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San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing
California's Juvenile Justice System Seeks to End the Incarceration of Young Women
President Biden Visits Storm-Hit California After Raising Federal Aid Even Higher
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It found that the county was able to place nearly 4,500 people into permanent homes in 2023, a 29% increase from 2022. But more people were falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this data tells us is families are under a great deal of stress,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination Home, a research and advocacy organization that helps implement the county plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Consuelo Hernandez, director, Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing\"]‘Our countywide efforts to create new housing and end experiences of homelessness are clearly working, but we need more investments in these scalable solutions to keep pace with the increase in people being pushed into homelessness.’[/pullquote]The number of households becoming unhoused for the first time in Santa Clara County rose by 824. Loving said the jump is the result of ongoing rent increases, stagnant wages, and the expiration of pandemic-era protections that aren’t just impacting Santa Clara County but the entire nation. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing-2024\">recent report\u003c/a> from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found half of Americans cannot pay their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a surprise because we as a nation have not ever in our nation’s history prioritized the building of deeply affordable housing at scale,” she said. “This is not about individual failings. This is not about crime. This is not about any of the myths that people like to throw in the way of simply addressing our affordable housing crisis.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"news_11974385,news_11975319,news_11973859\" label=\"Related Stories\"]Despite the recent spike in people becoming unhoused, Tuesday’s report shows the rate is still an improvement since 2019. For every household placed into housing in 2019, 2.5 became unhoused. In 2023, the ratio was 1 to 1.7. Officials credit those gains to a significant investment in housing production and subsidies over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will never be able to catch up to the need if we don’t get more pragmatic with our approach,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in a statement. “We need to treat homelessness like the crisis it is — and that means challenging the status quo approach that says the only solution to the situation on our streets is standing up brand new apartments that cost $1 million per door and take five-plus years to build. We need to pivot fast and prioritize prevention and basic, safe shelter that takes a fraction of the time and cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, the county has moved 13,817 people into permanent housing, 19,575 people into temporary housing and shelter, and provided homelessness prevention assistance to 28,235 people. Shelter options have increased 44% since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our countywide efforts to create new housing and end experiences of homelessness are clearly working, but we need more investments in these scalable solutions to keep pace with the increase in people being pushed into homelessness,” Consuelo Hernandez, director of the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loving is an advocate for cash aid and guaranteed income programs that prevent homelessness. A \u003ca href=\"https://destinationhomesv.org/news/2023/08/02/new-6-year-randomized-control-trial-prevention-is-a-proven-solution-to-keeping-families-from-becoming-homeless/\">six-year study\u003c/a> of the Santa Clara County Homelessness Prevention System, which Destination Home helps administer, found that giving $2,000 each month to people who were at imminent risk of getting evicted or becoming homeless reduced their chances of ending up unhoused by 81% within six months and 73% within a year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s far cheaper than what it costs to address the needs of a family once they become unhoused, and it is far more humane to keep a family home rather than having them enter homelessness,” Loving said, noting that Santa Clara County is investing in a number of guaranteed income pilot programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Community Plan to End Homelessness calls for reducing the annual inflow into homelessness by 30%, doubling temporary housing and shelter capacity, and housing 20,000 people by 2025.\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The number of households becoming homeless for the first time spiked last year. 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It found that the county was able to place nearly 4,500 people into permanent homes in 2023, a 29% increase from 2022. But more people were falling into homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What this data tells us is families are under a great deal of stress,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of Destination Home, a research and advocacy organization that helps implement the county plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘Our countywide efforts to create new housing and end experiences of homelessness are clearly working, but we need more investments in these scalable solutions to keep pace with the increase in people being pushed into homelessness.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Consuelo Hernandez, director, Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The number of households becoming unhoused for the first time in Santa Clara County rose by 824. Loving said the jump is the result of ongoing rent increases, stagnant wages, and the expiration of pandemic-era protections that aren’t just impacting Santa Clara County but the entire nation. A \u003ca href=\"https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/americas-rental-housing-2024\">recent report\u003c/a> from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found half of Americans cannot pay their rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a surprise because we as a nation have not ever in our nation’s history prioritized the building of deeply affordable housing at scale,” she said. “This is not about individual failings. This is not about crime. 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Officials credit those gains to a significant investment in housing production and subsidies over the past decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will never be able to catch up to the need if we don’t get more pragmatic with our approach,” San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan said in a statement. “We need to treat homelessness like the crisis it is — and that means challenging the status quo approach that says the only solution to the situation on our streets is standing up brand new apartments that cost $1 million per door and take five-plus years to build. We need to pivot fast and prioritize prevention and basic, safe shelter that takes a fraction of the time and cost.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 2020, the county has moved 13,817 people into permanent housing, 19,575 people into temporary housing and shelter, and provided homelessness prevention assistance to 28,235 people. Shelter options have increased 44% since 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our countywide efforts to create new housing and end experiences of homelessness are clearly working, but we need more investments in these scalable solutions to keep pace with the increase in people being pushed into homelessness,” Consuelo Hernandez, director of the Santa Clara County Office of Supportive Housing, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Loving is an advocate for cash aid and guaranteed income programs that prevent homelessness. 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The permits of about 1,800 local employers are contingent on following all applicable workplace laws, such as minimum wage and overtime pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has enormous potential,” said Ruth Silver Taube, an attorney who coordinates the Santa Clara County \u003ca href=\"https://wagetheftcoalition.org/\">Wage Theft Coalition\u003c/a>. “It disincentivizes wage theft because business owners want to keep their restaurants open.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Just a piece of paper’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, workers lose \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/\">roughly $2 billion\u003c/a> annually from employers who aren’t paying minimum wage, and that’s just one form of wage theft, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Many of those victimized, often lower-income immigrants and women, will never file an official complaint with the state agency tasked with investigating wage theft because they fear retaliation.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Ruth Silver Taube, attorney and coordinator, Santa Clara County Wage Theft Coalition\"]‘It has enormous potential. It disincentivizes wage theft because business owners want to keep their restaurants open.’[/pullquote]Workers already struggling to make ends meet report they have to rely more on tax-supported social programs to survive the lost wages. The state also \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/publication/hollow-victories-the-crisis-in-collecting-unpaid-wages-for-californias-workers/\">loses revenue\u003c/a> in payroll taxes, and businesses that do follow the law are at a competitive disadvantage because of the higher costs, according to the UCLA Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirna Arana, a Guatemalan immigrant who now lives in San Leandro, in Alameda County, with her two young children, said she hasn’t received any of the $183,000 the California Labor Commissioner’s Office awarded her, including for unpaid regular wages and overtime. She often worked 12-hour shifts cleaning homes and office buildings, she said, but her former employer, Rene Herrera at Maid No. 1 Services, only paid her about $5 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman plays with two children indoors beside a window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirna Arana hasn’t received any of the $183,000 the California Labor Commissioner’s Office awarded her for unpaid wages and overtime. