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Art Agnos has endorsed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982144/chinatown-rally-launches-aaron-peskin-mayoral-run\">Aaron Peskin\u003c/a>. What about Willie Brown and Newsom — I’m sure you’d like to get both of their endorsements. 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Some people went to prison because of free trips and perks related to the trip. What do you think about that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve gone on trips in the past [and] the reporting requirements I have always honored. This trip is being paid for through the resources we raised privately from APEC (San Francisco hosted the group’s international summit last year, attended by President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping). Everyone is paying their own way. And so, our goal is to make sure that everything is above board. Everything will be appropriately reported. So I’m not concerned about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many pandas are you going for?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, I’ll take as many as I can get. But for now, two. So that they’re not lonely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Mayor London Breed prepares for a weeklong visit to China, where she hopes to drum up more tourism, investment and hopefully, score two pandas for the San Francisco Zoo.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712945661,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":950},"headData":{"title":"SF Mayor Breed Talks Crime, Tourism and Pandas Ahead of China Trip | KQED","description":"Mayor London Breed prepares for a weeklong visit to China, where she hopes to drum up more tourism, investment and hopefully, score two pandas for the San Francisco Zoo.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Mayor Breed Talks Crime, Tourism and Pandas Ahead of China Trip","datePublished":"2024-04-12T19:00:05.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-12T18:14:21.000Z","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"}}},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-41c5-bcaf-aaef00f5a073/7c852ab4-4d0e-477c-8152-b15001062be8/audio.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11982778/sf-mayor-breed-talks-crime-tourism-and-pandas-ahead-of-china-trip","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11978610/breed-unveils-san-franciscos-downtown-revival-plan-in-annual-city-address\">London Breed\u003c/a> spent part of Thursday afternoon doing a time-honored routine of political candidates: the merchant walk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Breed used a sprinkling of Mandarin and Cantonese phrases to greet people. She walked down Irving Street in the Sunset neighborhood, popping into cafes, grocery stores and restaurants asking, whoever would listen to put a “Breed for Mayor” sign in their window.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11982563","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240320-WILLIE-BROWNS-90TH-MD-08_qut-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Many did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dogged by low approval ratings from voters weary from crime, homelessness and fentanyl dealing, the mayor is facing several serious candidates in what appears to be an uphill race to win a second four-year term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Saturday, the mayor and a delegation of business and community leaders leave for a weeklong visit to China, where she hopes to drum up more tourism, investment, and, hopefully, score two or more panda bears for the San Francisco Zoo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED’s Scott Shafer sat down with Mayor Breed at a falafel shop on Irving Street on Thursday. Their conversation has been edited for length and clarity.\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>Scott Shafer:\u003c/strong> You’re going to China at a time with lots of tension between the U.S. and China. How does that figure into this trip in terms of how you’re going to approach things?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Mayor London Breed: \u003c/strong>I’m approaching it from a desire to continue to build upon the relationship that has always existed between China and San Francisco. In fact, the first Chinatown in the 1800s was established right here in San Francisco. The first [Chinese] consulate in San Francisco in the U.S., the first Sister City relationship right here between Shanghai and San Francisco. It’s a relationship that runs deep.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We want to talk about opportunities to focus on tourism and flights with a number of airlines, business growth and development, as well as, of course, the pandas. President Xi called it “panda diplomacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982739\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982739\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-010-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-010-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-010-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-010-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-010-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-010-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-010-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed takes a selfie with John Murphy during a walk along Irving Street in the Inner Sunset to meet voters during her reelection campaign in San Francisco on April 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Francisco’s had a hard time in the media nationally. Smash-and-grab videos and all that. Do you feel you have to overcome those perceptions?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We definitely are going to need to talk about the facts related to safety and what San Francisco has experienced, and what is actually the reality. At the height of some of the issues we had with anti-Asian hate, so many people have been surprised to know that there were 60 crimes, and half of those 60 were committed by one person. And right now, that person is facing the consequences. We’ve seen anti-Asian hate crimes reduced by over 80% here in our city. (KQED has not independently verified those statistics.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>You and the mayors of San José and San Diego are supporting a ballot measure to reform Proposition 47 (passed by voters in 2014, it reduced many non-violent crimes like drug possession from felonies to misdemeanors). But Gov. Newsom and most Democratic lawmakers in Sacramento don’t want anything on the ballot. Newsom thinks the Legislature can address it. Why are you going further on this than they are?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11982070","hero":"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/GettyImages-1236922203-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Well, it would be great if we had the support to do something in the Legislature to help address this. And I know that there are some retail theft changes and some other things that folks are talking about. But I also appreciate and respect the plans to make some adjustments to Prop. 47.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There has to be some consequences to behavior that yields harm to others. What we’re trying to do is a course correction. We’re not trying to stop, you know, the important criminal justice reforms. We move forward, but it’s important to make sure that we have the tools to hold, especially repeat offenders, accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>We’ve seen former Mayor Frank Jordan endorse Daniel Lurie for mayor. Art Agnos has endorsed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11982144/chinatown-rally-launches-aaron-peskin-mayoral-run\">Aaron Peskin\u003c/a>. What about Willie Brown and Newsom — I’m sure you’d like to get both of their endorsements. Where are they?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We will be rolling out some significant endorsements very soon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11982740\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-014-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-014-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-014-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-014-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-014-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-014-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/240411-BREEDCHINA-014-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor London Breed talks with Josie Azcona in Sheng Kee bakery during a walk in the Inner Sunset on April 11, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>And that might include the governor and another former mayor?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It might (smiles).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>In the past, at least one trip to China was very controversial in terms of who funded it. Some people went to prison because of free trips and perks related to the trip. What do you think about that?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve gone on trips in the past [and] the reporting requirements I have always honored. This trip is being paid for through the resources we raised privately from APEC (San Francisco hosted the group’s international summit last year, attended by President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping). Everyone is paying their own way. And so, our goal is to make sure that everything is above board. Everything will be appropriately reported. So I’m not concerned about that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>How many pandas are you going for?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oh, I’ll take as many as I can get. But for now, two. So that they’re not lonely.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982778/sf-mayor-breed-talks-crime-tourism-and-pandas-ahead-of-china-trip","authors":["255"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_6931","news_17968","news_18536","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11982741","label":"news"},"news_11982563":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11982563","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11982563","score":null,"sort":[1712792742000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-mayor-to-visit-china-in-hopes-of-bringing-back-more-tourists-and-pandas","title":"SF Mayor to Visit China in Hopes of Bringing Back More Tourists — and Pandas","publishDate":1712792742,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Mayor to Visit China in Hopes of Bringing Back More Tourists — and Pandas | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed is planning to visit five cities in China next week to promote tourism and encourage greater economic investment in the city. Local business and community leaders will join the trip, announced at a press conference on Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to enter into major agreements and make San Francisco significant to China and to let them know that we are open to the business relationships that could be developed as a result,” Breed said. “We are building on the momentum from APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Forum].”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Mayor London Breed\"]‘When President Xi was here, he talked about the importance of panda diplomacy. So it’s going to be a significant economic impact, but also, it’ll be an incredible bridge builder between China and the U.S.’[/pullquote]In November, Breed briefly met with Chinese President Xi Jinping while he was in the country for APEC, where he extended the invitation for her to visit China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the various economic motives of the trip, a subject at “the top of everyone’s list, including my own, is pandas,” Breed said. The San Francisco Zoo has already begun preparing for the potential visitors. However, the deal is not set, and Breed did not give an estimated timeline for when the charismatic herbivores might arrive. The impact of the pandas’ presence would be significant, Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The highlight of our zoo would be the pandas,” Breed said. “When President Xi was here, he talked about the importance of panda diplomacy. So it’s going to be a significant economic impact, but also, it’ll be an incredible bridge builder between China and the U.S.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The trip also marks 45 years that San Francisco and Shanghai have been Sister Cities, nearly the same time the U.S. and China have maintained formal diplomatic ties. Breed said she plans to meet with Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng on the trip and members of the Shanghai Sister City Committee are expected to join.[aside postID=news_11978610 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24067754253294-1020x680.jpg']Breed also plans to meet with universities to discuss student exchange programs and “ways for those institutions to establish in San Francisco,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Breed highlighted the economic opportunity that increased tourism from China represents and said she plans to meet with three airlines during the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are back with international flights to pre-pandemic levels,” she said. “But we know that more can be done, and we see this as an extraordinary opportunity for San Francisco’s future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to visit five cities in China next week to foster economic investment and diplomatic ties.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712792742,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":9,"wordCount":471},"headData":{"title":"SF Mayor to Visit China in Hopes of Bringing Back More Tourists — and Pandas | KQED","description":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed plans to visit five cities in China next week to foster economic investment and diplomatic ties.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Mayor to Visit China in Hopes of Bringing Back More Tourists — and Pandas","datePublished":"2024-04-10T23:45:42.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-10T23:45:42.000Z","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/11982563/sf-mayor-to-visit-china-in-hopes-of-bringing-back-more-tourists-and-pandas","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Mayor London Breed is planning to visit five cities in China next week to promote tourism and encourage greater economic investment in the city. Local business and community leaders will join the trip, announced at a press conference on Wednesday morning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our goal is to enter into major agreements and make San Francisco significant to China and to let them know that we are open to the business relationships that could be developed as a result,” Breed said. “We are building on the momentum from APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Forum].”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When President Xi was here, he talked about the importance of panda diplomacy. So it’s going to be a significant economic impact, but also, it’ll be an incredible bridge builder between China and the U.S.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San Francisco Mayor London Breed","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In November, Breed briefly met with Chinese President Xi Jinping while he was in the country for APEC, where he extended the invitation for her to visit China.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Among the various economic motives of the trip, a subject at “the top of everyone’s list, including my own, is pandas,” Breed said. The San Francisco Zoo has already begun preparing for the potential visitors. However, the deal is not set, and Breed did not give an estimated timeline for when the charismatic herbivores might arrive. The impact of the pandas’ presence would be significant, Breed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The highlight of our zoo would be the pandas,” Breed said. “When President Xi was here, he talked about the importance of panda diplomacy. So it’s going to be a significant economic impact, but also, it’ll be an incredible bridge builder between China and the U.S.”\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>The trip also marks 45 years that San Francisco and Shanghai have been Sister Cities, nearly the same time the U.S. and China have maintained formal diplomatic ties. Breed said she plans to meet with Shanghai Mayor Gong Zheng on the trip and members of the Shanghai Sister City Committee are expected to join.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11978610","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/AP24067754253294-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breed also plans to meet with universities to discuss student exchange programs and “ways for those institutions to establish in San Francisco,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Breed highlighted the economic opportunity that increased tourism from China represents and said she plans to meet with three airlines during the trip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are back with international flights to pre-pandemic levels,” she said. “But we know that more can be done, and we see this as an extraordinary opportunity for San Francisco’s future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11982563/sf-mayor-to-visit-china-in-hopes-of-bringing-back-more-tourists-and-pandas","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_18378","news_6931","news_17968","news_18536","news_38","news_566"],"featImg":"news_11982577","label":"news"},"news_11981809":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11981809","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11981809","score":null,"sort":[1712187568000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-extraordinary-tie-evan-low-and-joe-simitian-both-advance-in-race-for-silicon-valley-house-seat","title":"In Extraordinary Tie, Evan Low and Joe Simitian Both Advance in Race for Silicon Valley House Seat","publishDate":1712187568,"format":"standard","headTitle":"In Extraordinary Tie, Evan Low and Joe Simitian Both Advance in Race for Silicon Valley House Seat | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>After nearly a month of ballot counting, the primary election in a closely-watched Silicon Valley House seat has ended with an extraordinary result: Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian are tied for second place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare deadlock means both Low and Simitian will likely advance to the November election to face fellow Democrat Sam Liccardo, the former San José mayor who finished first in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-way general election in the 16th Congressional District adds a new layer of uncertainty in the race to succeed outgoing Congressmember Anna Eshoo, who is not running for another term after 32 years in the House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After weeks of see-sawing results with razor-thin margins, San Mateo County election officials posted their final update on Wednesday, adding a single vote to Simitian’s tally. The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters’ office has also finished its count, according to a spokesperson, and both counties plan to certify their results on Thursday.[aside label='More on Politics and Government' tag='politics']Liccardo finished with 21.1% of the primary vote, compared to 16.6% for both Simitian and Low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some other states, election officials in California do not automatically recount ballots in close races. Any voter can request a recount of the results within five days after certification, but the Low and Simitian campaigns now appear to have little reason to take on a costly count. Santa Clara election officials estimated that the cost of a full manual recount in that county could cost as much as $320,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both campaigns declined to comment on the result. On X, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Evan_Low/status/1775627023035015548?s=20\">Low posted, “It’s a special “Tie” day!”