” Gabriel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers are scheduled to return to the chamber on Thursday morning. But the bulk of their work will come later after the governor reveals his plan to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-29315d622212facef307ddab29d4c0c7\">cover an estimated $68 billion deficit\u003c/a> — a shortfall larger than the entire operating budgets of many states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with many California companies at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom, a number of state lawmakers are eyeing ways to govern the use of the technology before it dominates daily life — much like social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Steve Padilla proposed a measure Wednesday to require California to establish safety, privacy, and nondiscrimination standards around generative AI tools and services. Those standards would eventually be used as qualifications in future state contracts. He also introduced a plan to create a state-run research center to study the technology further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Akilah Weber said she’ll try to tackle “deepfakes” through a bill that would require labeling of AI-generated content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1704416749,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1048},"headData":{"title":"Protesters Calling for Cease-Fire in Gaza Force California State Assembly Session to Adjourn | KQED","description":"Hundreds of protesters calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war interrupted the first day of California’s legislative session on Wednesday, forcing the state Assembly to adjourn moments after convening. Lawmakers had just listened to the opening prayer and said the Pledge of Allegiance when protesters wearing matching black t-shirts stood from their seats and started singing “Cease-fire now” and “Let Gaza live.” A few people unfurled banners from the chamber’s gallery that read: “Jews say never again for anyone.” At first, Jim Wood, a Democratic assemblymember from Healdsburg who was presiding over the session, tried to continue the session","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Protesters Calling for Cease-Fire in Gaza Force California State Assembly Session to Adjourn","datePublished":"2024-01-04T22:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-01-05T01:05:49.000Z","image":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png","isAccessibleForFree":"Y","publisher":{"@type":"NewsMediaOrganization","@id":"https://www.kqed.org/#organization","name":"KQED","url":"https://www.kqed.org","logo":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/KQED-OG-Image@1x.png"}}},"sticky":false,"nprByline":"Adam Beam and Trân Nguyễn \u003cbr> Associated Press","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11971593/protesters-calling-for-cease-fire-in-gaza-force-california-state-assembly-session-to-adjourn","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Hundreds of protesters calling for a cease-fire in the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas\u003c/a> war interrupted the first day of California’s legislative session on Wednesday, forcing the state Assembly to adjourn moments after convening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers had just listened to the opening prayer and said the Pledge of Allegiance when protesters wearing matching black t-shirts stood from their seats and started singing “Cease-fire now” and “Let Gaza live.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The level of fear and anxiety and tension is unlike anything I have ever seen in my lifetime.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D-Los Angeles)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few people unfurled banners from the chamber’s gallery that read: “Jews say never again for anyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, Jim Wood, a Democratic assemblymember from Healdsburg who was presiding over the session, tried to continue the session despite the singing. Eventually, he called for a recess and adjourned a few minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of the lawmakers left the floor. Protesters cheered when officials turned off the lights in the chamber, holding up the flashlights on their phones as they continued to sing, which included a lengthy call-and-response chant from the gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Jews and Californians, Assembly members, we call on you to join us in demanding a cease-fire now,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11971602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand on a balcony waving their phones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1536x1059.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-2048x1412.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1920x1324.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the lights had been turned off, protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza use the lights from cell phones to demonstrate during the first day of the California legislative session in Sacramento on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said he supports First Amendment rights but added, “The only real impact from today’s protest is that the Legislature was prevented from doing the people’s work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of groups come to the Capitol every year to express their diverse viewpoints, but their free-speech actions do not impede the Legislature’s work,” he said. “While this is a tense and difficult moment for communities in California and across the world, our job in the Legislature is to stay focused on the issues we can affect here in our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s protest was organized by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-college-protests-c94bb0cd246bcc692de86b76b9b2a8cf\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, IfNotNow and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Binya Kóatz, a Jewish teacher and artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Americans have “not only the right but the responsibility to stop business as usual as long as our country is giving a blank check to Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"tag":"israel, gaza","label":"More Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kóatz said the groups chose to protest at the California Legislature because, while those lawmakers do not control federal money sent to Israel, “we know that state Legislatures have the ear of their national counterparts in California and that getting this body to call for a cease-fire now can put California at the forefront of the national movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time protesters have called for a cease-fire disrupted events in California’s capital. In November, protesters forced their way inside a Sacramento convention hall and prompted the California Democratic Party to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-democrats-schiff-porter-lee-senate-endorsement-efab466366b5a3a57d7edea813324390\">cancel some events\u003c/a> during their nominating convention. And last month, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-christmas-tree-lighting-prerecorded-ceremony-7a6688964175a0da32b2a88427ab284c\">canceled an in-person Christmas tree lighting ceremony\u003c/a> after protesters planned an action at the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters did not disrupt the state Senate, which held its session as scheduled and included lawmakers giving speeches in memory of former U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/dianne-feinstein-dead-c831f3228ac44faa9653234570bb8ce9\">died in September\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Across the country, it was a day of disruptions at state capitols. A bomb threat emailed to officials in multiple states \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/state-capitol-threat-evacuation-lockdown-dfef5fbb98ec6572474807c260533b05\">prompted evacuations\u003c/a> of statehouse offices or buildings in Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi and Montana. Other states — including Missouri, Maryland, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Wyoming — received threats but did not evacuate. The brief email threat made no mention of a motive and did not reference the Israel-Hamas war.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s legislative session, which runs through Aug. 31, is expected to be dominated by decisions on artificial intelligence and the massive budget deficit. But as Wednesday’s protest showed, the ongoing fallout from the Israel-Hamas war and its \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-01-03-2024-3b77b0c36bf2cd9922b7a484234bef5f\">climbing death toll\u003c/a> will likely have an impact.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Legislative Jewish Caucus sent a letter to state lawmakers on Wednesday, calling for the creation of a committee to explore policy changes to protect the Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have our own criticisms of Israel. We want the war to end,” said Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener of the Jewish caucus. “We also know the cease-fire resolutions we see at the local level have at times gone off the rails in terms of dredging up a lot of anti-Jewish hate, and that causes a lot of fear in our community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, a Democrat from Los Angeles, said his 3-year-old child now has to walk through metal detectors to enter his preschool at a local synagogue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The level of fear and anxiety and tension is unlike anything I have ever seen in my lifetime,” Gabriel said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawmakers are scheduled to return to the chamber on Thursday morning. But the bulk of their work will come later after the governor reveals his plan to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-budget-deficit-29315d622212facef307ddab29d4c0c7\">cover an estimated $68 billion deficit\u003c/a> — a shortfall larger than the entire operating budgets of many states.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And with many California companies at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom, a number of state lawmakers are eyeing ways to govern the use of the technology before it dominates daily life — much like social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Sen. Steve Padilla proposed a measure Wednesday to require California to establish safety, privacy, and nondiscrimination standards around generative AI tools and services. Those standards would eventually be used as qualifications in future state contracts. He also introduced a plan to create a state-run research center to study the technology further.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Assemblymember Akilah Weber said she’ll try to tackle “deepfakes” through a bill that would require labeling of AI-generated content.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11971593/protesters-calling-for-cease-fire-in-gaza-force-california-state-assembly-session-to-adjourn","authors":["byline_news_11971593"],"categories":["news_31795","news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_2704","news_33706","news_1741","news_33641","news_33673","news_20310"],"featImg":"news_11971601","label":"news"},"news_11961519":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11961519","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11961519","score":null,"sort":[1694886168000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"big-wins-for-labor-unions-and-health-care-workers-as-california-lawmakers-adjourn-for-the-year","title":"Big Wins for Labor Unions and Health Care Workers as California Lawmakers Adjourn for the Year","publishDate":1694886168,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Big Wins for Labor Unions and Health Care Workers as California Lawmakers Adjourn for the Year | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>When health care workers in California asked the state Legislature for a raise earlier this year, it seemed like the longest of long shots — especially after lawmakers in May had to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/hospitals-failing-california-emergency-loan-799865ef7cf99732a8b1c10b77194f4c\">loan hospitals in financial distress\u003c/a> $150 million just to stay open.