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her case was referred about two years ago to a small unit at the state agency that focuses on helping workers \u003ca href=\"https://wagetheftisacrime.com/Legal-Tools.html#sheriff\">collect\u003c/a> unpaid wages. But, by then, her employer had already filed for bankruptcy, she said. Efforts to enforce the judgment in her favor through bank levies were also unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been such a stressful, difficult time,” said Arana in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of feeling exploited at her job inspired the 36-year-old to start her own house cleaning business, and she vowed to treat any employees she might hire fairly. But while she enlists a number of clients, Arana must still rely on government subsidized food assistance to get by, and she worries frequently about how to pay for her apartment’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years after she first filed her wage claim, she said the judgment she won is “just a piece of paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like I didn’t achieve anything. That all my effort with this claim, to try to make sure that other workers didn’t go through what I did, wasn’t worth it,” Arana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State records show Maid No. 1 Services was terminated in May 2018. Herrera did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Santa Clara County’s solution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, the \u003ca href=\"https://desj.sccgov.org/food-permit-enforcement-program\">Food Permit Enforcement Program\u003c/a> has helped collect more than $110,000 for workers since 2019, according to county officials. The program, which began as a pilot in a few cities, was halted during the pandemic before it was relaunched countywide last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED contacted three workers who recovered lost wages through the program, but they declined to comment, as they did not want to be publicly associated with a wage dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement regularly combs state records to identify food permit holders with unpaid judgments. If a business owner does not respond to a series of letters within 45 days, their permit could be revoked, though nobody has lost one yet, said Jessie Yu, who directs the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt='A hand holds a flier with the words \"wage theft\" written in bold on the top.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella Balvidiva with the Fair Workplace Collaborative holds a flier on wage theft on April 28, 2023 in Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The county focuses on food permits because we see a nexus between vulnerable worker populations and a large number of labor violations in the food retail industry,” said Yu. “We want to make sure that our citizens are taken care of and that if they are working for eight hours, they get paid for eight hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-of-its kind program works across jurisdictions to help ensure retail food vendors in the county comply not only with local laws, but state and federal ones as well, said Jenn Round, a labor standards enforcement expert at the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Santa Clara food permitting program is unique and innovative nationwide,” said Round, who works with local, state and federal agencies across the U.S. to more effectively protect the rights of low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t heard of any other county in the country that is doing anything like that … to take on the challenge of enforcing a judgment that’s been issued by a different (state) agency,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as the Labor Commissioner’s Office struggles with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955920/california-wage-theft-investigators-staffing-crisis\">staffing crisis\u003c/a> that dozens of employees at the agency say cripples its mission of ensuring a fair day’s pay in every workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the approximately 30,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilewageclaim.htm\">wage claims\u003c/a> workers file annually are settled with employers or dismissed. But those that aren’t, end up in court judgments, often after a years-long process due to major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906889/california-workers-face-years-long-waits-for-justice-in-wage-theft-cases-state-data-shows\">delays\u003c/a> at the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after they win, many workers are then left to their own devices to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/PubsTemp/DLSE%20Brochures/Collect%20Your%20Award%20from%20the%20Caifornia%20Labor/Brochure-JE_WEB-EN.pdf\">try to collect (PDF)\u003c/a> on those judgments. A fraction of those orders — involving people who labor in low-wage industries such as agriculture, construction and restaurants — are referred to the Labor Commissioner’s Judgment Enforcement Unit for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These specific employers sometimes that come through our office will do everything they can to avoid these payments,” said James Yang, a senior deputy who works at the unit. “They start moving property, they start trying to sell or transfer the business, getting rid of real estate… It’s not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yang says the unit is “very effective” at clawing back money in cases they can focus on, using collections tools that range from liens and bank levies to complex investigations to try to chase and seize assets to collect lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the unit has fewer than two dozen staff positions statewide, and only 13 of those are filled, it lacks the capacity to intensively investigate the thousands of cases it handles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people talk inside of a restaurant. One person is holding a clipboard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armando Ricardez, with the nonprofit Prosperity Lab, asks Lorena Gaeta, owner of Gaeta’s Taqueria, to sign a list acknowledging that she has received a certificate of completion for a training on workplace laws. The outreach effort informs small business owners about the county’s food permit enforcement program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Working Partnerships USA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Santa Clara’s food permit enforcement initiative only targets a small subset of unpaid judgments, it still sends a powerful message to employers, said Yang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one county, one specific industry, we are talking about here. But it’s been very helpful,” he said. “And it’s garnered very positive attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other counties in California have expressed interest in setting up programs like Santa Clara’s to hold more wage thieves accountable, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/publication/hollow-victories-the-crisis-in-collecting-unpaid-wages-for-californias-workers/\">studies\u003c/a> point to a high proportion of wage theft victims who are unable to collect on the judgments in their favor. The California Legislative Analyst’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4165\">found\u003c/a> that fewer than half of workers who received an award for unpaid wages recovered them from their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last decade, more than 6,500 unpaid judgments, totaling nearly $85 million, remained open after being referred to the enforcement unit, according to a spokeswoman with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees the Labor Commissioner’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total amount owed to workers is likely much higher, as those figures do not include cases that were not referred to the unit and whose outcome is not known to the agency. Also omitted are judgments stemming from investigations by the agency’s Bureau of Field Enforcement, which often issues citations totaling millions of dollars for widespread violations impacting dozens of workers at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wage theft ‘not acceptable’ in Santa Clara County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The numerous unpaid judgments show it’s “absolutely critical” for city and county governments to do more to disincentivize wage theft, said Silver Taube, the attorney working with Santa Clara County’s Wage Theft Coalition, and a supervising attorney at Alexander Community Law Center at Santa Clara University Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe it’s a business model. I think they know there’s no consequences, and they just don’t pay,” said Silver Taube, who has pushed for greater consequences for businesses with labor violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people talk inside of a restaurant. One person is holding a clipboard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Sanchez speaks with Tempo Kitchen & Bar’s general manager Ricardo Rivas on April 28, 2023 in Gilroy. Sanchez is part of an outreach team that informs businesses about the county’s food permit enforcement program and workplace laws. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Wage Theft Coalition advocated for Santa Clara County to establish the food permit enforcement program, and they helped convince cities, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.milpitas.gov/FAQ.aspx?QID=365\">Milpitas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://law.scu.edu/kgaclc/newsletter-summer-2016-eliminating-wage-theft/\">San José\u003c/a>, that it’s to their benefit, too, to deny business permits or contracts to employers with unpaid judgments at the Labor Commissioner’s Office.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Jessie Yu, Director of Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement\"]‘The county focuses on food permits because we see a nexus between vulnerable worker populations and a large number of labor violations in the food retail industry.’[/pullquote]“Wage theft is on everyone’s radar now. And I do believe that there’s a consensus that it’s not acceptable in this county,” said Silver Taube. “It’s just that we have a lot of work to do, still.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to partner with community groups that inform workers of their rights and businesses of their responsibilities, said Yu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny afternoon in downtown Gilroy, a group with green buttons that read “Community Outreach” visited food businesses, distributing brochures on the permit enforcement program and inviting them to a free training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three people walk across a street as one of them pulls a wagon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella Baldivia pulls a cart full of flyers as other members of the Fair Workplace Collaborative follow in downtown Gilroy. The group informed business owners at restaurants, grocery stores and cafes about the county’s food permit enforcement program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Working Partnerships USA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure you’re up to speed on all the laws,” Melissa Sanchez, with the Fair Workplace Collaborative, told general manager Ricardo Rivas at Tempo Kitchen & Bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said he appreciated the outreach effort, and would sign up for the training session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many different things involved between state and county and federal laws, especially as far as labor goes,” Rivas said. “So being able to stay compliant with it, ensure that we are treating our workers here fairly, and in accordance with the law, is definitely a major importance for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"'Wage theft is on everyone's radar now, and I do believe that there's a consensus that it's not acceptable in this county,' said a workers' rights advocate. \r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1692113706,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":43,"wordCount":2148},"headData":{"title":"Santa Clara County Pushes Food Businesses to Pay Worker Wages — or Lose Permits | KQED","description":"'Wage theft is on everyone's radar now, and I do believe that there's a consensus that it's not acceptable in this county,' said a workers' rights advocate. \r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"Food","sourceUrl":"/food/","audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/8e6c99f5-cf00-49ab-b886-b05e00feafa6/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11958124/santa-clara-county-pushes-food-businesses-to-pay-worker-wages-or-lose-permits","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The most populous county in the Bay Area is helping state authorities address a perennial problem in labor law enforcement: businesses that were found to have cheated workers out of wages, but then fail to settle that debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Statewide, thousands of people with lower-income who have won wage claims in front of state regulators over the last decade may never recover their money, even after courts have ordered their employers to pay up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unscrupulous debtors often skirt those obligations by hiding assets or closing operations and reorganizing as a new business — leaving vulnerable families without restitution — while facing little to no consequences, said workers’ rights advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a unique Santa Clara County approach targeting food retailers is leading to money back in workers’ pockets, in an industry regulators rate as one of the top for workplace violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county leverages the food permits it issues to push local restaurants and other food-serving businesses with unpaid \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/Judgment-Enforcement-Unit.html#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20Judgment%3F,the%20worker%20recover%20the%20wages.\">labor violation judgments\u003c/a> to comply — or risk losing authorization to operate in Santa Clara. The permits of about 1,800 local employers are contingent on following all applicable workplace laws, such as minimum wage and overtime pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has enormous potential,” said Ruth Silver Taube, an attorney who coordinates the Santa Clara County \u003ca href=\"https://wagetheftcoalition.org/\">Wage Theft Coalition\u003c/a>. “It disincentivizes wage theft because business owners want to keep their restaurants open.”\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>‘Just a piece of paper’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In California, workers lose \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year/\">roughly $2 billion\u003c/a> annually from employers who aren’t paying minimum wage, and that’s just one form of wage theft, according to the Economic Policy Institute. Many of those victimized, often lower-income immigrants and women, will never file an official complaint with the state agency tasked with investigating wage theft because they fear retaliation.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘It has enormous potential. It disincentivizes wage theft because business owners want to keep their restaurants open.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Ruth Silver Taube, attorney and coordinator, Santa Clara County Wage Theft Coalition","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Workers already struggling to make ends meet report they have to rely more on tax-supported social programs to survive the lost wages. The state also \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/publication/hollow-victories-the-crisis-in-collecting-unpaid-wages-for-californias-workers/\">loses revenue\u003c/a> in payroll taxes, and businesses that do follow the law are at a competitive disadvantage because of the higher costs, according to the UCLA Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirna Arana, a Guatemalan immigrant who now lives in San Leandro, in Alameda County, with her two young children, said she hasn’t received any of the $183,000 the California Labor Commissioner’s Office awarded her, including for unpaid regular wages and overtime. She often worked 12-hour shifts cleaning homes and office buildings, she said, but her former employer, Rene Herrera at Maid No. 1 Services, only paid her about $5 an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958150\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958150\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman plays with two children indoors beside a window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-06-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mirna Arana hasn’t received any of the $183,000 the California Labor Commissioner’s Office awarded her for unpaid wages and overtime. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Her case was referred about two years ago to a small unit at the state agency that focuses on helping workers \u003ca href=\"https://wagetheftisacrime.com/Legal-Tools.html#sheriff\">collect\u003c/a> unpaid wages. But, by then, her employer had already filed for bankruptcy, she said. Efforts to enforce the judgment in her favor through bank levies were also unsuccessful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has been such a stressful, difficult time,” said Arana in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The experience of feeling exploited at her job inspired the 36-year-old to start her own house cleaning business, and she vowed to treat any employees she might hire fairly. But while she enlists a number of clients, Arana must still rely on government subsidized food assistance to get by, and she worries frequently about how to pay for her apartment’s rent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Five years after she first filed her wage claim, she said the judgment she won is “just a piece of paper.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like I didn’t achieve anything. That all my effort with this claim, to try to make sure that other workers didn’t go through what I did, wasn’t worth it,” Arana said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Secretary of State records show Maid No. 1 Services was terminated in May 2018. Herrera did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Santa Clara County’s solution\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In Santa Clara County, the \u003ca href=\"https://desj.sccgov.org/food-permit-enforcement-program\">Food Permit Enforcement Program\u003c/a> has helped collect more than $110,000 for workers since 2019, according to county officials. The program, which began as a pilot in a few cities, was halted during the pandemic before it was relaunched countywide last summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED contacted three workers who recovered lost wages through the program, but they declined to comment, as they did not want to be publicly associated with a wage dispute.