\u003c/a> above a photo of him and Assemblymember Mike Gipson wearing ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General elections with multiple candidates have become rare since California adopted a top-two primary system for the 2012 election, in which the top two finishers, regardless of party, advance from the primary. But the result is not unprecedented: in a 2016 race for state Assembly in Los Angeles, write-in candidates Baron Bruno and Marco Antonio Leal both received 32 votes and advanced to face incumbent Assemblymember Autumn Burke.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"A Liccardo spokesperson in response to the results\"]‘We welcome any opportunity to continue to talk to voters about the issues facing our communities, including the high cost of living, utility rates and housing and Sam’s long record of fighting on behalf of residents.’[/pullquote]Now, the trio of candidates will spend the next seven months courting voters from Pacifica to San José in what will likely be an expensive and bruising contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven candidates ran in the primary to succeed Eshoo — and the House hopefuls combined to spend $5.6 million in the weeks leading up to the March 5 primary, with an additional $2.5 million coming from outside groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race for cash will begin anew in a district known as a political piggy bank for Democratic candidates. On Wednesday, Liccardo announced he had raised more than $1 million from January through the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome any opportunity to continue to talk to voters about the issues facing our communities, including the high cost of living, utility rates and housing and Sam’s long record of fighting on behalf of residents,” a Liccardo spokesperson said in response to Wednesday’s results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Former San José Mayor Sam Liccardo will face both California Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian in the 16th District.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712252069,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":12,"wordCount":585},"headData":{"title":"In Extraordinary Tie, Evan Low and Joe Simitian Both Advance in Race for Silicon Valley House Seat | KQED","description":"Former San José Mayor Sam Liccardo will face both California Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian in the 16th District.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"Evan Low and Joe Simitian Both Advance in Race for Silicon Valley House Seat","twDescription":"","twImgId":"news_11981818","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"In Extraordinary Tie, Evan Low and Joe Simitian Both Advance in Race for Silicon Valley House Seat","datePublished":"2024-04-03T23:39:28.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-04T17:34:29.000Z","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/11981809/in-extraordinary-tie-evan-low-and-joe-simitian-both-advance-in-race-for-silicon-valley-house-seat","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>After nearly a month of ballot counting, the primary election in a closely-watched Silicon Valley House seat has ended with an extraordinary result: Assemblymember Evan Low and Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian are tied for second place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rare deadlock means both Low and Simitian will likely advance to the November election to face fellow Democrat Sam Liccardo, the former San José mayor who finished first in the primary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A three-way general election in the 16th Congressional District adds a new layer of uncertainty in the race to succeed outgoing Congressmember Anna Eshoo, who is not running for another term after 32 years in the House.\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>After weeks of see-sawing results with razor-thin margins, San Mateo County election officials posted their final update on Wednesday, adding a single vote to Simitian’s tally. The Santa Clara County Registrar of Voters’ office has also finished its count, according to a spokesperson, and both counties plan to certify their results on Thursday.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Politics and Government ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Liccardo finished with 21.1% of the primary vote, compared to 16.6% for both Simitian and Low.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unlike some other states, election officials in California do not automatically recount ballots in close races. Any voter can request a recount of the results within five days after certification, but the Low and Simitian campaigns now appear to have little reason to take on a costly count. Santa Clara election officials estimated that the cost of a full manual recount in that county could cost as much as $320,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both campaigns declined to comment on the result. On X, \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/Evan_Low/status/1775627023035015548?s=20\">Low posted, “It’s a special “Tie” day!”\u003c/a> above a photo of him and Assemblymember Mike Gipson wearing ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>General elections with multiple candidates have become rare since California adopted a top-two primary system for the 2012 election, in which the top two finishers, regardless of party, advance from the primary. But the result is not unprecedented: in a 2016 race for state Assembly in Los Angeles, write-in candidates Baron Bruno and Marco Antonio Leal both received 32 votes and advanced to face incumbent Assemblymember Autumn Burke.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We welcome any opportunity to continue to talk to voters about the issues facing our communities, including the high cost of living, utility rates and housing and Sam’s long record of fighting on behalf of residents.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"A Liccardo spokesperson in response to the results","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Now, the trio of candidates will spend the next seven months courting voters from Pacifica to San José in what will likely be an expensive and bruising contest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleven candidates ran in the primary to succeed Eshoo — and the House hopefuls combined to spend $5.6 million in the weeks leading up to the March 5 primary, with an additional $2.5 million coming from outside groups.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The race for cash will begin anew in a district known as a political piggy bank for Democratic candidates. On Wednesday, Liccardo announced he had raised more than $1 million from January through the end of March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We welcome any opportunity to continue to talk to voters about the issues facing our communities, including the high cost of living, utility rates and housing and Sam’s long record of fighting on behalf of residents,” a Liccardo spokesperson said in response to Wednesday’s results.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981809/in-extraordinary-tie-evan-low-and-joe-simitian-both-advance-in-race-for-silicon-valley-house-seat","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_21275","news_18538","news_20149","news_29089","news_27626","news_29808","news_17968","news_18536","news_6413"],"featImg":"news_11981818","label":"news"},"news_11981532":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11981532","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11981532","score":null,"sort":[1712068254000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"san-franciscos-pokemon-spring-celebration-day-is-in-the-works","title":"San Francisco's Pokémon Spring Celebration Day Is in the Works","publishDate":1712068254,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San Francisco’s Pokémon Spring Celebration Day Is in the Works | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Gather your trading cards and Poké Balls. Pokémon fans in San Francisco — and City Hall — are gearing up for a citywide celebration of the iconic Japanese media franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders propose making April 13, 2024, this year’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-pokemon-spring-celebration-tickets-874123465817\">Pokémon Spring Celebration Day\u003c/a>,” when residents will be encouraged to visit local libraries to check out books and play games with friends all about Pokémon.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Natalie Gee, a Pokémon super fan and legislative aid for Supervisor Shamann Walton\"]‘This is just a fun way to bring the community together that’s not about politics and is encouraging people to just have fun.’[/pullquote]“This is just a fun way to bring the community together that’s not about politics and is encouraging people to just have fun,” says Natalie Gee, a Pokémon super fan and legislative aid for Supervisor Shamann Walton, who helped draft a resolution for the special day. “I have organized Pokémon Go events on my own time since the game first came out, and it is a nice way to meet people in the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors will vote Tuesday on the resolution to officially declare Pokémon Day for 2024, and plans for free festivities are already in the works. This year, fans can find battles, card trading, button making and other Pokémon-themed games at four public library locations on Pokémon Spring Celebration Day, including at the Main Library, Ocean View, Richmond and Park branches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers are also working with the creators behind the augmented reality mobile app Pokémon Go to try to create a special “PokéStop” at the Richmond Library, Gee says, where players can refuel on game items like eggs and Poké Balls that are used to catch Pokémon creatures in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981566\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-4.png 402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-4-160x210.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco supervisors will vote Tuesday on the resolution to officially declare Pokémon Day for April 13, 2024, and plans for free festivities are already in the works. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Natalie Gee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is the fourth year the city’s libraries will celebrate Pokémon, but it is the first year the city has recognized it as an official citywide event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know Pokémon is so popular. It creates healthy competitions and connects people, and for both kids and grown-ups, it’s a great imaginative world with all different kinds of creatures and diversity,” says Supervisor Connie Chan, the lead sponsor for the resolution. “During the pandemic, for a family like mine with a kid in 2nd grade at that time, finding ways to connect with friends was not easy, and Pokémon Go got us outdoors, and kids could talk about it online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created by Satoshi Tajiri as a Nintendo game in 1996, Pokémon is a global phenomenon spanning video games, animated movies and television shows, trading cards, books and mobile games. Players or “trainers” search to catch all 1,025 Pokémon, also known as pocket monsters, such as popular characters like Pikachu, a yellow creature known for harnessing electricity.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Supervisor Ahsha Safaí\"]‘As a parent, I absolutely love events where I can kick back, let loose and rediscover my inner child while spending quality time with my children.’[/pullquote]Supervisors Dean Preston, Ahsha Safaí, Myrna Melgar and Shamann Walton are co-sponsoring the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re often bombarded with news about all the not-so-great stuff going on in our city, but Pokémon Day offers some much-needed wholesome fun for the entire family,” Safaí says in an email. “As a parent, I absolutely love events where I can kick back, let loose and rediscover my inner child while spending quality time with my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is scheduled to host the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/pokemon-events/pokemon-tournaments/pokemon-world-championships\">Pokémon World Championships\u003c/a> in 2026 at the Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-day competition brings together players from around the world to compete in various Pokémon card battles and video game contests for a prize pool totaling more than $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s world championships will take place in Hawaii in August. Organizers of Pokémon Day say they are looking to organize a smaller competition in San Francisco during the same time to begin to drum up hype before the city hosts the premier event in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan had a simple message to those interested: “Go catch ‘em all!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Fans of the global Pokémon franchise can expect San Francisco public libraries to offer free games, events and books for families on April 13.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1712017007,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":14,"wordCount":799},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco's Pokémon Spring Celebration Day Is in the Works | KQED","description":"Fans of the global Pokémon franchise can expect San Francisco public libraries to offer free games, events and books for families on April 13.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"San Francisco's Pokémon Spring Celebration Day Is in the Works","datePublished":"2024-04-02T14:30:54.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-02T00:16:47.000Z","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/11981532/san-franciscos-pokemon-spring-celebration-day-is-in-the-works","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Gather your trading cards and Poké Balls. Pokémon fans in San Francisco — and City Hall — are gearing up for a citywide celebration of the iconic Japanese media franchise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local leaders propose making April 13, 2024, this year’s “\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/san-francisco-pokemon-spring-celebration-tickets-874123465817\">Pokémon Spring Celebration Day\u003c/a>,” when residents will be encouraged to visit local libraries to check out books and play games with friends all about Pokémon.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This is just a fun way to bring the community together that’s not about politics and is encouraging people to just have fun.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Natalie Gee, a Pokémon super fan and legislative aid for Supervisor Shamann Walton","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“This is just a fun way to bring the community together that’s not about politics and is encouraging people to just have fun,” says Natalie Gee, a Pokémon super fan and legislative aid for Supervisor Shamann Walton, who helped draft a resolution for the special day. “I have organized Pokémon Go events on my own time since the game first came out, and it is a nice way to meet people in the neighborhood.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors will vote Tuesday on the resolution to officially declare Pokémon Day for 2024, and plans for free festivities are already in the works. This year, fans can find battles, card trading, button making and other Pokémon-themed games at four public library locations on Pokémon Spring Celebration Day, including at the Main Library, Ocean View, Richmond and Park branches.\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>Organizers are also working with the creators behind the augmented reality mobile app Pokémon Go to try to create a special “PokéStop” at the Richmond Library, Gee says, where players can refuel on game items like eggs and Poké Balls that are used to catch Pokémon creatures in the game.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981566\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 402px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981566\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"528\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-4.png 402w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/image-4-160x210.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 402px) 100vw, 402px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco supervisors will vote Tuesday on the resolution to officially declare Pokémon Day for April 13, 2024, and plans for free festivities are already in the works. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Natalie Gee)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This is the fourth year the city’s libraries will celebrate Pokémon, but it is the first year the city has recognized it as an official citywide event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know Pokémon is so popular. It creates healthy competitions and connects people, and for both kids and grown-ups, it’s a great imaginative world with all different kinds of creatures and diversity,” says Supervisor Connie Chan, the lead sponsor for the resolution. “During the pandemic, for a family like mine with a kid in 2nd grade at that time, finding ways to connect with friends was not easy, and Pokémon Go got us outdoors, and kids could talk about it online.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Created by Satoshi Tajiri as a Nintendo game in 1996, Pokémon is a global phenomenon spanning video games, animated movies and television shows, trading cards, books and mobile games. Players or “trainers” search to catch all 1,025 Pokémon, also known as pocket monsters, such as popular characters like Pikachu, a yellow creature known for harnessing electricity.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘As a parent, I absolutely love events where I can kick back, let loose and rediscover my inner child while spending quality time with my children.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Supervisor Ahsha Safaí","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Supervisors Dean Preston, Ahsha Safaí, Myrna Melgar and Shamann Walton are co-sponsoring the resolution.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re often bombarded with news about all the not-so-great stuff going on in our city, but Pokémon Day offers some much-needed wholesome fun for the entire family,” Safaí says in an email. “As a parent, I absolutely love events where I can kick back, let loose and rediscover my inner child while spending quality time with my children.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco is scheduled to host the \u003ca href=\"https://www.pokemon.com/us/play-pokemon/pokemon-events/pokemon-tournaments/pokemon-world-championships\">Pokémon World Championships\u003c/a> in 2026 at the Moscone Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The three-day competition brings together players from around the world to compete in various Pokémon card battles and video game contests for a prize pool totaling more than $2 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s world championships will take place in Hawaii in August. Organizers of Pokémon Day say they are looking to organize a smaller competition in San Francisco during the same time to begin to drum up hype before the city hosts the premier event in two years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chan had a simple message to those interested: “Go catch ‘em all!