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But on Thursday, just before the Legislature adjourned for the year, lawmakers voted to boost the pay of health care workers to at least $25 per hour — and the California Hospital Association supported it, even issuing a joint news release with the labor union praising the bill. The union behind the effort called it the nation’s first statewide minimum wage for health workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote capped a legislative session in California that once again showed the strength of organized labor in the nation’s most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fast-food-health-care-workers-wage-increase-3c1e3b2815523816b5e5d1ffc535aaad\">Fast food workers\u003c/a>? They got a $20-per-hour minimum wage, which would be the highest base pay in the country for an often overlooked workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Striking workers? They could get \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-unemployment-workers-strike-231c27a95c7e19ed439530904af7e6c5\">unemployment benefits\u003c/a> starting in January, which could benefit \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/hollywood-strikes/\">actors, writers\u003c/a> and Southern California hotel workers who have been on strike for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-state-government-gavin-newsom-business-2577c0328ec9e7138bcd1e079cc5ce29\">Semitruck drivers\u003c/a>? Lawmakers gave them job security by voting to require a human to be present in any self-driving truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broader workforce? Most other workers would get at least five guaranteed paid sick days, an increase from the three days required under existing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized labor’s influence is easily explained by their prolific campaign donations, as they are some of the most reliable source of funds for the Democrats who control the state Legislature. But more than that, Democratic leaders credited labor’s success this year to what Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas called “the times we live in” as the state emerges from a disruptive pandemic with inflation driving up the costs of everyday living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)\"]‘I think workers and employees have really felt like they need more support and more help. … I think that resonated.’[/pullquote]“You consider the economy that we’re living in, consider what we’ve been through this last three years. I think workers and employees have really felt like they need more support and more help,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego. “I think that resonated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills now head to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, who has a month to decide whether to sign them into law — something that’s not guaranteed in all cases despite strong support from lawmakers in his own party. He’s already pledged to sign the bill giving fast food workers a raise, a deal he helped negotiate and what a spokesperson from his office called a “win-win for workers and businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom has raised concerns about the bill giving unemployment benefits to striking workers, in part because the fund the state uses to pay those benefits \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-unemployment-workers-strike-231c27a95c7e19ed439530904af7e6c5\">is insolvent\u003c/a>. His administration has opposed the bill requiring people to be present to oversee self-driving trucks, warning it would stifle innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond wage and labor proposals, lawmakers sent Newsom hundreds of bills this year that do everything from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-guns-ammunition-tax-increase-c90dae394f43b1e982aaf973960a7105\">raise taxes on gun and ammunition sales\u003c/a>, and to give in-state tuition rates to some low-income Mexican residents who live near the California-Mexico border and attend community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-assembly-speaker-anthony-rendon-robert-rivas-a4b4fc12e431b2107f692d2a225c4708\">dramatic summer leadership fight\u003c/a> in the state Assembly that caused some tension ultimately didn’t stop Democrats from holding together to advance their agenda. Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-child-trafficking-e4bde1ada68261e8b6bf5c299e93241c\">got a rare win\u003c/a> when a bill by state Sen. Shannon Grove to increase penalties leveraged against child traffickers passed the Legislature. Democrats in the Assembly has initially blocked the bill, but they \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/child-traffickers-california-gavin-newsom-1d89510172a8046bf36e6f05814ec05c\">reversed course\u003c/a> after Newsom and Democratic leaders intervened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The session proved the power of Newsom’s influence, as the second-term governor got nearly everything he wanted. In the spring, lawmakers agreed to Newsom’s request to authorize state regulators to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-oil-company-profits-penalty-bill-7092c33a80bcab63658e118bbcbabf11\">punish oil companies for price gouging\u003c/a>. On Thursday, lawmakers agreed to place two of Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-mental-health-substance-homeless-legislature-19b2e6087ceee2042e750a7acd72c979\">initiatives before voters in March\u003c/a>: One to change how the state pays mental health services, and the other to borrow more than $6 billion to increase the number of treatment beds available for people with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And earlier this week, California became the first state to answer Newsom’s call to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-constitutional-amendment-guns-6895729e1c3ebee7075e28d04c500063#:~:text=Newsom's%20proposed%2028th%20Amendment%20has,buy%20a%20firearm%20to%2021.