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county’s Office of Labor Standards Enforcement regularly combs state records to identify food permit holders with unpaid judgments. If a business owner does not respond to a series of letters within 45 days, their permit could be revoked, though nobody has lost one yet, said Jessie Yu, who directs the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958148\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958148\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt='A hand holds a flier with the words \"wage theft\" written in bold on the top.' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-04-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella Balvidiva with the Fair Workplace Collaborative holds a flier on wage theft on April 28, 2023 in Gilroy. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The county focuses on food permits because we see a nexus between vulnerable worker populations and a large number of labor violations in the food retail industry,” said Yu. “We want to make sure that our citizens are taken care of and that if they are working for eight hours, they get paid for eight hours.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first-of-its kind program works across jurisdictions to help ensure retail food vendors in the county comply not only with local laws, but state and federal ones as well, said Jenn Round, a labor standards enforcement expert at the Workplace Justice Lab at Rutgers University in New Jersey.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Santa Clara food permitting program is unique and innovative nationwide,” said Round, who works with local, state and federal agencies across the U.S. to more effectively protect the rights of low-wage workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I haven’t heard of any other county in the country that is doing anything like that … to take on the challenge of enforcing a judgment that’s been issued by a different (state) agency,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This comes as the Labor Commissioner’s Office struggles with a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11955920/california-wage-theft-investigators-staffing-crisis\">staffing crisis\u003c/a> that dozens of employees at the agency say cripples its mission of ensuring a fair day’s pay in every workplace.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of the approximately 30,000 \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/howtofilewageclaim.htm\">wage claims\u003c/a> workers file annually are settled with employers or dismissed. But those that aren’t, end up in court judgments, often after a years-long process due to major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11906889/california-workers-face-years-long-waits-for-justice-in-wage-theft-cases-state-data-shows\">delays\u003c/a> at the agency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after they win, many workers are then left to their own devices to \u003ca href=\"https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/PubsTemp/DLSE%20Brochures/Collect%20Your%20Award%20from%20the%20Caifornia%20Labor/Brochure-JE_WEB-EN.pdf\">try to collect (PDF)\u003c/a> on those judgments. A fraction of those orders — involving people who labor in low-wage industries such as agriculture, construction and restaurants — are referred to the Labor Commissioner’s Judgment Enforcement Unit for help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These specific employers sometimes that come through our office will do everything they can to avoid these payments,” said James Yang, a senior deputy who works at the unit. “They start moving property, they start trying to sell or transfer the business, getting rid of real estate… It’s not easy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yang says the unit is “very effective” at clawing back money in cases they can focus on, using collections tools that range from liens and bank levies to complex investigations to try to chase and seize assets to collect lost wages.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But because the unit has fewer than two dozen staff positions statewide, and only 13 of those are filled, it lacks the capacity to intensively investigate the thousands of cases it handles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958146\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958146\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people talk inside of a restaurant. One person is holding a clipboard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-02-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Armando Ricardez, with the nonprofit Prosperity Lab, asks Lorena Gaeta, owner of Gaeta’s Taqueria, to sign a list acknowledging that she has received a certificate of completion for a training on workplace laws. The outreach effort informs small business owners about the county’s food permit enforcement program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Working Partnerships USA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even though Santa Clara’s food permit enforcement initiative only targets a small subset of unpaid judgments, it still sends a powerful message to employers, said Yang.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s one county, one specific industry, we are talking about here. But it’s been very helpful,” he said. “And it’s garnered very positive attention.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other counties in California have expressed interest in setting up programs like Santa Clara’s to hold more wage thieves accountable, he added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several \u003ca href=\"https://www.labor.ucla.edu/publication/hollow-victories-the-crisis-in-collecting-unpaid-wages-for-californias-workers/\">studies\u003c/a> point to a high proportion of wage theft victims who are unable to collect on the judgments in their favor. The California Legislative Analyst’s Office \u003ca href=\"https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4165\">found\u003c/a> that fewer than half of workers who received an award for unpaid wages recovered them from their employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last decade, more than 6,500 unpaid judgments, totaling nearly $85 million, remained open after being referred to the enforcement unit, according to a spokeswoman with the Department of Industrial Relations, which oversees the Labor Commissioner’s Office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The total amount owed to workers is likely much higher, as those figures do not include cases that were not referred to the unit and whose outcome is not known to the agency. Also omitted are judgments stemming from investigations by the agency’s Bureau of Field Enforcement, which often issues citations totaling millions of dollars for widespread violations impacting dozens of workers at a time.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Wage theft ‘not acceptable’ in Santa Clara County\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The numerous unpaid judgments show it’s “absolutely critical” for city and county governments to do more to disincentivize wage theft, said Silver Taube, the attorney working with Santa Clara County’s Wage Theft Coalition, and a supervising attorney at Alexander Community Law Center at Santa Clara University Law School.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I believe it’s a business model. I think they know there’s no consequences, and they just don’t pay,” said Silver Taube, who has pushed for greater consequences for businesses with labor violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958147\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958147\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Two people talk inside of a restaurant. One person is holding a clipboard.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-03-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Melissa Sanchez speaks with Tempo Kitchen & Bar’s general manager Ricardo Rivas on April 28, 2023 in Gilroy. Sanchez is part of an outreach team that informs businesses about the county’s food permit enforcement program and workplace laws. \u003ccite>(Farida Jhabvala Romero/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The Wage Theft Coalition advocated for Santa Clara County to establish the food permit enforcement program, and they helped convince cities, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.milpitas.gov/FAQ.aspx?QID=365\">Milpitas\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://law.scu.edu/kgaclc/newsletter-summer-2016-eliminating-wage-theft/\">San José\u003c/a>, that it’s to their benefit, too, to deny business permits or contracts to employers with unpaid judgments at the Labor Commissioner’s Office.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘The county focuses on food permits because we see a nexus between vulnerable worker populations and a large number of labor violations in the food retail industry.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Jessie Yu, Director of Santa Clara County Office of Labor Standards Enforcement","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Wage theft is on everyone’s radar now. And I do believe that there’s a consensus that it’s not acceptable in this county,” said Silver Taube. “It’s just that we have a lot of work to do, still.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The county is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to partner with community groups that inform workers of their rights and businesses of their responsibilities, said Yu.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a sunny afternoon in downtown Gilroy, a group with green buttons that read “Community Outreach” visited food businesses, distributing brochures on the permit enforcement program and inviting them to a free training.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11958145\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11958145\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three people walk across a street as one of them pulls a wagon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230814-WAGE-THEFT-FJR-01-KQED.