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11981532/san-franciscos-pokemon-spring-celebration-day-is-in-the-works","authors":["11840"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_1620","news_18179","news_17968","news_18536","news_38","news_23243"],"featImg":"news_11981540","label":"news"},"news_11981271":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11981271","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11981271","score":null,"sort":[1712055626000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents","title":"Track the Success of California's 14 Reparations Bills for Black Residents","publishDate":1712055626,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Track the Success of California’s 14 Reparations Bills for Black Residents | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>The latest: \u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>A bill to prioritize Black applicants for professional licenses passed the Assembly Business and Professions Committee on Tuesday, despite opposition from a conservative legal group which argued the legislation is unconstitutional. “It is very much important that we right those wrongs, and as a legislative body we shouldn’t be afraid of standing up to legal scrutiny associated with that,” said Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), who voted in support of AB 2862\u003c/em>. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill2862\">Read more here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Legislative Black Caucus is prioritizing 14 reparations bills, which the group hopes to pass this year. CLBC members curated the list to test the limits of the Legislature’s commitment to racial justice while seeking to avoid a wholesale rejection that could derail the quest for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware that everyone in the state is watching us, but also everyone in this nation, but also in this world,” Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego) said.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego)\"]‘We are aware that everyone in the state is watching us, but also everyone in this nation, but also in this world.’[/pullquote]The bills are drawn from two years of work by the California Reparations Task Force, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">KQED has reported on since its inception\u003c/a>. The task force’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report\">final report\u003c/a>, published in June 2023, includes over 100 policy proposals, as well as a plan to provide direct cash payments to eligible residents. None of the introduced bills include cash payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passing bills with hefty price tags will be challenging because California’s deficit could exceed $70 billion. Even if cash payments weren’t controversial, a plan to pay out millions of dollars to residents would likely face intense opposition in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CLBC’s 12 members each submitted ideas for reparations bills to the caucus, which then voted on the bills to prioritize. The 14 listed below won support from two-thirds of caucus members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of the first-in-the-nation effort for state-level reparations will play out over the next five months in Sacramento. Legislators face an Aug. 31 deadline to pass bills on to Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Success on Aug. 31, at the end of session, looks like our priority package is across the line, plus a few more,” Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are the details of each bill under consideration by the Legislature. Bookmark this page and check back as we track each bill’s fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Table of contents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblyconstitutionalamendment7\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Allow the state to fund race-based programs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblyconstitutionalamendment8\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Ban involuntary servitude in state prisons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblyconcurrentresolution135\">Assembly Concurrent Resolution 135\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Acknowledge the residual impact of slavery in California.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill280\">Assembly Bill 280\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Limit solitary confinement in state prisons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1815\">Assembly Bill 1815\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Prohibit discrimination based on hair texture and style.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1929\">Assembly Bill 1929\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Allow deeper analysis of technical education grants.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1975\">Assembly Bill 1975\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Require Medi-Cal to broaden food and nutrition coverage.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1986\">Assembly Bill 1986\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Limit book bans in state prisons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill2064\">Assembly Bill 2064\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Create grant program to decrease violence.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill2862\">Assembly Bill 2862\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Require licensing boards to prioritize Black applicants.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill3089\">Assembly Bill 3089\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Formal apology for slavery and systemic discrimination.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill3131\">Assembly Bill 3131\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Target economic support to formerly redlined communities.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#senatebill1050\">Senate Bill 1050\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Compensation for land taken by eminent domain. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#senatebill1089\">Senate Bill 1089\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Require advance notice for grocery and pharmacy closures.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblyconstitutionalamendment7\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA7\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Riverside)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Allow the state to fund programs designed to improve the health, education or economic well-being of “specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin or marginalized genders or sexual orientations.” It would amend Proposition 209, the state’s ban on affirmative action in government policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Much of the state’s proposed reparations plan hinges on this passing. Without amending Proposition 209, lawmakers cannot pass policies to specifically benefit the state’s Black residents. At a meeting of the reparations task force last year, member Donald Tamaki argued that to assist people harmed by racial discrimination, reparations policies must target support to people based on their racial identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> California voters passed Proposition 209, the nation’s first ban on affirmative action, in 1996 during a wave of anti-affirmative action activism. That was 28 years ago. In 2020, an attempt to repeal the law was rejected by 57% of voters. ACA 7 is not a full-scale repeal, and legislators might be hoping this pared-down proposal is more appealing to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACA 7 is a two year-bill. In September, it passed the Assembly in a vote along party lines with all Republicans opposed. The bill is now awaiting referral to committee in the Senate. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblyconstitutionalamendment8\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA8\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Lori D. Wilson (D-Suisun City)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Remove language from the state’s constitution allowing involuntary servitude “as punishment to a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909591 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a yellow dress stands outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Lori D. Wilson, the author of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Black residents, who make up just 5% of California’s population, account for 28% of the state’s prison population. Incarcerated people are paid as little as $0.08 an hour and face punishment for not completing work. “That is where you see it currently, with people being forced to work no matter what and to work without any sense of compensation,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> In 2022, a similar proposal was voted down, in part, over \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-gavin-newsom-minimum-wage-slavery-a0aed840fc6dc54c7eb0da98d0f6bb05\">concerns that the end of involuntary servitude would require wage increases\u003c/a> for prison labor, adding significant costs to the state prison system, according to analysts with the state Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>ACA 8 passed the Assembly on a bipartisan vote in September. Four Republicans voted against the bill, and eight other GOP members did not vote. The bill is now pending in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblyconcurrentresolution135\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR135\">Assembly Concurrent Resolution 135\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do:\u003c/strong> Acknowledge the actions of government officials in California who advanced chattel slavery and subsequent discriminatory policies against Black Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakari Olatunji, Western Regional Party Representative of the African People’s Socialist Party, speaks during a rally for reparations for African people in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?\u003c/strong> Weber said the process of providing reparations must begin with an acknowledgment and an honest reckoning of the harms perpetrated by California’s government. The transgressions pre-date California’s statehood, when Southern-born lawmakers played an outsized role in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942302/californias-legislature-has-roots-in-slavery-are-lawmakers-ready-to-confront-that\">shaping the state’s pro-slavery stance — and even owned slaves\u003c/a>. “This is the foundation upon which we will build for this year and years to come,” Weber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> ACR 135 sailed through the state Assembly, though not without some controversy. In the Assembly Judiciary Committee, Diane Dixon (R-Newport Beach) said that California “can be proud” of its progress in achieving racial justice in the last 75 years, which Weber and others characterized as dismissive of discriminatory policies enacted in recent decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest:\u003c/strong> ACR 135 passed the state Assembly on a 59–0 vote and now heads to the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill280\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB280\">Assembly Bill 280\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: \u003c/strong>Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do:\u003c/strong> Limit the use of solitary confinement in state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A prison guard in uniform stands in front of a gate with a building in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entry gate at San Quentin State Prison on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Black men make up 28% of the state’s prison population and 18.5% of the population in restricted housing. Meanwhile, Black women account for 25.4% of the prison population, and four out of five women in restricted housing are Black, \u003ca href=\"https://law.yale.edu/centers-workshops/arthur-liman-center-public-interest-law/liman-center-publications/time-cell-2021\">according to a 2022 report\u003c/a> by the Correctional Leaders Association and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar proposal in 2022, arguing that the bill’s exclusion of certain groups from segregated housing — such as inmates younger than 26 or older than 59 — was too broad. After vetoing the bill, Newsom ordered state prison officials to “develop regulations that would restrict the use of segregated confinement except in limited situations, such as where the individual has been found to have engaged in violence in the prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 280 is pending in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1815\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1815\">Assembly Bill 1815\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Prohibits discrimination on hair texture or hairstyles like braids, locks and twists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?: \u003c/strong>According to a 2023 study by Dove, Black women with coily or textured hair are twice as likely to experience microaggressions at work compared to those with straight hair. Up until 2017, the U.S. military did not allow men to wear their hair in dreadlocks, and Black women were required to straighten their hair or wear wigs to comply with military regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> This would expand the 2019 California CROWN Act, which outlawed discrimination based on hairstyle in schools and workplaces. The law is part of a nationwide CROWN Act campaign to protect and celebrate natural Black hairstyles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 1815 passed the Judiciary Committee on April 2 and now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. In arguing in support of the bill, Weber pointed to cases of hair-based discrimination in New Jersey and North Carolina. “Our hair is a symbol of who we are,” she said. “These cases around the country are exactly why the California Reparations Task Force made this expansion one of their policy recommendations to the Legislature.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1929\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1929\">Assembly Bill 1929\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: \u003c/strong>Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do:\u003c/strong> Require data about recipients of state technical education grants to be disaggregated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>The reparations task force’s report cites research from the Center for American Progress that found “students of color still face disparities in access to and participation in high-quality [Career Technical Education] programs.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego)\"]‘The only way we’ll know if we’re actually making strides to address the inequalities and certainly to ensure that we don’t perpetuate them is if we have the information.’[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> This bill was significantly watered down ahead of a hearing in the Assembly Education Committee. AB 1929 initially would have moved the state toward creating a competitive grant program to increase the enrollment of descendants of slavery in STEM-related career technical education programs. Now it sets a less ambitious goal: allowing the state to get race-specific \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct/ig/\">data on existing\u003c/a> workforce \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/Workforce-and-Economic-Development/Strong-Workforce-Program\">development programs\u003c/a>. A McKinnor spokesperson said the initial language was only a placeholder, known as a spot bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 1929 passed the Education Committee on March 20 on a 7–0 vote and now moves to the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee. “The only way we’ll know if we’re actually making strides to address the inequalities and certainly to ensure that we don’t perpetuate them is if we have the information,” Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego) said before voting for the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1975\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1975\">Assembly Bill 1975\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Require Medi-Cal, the state’s public health insurance plan, to cover culturally relevant and medically supportive foods or nutrition interventions when deemed necessary by a healthcare provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11887623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman in a blue and white short-sleeved shirt smiling and looking to the left of the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Mia Bonta, who authored Assembly Bill 1975. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>According to a 2021 study by UCLA, nearly four in 10 adult Californians don’t have consistent access to sufficient food. Access to enough healthy food is essential to treat and prevent chronic illness, which disproportionately impacts people of color. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black Americans and Native Americans are more likely than all other racial groups to experience diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> Medi-Cal is in the midst of a five-year revamp. It’s been piloting food and nutrition interventions over the last two years which have been popular. According to Bonta’s office, as of July 2023, over 26,000 Californians had used the benefit to access healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 1975 is set for a hearing on April 16 in the Assembly Health Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1986\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1986\">Assembly Bill 1986\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: \u003c/strong>Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Require the list of books banned inside California prisons to be publicly displayed, and task the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of the Inspector General to remove book bans if they don’t further the interest of managing the prisons.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Tommy 'Shakur' Ross, a formerly incarcerated Californian\"]‘To ban a book just because a person simply has a different perspective than the mainstream seems like totalitarianism to me.’[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?\u003c/strong> The task force report argues that “states and local governments have engaged in racist censorship of books written by African American authors, primarily in public schools and in prisons,” and recommended examining whether books featuring stories about Black people and their ancestors should be removed from the list of banned books in state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly: \u003c/strong>PEN America \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/report/reading-between-the-bars/\">researched book bans in prisons across America\u003c/a> and found that in California, page numbers are listed to justify a decision to censor books without any further information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest:\u003c/strong> AB 1986 passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee on March 12 on an 8–0 vote and now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. “To ban a book just because a person simply has a different perspective than the mainstream seems like totalitarianism to me,” Tommy “Shakur” Ross, a formerly incarcerated Californian, told the committee. “There is a need for transparency regarding which books are banned and why.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill2064\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2064\">Assembly Bill 2064\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author:\u003c/strong> Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Create a grant program to decrease violence in Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-1536x1000.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) on Political Breakdown on Sept. 7, 2023 in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>In 2022, Black Californians accounted for 31% of the state’s homicide victims, according to a report from the California Department of Justice. The task force report notes “programs that promote socialization, emotional regulation techniques and social and cultural competence in early-school-age children have been shown to reduce violence among youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly: \u003c/strong>Expect an extra level of scrutiny on bills that call for new state spending because of the state’s deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 2064 is pending in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill2862\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2862\">Assembly Bill 2862\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Require licensing boards, which oversee state workforces such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dca.ca.gov/about_us/entities.shtml\">barbers and real estate agents\u003c/a>, to prioritize African American applicants, especially those who are descendants of people enslaved in the United States.