\">ask Congress for a Constitutional convention\u003c/a> to add more restrictions on gun sales nationwide — an action that dozens of other states would have to follow before anything would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11961350,news_11954314,news_11961346\"]One thing lawmakers failed to tackle: A burgeoning home insurance crisis after major carriers announced they were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-insurance-e31bef0ed7eeddcde096a5b8f2c1768f\">limiting new policies in the state\u003c/a> due to the constant threat of wildfires and other disasters. Lawmakers and industry representatives met in secret for weeks hoping to hammer out a deal, but a bill never materialized, which postpones the issue until next year. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Democrat from Hollister, vowed to hold public hearings on the issue over the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More time was needed to ensure that you were addressing all concerns,” Rivas said of lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big businesses had their eyes on a pair of major climate bills that some lauded as a chance for California to lead the nation in corporate transparency rules — while others criticized the bills as impractical and too wide in scope. The legislation would make big companies \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-climate-change-emissions-disclosure-reporting-companies-123fe15c840b82f960384cbe04f3d955\">disclose a wide range of greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> and how climate change affects their company’s finances. The emissions bills would create the most sweeping reporting laws in the nation. Newsom hasn’t said yet whether he’ll sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government could soon sign off on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-environment-e55ae33115e6a9e1202673ab51745924\">disclosure rules for public companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many state have been debating transgender rights — including efforts to ban gender-affirming care, bar transgender women and girls from participating in sports, and require school employees to notify parents if their children change their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California lawmakers passed bills this year to expand protections for young LGBTQ+ people. Courts may have to weigh whether a parent affirms their \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gender-affirm-transgender-nonbinary-children-parents-50815672a60690099ecfed71c738e911\">child’s gender identity\u003c/a> during custody disputes. Documents for a gender-change petition of a minor may be placed under seal. And families who want to care for foster youth may have to show that they can meet their needs regardless of the child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Having finished their work for 2023, California lawmakers sent hundreds of bills to Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has the next month to decide which to sign into law.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694886168,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1140},"headData":{"title":"Big Wins for Labor Unions and Health Care Workers as California Lawmakers Adjourn for the Year | KQED","description":"Having finished their work for 2023, California lawmakers sent hundreds of bills to Gov. 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The union behind the effort called it the nation’s first statewide minimum wage for health workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vote capped a legislative session in California that once again showed the strength of organized labor in the nation’s most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-fast-food-health-care-workers-wage-increase-3c1e3b2815523816b5e5d1ffc535aaad\">Fast food workers\u003c/a>? They got a $20-per-hour minimum wage, which would be the highest base pay in the country for an often overlooked workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Striking workers? They could get \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-unemployment-workers-strike-231c27a95c7e19ed439530904af7e6c5\">unemployment benefits\u003c/a> starting in January, which could benefit \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/hollywood-strikes/\">actors, writers\u003c/a> and Southern California hotel workers who have been on strike for months.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-state-government-gavin-newsom-business-2577c0328ec9e7138bcd1e079cc5ce29\">Semitruck drivers\u003c/a>? Lawmakers gave them job security by voting to require a human to be present in any self-driving truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The broader workforce? Most other workers would get at least five guaranteed paid sick days, an increase from the three days required under existing law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organized labor’s influence is easily explained by their prolific campaign donations, as they are some of the most reliable source of funds for the Democrats who control the state Legislature. But more than that, Democratic leaders credited labor’s success this year to what Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas called “the times we live in” as the state emerges from a disruptive pandemic with inflation driving up the costs of everyday living.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I think workers and employees have really felt like they need more support and more help. … I think that resonated.