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daniella Baldivia pulls a cart full of flyers as other members of the Fair Workplace Collaborative follow in downtown Gilroy. The group informed business owners at restaurants, grocery stores and cafes about the county’s food permit enforcement program. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Working Partnerships USA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure you’re up to speed on all the laws,” Melissa Sanchez, with the Fair Workplace Collaborative, told general manager Ricardo Rivas at Tempo Kitchen & Bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivas said he appreciated the outreach effort, and would sign up for the training session.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many different things involved between state and county and federal laws, especially as far as labor goes,” Rivas said. “So being able to stay compliant with it, ensure that we are treating our workers here fairly, and in accordance with the law, is definitely a major importance for us.”\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/11958124/santa-clara-county-pushes-food-businesses-to-pay-worker-wages-or-lose-permits","authors":["8659"],"categories":["news_1758","news_24114","news_8"],"tags":["news_27626","news_19904","news_32378","news_18188","news_353","news_18208","news_33022"],"featImg":"news_11958149","label":"source_news_11958124"},"news_11957868":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11957868","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11957868","score":null,"sort":[1691751620000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"from-fruit-picker-to-political-trailblazer-the-92-year-old-madrina-of-east-san-jose","title":"From Fruit Picker to Political Trailblazer: The 92-Year-Old 'Madrina' of East San José","publishDate":1691751620,"format":"standard","headTitle":"From Fruit Picker to Political Trailblazer: The 92-Year-Old ‘Madrina’ of East San José | KQED","labelTerm":{"term":72,"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>She was San José’s first Latina city council member, and the first Latina on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Today, she goes by many honorifics, but Blanca Alvarado’s favorite is “La Madrina” — the godmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 92 years old, her body has slowed down, and her hair has gone gray, but she remembers with absolute clarity the way her life tracked the rise of Chicana power in what we now call Silicon Valley. \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcollections.sjsu.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A7875\">Born in Colorado\u003c/a>, Alvarado came to San José with her family in 1948, when she was just 16 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José had a population of 70,000 people,” she recalled. “So it was a small burg, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, the region was called the Valley of Heart’s Delight, famous across the country for its stone fruit and vegetables. People from all over North America arrived in successive waves to pick and process the crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fragrance that wafted in the air — to this day, I will never, never forget it,” said Alvarado. “The valley was just replete with blossoms. All of the orchards were fruit orchards primarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of a man sitting on stairs with five small children, including on on his lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Alvarado, shown here in the 1930s with her father and four of her siblings, spent her childhood in Cokedale, Colorado, a mining town where her father was a miner and union activist. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She remembers her father telling her that she was the best fruit picker in the family, but it was an incredibly difficult job. “Being on your knees, on clods of dirt. It was very uncomfortable, to say the least,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado’s life closely parallels the South Bay’s most famous Chicano export. César Chávez also moved here with his family in 1948. At one point, as a young man, he would work in an apricot orchard like Alvarado, making less than a dollar an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lived in tents for two years. We lived in tin shacks for two years. Until finally, we were able to rent a house up in the foothills of Evergreen,” she said, referring to the neighborhood in East San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Successive waves of migration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Given the name, it’s obvious San José was founded by Latinos; on Nov. 29, 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, to be specific. But it wasn’t until after the Civil War, when railroads crisscrossed North America, linking farmers and ranchers to millions of hungry consumers, that Mexicans began traveling north of the border to work on farms and ranches in the Western U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The railroads are definitely a sign of industrialization, and they’re used not only to bring fruit out to markets, but bring labor in,” said Dr. Margo McBane, history professor and co-director of an extensive oral history project based at San José State called \u003ca href=\"https://library.sjsu.edu/b4sv\">Before Silicon Valley: A History of Mexican Agricultural and Cannery Workers of Santa Clara County, 1920–1960\u003c/a>.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Blanca Alvarado\"]‘I have maintained throughout my political career that there is nothing that I can do by myself. We live in a tumultuous political time now. And one of the sad parts of our political institutions is the inability to collaborate and to work together for a joint common purpose.’[/pullquote]“Mexican workers were referred to as traqueros,” said co-director Suzanne Guerra. For Guerra, like many on her team, this history is personal. “My grandfather was one of those who came in [to the Western U.S.] at 14 years old on a railroad car all the way up to Chicago to work,” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, Guerra says, the people like her grandfather who picked the crops were at the bottom of the economic and social hierarchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were subject to the whims of the weather, just as the farmers were. So if the crop got wiped out, you didn’t have a job. And also, you were subject to the seasonality of things,” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the decades wore on, many Mexican Americans moved into better-paying cannery jobs, and into the middle class. Blanca Alvarado’s generation — born in the 1930s — was poised to flex its political muscle and advocate for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage headshot of a Latina woman. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-1020x1531.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even as a teenager in this San José High School headshot from the late 1940s, you can see the self-possession and steely determination that would mark Blanca Alvarado’s political career in the decades to follow. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A golden age for culture and politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alvarado met her first husband, local radio host and activist Jose Alvarado, when she was a senior at San José High. Jose was decades older than her. He owned a record shop and a broadcasting studio for his show on the local radio station KLOK on Post Street in downtown San José. She would come in after school to listen to the jukebox and play games like ping pong and Chinese checkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a huge following on KLOK. He was the most prominent bilingual radio broadcaster in Northern California,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They married in 1953. Five children soon followed. The marriage provided Blanca Alvarado with a golden ticket of sorts, access to the backstages of San José’s music scene. Thanks to her husband, Alvarado even got to host her own bilingual radio talk show at KLOK called “Merienda Musical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of a woman wearing a dark dress and a man wearing a suit hold children with two other children sitting next to them on a couch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca and Jose Alvarado are shown here with four of their 5 children (from left, Tisha, Monica, Michael and Jaime) in this photo from the early 1950s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=\"pop_102633,arts_12616712,news_11668265\" label=\"Related Stories\"]However, there’s little recorded evidence left from the Alvarados’ radio days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve searched high and low for any sort of Spanish language jingles, clips. There’s nothing there,” said Juan Antonio Cuellar, curator of the \u003ca href=\"https://arhoolie.org/category/the-frontera-collection/\">Frontera Collection\u003c/a> for the Arhoolie Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to preserving American roots music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The Mexican American community in East San José] was such a huge community. Such a huge pool of talent,” Cuellar added. “You’re rubbing shoulders with people with the same experience. You’re listening to the same music. You’re going to work in the canneries with the same people you just spent the weekend dancing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1950s and 1960s were, by all accounts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/12/17/richard-diaz-photographer-of-the-stars-captured-latino-social-life-in-san-jose-2/\">a golden age\u003c/a> for both Mexican music and cinema. Fortunately, we can still hear some recordings of the really big acts from San José, like the Montoya Sisters. They recorded some of their music, like this song, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH-rfD3fBAM&list=PLJv1UYhNlyyAkKc2T8hMHXYscYzeE7K2Y&index=7\">Bomboncito\u003c/a>” in Mexico City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957946\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-800x571.png\" alt=\"A vintage, black and white photo of three women wearing dresses with a man playing piano in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-800x571.