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson)\"]‘It is imperative that we take further measures to address the inequalities and expand the opportunities for growth and professional development.’[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Prioritizing Black Californians in the state licensing process, supporters of AB 2862 contend, is a way of promoting economic advancement and closing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/most-californians-say-racial-bias-is-linked-to-economic-inequality/\">income gap between Black and white Californians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> The income gap is the “piece of evidence that serves as proof of the long-standing consequences of slavery,” Gipson said. “It is imperative that we take further measures to address the inequalities and expand the opportunities for growth and professional development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The latest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> AB 2862 passed the Assembly Business and Professions Committee on April 16, despite arguments from a conservative legal group that the bill would violate the constitution by providing an advantage to Black Californians. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The United States and California constitutions guarantee citizens equal protection of the law,” said Caleb Trotter, an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation. “The government cannot, therefore, treat Californians differently based on their race or ancestry.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All 10 committee members present supported the bill, with many arguing that leveling the economic playing field is an important component of reversing historic discrimination against Black Californians in job access.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It is very much important that we right those wrongs, and as a legislative body we shouldn’t be afraid of standing up to legal scrutiny associated with that,” said Josh Lowenthal, D-Long Beach. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The committee’s chair, Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, voted in support but suggested that the legal arguments will be more fully vetted in the bill’s next stop: the Assembly Judiciary Committee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gipson also agreed to amend the bill to sunset after four years, after committee staff suggested that the Legislature should regularly review the need to prioritize a specific group of license applicants. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill3089\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089\">Assembly Bill 3089\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Issue a formal apology for state officials and institutions “who promoted, facilitated, enforced and permitted the institution of chattel slavery” and the systemic discrimination against Black Californians in the decades that followed.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles)\"]‘America’s original sin is the genocide and enslavement of human beings. America’s second greatest sin is watching it happen and pretending that it never did.’[/pullquote]\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?\u003c/strong>: Jones-Sawyer, a member of the reparations task force, said the first steps of reparations must be acknowledging the harms committed by the state and recognizing them with an apology. “America’s original sin is the genocide and enslavement of human beings,” he said. “America’s second greatest sin is watching it happen and pretending that it never did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a formal apology to Native Americans in the state for a history of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/\">violence, mistreatment and neglect\u003c/a>.” That apology was issued by executive order, whereas AB 3089 requires a vote of the Legislature before Newsom can weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 3089 sailed through the Assembly Judiciary Committee on April 16 and now heads to the Appropriations Committee. Judiciary Committee chair Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) suggested a location for a plaque memorializing the apology: next to images of the state’s early governors. “They’re the ones that signed on to these pieces of legislation and supported them, and so I think it’s important that we start telling the rest of the story,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill3131\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3131\">Assembly Bill 3131\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Create two grant programs funding “career technical education” for people from historically redlined communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Redlining — the practice of denying home loans to credit-worthy candidates who lived in predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\">was common in California cities\u003c/a> until the federal Fair Housing Act outlawed it in 1968. Redlining denied generations of Black residents the ability to own homes and accrue wealth, contributing to wealth disparities that persist today. \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area-part-4\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 2019 study from UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> found that predominantly white neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area have more than double the average household income and home values of predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> This bill is one of a handful under consideration by the Legislature that would target economic support to formerly redlined communities. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was amended on April 1 and watered down. Instead of giving residents in formerly redlined communities “first priority” for grant programs, it now proposes giving them “positive consideration.” \u003c/span>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill passed the Education Committee on April 10 with a unanimous vote. “Investment into high quality CTE programs that combine academic education with occupational training offer essential tools against persistent inequities,” Troy Williams, chief impact officer for the Greater Sacramento Urban League, testified in support of AB 3131. “This bill will help break down those barriers to educational access and create pathways for economic mobility for underserved populations.” The bill now heads to the Committee on Higher Education. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 3131 was amended on April 15 to give schools that qualify for the state Board of Education’s Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier positive consideration for state career technical education grants. The bill is now Committee on Higher Education hearing.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"senatebill1050\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1050\">Senate Bill 1050\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Review, investigate and “make certain determinations” on applications from California residents who claim their land was taken through racially motivated use of eminent domain without being provided fair compensation. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older man is leaning over a podium as he is speaking to a young woman with long braids. They both wear business attire and have a projection screen behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steven Bradford and Lisa Holder speak during the second day of an in-person meeting of the California Reparations Task Force at the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on April 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Between 1949 and 1973, Black Americans were five times more likely than white Americans to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956963/how-black-californians-had-their-land-stolen\">displaced by government use of eminent domain\u003c/a>. In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957757/why-san-franciscos-fillmore-district-is-no-longer-the-harlem-of-the-west\">the Fillmore\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">Russell City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x3ibklQhZY\">West Oakland\u003c/a> were impacted by the practice. According to research by the reparations task force, displaced families and businesses often said the money the government provided for the land was below market rate and insufficient for relocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> SB 1050 is dependent on SB 490, a bill that would create a new government agency to manage reparations programs for eligible Black Californians, passing first. SB 490 would instruct the agency’s chief financial officer to develop a database, make payments to eligible families and provide public education about the unjust use of eminent domain throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1050 passed the Judiciary Committee on April 16 with a 6-1 vote. It now heads to the Appropriations Committee. Sen. Roger Niello (R-Roseville) voted no. He argued local jurisdictions that used eminent domain in racist ways should be responsible for providing compensation, not state taxpayers. “Manhattan Beach was responsible for what happened, not Modoc County,” he said, referring to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ceo.lacounty.gov/ardi/bruces-beach/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bruce’s Beach\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In response, Bradford implied the state review process might require local jurisdictions to provide compensation as well. “This obligation doesn’t fall on the state in of itself. Local jurisdictions will be responsible if they played a direct role,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"senatebill1089\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1089\">Senate Bill 1089\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do\u003c/strong>: Require companies to provide advance notice to employees and county officials if a grocery store or pharmacy is closing \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and obligate counties to track closures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981355\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Bill 1089 would require companies to provide advance notice to employees and county officials if a grocery store or pharmacy is closing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the bill authors, predominantly white neighborhoods have four times as many grocery stores as predominantly Black neighborhoods. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>Task force members said the lack of grocery stores in predominantly Black neighborhoods compared to predominantly white neighborhoods is a clear case of food injustice. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advanced notice of pharmacy closures will allow residents to make adjustments to avoid interruptions in access to medications.\u003c/span>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland)\"]‘When you close a store, when you close the ability for people to go in and shop healthily and shop in an empowered way, you reduce their ability to be able to live.’[/pullquote]“When you close a store, when you close the ability for people to go in and shop healthily and shop in an empowered way, you reduce their ability to be able to live,” Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) said. “It’s that plain and simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill began as what’s called an “intent bill” or “spot bill,” meaning it was a placeholder Smallwood-Cuevas intended to flesh out through amendments. The text of the bill was added via an amendment on March 18.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1089 is set for a hearing in the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on April 17, and a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 23. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The legislation is designed to provide some semblance of repair to Black Californians targeted by anti-Black bias in public policy since the state’s founding.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1713315895,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":95,"wordCount":4188},"headData":{"title":"Track the Success of California's 14 Reparations Bills for Black Residents | KQED","description":"The legislation is designed to provide some semblance of repair to Black Californians targeted by anti-Black bias in public policy since the state’s founding.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Track the Success of California's 14 Reparations Bills for Black Residents","datePublished":"2024-04-02T11:00:26.000Z","dateModified":"2024-04-17T01:04:55.000Z","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"}}},"audioUrl":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/KQINC6549310740.mp3","sticky":false,"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003cb>The latest: \u003c/b>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem>A bill to prioritize Black applicants for professional licenses passed the Assembly Business and Professions Committee on Tuesday, despite opposition from a conservative legal group which argued the legislation is unconstitutional. “It is very much important that we right those wrongs, and as a legislative body we shouldn’t be afraid of standing up to legal scrutiny associated with that,” said Assemblymember Josh Lowenthal (D-Long Beach), who voted in support of AB 2862\u003c/em>. \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill2862\">Read more here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Legislative Black Caucus is prioritizing 14 reparations bills, which the group hopes to pass this year. CLBC members curated the list to test the limits of the Legislature’s commitment to racial justice while seeking to avoid a wholesale rejection that could derail the quest for reparations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are aware that everyone in the state is watching us, but also everyone in this nation, but also in this world,” Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego) said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We are aware that everyone in the state is watching us, but also everyone in this nation, but also in this world.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The bills are drawn from two years of work by the California Reparations Task Force, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/reparations\">KQED has reported on since its inception\u003c/a>. The task force’s \u003ca href=\"https://oag.ca.gov/ab3121/report\">final report\u003c/a>, published in June 2023, includes over 100 policy proposals, as well as a plan to provide direct cash payments to eligible residents. None of the introduced bills include cash payments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Passing bills with hefty price tags will be challenging because California’s deficit could exceed $70 billion. Even if cash payments weren’t controversial, a plan to pay out millions of dollars to residents would likely face intense opposition in the Legislature.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The CLBC’s 12 members each submitted ideas for reparations bills to the caucus, which then voted on the bills to prioritize. The 14 listed below won support from two-thirds of caucus members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fate of the first-in-the-nation effort for state-level reparations will play out over the next five months in Sacramento. Legislators face an Aug. 31 deadline to pass bills on to Gov. Gavin Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Success on Aug. 31, at the end of session, looks like our priority package is across the line, plus a few more,” Assemblymember Lori Wilson (D-Suisun City) said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Below are the details of each bill under consideration by the Legislature. Bookmark this page and check back as we track each bill’s fate.\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\u003ch2>Table of contents\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblyconstitutionalamendment7\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Allow the state to fund race-based programs.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblyconstitutionalamendment8\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Ban involuntary servitude in state prisons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblyconcurrentresolution135\">Assembly Concurrent Resolution 135\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Acknowledge the residual impact of slavery in California.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill280\">Assembly Bill 280\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Limit solitary confinement in state prisons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1815\">Assembly Bill 1815\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Prohibit discrimination based on hair texture and style.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1929\">Assembly Bill 1929\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Allow deeper analysis of technical education grants.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1975\">Assembly Bill 1975\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Require Medi-Cal to broaden food and nutrition coverage.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill1986\">Assembly Bill 1986\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Limit book bans in state prisons.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill2064\">Assembly Bill 2064\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Create grant program to decrease violence.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill2862\">Assembly Bill 2862\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Require licensing boards to prioritize Black applicants.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill3089\">Assembly Bill 3089\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Formal apology for slavery and systemic discrimination.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#assemblybill3131\">Assembly Bill 3131\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Target economic support to formerly redlined communities.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#senatebill1050\">Senate Bill 1050\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Compensation for land taken by eminent domain. \u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#senatebill1089\">Senate Bill 1089\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003cstrong>: Require advance notice for grocery and pharmacy closures.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblyconstitutionalamendment7\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA7\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 7\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Riverside)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Allow the state to fund programs designed to improve the health, education or economic well-being of “specific groups based on race, color, ethnicity, national origin or marginalized genders or sexual orientations.” It would amend Proposition 209, the state’s ban on affirmative action in government policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11904283\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11904283\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Several red and white signs shown from a distance with many people standing in front of City Hall in Oakland\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1342\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-800x559.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1020x713.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-160x112.