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"align":"right","size":"medium","citation":"Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins (D-San Diego)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“You consider the economy that we’re living in, consider what we’ve been through this last three years. I think workers and employees have really felt like they need more support and more help,” said Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins, a Democrat from San Diego. “I think that resonated.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of these bills now head to Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk, who has a month to decide whether to sign them into law — something that’s not guaranteed in all cases despite strong support from lawmakers in his own party. He’s already pledged to sign the bill giving fast food workers a raise, a deal he helped negotiate and what a spokesperson from his office called a “win-win for workers and businesses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Newsom has raised concerns about the bill giving unemployment benefits to striking workers, in part because the fund the state uses to pay those benefits \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-unemployment-workers-strike-231c27a95c7e19ed439530904af7e6c5\">is insolvent\u003c/a>. His administration has opposed the bill requiring people to be present to oversee self-driving trucks, warning it would stifle innovation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond wage and labor proposals, lawmakers sent Newsom hundreds of bills this year that do everything from \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-guns-ammunition-tax-increase-c90dae394f43b1e982aaf973960a7105\">raise taxes on gun and ammunition sales\u003c/a>, and to give in-state tuition rates to some low-income Mexican residents who live near the California-Mexico border and attend community colleges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-assembly-speaker-anthony-rendon-robert-rivas-a4b4fc12e431b2107f692d2a225c4708\">dramatic summer leadership fight\u003c/a> in the state Assembly that caused some tension ultimately didn’t stop Democrats from holding together to advance their agenda. Republicans \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gavin-newsom-child-trafficking-e4bde1ada68261e8b6bf5c299e93241c\">got a rare win\u003c/a> when a bill by state Sen. Shannon Grove to increase penalties leveraged against child traffickers passed the Legislature. Democrats in the Assembly has initially blocked the bill, but they \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/child-traffickers-california-gavin-newsom-1d89510172a8046bf36e6f05814ec05c\">reversed course\u003c/a> after Newsom and Democratic leaders intervened.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The session proved the power of Newsom’s influence, as the second-term governor got nearly everything he wanted. In the spring, lawmakers agreed to Newsom’s request to authorize state regulators to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-oil-company-profits-penalty-bill-7092c33a80bcab63658e118bbcbabf11\">punish oil companies for price gouging\u003c/a>. On Thursday, lawmakers agreed to place two of Newsom’s \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-mental-health-substance-homeless-legislature-19b2e6087ceee2042e750a7acd72c979\">initiatives before voters in March\u003c/a>: One to change how the state pays mental health services, and the other to borrow more than $6 billion to increase the number of treatment beds available for people with mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And earlier this week, California became the first state to answer Newsom’s call to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-newsom-constitutional-amendment-guns-6895729e1c3ebee7075e28d04c500063#:~:text=Newsom's%20proposed%2028th%20Amendment%20has,buy%20a%20firearm%20to%2021.\">ask Congress for a Constitutional convention\u003c/a> to add more restrictions on gun sales nationwide — an action that dozens of other states would have to follow before anything would happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"Related Stories ","postid":"news_11961350,news_11954314,news_11961346"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>One thing lawmakers failed to tackle: A burgeoning home insurance crisis after major carriers announced they were \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-wildfire-insurance-e31bef0ed7eeddcde096a5b8f2c1768f\">limiting new policies in the state\u003c/a> due to the constant threat of wildfires and other disasters. Lawmakers and industry representatives met in secret for weeks hoping to hammer out a deal, but a bill never materialized, which postpones the issue until next year. Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, a Democrat from Hollister, vowed to hold public hearings on the issue over the next few weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More time was needed to ensure that you were addressing all concerns,” Rivas said of lawmakers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Big businesses had their eyes on a pair of major climate bills that some lauded as a chance for California to lead the nation in corporate transparency rules — while others criticized the bills as impractical and too wide in scope. The legislation would make big companies \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-climate-change-emissions-disclosure-reporting-companies-123fe15c840b82f960384cbe04f3d955\">disclose a wide range of greenhouse gas emissions\u003c/a> and how climate change affects their company’s finances. The emissions bills would create the most sweeping reporting laws in the nation. Newsom hasn’t said yet whether he’ll sign it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal government could soon sign off on \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/climate-business-environment-e55ae33115e6a9e1202673ab51745924\">disclosure rules for public companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many state have been debating transgender rights — including efforts to ban gender-affirming care, bar transgender women and girls from participating in sports, and require school employees to notify parents if their children change their gender identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But California lawmakers passed bills this year to expand protections for young LGBTQ+ people. Courts may have to weigh whether a parent affirms their \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-gender-affirm-transgender-nonbinary-children-parents-50815672a60690099ecfed71c738e911\">child’s gender identity\u003c/a> during custody disputes. 