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-1020x727.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM.png 1234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ofelia, Emilia, and Esther Montoya of Las Hermanas Montoya. The San José locals were good friends with Alvarado’s first husband, Jose. As a promoter, he presented them and other popular artists in local venues in San José. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of La Raza Historical Society of Santa Clara Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Las Hermanas Montoya were one of a few homegrown acts that made it big. They toured in the 1950s with a steady stream of hits, like the million-selling single, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnGLXab8J0\">Mucho Mucho Mucho\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember them well,” Alvarado said of the glamorous singers. “They needed a larger audience, and where could they get it but in Mexico? Then they hit it big in Mexico City. And so they never came back until years later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the oral histories Guerra and her colleagues collected over more than 15 years, local elders speak of a time when San José drew Mexican Americans from farming regions far and wide, looking for fun and community on the weekends. “When you went to the big city, you know, you didn’t go to San Francisco,” said Guerra. “You went to San José.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because San José had everything. It had the shops. It had the movie theaters. It had the dances, the ballrooms, the clubs, the bookstores. It had all these Spanish-speaking services,” she said. If you couldn’t find it in Gilroy or you couldn’t find it in Alviso, then you would come to the city, and the city was San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From ‘Sal si puede’ to ‘Sí se puede’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 1950s and 60s were also ripe for political organizing. Guerra says many of Alvarado’s neighbors in East San José — including César Chávez — were Mexican American veterans of World War II, angry and frustrated by all sorts of systemic inequities in housing, infrastructure and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had sacrificed so much, and contributed to the American, the Allied victory. And what obligations [did] the country [fulfill] to its citizens? These were things that, by law, we’re entitled to!” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the rest of the region boomed with new suburban development in the decades following World War II, East San José struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were no sidewalks. There were no streetlights,” Alvarado recalled. Things were so bad back then, locals nicknamed their neighborhood “Sal si puede,” or “Get out if you can.” Alvarado said the nickname stuck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the rainy season, the storms would be so bad and the mud would be so thick that it was difficult to get out,” she said. “So from ‘Sal si puede,’ we went to ‘Sí se puede.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si se puede” translates to “Yes, we can,” and it’s a slogan \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156066250300256\">credited to Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later called the United Farm Workers union) with César Chávez. In the decades since, the slogan has been adopted by activists all over the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado remembers meetings Chávez held in her garage. “We saw our movement beginning to pick up steam and presence with César Chávez, CSO and the farmworker call for action as well. So today, when we talk about César Chávez, I think we do it with nostalgia for the man. But [also]for the time that we experienced with him. There was so much excitement. There was so much energy. There was so much goodwill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chávez didn’t come out of nowhere,” said Margo McBane of San José State. “He came out of the shoulders of all these other people working for labor and community civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San José, in Los Angeles, and in other urban communities, we, the Mexican American people, were dominated by a majority that was Anglo,” Chávez said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB1jwR1h9qo\">Commonwealth Club address\u003c/a> in 1984. “I began to realize that the only answer, the only hope, was in organizing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the 1970s wore on, the Chicano Movement made steady gains: improving conditions for migrant farmworkers, establishing Chicano studies in California schools and universities, and getting Mexican Americans elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alvarado said it was slow going “because we were not allowed to be part of the establishment, of the rulers of the time. We had to form our own institutions and we had to form our own protest organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado became the president of the Santa Clara County chapter of the Mexican American Political Association. She got into commission and committee work where she and other members learned the rules about how to confront, petition, and be a voice in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado helped push for San José to switch from at-large to district elections, making it much easier for political newcomers to win elections, especially in under-represented areas. In 1980, she ran to represent her district, and won. That’s when she became the first Latina member of the San José City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-800x640.jpg\" alt='A vintage photo a party with a banner that reads \"Blanca Alvarado our 1st\" with a woman in a blue dress standing next to a man in a white suit holding a microphone facing a group of men playing instruments.' width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1980, Blanca Alvarado ran for a seat on the San José City Council. Her win made Alvarado San José’s first Latina council member. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over her roughly 30-year \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltVgnShSKA0\">political career\u003c/a>, Alvarado focused on health insurance and literacy programs for children; expanding access to public green space; and starting the fight to close down a small airport in East San José because of the noise and air pollution. She played a key role in launching the Mexican Heritage Plaza, and getting San José’s premier downtown park, known for hosting parties and protests, renamed the Plaza de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these are the kinds of battles against systemic racism that take years to wage, the kinds of wins that typically fade fast from public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s saying, ‘My community deserves a seat at the table. I deserve a seat at the table,’” Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said of Alvarado. Chavez got involved with local politics in the late 1980s, in large part, she says, because of Alvarado’s example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generations of Latinas in the South Bay have sought public office in Alvarado’s wake, often seeking her endorsement. Chavez says she feels a sense of responsibility to finish what Alvarado started, on behalf of a community that has long felt unseen and unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a hat with her arms outstretched stand behind students in a graduation gowns under a tent that reads \"Public Schools Alpha Blanca Alvarado.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Alvarado celebrates at the Alpha Blanca Alvarado Middle School Promotion Ceremony on June 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rita Duarte Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historian Suzanne Guerra says understanding the impact of Mexican Americans on this region deepens our connection to history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, when I was a kid, I learned my American history, my California history like everybody else, but folks like me and my family, we disappeared,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google it. This history is hard to find unless you already know what you’re looking for. And even then, “We’re still considered ‘other history,’ not American history. When the truth is, American history is everyone’s history,” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Alvarado got a special thrill when a local elementary school was named after her: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphapublicschools.org/school/blanca-alvarado/\">Alpha Blanca Alvarado School\u003c/a> in East San José. There’s also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/celebrating-hispanic-heritage/new-east-san-jose-community-and-health-center-named-after-la-madrina-blanca-alvarado/2659902/\">community health center\u003c/a> named after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says she hopes younger generations of Latino activists take strength from her example. Many of the issues she fought for including health care, representation and housing are still fights today in San José. She says it’s time for the youngsters to start making their mark.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"A coal miner’s daughter, Alvarado became a political force in Santa Clara County, organizing with César Chavez and later becoming the first Latina to serve on the San José City Council.