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/02/RS53515_20220204-IMG_2539-2-qut-1536x1074.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Educators, parents and youth gather in protest during a citywide rally at Oakland City Hall on Feb. 4, 2022. \u003ccite>(Amaya Edwards/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Much of the state’s proposed reparations plan hinges on this passing. Without amending Proposition 209, lawmakers cannot pass policies to specifically benefit the state’s Black residents. At a meeting of the reparations task force last year, member Donald Tamaki argued that to assist people harmed by racial discrimination, reparations policies must target support to people based on their racial identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> California voters passed Proposition 209, the nation’s first ban on affirmative action, in 1996 during a wave of anti-affirmative action activism. That was 28 years ago. In 2020, an attempt to repeal the law was rejected by 57% of voters. ACA 7 is not a full-scale repeal, and legislators might be hoping this pared-down proposal is more appealing to voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ACA 7 is a two year-bill. In September, it passed the Assembly in a vote along party lines with all Republicans opposed. The bill is now awaiting referral to committee in the Senate. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblyconstitutionalamendment8\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACA8\">Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Lori D. Wilson (D-Suisun City)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Remove language from the state’s constitution allowing involuntary servitude “as punishment to a crime.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11909591\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11909591 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing glasses and a yellow dress stands outside.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/03/RS54515_007_KQED_LoriWilson_03172022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Lori D. Wilson, the author of Assembly Constitutional Amendment 8. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Black residents, who make up just 5% of California’s population, account for 28% of the state’s prison population. Incarcerated people are paid as little as $0.08 an hour and face punishment for not completing work. “That is where you see it currently, with people being forced to work no matter what and to work without any sense of compensation,” Wilson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> In 2022, a similar proposal was voted down, in part, over \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/prisons-california-gavin-newsom-minimum-wage-slavery-a0aed840fc6dc54c7eb0da98d0f6bb05\">concerns that the end of involuntary servitude would require wage increases\u003c/a> for prison labor, adding significant costs to the state prison system, according to analysts with the state Department of Finance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>ACA 8 passed the Assembly on a bipartisan vote in September. Four Republicans voted against the bill, and eight other GOP members did not vote. The bill is now pending in the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblyconcurrentresolution135\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240ACR135\">Assembly Concurrent Resolution 135\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do:\u003c/strong> Acknowledge the actions of government officials in California who advanced chattel slavery and subsequent discriminatory policies against Black Californians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981334\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/001_Oakland_ReparationsMarch_10162021_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bakari Olatunji, Western Regional Party Representative of the African People’s Socialist Party, speaks during a rally for reparations for African people in Oakland on Oct. 16, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?\u003c/strong> Weber said the process of providing reparations must begin with an acknowledgment and an honest reckoning of the harms perpetrated by California’s government. The transgressions pre-date California’s statehood, when Southern-born lawmakers played an outsized role in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942302/californias-legislature-has-roots-in-slavery-are-lawmakers-ready-to-confront-that\">shaping the state’s pro-slavery stance — and even owned slaves\u003c/a>. “This is the foundation upon which we will build for this year and years to come,” Weber said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> ACR 135 sailed through the state Assembly, though not without some controversy. In the Assembly Judiciary Committee, Diane Dixon (R-Newport Beach) said that California “can be proud” of its progress in achieving racial justice in the last 75 years, which Weber and others characterized as dismissive of discriminatory policies enacted in recent decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest:\u003c/strong> ACR 135 passed the state Assembly on a 59–0 vote and now heads to the state Senate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill280\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB280\">Assembly Bill 280\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: \u003c/strong>Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-Pasadena)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do:\u003c/strong> Limit the use of solitary confinement in state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971776\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11971776\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A prison guard in uniform stands in front of a gate with a building in the background.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/072623_San-Quentin_SN_01-CM-copy-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entry gate at San Quentin State Prison on July 26, 2023. \u003ccite>(Semantha Norris/CalMatters)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Black men make up 28% of the state’s prison population and 18.5% of the population in restricted housing. Meanwhile, Black women account for 25.4% of the prison population, and four out of five women in restricted housing are Black, \u003ca href=\"https://law.yale.edu/centers-workshops/arthur-liman-center-public-interest-law/liman-center-publications/time-cell-2021\">according to a 2022 report\u003c/a> by the Correctional Leaders Association and the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law at Yale Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar proposal in 2022, arguing that the bill’s exclusion of certain groups from segregated housing — such as inmates younger than 26 or older than 59 — was too broad. After vetoing the bill, Newsom ordered state prison officials to “develop regulations that would restrict the use of segregated confinement except in limited situations, such as where the individual has been found to have engaged in violence in the prison.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 280 is pending in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1815\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1815\">Assembly Bill 1815\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Akilah Weber (D-San Diego)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Prohibits discrimination on hair texture or hairstyles like braids, locks and twists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?: \u003c/strong>According to a 2023 study by Dove, Black women with coily or textured hair are twice as likely to experience microaggressions at work compared to those with straight hair. Up until 2017, the U.S. military did not allow men to wear their hair in dreadlocks, and Black women were required to straighten their hair or wear wigs to comply with military regulations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> This would expand the 2019 California CROWN Act, which outlawed discrimination based on hairstyle in schools and workplaces. The law is part of a nationwide CROWN Act campaign to protect and celebrate natural Black hairstyles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 1815 passed the Judiciary Committee on April 2 and now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. In arguing in support of the bill, Weber pointed to cases of hair-based discrimination in New Jersey and North Carolina. “Our hair is a symbol of who we are,” she said. “These cases around the country are exactly why the California Reparations Task Force made this expansion one of their policy recommendations to the Legislature.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1929\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1929\">Assembly Bill 1929\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: \u003c/strong>Assemblymember Tina McKinnor (D-Inglewood)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do:\u003c/strong> Require data about recipients of state technical education grants to be disaggregated by race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>The reparations task force’s report cites research from the Center for American Progress that found “students of color still face disparities in access to and participation in high-quality [Career Technical Education] programs.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The only way we’ll know if we’re actually making strides to address the inequalities and certainly to ensure that we don’t perpetuate them is if we have the information.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> This bill was significantly watered down ahead of a hearing in the Assembly Education Committee. AB 1929 initially would have moved the state toward creating a competitive grant program to increase the enrollment of descendants of slavery in STEM-related career technical education programs. Now it sets a less ambitious goal: allowing the state to get race-specific \u003ca href=\"https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ct/ig/\">data on existing\u003c/a> workforce \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Chancellors-Office/Divisions/Workforce-and-Economic-Development/Strong-Workforce-Program\">development programs\u003c/a>. A McKinnor spokesperson said the initial language was only a placeholder, known as a spot bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 1929 passed the Education Committee on March 20 on a 7–0 vote and now moves to the Assembly’s Higher Education Committee. “The only way we’ll know if we’re actually making strides to address the inequalities and certainly to ensure that we don’t perpetuate them is if we have the information,” Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego) said before voting for the bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1975\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1975\">Assembly Bill 1975\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Require Medi-Cal, the state’s public health insurance plan, to cover culturally relevant and medically supportive foods or nutrition interventions when deemed necessary by a healthcare provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11887623\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11887623\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut.jpeg\" alt=\"A woman in a blue and white short-sleeved shirt smiling and looking to the left of the camera\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut.jpeg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-800x533.jpeg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1020x680.jpeg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/09/RS50120_010_Oakland_MiaBonta_06232021-qut-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Mia Bonta, who authored Assembly Bill 1975. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>According to a 2021 study by UCLA, nearly four in 10 adult Californians don’t have consistent access to sufficient food. Access to enough healthy food is essential to treat and prevent chronic illness, which disproportionately impacts people of color. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Black Americans and Native Americans are more likely than all other racial groups to experience diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> Medi-Cal is in the midst of a five-year revamp. It’s been piloting food and nutrition interventions over the last two years which have been popular. According to Bonta’s office, as of July 2023, over 26,000 Californians had used the benefit to access healthy foods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 1975 is set for a hearing on April 16 in the Assembly Health Committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill1986\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1986\">Assembly Bill 1986\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: \u003c/strong>Assemblymember Isaac Bryan (D-Los Angeles)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Require the list of books banned inside California prisons to be publicly displayed, and task the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s Office of the Inspector General to remove book bans if they don’t further the interest of managing the prisons.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘To ban a book just because a person simply has a different perspective than the mainstream seems like totalitarianism to me.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Tommy 'Shakur' Ross, a formerly incarcerated Californian","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?\u003c/strong> The task force report argues that “states and local governments have engaged in racist censorship of books written by African American authors, primarily in public schools and in prisons,” and recommended examining whether books featuring stories about Black people and their ancestors should be removed from the list of banned books in state prisons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly: \u003c/strong>PEN America \u003ca href=\"https://pen.org/report/reading-between-the-bars/\">researched book bans in prisons across America\u003c/a> and found that in California, page numbers are listed to justify a decision to censor books without any further information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest:\u003c/strong> AB 1986 passed the Assembly Public Safety Committee on March 12 on an 8–0 vote and now moves to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. “To ban a book just because a person simply has a different perspective than the mainstream seems like totalitarianism to me,” Tommy “Shakur” Ross, a formerly incarcerated Californian, told the committee. “There is a need for transparency regarding which books are banned and why.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill2064\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2064\">Assembly Bill 2064\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author:\u003c/strong> Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Create a grant program to decrease violence in Black communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11960421\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11960421\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1250\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-1020x664.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/09/RS68800_IMG_5293-qut-1536x1000.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-Los Angeles) on Political Breakdown on Sept. 7, 2023 in Sacramento. \u003ccite>(Guy Marzorati/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>In 2022, Black Californians accounted for 31% of the state’s homicide victims, according to a report from the California Department of Justice. The task force report notes “programs that promote socialization, emotional regulation techniques and social and cultural competence in early-school-age children have been shown to reduce violence among youth.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly: \u003c/strong>Expect an extra level of scrutiny on bills that call for new state spending because of the state’s deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003c/strong>AB 2064 is pending in the state Assembly.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill2862\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2862\">Assembly Bill 2862\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Require licensing boards, which oversee state workforces such as \u003ca href=\"https://www.dca.ca.gov/about_us/entities.shtml\">barbers and real estate agents\u003c/a>, to prioritize African American applicants, especially those who are descendants of people enslaved in the United States.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It is imperative that we take further measures to address the inequalities and expand the opportunities for growth and professional development.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Mike Gipson (D-Carson)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Prioritizing Black Californians in the state licensing process, supporters of AB 2862 contend, is a way of promoting economic advancement and closing the \u003ca href=\"https://www.ppic.org/blog/most-californians-say-racial-bias-is-linked-to-economic-inequality/\">income gap between Black and white Californians\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> The income gap is the “piece of evidence that serves as proof of the long-standing consequences of slavery,” Gipson said. “It is imperative that we take further measures to address the inequalities and expand the opportunities for growth and professional development.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>The latest:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> AB 2862 passed the Assembly Business and Professions Committee on April 16, despite arguments from a conservative legal group that the bill would violate the constitution by providing an advantage to Black Californians. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“The United States and California constitutions guarantee citizens equal protection of the law,” said Caleb Trotter, an attorney with Pacific Legal Foundation. “The government cannot, therefore, treat Californians differently based on their race or ancestry.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">All 10 committee members present supported the bill, with many arguing that leveling the economic playing field is an important component of reversing historic discrimination against Black Californians in job access.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It is very much important that we right those wrongs, and as a legislative body we shouldn’t be afraid of standing up to legal scrutiny associated with that,” said Josh Lowenthal, D-Long Beach. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The committee’s chair, Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, voted in support but suggested that the legal arguments will be more fully vetted in the bill’s next stop: the Assembly Judiciary Committee. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gipson also agreed to amend the bill to sunset after four years, after committee staff suggested that the Legislature should regularly review the need to prioritize a specific group of license applicants. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill3089\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3089\">Assembly Bill 3089\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Issue a formal apology for state officials and institutions “who promoted, facilitated, enforced and permitted the institution of chattel slavery” and the systemic discrimination against Black Californians in the decades that followed.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘America’s original sin is the genocide and enslavement of human beings. America’s second greatest sin is watching it happen and pretending that it never did.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer (D-South Los Angeles)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations?\u003c/strong>: Jones-Sawyer, a member of the reparations task force, said the first steps of reparations must be acknowledging the harms committed by the state and recognizing them with an apology. “America’s original sin is the genocide and enslavement of human beings,” he said. “America’s second greatest sin is watching it happen and pretending that it never did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> In 2019, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a formal apology to Native Americans in the state for a history of “\u003ca href=\"https://www.gov.ca.gov/2019/06/18/governor-newsom-issues-apology-to-native-americans-for-states-historical-wrongdoings-establishes-truth-and-healing-council/\">violence, mistreatment and neglect\u003c/a>.” That apology was issued by executive order, whereas AB 3089 requires a vote of the Legislature before Newsom can weigh in.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 3089 sailed through the Assembly Judiciary Committee on April 16 and now heads to the Appropriations Committee. Judiciary Committee chair Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) suggested a location for a plaque memorializing the apology: next to images of the state’s early governors. “They’re the ones that signed on to these pieces of legislation and supported them, and so I think it’s important that we start telling the rest of the story,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"assemblybill3131\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3131\">Assembly Bill 3131\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003c/strong>Create two grant programs funding “career technical education” for people from historically redlined communities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Redlining — the practice of denying home loans to credit-worthy candidates who lived in predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/lowdown/18486/redlining\">was common in California cities\u003c/a> until the federal Fair Housing Act outlawed it in 1968. Redlining denied generations of Black residents the ability to own homes and accrue wealth, contributing to wealth disparities that persist today. \u003ca href=\"https://belonging.berkeley.edu/racial-segregation-san-francisco-bay-area-part-4\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A 2019 study from UC Berkeley’s Othering and Belonging Institute\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> found that predominantly white neighborhoods in the San Francisco Bay Area have more than double the average household income and home values of predominantly Black and Latino neighborhoods.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> This bill is one of a handful under consideration by the Legislature that would target economic support to formerly redlined communities. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was amended on April 1 and watered down. Instead of giving residents in formerly redlined communities “first priority” for grant programs, it now proposes giving them “positive consideration.” \u003c/span>\u003cstrong>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill passed the Education Committee on April 10 with a unanimous vote. “Investment into high quality CTE programs that combine academic education with occupational training offer essential tools against persistent inequities,” Troy Williams, chief impact officer for the Greater Sacramento Urban League, testified in support of AB 3131. “This bill will help break down those barriers to educational access and create pathways for economic mobility for underserved populations.” The bill now heads to the Committee on Higher Education. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AB 3131 was amended on April 15 to give schools that qualify for the state Board of Education’s Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier positive consideration for state career technical education grants. The bill is now Committee on Higher Education hearing.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"senatebill1050\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1050\">Senate Bill 1050\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Sen. Steven Bradford (D-Gardena)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Review, investigate and “make certain determinations” on applications from California residents who claim their land was taken through racially motivated use of eminent domain without being provided fair compensation. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11950330\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11950330\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"An older man is leaning over a podium as he is speaking to a young woman with long braids. They both wear business attire and have a projection screen behind them.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS55315_025_KQED_CAReparationsTaskForce_04142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Steven Bradford and Lisa Holder speak during the second day of an in-person meeting of the California Reparations Task Force at the Third Baptist Church in San Francisco on April 14, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003c/strong>Between 1949 and 1973, Black Americans were five times more likely than white Americans to be \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11956963/how-black-californians-had-their-land-stolen\">displaced by government use of eminent domain\u003c/a>. In the Bay Area, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957757/why-san-franciscos-fillmore-district-is-no-longer-the-harlem-of-the-west\">the Fillmore\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897843/decades-after-cultural-genocide-residents-of-a-bulldozed-community-get-apology-from-hayward\">Russell City\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x3ibklQhZY\">West Oakland\u003c/a> were impacted by the practice. According to research by the reparations task force, displaced families and businesses often said the money the government provided for the land was below market rate and insufficient for relocation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> SB 1050 is dependent on SB 490, a bill that would create a new government agency to manage reparations programs for eligible Black Californians, passing first. SB 490 would instruct the agency’s chief financial officer to develop a database, make payments to eligible families and provide public education about the unjust use of eminent domain throughout the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1050 passed the Judiciary Committee on April 16 with a 6-1 vote. It now heads to the Appropriations Committee. Sen. Roger Niello (R-Roseville) voted no. He argued local jurisdictions that used eminent domain in racist ways should be responsible for providing compensation, not state taxpayers. “Manhattan Beach was responsible for what happened, not Modoc County,” he said, referring to \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ceo.lacounty.gov/ardi/bruces-beach/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bruce’s Beach\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In response, Bradford implied the state review process might require local jurisdictions to provide compensation as well. “This obligation doesn’t fall on the state in of itself. Local jurisdictions will be responsible if they played a direct role,” he said.\u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca id=\"senatebill1089\">\u003c/a>\u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1089\">Senate Bill 1089\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Author: Sen. Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D-Los Angeles)\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What it would do\u003c/strong>: Require companies to provide advance notice to employees and county officials if a grocery store or pharmacy is closing \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and obligate counties to track closures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981355\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981355\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/003_KQED_Oakland_MiCarnalMarket_04082020_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Bill 1089 would require companies to provide advance notice to employees and county officials if a grocery store or pharmacy is closing. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Why is this reparations? \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to the bill authors, predominantly white neighborhoods have four times as many grocery stores as predominantly Black neighborhoods. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>Task force members said the lack of grocery stores in predominantly Black neighborhoods compared to predominantly white neighborhoods is a clear case of food injustice. \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Advanced notice of pharmacy closures will allow residents to make adjustments to avoid interruptions in access to medications.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘When you close a store, when you close the ability for people to go in and shop healthily and shop in an empowered way, you reduce their ability to be able to live.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland)","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“When you close a store, when you close the ability for people to go in and shop healthily and shop in an empowered way, you reduce their ability to be able to live,” Assemblymember Mia Bonta (D-Oakland) said. “It’s that plain and simple.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up quickly:\u003c/strong> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The bill began as what’s called an “intent bill” or “spot bill,” meaning it was a placeholder Smallwood-Cuevas intended to flesh out through amendments. The text of the bill was added via an amendment on March 18.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The latest: \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">SB 1089 is set for a hearing in the Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Committee on April 17, and a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 23. \u003c/span>\u003c/strong>\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/11981271/track-the-success-of-californias-14-reparations-bills-for-black-residents","authors":["227","11772"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_30345","news_30652","news_33935","news_27626","news_17968","news_18536","news_2923"],"featImg":"news_11976639","label":"news"},"news_11980910":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980910","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980910","score":null,"sort":[1711496445000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-supervisors-reject-breeds-veto-of-peskins-housing-density-law","title":"SF Supervisors Reject Breed's Veto of Peskin’s Housing Density Law","publishDate":1711496445,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Supervisors Reject Breed’s Veto of Peskin’s Housing Density Law | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to overturn Mayor London Breed’s veto of legislation limiting housing heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin authored the legislation limiting how high buildings in the Jackson Square Historic District and nearby neighborhoods can be built.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin\"]‘It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely.’[/pullquote]Peskin told the board it was “particularly depressing, and in my mind, unprofessional” that Breed did not discuss amendments before vetoing the legislation. He said that kind of compromise is a normal political convention in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely,” said Peskin, who is considering a run for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should he jump into the mayor’s race, Peskin will likely argue he is successfully defending neighborhood character from moderate Democrats who would offer sweetheart deals to housing developers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>A city law authored by Peskin last year allowed for more housing to be built downtown, but it inadvertently loosened height limits in the Jackson Square Historic District and the Northeast Waterfront Historic District. Peskin’s legislation to restore height restrictions in waterfront neighborhoods passed on March 5.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rafael Mandelman, San Francisco Supervisor, District 8\"]‘… I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board. But on this one, on the merits, he is correct.’[/pullquote]Breed vetoed it on March 14. In her veto letter to the supervisors, she cited San Francisco’s need to build taller and more dense developments to reach the state’s mandated goal of 82,000 new housing units by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supermajority — eight out of 11 supervisors — voted to override her veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was among the lawmakers upholding Peskin’s legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not agreed with President Peskin on everything that has come before this board. I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board,” he said. “But on this one, on the merits, he is correct. The opposition to this is pure politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>Supervisors Matt Dorsey, Joel Engardio and Myrna Melgar voted against rejecting Breed’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey said the legislation would allow more neighborhoods to claim historic exemptions, making it more difficult for the city to meet its production goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taller buildings won’t hurt our city, but exclusionary zoning will,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Breed said the veto is a setback to making housing more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are those who say they want to see change, and yet when the proposals come, they will say, ‘Not here, not this way,’” she said. “But we will never address our housing shortage without bold and sustained action — and real solutions.”[aside label='More on Politics and Government' tag='politics']\u003cstrong>What we are watching: \u003c/strong>Breed and Peskin are in clear opposition on how San Francisco should solve its ongoing housing crisis. Breed is aligned with state Sen. Scott Wiener, who favors unrestricted housing development across the city. Peskin favors the housing policies of San Francisco’s progressive Democrats, who prioritize existing tenants and neighborhood character when deciding where to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Wiener called the vote a “black eye” for San Francisco amid its “debilitating housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s vote by the Board of Supervisors sends exactly the wrong message on housing. It’s deeply disappointing,” he said. “I’m grateful to Mayor Breed for vetoing the bad legislation — her leadership on housing has been extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her State of the City speech earlier this month, breed promised to veto any “anti-housing” legislation. She can now tell voters on the campaign trail that she is keeping that promise, even if she was overruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The fate of the legislation was largely seen as a proxy battle between Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who could be opponents in November’s mayoral election.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711559131,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":713},"headData":{"title":"SF Supervisors Reject Breed's Veto of Peskin’s Housing Density Law | KQED","description":"The fate of the legislation was largely seen as a proxy battle between Mayor London Breed and Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin, who could be opponents in November’s mayoral election.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Supervisors Reject Breed's Veto of Peskin’s Housing Density Law","datePublished":"2024-03-26T23:40:45.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-27T17:05:31.000Z","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/11980910/sf-supervisors-reject-breeds-veto-of-peskins-housing-density-law","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to overturn Mayor London Breed’s veto of legislation limiting housing heights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin authored the legislation limiting how high buildings in the Jackson Square Historic District and nearby neighborhoods can be built.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Aaron Peskin","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Peskin told the board it was “particularly depressing, and in my mind, unprofessional” that Breed did not discuss amendments before vetoing the legislation. He said that kind of compromise is a normal political convention in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the way government is supposed to work if we’re going to conduct ourselves maturely,” said Peskin, who is considering a run for mayor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Should he jump into the mayor’s race, Peskin will likely argue he is successfully defending neighborhood character from moderate Democrats who would offer sweetheart deals to housing developers.\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>Catch up fast: \u003c/strong>A city law authored by Peskin last year allowed for more housing to be built downtown, but it inadvertently loosened height limits in the Jackson Square Historic District and the Northeast Waterfront Historic District. Peskin’s legislation to restore height restrictions in waterfront neighborhoods passed on March 5.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘… I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board. But on this one, on the merits, he is correct.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Rafael Mandelman, San Francisco Supervisor, District 8","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Breed vetoed it on March 14. In her veto letter to the supervisors, she cited San Francisco’s need to build taller and more dense developments to reach the state’s mandated goal of 82,000 new housing units by 2031.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A supermajority — eight out of 11 supervisors — voted to override her veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Rafael Mandelman was among the lawmakers upholding Peskin’s legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have not agreed with President Peskin on everything that has come before this board. I have not even agreed with Peskin on several of the land use and housing items that came before the board,” he said. “But on this one, on the merits, he is correct. The opposition to this is pure politics.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>The opposing view: \u003c/strong>Supervisors Matt Dorsey, Joel Engardio and Myrna Melgar voted against rejecting Breed’s veto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorsey said the legislation would allow more neighborhoods to claim historic exemptions, making it more difficult for the city to meet its production goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Taller buildings won’t hurt our city, but exclusionary zoning will,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Breed said the veto is a setback to making housing more affordable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are those who say they want to see change, and yet when the proposals come, they will say, ‘Not here, not this way,’” she said. “But we will never address our housing shortage without bold and sustained action — and real solutions.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Politics and Government ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What we are watching: \u003c/strong>Breed and Peskin are in clear opposition on how San Francisco should solve its ongoing housing crisis. Breed is aligned with state Sen. Scott Wiener, who favors unrestricted housing development across the city. Peskin favors the housing policies of San Francisco’s progressive Democrats, who prioritize existing tenants and neighborhood character when deciding where to build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, Wiener called the vote a “black eye” for San Francisco amid its “debilitating housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Today’s vote by the Board of Supervisors sends exactly the wrong message on housing. It’s deeply disappointing,” he said. “I’m grateful to Mayor Breed for vetoing the bad legislation — her leadership on housing has been extraordinary.