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Gavin Newsom’s administration permission to buy massive amounts of electricity, a move aimed at \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-941c5a94c7bc7b1f93e1ed4bf6560fd4\">avoiding blackouts\u003c/a> by shoring up the state’s power supply while jumpstarting the West Coast’s fledgling offshore wind industry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five companies paid roughly \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/business-california-united-states-government-rwe-ag-climate-and-environment-87f602496e34299f5429a3d8a67ae478\">$750 million\u003c/a> last year to lease areas off the California coast to build wind turbines. Collectively, those projects could generate enough electricity to power 3.5 million homes, helping the state avoid blackouts during extreme heat waves that have routinely strained the electrical grid of the nation’s most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, the state’s largest utility companies have not been willing to commit to buying power from projects like those because it would cost too much money and take too long to build. In addition to building the wind turbines, the projects will require improvements at the state’s ports and new power lines to transport the energy from the ocean to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty,” said Alex Jackson, director of the American Clean Power Association, which represents the companies trying to build the wind projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-blackouts-wind-geothermal-energy-fd6e382afd43c3e88d8a35a8dc22578f\">let the state buy the power\u003c/a>. The money would come from a surcharge imposed on Californians’ electricity bills. State regulators would decide how much this charge would be. Consumers would not pay it until the wind projects are up and running, likely several years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has among the highest electricity rates in the country. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Alex Jackson, director, American Clean Power Association\"]‘This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty.’[/pullquote] “This legislation … means that every single ratepayer in California, no matter where you live, is going to pay for this,” said Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, who opposes the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the bill will save people money in the long run on their electric bills. California has a law requiring all of its electricity to come from renewable or non-carbon sources by 2045. To do that, supporters say the state will have to invest in offshore wind projects, which typically generate the most power at night when solar energy is not as abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it would be more efficient for these offshore wind projects to sell all of their electricity to the state instead of selling pieces of it to multiple utility companies, helping to control costs and keep rates lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest threat to us meeting our climate goals between now and 2045 are rate impacts to ratepayers,” Scott Wetch, a lobbyist representing various construction trade associations, told lawmakers in a recent public hearing. “[This bill] is the only way to bring down those costs on these large, complex, long lead time projects in order to minimize the rate impacts.” [aside postID=science_1983253 hero='https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS42448_GettyImages-94155086-qut-1020x680.jpg'] The bill gives the Department of Water Resources the authority to purchase the power — but not forever. Their authority would expire in 2035. Lawmakers would have to vote again to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has moved quickly to end its reliance on fossil fuels in recent years. State regulators have OK’d rules \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-air-resources-board-climate-and-environment-dc75c11280f85a8ab134cf392497be68\">banning the sale\u003c/a> of most new gas-powered cars by 2035. But the state has struggled to maintain its clean energy values amid that transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extreme heat wave in 2020 overwhelmed the state’s power grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes in the dark for a few hours over two days. Similar heat waves in the following summers prompted regulators to ask consumers to use less energy when demand was at its peak in the early evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the state Legislature have since spent $3.3 billion to build a “strategic reliability reserve” that included purchasing \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-sacramento-gavin-newsom-power-outages-0c520b790860fac7326cfdcdb4d3a785#:~:text=(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20A%20record%20heat,use%20of%20oil%20and%20gas.\">diesel-powered generators\u003c/a> and extending the life of some gas-fired power plants that were scheduled to retire. [aside label='More on Clean Energy' tag='clean-energy'] “There are things happening right now in energy policy that give me some pause about the efficacy of our strategy,” Democratic state Sen. Henry Stern lamented during a public hearing on the bill last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law requires utility companies to have enough energy to meet demand. If they don’t, the bill would require those companies to pay a penalty. The Newsom administration has said this will prevent utilities from relying too much on the strategic reliability reserve, which uses gas-powered generators that pollute the air.