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1691770498,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":48,"wordCount":2505},"headData":{"title":"From Fruit Picker to Political Trailblazer: The 92-Year-Old 'Madrina' of East San José | KQED","description":"A coal miner’s daughter, Alvarado became a political force in Santa Clara County, organizing with César Chavez and later becoming the first Latina to serve on the San José City Council.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"audioUrl":"https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/0af137ef-751e-4b19-a055-aaef00d2d578/ffca7e9f-6831-4[…]f-aaef00f5a073/d0d0a9f1-1129-452b-9a5a-b05a0171235e/audio.mp3","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11957868/from-fruit-picker-to-political-trailblazer-the-92-year-old-madrina-of-east-san-jose","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>She was San José’s first Latina city council member, and the first Latina on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors. Today, she goes by many honorifics, but Blanca Alvarado’s favorite is “La Madrina” — the godmother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At 92 years old, her body has slowed down, and her hair has gone gray, but she remembers with absolute clarity the way her life tracked the rise of Chicana power in what we now call Silicon Valley. \u003ca href=\"https://digitalcollections.sjsu.edu/islandora/object/islandora%3A7875\">Born in Colorado\u003c/a>, Alvarado came to San José with her family in 1948, when she was just 16 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“San José had a population of 70,000 people,” she recalled. “So it was a small burg, you know?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During that time, the region was called the Valley of Heart’s Delight, famous across the country for its stone fruit and vegetables. People from all over North America arrived in successive waves to pick and process the crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The fragrance that wafted in the air — to this day, I will never, never forget it,” said Alvarado. “The valley was just replete with blossoms. All of the orchards were fruit orchards primarily.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957882\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of a man sitting on stairs with five small children, including on on his lap.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5283-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Alvarado, shown here in the 1930s with her father and four of her siblings, spent her childhood in Cokedale, Colorado, a mining town where her father was a miner and union activist. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She remembers her father telling her that she was the best fruit picker in the family, but it was an incredibly difficult job. “Being on your knees, on clods of dirt. It was very uncomfortable, to say the least,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado’s life closely parallels the South Bay’s most famous Chicano export. César Chávez also moved here with his family in 1948. At one point, as a young man, he would work in an apricot orchard like Alvarado, making less than a dollar an hour.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We lived in tents for two years. We lived in tin shacks for two years. Until finally, we were able to rent a house up in the foothills of Evergreen,” she said, referring to the neighborhood in East San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Successive waves of migration\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Given the name, it’s obvious San José was founded by Latinos; on Nov. 29, 1777, as the Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe, to be specific. But it wasn’t until after the Civil War, when railroads crisscrossed North America, linking farmers and ranchers to millions of hungry consumers, that Mexicans began traveling north of the border to work on farms and ranches in the Western U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The railroads are definitely a sign of industrialization, and they’re used not only to bring fruit out to markets, but bring labor in,” said Dr. Margo McBane, history professor and co-director of an extensive oral history project based at San José State called \u003ca href=\"https://library.sjsu.edu/b4sv\">Before Silicon Valley: A History of Mexican Agricultural and Cannery Workers of Santa Clara County, 1920–1960\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘I have maintained throughout my political career that there is nothing that I can do by myself. We live in a tumultuous political time now. And one of the sad parts of our political institutions is the inability to collaborate and to work together for a joint common purpose.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Blanca Alvarado","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“Mexican workers were referred to as traqueros,” said co-director Suzanne Guerra. For Guerra, like many on her team, this history is personal. “My grandfather was one of those who came in [to the Western U.S.] at 14 years old on a railroad car all the way up to Chicago to work,” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the beginning, Guerra says, the people like her grandfather who picked the crops were at the bottom of the economic and social hierarchy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They were subject to the whims of the weather, just as the farmers were. So if the crop got wiped out, you didn’t have a job. And also, you were subject to the seasonality of things,” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But as the decades wore on, many Mexican Americans moved into better-paying cannery jobs, and into the middle class. Blanca Alvarado’s generation — born in the 1930s — was poised to flex its political muscle and advocate for change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957884\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957884\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-800x1201.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage headshot of a Latina woman. \" width=\"800\" height=\"1201\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-800x1201.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-1020x1531.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-160x240.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5295.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even as a teenager in this San José High School headshot from the late 1940s, you can see the self-possession and steely determination that would mark Blanca Alvarado’s political career in the decades to follow. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>A golden age for culture and politics\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alvarado met her first husband, local radio host and activist Jose Alvarado, when she was a senior at San José High. Jose was decades older than her. He owned a record shop and a broadcasting studio for his show on the local radio station KLOK on Post Street in downtown San José. She would come in after school to listen to the jukebox and play games like ping pong and Chinese checkers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He had a huge following on KLOK. He was the most prominent bilingual radio broadcaster in Northern California,” she recalled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They married in 1953. Five children soon followed. The marriage provided Blanca Alvarado with a golden ticket of sorts, access to the backstages of San José’s music scene. Thanks to her husband, Alvarado even got to host her own bilingual radio talk show at KLOK called “Merienda Musical.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957883\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957883\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A vintage photo of a woman wearing a dark dress and a man wearing a suit hold children with two other children sitting next to them on a couch.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5292-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca and Jose Alvarado are shown here with four of their 5 children (from left, Tisha, Monica, Michael and Jaime) in this photo from the early 1950s. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"pop_102633,arts_12616712,news_11668265","label":"Related Stories "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>However, there’s little recorded evidence left from the Alvarados’ radio days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’ve searched high and low for any sort of Spanish language jingles, clips. There’s nothing there,” said Juan Antonio Cuellar, curator of the \u003ca href=\"https://arhoolie.org/category/the-frontera-collection/\">Frontera Collection\u003c/a> for the Arhoolie Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to preserving American roots music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The Mexican American community in East San José] was such a huge community. Such a huge pool of talent,” Cuellar added. “You’re rubbing shoulders with people with the same experience. You’re listening to the same music. You’re going to work in the canneries with the same people you just spent the weekend dancing with.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 1950s and 1960s were, by all accounts, \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2014/12/17/richard-diaz-photographer-of-the-stars-captured-latino-social-life-in-san-jose-2/\">a golden age\u003c/a> for both Mexican music and cinema. Fortunately, we can still hear some recordings of the really big acts from San José, like the Montoya Sisters. They recorded some of their music, like this song, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH-rfD3fBAM&list=PLJv1UYhNlyyAkKc2T8hMHXYscYzeE7K2Y&index=7\">Bomboncito\u003c/a>” in Mexico City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM.png\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957946\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-800x571.png\" alt=\"A vintage, black and white photo of three women wearing dresses with a man playing piano in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-800x571.