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her State of the City speech earlier this month, breed promised to veto any “anti-housing” legislation. She can now tell voters on the campaign trail that she is keeping that promise, even if she was overruled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980910/sf-supervisors-reject-breeds-veto-of-peskins-housing-density-law","authors":["11690"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_195","news_1775","news_6931","news_17968","news_18536","news_38"],"featImg":"news_11980925","label":"news"},"news_11980780":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980780","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980780","score":null,"sort":[1711486796000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","title":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate","publishDate":1711486796,"format":"standard","headTitle":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his pick for vice president on Tuesday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal announcement was held at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts by Lake Merritt. Classic rock played as the crowd filtered in, and scenes of the American Southwest were shown on two large screens. The predominantly white crowd waved American flags in the half-filled auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States — my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan claimed the Republican and Democratic parties are failing to support individual freedom.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Independent Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan\"]‘If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.’[/pullquote]“In fact, the very failure of both parties to do their job to protect their founding values has contributed to the decline of this country in my lifetime,” she told the crowd. “Maybe that’s why I see so many Republicans disillusioned with their party as I become disillusioned with mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, 38, is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded ClearAccessIP, which uses AI to manage patent portfolios and sold the company in 2020. She is also president of \u003ca href=\"https://biaecho.org/\">Bia-Echo\u003c/a>, a foundation that invests in reproductive health and criminal justice reform, according to the company’s website. She was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The couple, who have a daughter, divorced in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, was raised on welfare in a single-parent household in Oakland. She graduated from Santa Clara Law School in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you probably know, I became very wealthy later on in life,” she said. “But my roots in Oakland taught me many things I have never forgotten — that the purpose of wealth is to help those in need. And I want to bring that back to politics, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan has never held public office, though she has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020. In February, she donated $4 million to a super PAC to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html\">help pay for a Super Bowl ad\u003c/a> backing Kennedy’s campaign, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy apologized after the ad, which was similar to a commercial supporting John F. Kennedy, his uncle, during his presidential campaign in 1960, sparked outrage from family members. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who is the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has linked himself to his family’s political legacy, but his promotion of conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation has been criticized by his cousins, among others.[aside postID=news_11978645 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2067239298-1020x680.jpg']Kennedy has made numerous false or misleading claims about vaccines in speeches and media interviews, including referring to the COVID-19 vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” He’s claimed that antidepressants are to blame for school shootings and that chemicals in water supplies could make children transgender. In 2023, he told the podcaster Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign\">NPR’s roundup of the conspiracy theories promoted by Kennedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do wonder about vaccine injuries,” Shanahan said in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> story about the Super Bowl ad. “I think there needs to be a space to have these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the roughly 200 attendees were also skeptical of vaccines, like Aaron Tran, an Oakland resident who works in the cannabis industry. He said anti-vax theories haven’t been disproven in studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11980908 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Nicole Shanahan, a tech lawyer and investor, to a crowd of a few hundred at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the studies are there, [Kennedy] wants to make it public so we can all see it,” said Tran, 42. “And if the studies are not done, then to get them done. Then take action on whatever that evidence provides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland resident, Karen Motlow, hopes Kennedy can win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if he doesn’t, we’re toast,” Motlow, 71, said. “We’re already toast as far as humanity goes because so many people have taken a synthetic genetic vaccine that has an HIV plasmid in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck with an anti-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ad paid for by the Democratic National Committee outside a campaign rally at the Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland on March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines contain \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-hiv-185375755407\">HIV\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check/no-monkey-virus-dna-was-not-found-in-covid-vaccines-00000188e957d32da188e9ff1aef0000\">cancer-causing “monkey virus,”\u003c/a> according to the\u003cem> Associated Press\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://factcheck.org\">FactCheck.org\u003c/a>, among other organizations, have debunked Kennedy’s controversial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia and Paul, a couple from Fresno who declined to give their last name to KQED, said Kennedy’s anti-vaccine theories were problematic.[aside label='More on Politics and Government' tag='politics']“I don’t agree with that,” Sonia said. “But that’s why we’re here, to find out more, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parade of speakers positioned Kennedy as an underdog, including Angela Stanton-King, a conspiracy theorist who was once an ally of former President Donald Trump, former NBA player Metta Sandiford-Artest and Kennedy’s wife, the actress Cheryl Hines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has significant hurdles to becoming a viable alternative for voters. Independent candidates must submit nomination signatures in each of the 50 states to be added to ballots. In California, Kennedy needs about 220,000 signatures to qualify for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has officially qualified for the ballot in Utah, and his campaign claims he has collected enough signatures to qualify in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kennedy24.com/ballot-access\">Nevada, New Hampshire and Hawaii\u003c/a>. It will be expensive to collect the millions of signatures required to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvuyXAN9L0\">YouTube video,\u003c/a> Kennedy said it will cost $15 million. Shanahan’s personal wealth and Silicon Valley connections will ease the financial burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taps Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Oakland. Shanahan has limited political experience but has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711569152,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":22,"wordCount":1121},"headData":{"title":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate | KQED","description":"Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. taps Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his vice presidential nominee on Tuesday in Oakland. Shanahan has limited political experience but has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Chooses Bay Area Tech Entrepreneur as Running Mate","datePublished":"2024-03-26T20:59:56.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-27T19:52:32.000Z","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/11980780/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed Nicole Shanahan, a wealthy tech lawyer and investor, as his pick for vice president on Tuesday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The formal announcement was held at the Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts by Lake Merritt. Classic rock played as the crowd filtered in, and scenes of the American Southwest were shown on two large screens. The predominantly white crowd waved American flags in the half-filled auditorium.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m so proud to introduce to you the next vice president of the United States — my fellow lawyer, a brilliant scientist, technologist, a fierce warrior mom, Nicole Shanahan,” Kennedy said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan claimed the Republican and Democratic parties are failing to support individual freedom.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Independent Vice Presidential candidate Nicole Shanahan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In fact, the very failure of both parties to do their job to protect their founding values has contributed to the decline of this country in my lifetime,” she told the crowd. “Maybe that’s why I see so many Republicans disillusioned with their party as I become disillusioned with mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you are one of those disillusioned Republicans, I welcome you to join me, a disillusioned Democrat, in this movement to unify and heal America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, 38, is also an entrepreneur and philanthropist. She founded ClearAccessIP, which uses AI to manage patent portfolios and sold the company in 2020. She is also president of \u003ca href=\"https://biaecho.org/\">Bia-Echo\u003c/a>, a foundation that invests in reproductive health and criminal justice reform, according to the company’s website. She was formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The couple, who have a daughter, divorced in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shanahan, the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, was raised on welfare in a single-parent household in Oakland. She graduated from Santa Clara Law School in 2014.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As you probably know, I became very wealthy later on in life,” she said. “But my roots in Oakland taught me many things I have never forgotten — that the purpose of wealth is to help those in need. And I want to bring that back to politics, too.”\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>Shanahan has never held public office, though she has donated for several years to Democratic candidates, including President Joe Biden in 2020. In February, she donated $4 million to a super PAC to \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/12/us/politics/nicole-shanahan-rfk-super-bowl-ad.html\">help pay for a Super Bowl ad\u003c/a> backing Kennedy’s campaign, according to \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy apologized after the ad, which was similar to a commercial supporting John F. Kennedy, his uncle, during his presidential campaign in 1960, sparked outrage from family members. Kennedy, an environmental lawyer who is the son of former Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has linked himself to his family’s political legacy, but his promotion of conspiracy theories and vaccine misinformation has been criticized by his cousins, among others.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11978645","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/GettyImages-2067239298-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Kennedy has made numerous false or misleading claims about vaccines in speeches and media interviews, including referring to the COVID-19 vaccine as “the deadliest vaccine ever made.” He’s claimed that antidepressants are to blame for school shootings and that chemicals in water supplies could make children transgender. In 2023, he told the podcaster Joe Rogan that Wi-Fi causes cancer and “leaky brain,” according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/07/13/1187272781/rfk-jr-kennedy-conspiracy-theories-social-media-presidential-campaign\">NPR’s roundup of the conspiracy theories promoted by Kennedy\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do wonder about vaccine injuries,” Shanahan said in \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> story about the Super Bowl ad. “I think there needs to be a space to have these conversations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the roughly 200 attendees were also skeptical of vaccines, like Aaron Tran, an Oakland resident who works in the cannabis industry. He said anti-vax theories haven’t been disproven in studies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980908\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11980908 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240323-RFKRALLY-JY-013-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Independent Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. introduced Nicole Shanahan, a tech lawyer and investor, to a crowd of a few hundred at Henry J. Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“If the studies are there, [Kennedy] wants to make it public so we can all see it,” said Tran, 42. “And if the studies are not done, then to get them done. Then take action on whatever that evidence provides.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another Oakland resident, Karen Motlow, hopes Kennedy can win.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because if he doesn’t, we’re toast,” Motlow, 71, said. “We’re already toast as far as humanity goes because so many people have taken a synthetic genetic vaccine that has an HIV plasmid in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980811\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/240326-RFK-RALLY-MD-08-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A truck with an anti-Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ad paid for by the Democratic National Committee outside a campaign rally at the Kaiser Center for the Arts in Oakland on March 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>There is no evidence that COVID-19 vaccines contain \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-coronavirus-vaccine-hiv-185375755407\">HIV\u003c/a> or a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/ap-fact-check/no-monkey-virus-dna-was-not-found-in-covid-vaccines-00000188e957d32da188e9ff1aef0000\">cancer-causing “monkey virus,”\u003c/a> according to the\u003cem> Associated Press\u003c/em>. \u003ca href=\"https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/10/robert-f-kennedy-jr/no-covid-19-vaccine-not-deadliest-vaccine-ever-mad/\">PolitiFact\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://factcheck.org\">FactCheck.org\u003c/a>, among other organizations, have debunked Kennedy’s controversial statements.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sonia and Paul, a couple from Fresno who declined to give their last name to KQED, said Kennedy’s anti-vaccine theories were problematic.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"More on Politics and Government ","tag":"politics"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I don’t agree with that,” Sonia said. “But that’s why we’re here, to find out more, right?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A parade of speakers positioned Kennedy as an underdog, including Angela Stanton-King, a conspiracy theorist who was once an ally of former President Donald Trump, former NBA player Metta Sandiford-Artest and Kennedy’s wife, the actress Cheryl Hines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kennedy has significant hurdles to becoming a viable alternative for voters. Independent candidates must submit nomination signatures in each of the 50 states to be added to ballots. In California, Kennedy needs about 220,000 signatures to qualify for the November election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He has officially qualified for the ballot in Utah, and his campaign claims he has collected enough signatures to qualify in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kennedy24.com/ballot-access\">Nevada, New Hampshire and Hawaii\u003c/a>. It will be expensive to collect the millions of signatures required to get on the ballot in all 50 states, and in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsvuyXAN9L0\">YouTube video,\u003c/a> Kennedy said it will cost $15 million. Shanahan’s personal wealth and Silicon Valley connections will ease the financial burden.\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/11980780/robert-f-kennedy-jr-chooses-bay-area-tech-entrepreneur-as-running-mate","authors":["11772"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_18","news_17968","news_18536","news_33926","news_28984"],"featImg":"news_11980878","label":"news"},"news_11980278":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980278","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980278","score":null,"sort":[1711045178000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"sf-social-welfare-workers-protest-proposition-f-saying-it-will-worsen-agencys-staffing-crisis","title":"SF Social Welfare Workers Protest Proposition F, Saying It Will Exacerbate Agency's Staffing Crisis","publishDate":1711045178,"format":"standard","headTitle":"SF Social Welfare Workers Protest Proposition F, Saying It Will Exacerbate Agency’s Staffing Crisis | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallied outside their downtown office on Wednesday to protest the additional workload they may have to take on because of a new local measure that mandates drug screening for some residents who receive cash assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not enough staff to begin with. We know the staff that we have now, they barely are able to serve the community that we normally serve,” said Alejandra Calderon, a child protective specialist at the agency, who was among the roughly 100 workers at the demonstration. “And now we’re adding this other layer when we’re not ready at all.”