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alice Reynolds, president of the California Public Utilities Commission, said the state has completed more than 100 projects that have added 9,000 megawatts of new clean energy in the past three years. The bill lawmakers approved on Wednesday also includes provisions to fast-track new electric transmission projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need to act quickly and we need to really have all hands on deck,” Reynolds said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Gov. Gavin Newsom can now buy massive amounts of electricity, with a goal to prevent blackouts, and kickstart the West Coast’s fledging offshore wind industry.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1694815091,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":907},"headData":{"title":"Power Play: California Legislature Allows State to Buy Massive Amounts of Electricity | KQED","description":"Gov. 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Collectively, those projects could generate enough electricity to power 3.5 million homes, helping the state avoid blackouts during extreme heat waves that have routinely strained the electrical grid of the nation’s most populous state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, the state’s largest utility companies have not been willing to commit to buying power from projects like those because it would cost too much money and take too long to build. In addition to building the wind turbines, the projects will require improvements at the state’s ports and new power lines to transport the energy from the ocean to the land.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty,” said Alex Jackson, director of the American Clean Power Association, which represents the companies trying to build the wind projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-blackouts-wind-geothermal-energy-fd6e382afd43c3e88d8a35a8dc22578f\">let the state buy the power\u003c/a>. The money would come from a surcharge imposed on Californians’ electricity bills. State regulators would decide how much this charge would be. Consumers would not pay it until the wind projects are up and running, likely several years from now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California already has among the highest electricity rates in the country. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This is a major, generational series of investments that need to happen, and there’s a real risk [that] it won’t if we can’t provide more certainty.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Alex Jackson, director, American Clean Power Association","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “This legislation … means that every single ratepayer in California, no matter where you live, is going to pay for this,” said Republican state Sen. Brian Dahle, who opposes the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters argue the bill will save people money in the long run on their electric bills. California has a law requiring all of its electricity to come from renewable or non-carbon sources by 2045. To do that, supporters say the state will have to invest in offshore wind projects, which typically generate the most power at night when solar energy is not as abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters say it would be more efficient for these offshore wind projects to sell all of their electricity to the state instead of selling pieces of it to multiple utility companies, helping to control costs and keep rates lower.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The biggest threat to us meeting our climate goals between now and 2045 are rate impacts to ratepayers,” Scott Wetch, a lobbyist representing various construction trade associations, told lawmakers in a recent public hearing. “[This bill] is the only way to bring down those costs on these large, complex, long lead time projects in order to minimize the rate impacts.” \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"science_1983253","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/35/2023/07/RS42448_GettyImages-94155086-qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The bill gives the Department of Water Resources the authority to purchase the power — but not forever. Their authority would expire in 2035. Lawmakers would have to vote again to extend it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California has moved quickly to end its reliance on fossil fuels in recent years. State regulators have OK’d rules \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-air-resources-board-climate-and-environment-dc75c11280f85a8ab134cf392497be68\">banning the sale\u003c/a> of most new gas-powered cars by 2035. But the state has struggled to maintain its clean energy values amid that transition.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An extreme heat wave in 2020 overwhelmed the state’s power grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes in the dark for a few hours over two days. Similar heat waves in the following summers prompted regulators to ask consumers to use less energy when demand was at its peak in the early evenings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom and the state Legislature have since spent $3.3 billion to build a “strategic reliability reserve” that included purchasing \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/technology-california-sacramento-gavin-newsom-power-outages-0c520b790860fac7326cfdcdb4d3a785#:~:text=(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20A%20record%20heat,use%20of%20oil%20and%20gas.\">diesel-powered generators\u003c/a> and extending the life of some gas-fired power plants that were scheduled to retire. \u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Clean Energy ","tag":"clean-energy"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> “There are things happening right now in energy policy that give me some pause about the efficacy of our strategy,” Democratic state Sen. 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