[aside postID=\"news_11978236\" hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2099/03/240305-ElectionFileSF-60-BL_qut-1-1020x680.jpg']Voters on March 5 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-f\">decisively approved Proposition F\u003c/a>, a measure introduced by Mayor London Breed that tasks the Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family caseworkers are already “seeing up to between 20 to 24 cases, which is just very dangerous,” Calderon said. “A lot of things are getting lost in the shuffle. And so it’s jeopardizing the quality of services that we’re able to provide to the families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Rutherford, president of SEIU Local 1021, the union representing workers at the agency, said the city needs to provide the resources necessary to implement the new rules, not throw it on the backs of its already overworked staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has a responsibility to make sure that when it creates a rule, it creates a law, it creates legislation — that it makes sure that the people are in place to implement that legislation,” she said. “We want this to be fixed. If you want a real law that is going to make change, make sure that you put the resources behind it, make sure that the people are in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Human Services Agency is already sorely understaffed, with more than 100 vacancies as of January, according to Nato Green, a bargaining coordinator for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Teresa Young, a spokesperson for the Human Services Agency, said Wednesday that workers at the agency would not shoulder the burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a crowd of people, taken from behind, wearing purple shirts and holding 'SEIU'; signs. \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallying in front of their office on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather, the agency plans to “contract out the drug screening assessments to licensed clinicians and mental health workers,” Young said in an email. She added that the city is “working to be ready to implement this new program” by Jan. 1, 2025, when the new law takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, though, has also raised concerns about the city hiring out non-unionized contract labor and argues that even with the extra help, its own workers would still be responsible for having to “suspect” when a welfare recipient is using drugs and refer them for a screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-prop-f-welfare-drug-use-union-block-measure-18749319.php\">filed an unfair practice charge\u003c/a> on March 7, stating that it was not consulted on the proposition and its potential implications for union-represented workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The rally comes on the heels of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/max-capacity-reached-strike-school-where-sf-city-workers-consider-striking-last-resort\">“strike school”\u003c/a> held last week by SEIU 1021 and other local unions, meant to prepare workers for the possibility of a walkout amid tense ongoing contract negotiations with the city ahead of a June deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at Wednesday’s protest were encouraged by union organizers to sign a “strike pledge” affirming they would show up to a picket line and authorize a strike if their bargaining team were to call for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has many vacancies “that really need to be filled, which leaves the rest of us — the remaining staff — working two to three different jobs,” Calderon said. “That’s just, you know, not sustainable in the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The measure, introduced by Mayor London Breed, tasks San Francisco's Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711160599,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":15,"wordCount":662},"headData":{"title":"SF Social Welfare Workers Protest Proposition F, Saying It Will Exacerbate Agency's Staffing Crisis | KQED","description":"The measure, introduced by Mayor London Breed, tasks San Francisco's Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":"","schema":{"@context":"http://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"SF Social Welfare Workers Protest Proposition F, Saying It Will Exacerbate Agency's Staffing Crisis","datePublished":"2024-03-21T18:19:38.000Z","dateModified":"2024-03-23T02:23:19.000Z","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/11980278/sf-social-welfare-workers-protest-proposition-f-saying-it-will-worsen-agencys-staffing-crisis","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallied outside their downtown office on Wednesday to protest the additional workload they may have to take on because of a new local measure that mandates drug screening for some residents who receive cash assistance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s not enough staff to begin with. We know the staff that we have now, they barely are able to serve the community that we normally serve,” said Alejandra Calderon, a child protective specialist at the agency, who was among the roughly 100 workers at the demonstration. “And now we’re adding this other layer when we’re not ready at all.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11978236","hero":"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2099/03/240305-ElectionFileSF-60-BL_qut-1-1020x680.jpg","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Voters on March 5 \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/sanfrancisco/proposition-f\">decisively approved Proposition F\u003c/a>, a measure introduced by Mayor London Breed that tasks the Human Services Agency with screening city welfare recipients who are suspected of using illegal substances.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Family caseworkers are already “seeing up to between 20 to 24 cases, which is just very dangerous,” Calderon said. “A lot of things are getting lost in the shuffle. And so it’s jeopardizing the quality of services that we’re able to provide to the families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Theresa Rutherford, president of SEIU Local 1021, the union representing workers at the agency, said the city needs to provide the resources necessary to implement the new rules, not throw it on the backs of its already overworked staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The city has a responsibility to make sure that when it creates a rule, it creates a law, it creates legislation — that it makes sure that the people are in place to implement that legislation,” she said. “We want this to be fixed. If you want a real law that is going to make change, make sure that you put the resources behind it, make sure that the people are in place.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Human Services Agency is already sorely understaffed, with more than 100 vacancies as of January, according to Nato Green, a bargaining coordinator for the union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, Teresa Young, a spokesperson for the Human Services Agency, said Wednesday that workers at the agency would not shoulder the burden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11980326\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2048px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11980326\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg\" alt=\"A view of a crowd of people, taken from behind, wearing purple shirts and holding 'SEIU'; signs. \" width=\"2048\" height=\"1365\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/03/20240320-DSCF5181-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Human Services Agency workers rallying in front of their office on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Rather, the agency plans to “contract out the drug screening assessments to licensed clinicians and mental health workers,” Young said in an email. She added that the city is “working to be ready to implement this new program” by Jan. 1, 2025, when the new law takes effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SEIU 1021, though, has also raised concerns about the city hiring out non-unionized contract labor and argues that even with the extra help, its own workers would still be responsible for having to “suspect” when a welfare recipient is using drugs and refer them for a screening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-prop-f-welfare-drug-use-union-block-measure-18749319.php\">filed an unfair practice charge\u003c/a> on March 7, stating that it was not consulted on the proposition and its potential implications for union-represented workers.\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>The rally comes on the heels of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.seiu1021.org/article/max-capacity-reached-strike-school-where-sf-city-workers-consider-striking-last-resort\">“strike school”\u003c/a> held last week by SEIU 1021 and other local unions, meant to prepare workers for the possibility of a walkout amid tense ongoing contract negotiations with the city ahead of a June deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at Wednesday’s protest were encouraged by union organizers to sign a “strike pledge” affirming they would show up to a picket line and authorize a strike if their bargaining team were to call for one.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency has many vacancies “that really need to be filled, which leaves the rest of us — the remaining staff — working two to three different jobs,” Calderon said. “That’s just, you know, not sustainable in the long term.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11980278/sf-social-welfare-workers-protest-proposition-f-saying-it-will-worsen-agencys-staffing-crisis","authors":["11896"],"categories":["news_8","news_13"],"tags":["news_32839","news_6931","news_18536","news_18769","news_5214"],"featImg":"news_11980299","label":"news"},"news_11980236":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11980236","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11980236","score":null,"sort":[1710985704000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"california-voters-pass-proposition-1-requiring-counties-to-fund-programs-tackling-homelessness","title":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness","publishDate":1710985704,"format":"standard","headTitle":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>California voters have approved a measure that will impose strict requirements on counties to spend on housing and drug treatment programs to tackle the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/homeless-california-study-poverty-high-rent-a2a4bfc9b386cb70fdd14d593f31b68c\">state’s homelessness crisis\u003c/a>, in a tissue-thin win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who personally campaigned for the measure’s passage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democrats outnumber Republicans by a staggering 2–to–1 in California, and the borderline vote — coming more than two weeks after Election Day — signaled unease with the state’s homeless policies after Newsom’s administration invested billions of dollars in getting people off the street. However, no dramatic change has been seen in Los Angeles and other large cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state accounts for nearly a third of the homeless population in the United States; roughly 181,000 Californians are in need of housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom, who made the measure a signature proposal, spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf. He raised more than $13 million to promote it with the support of law enforcement, first responders, hospitals and mayors of major cities. Opponents raised just $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness and a victory for doing things radically different,” Newsom said in a statement after the measure’s razor-thin victory was announced. “Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. This historic reform will only succeed if we all kick into action immediately — state government and local leaders, together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will now be required to spend about two-thirds of the money from a voter-approved tax on millionaires, enacted in 2004, for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance-abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from that tax, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state’s total mental health budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"more on homelessness\" tag=\"homelessness\"]The state, with a current inventory of 5,500 beds, needs some 8,000 more units to treat mental health and addiction issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also allows the state to borrow $6.38 billion to build 4,350 housing units, half of which will be reserved for veterans, and add 6,800 mental health and addiction-treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including many social service providers and county officials, said the change would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homelessness-initiative-mental-health-3e6765a30343f7cc0147efd40f5a2f2f\">threaten programs\u003c/a> that are not solely focused on housing or drug treatment but keep people from losing their homes in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said the single formula could mean rural counties such as Butte, with a homeless population of fewer than 1,300 people, would be required to divert the same percentage of funds to housing as urban counties such as San Francisco, which has a homeless population of six times bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With makeshift tents lining streets and disrupting businesses in communities across the state, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to dog Newsom should he ever mount a presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom touted the proposition as the final piece in his plan to reform California’s mental health system. He has already pushed for laws that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce\">make it easier to force people\u003c/a> with behavioral health issues into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Elias, a television producer in Sacramento, said he “was on the fence” about Proposition 1 but decided to vote in favor of it because of the pervasive homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that’s all around us right now,” he said. “We got all these tents out here in front of City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only logical, you know, we have to do something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted against the measure out of concern that it would result in more people being locked up against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was appalled of the system of laws that he has been building to kind of erode the rights of people with mental disabilities,” Wolf said of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Bovee, a Republican state worker in Sacramento, also voted against the proposition and said the state has been wasting taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento really shouldn’t get another dime until they actually figure out why what they’re doing is not working,” he said of the state’s handling of the homelessness crisis. “They spent $20 billion over the past few years trying to fix that problem, and it got worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opponents also said the ballot measure would cut funding from cultural centers, peer-support programs and vocational services and would pit those programs against services for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has already spent at least $22 billion on various programs to address the crisis, including $3.5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-california-coronavirus-pandemic-835c2091c63c199d397346a497e7ae49\">convert rundown motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>. California is also giving out $2 billion in grants to build more treatment facilities.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years, the measure marks a big win for Gov. Gavin Newsom, who spent significant time and money campaigning on its behalf.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1711061054,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":26,"wordCount":871},"headData":{"title":"California Voters Narrowly Pass Proposition 1, Requiring Counties to Fund Programs Tackling Homelessness | KQED","description":"The first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years, the measure marks a big win for Gov. 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Opponents raised just $1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proposition 1 marks the first update to the state’s mental health system in 20 years.\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 the biggest change in decades in how California tackles homelessness and a victory for doing things radically different,” Newsom said in a statement after the measure’s razor-thin victory was announced. “Now, counties and local officials must match the ambition of California voters. This historic reform will only succeed if we all kick into action immediately — state government and local leaders, together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Counties will now be required to spend about two-thirds of the money from a voter-approved tax on millionaires, enacted in 2004, for mental health services on housing and programs for homeless people with serious mental illnesses or substance-abuse problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Revenue from that tax, now between $2 billion and $3 billion a year, provides about one-third of the state’s total mental health budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"label":"more on homelessness ","tag":"homelessness"},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The state, with a current inventory of 5,500 beds, needs some 8,000 more units to treat mental health and addiction issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative also allows the state to borrow $6.38 billion to build 4,350 housing units, half of which will be reserved for veterans, and add 6,800 mental health and addiction-treatment beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents, including many social service providers and county officials, said the change would \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-homelessness-initiative-mental-health-3e6765a30343f7cc0147efd40f5a2f2f\">threaten programs\u003c/a> that are not solely focused on housing or drug treatment but keep people from losing their homes in the first place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Critics said the single formula could mean rural counties such as Butte, with a homeless population of fewer than 1,300 people, would be required to divert the same percentage of funds to housing as urban counties such as San Francisco, which has a homeless population of six times bigger.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With makeshift tents lining streets and disrupting businesses in communities across the state, homelessness has become one of the most frustrating issues in California and one sure to dog Newsom should he ever mount a presidential campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom touted the proposition as the final piece in his plan to reform California’s mental health system. He has already pushed for laws that \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce\">make it easier to force people\u003c/a> with behavioral health issues into treatment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>William Elias, a television producer in Sacramento, said he “was on the fence” about Proposition 1 but decided to vote in favor of it because of the pervasive homelessness problem.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s something that’s all around us right now,” he said. “We got all these tents out here in front of City Hall.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Estrellita Vivirito, a Palm Springs resident, also voted for the measure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s only logical, you know, we have to do something,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted against the measure out of concern that it would result in more people being locked up against their will.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was appalled of the system of laws that he has been building to kind of erode the rights of people with mental disabilities,” Wolf said of Newsom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Griffin Bovee, a Republican state worker in Sacramento, also voted against the proposition and said the state has been wasting taxpayer money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sacramento really shouldn’t get another dime until they actually figure out why what they’re doing is not working,” he said of the state’s handling of the homelessness crisis. “They spent $20 billion over the past few years trying to fix that problem, and it got worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many opponents also said the ballot measure would cut funding from cultural centers, peer-support programs and vocational services and would pit those programs against services for unhoused people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom’s administration has already spent at least $22 billion on various programs to address the crisis, including $3.5 billion to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-business-health-california-coronavirus-pandemic-835c2091c63c199d397346a497e7ae49\">convert rundown motels into homeless housing\u003c/a>. 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