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-1020x727.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Screenshot-2023-08-10-at-3.44.25-PM.png 1234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ofelia, Emilia, and Esther Montoya of Las Hermanas Montoya. The San José locals were good friends with Alvarado’s first husband, Jose. As a promoter, he presented them and other popular artists in local venues in San José. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of La Raza Historical Society of Santa Clara Valley)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Las Hermanas Montoya were one of a few homegrown acts that made it big. They toured in the 1950s with a steady stream of hits, like the million-selling single, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnGLXab8J0\">Mucho Mucho Mucho\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I remember them well,” Alvarado said of the glamorous singers. “They needed a larger audience, and where could they get it but in Mexico? Then they hit it big in Mexico City. And so they never came back until years later.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the oral histories Guerra and her colleagues collected over more than 15 years, local elders speak of a time when San José drew Mexican Americans from farming regions far and wide, looking for fun and community on the weekends. “When you went to the big city, you know, you didn’t go to San Francisco,” said Guerra. “You went to San José.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because San José had everything. It had the shops. It had the movie theaters. It had the dances, the ballrooms, the clubs, the bookstores. It had all these Spanish-speaking services,” she said. If you couldn’t find it in Gilroy or you couldn’t find it in Alviso, then you would come to the city, and the city was San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>From ‘Sal si puede’ to ‘Sí se puede’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The 1950s and 60s were also ripe for political organizing. Guerra says many of Alvarado’s neighbors in East San José — including César Chávez — were Mexican American veterans of World War II, angry and frustrated by all sorts of systemic inequities in housing, infrastructure and schools.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They had sacrificed so much, and contributed to the American, the Allied victory. And what obligations [did] the country [fulfill] to its citizens? These were things that, by law, we’re entitled to!” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even as the rest of the region boomed with new suburban development in the decades following World War II, East San José struggled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There were no sidewalks. There were no streetlights,” Alvarado recalled. Things were so bad back then, locals nicknamed their neighborhood “Sal si puede,” or “Get out if you can.” Alvarado said the nickname stuck.\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>“During the rainy season, the storms would be so bad and the mud would be so thick that it was difficult to get out,” she said. “So from ‘Sal si puede,’ we went to ‘Sí se puede.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si se puede” translates to “Yes, we can,” and it’s a slogan \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10156066250300256\">credited to Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (later called the United Farm Workers union) with César Chávez. In the decades since, the slogan has been adopted by activists all over the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado remembers meetings Chávez held in her garage. “We saw our movement beginning to pick up steam and presence with César Chávez, CSO and the farmworker call for action as well. So today, when we talk about César Chávez, I think we do it with nostalgia for the man. But [also]for the time that we experienced with him. There was so much excitement. There was so much energy. There was so much goodwill.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Chávez didn’t come out of nowhere,” said Margo McBane of San José State. “He came out of the shoulders of all these other people working for labor and community civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In San José, in Los Angeles, and in other urban communities, we, the Mexican American people, were dominated by a majority that was Anglo,” Chávez said in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB1jwR1h9qo\">Commonwealth Club address\u003c/a> in 1984. “I began to realize that the only answer, the only hope, was in organizing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the 1970s wore on, the Chicano Movement made steady gains: improving conditions for migrant farmworkers, establishing Chicano studies in California schools and universities, and getting Mexican Americans elected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Alvarado said it was slow going “because we were not allowed to be part of the establishment, of the rulers of the time. We had to form our own institutions and we had to form our own protest organizations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado became the president of the Santa Clara County chapter of the Mexican American Political Association. She got into commission and committee work where she and other members learned the rules about how to confront, petition, and be a voice in government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado helped push for San José to switch from at-large to district elections, making it much easier for political newcomers to win elections, especially in under-represented areas. In 1980, she ran to represent her district, and won. That’s when she became the first Latina member of the San José City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957885\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957885\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-800x640.jpg\" alt='A vintage photo a party with a banner that reads \"Blanca Alvarado our 1st\" with a woman in a blue dress standing next to a man in a white suit holding a microphone facing a group of men playing instruments.' width=\"800\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-800x640.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-1020x816.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-160x128.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-1536x1229.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_5302-1920x1536.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In 1980, Blanca Alvarado ran for a seat on the San José City Council. Her win made Alvarado San José’s first Latina council member. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Blanca Alvarado)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Over her roughly 30-year \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltVgnShSKA0\">political career\u003c/a>, Alvarado focused on health insurance and literacy programs for children; expanding access to public green space; and starting the fight to close down a small airport in East San José because of the noise and air pollution. She played a key role in launching the Mexican Heritage Plaza, and getting San José’s premier downtown park, known for hosting parties and protests, renamed the Plaza de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these are the kinds of battles against systemic racism that take years to wage, the kinds of wins that typically fade fast from public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“She’s saying, ‘My community deserves a seat at the table. I deserve a seat at the table,’” Santa Clara County Supervisor Cindy Chavez said of Alvarado. Chavez got involved with local politics in the late 1980s, in large part, she says, because of Alvarado’s example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Generations of Latinas in the South Bay have sought public office in Alvarado’s wake, often seeking her endorsement. Chavez says she feels a sense of responsibility to finish what Alvarado started, on behalf of a community that has long felt unseen and unheard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11957880\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290.jpg\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11957880\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-800x533.jpg\" alt='A woman wearing a hat with her arms outstretched stand behind students in a graduation gowns under a tent that reads \"Public Schools Alpha Blanca Alvarado.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_0290-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanca Alvarado celebrates at the Alpha Blanca Alvarado Middle School Promotion Ceremony on June 1, 2022. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Rita Duarte Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Historian Suzanne Guerra says understanding the impact of Mexican Americans on this region deepens our connection to history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You know, when I was a kid, I learned my American history, my California history like everybody else, but folks like me and my family, we disappeared,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Google it. This history is hard to find unless you already know what you’re looking for. And even then, “We’re still considered ‘other history,’ not American history. When the truth is, American history is everyone’s history,” Guerra said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A few years ago, Alvarado got a special thrill when a local elementary school was named after her: the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alphapublicschools.org/school/blanca-alvarado/\">Alpha Blanca Alvarado School\u003c/a> in East San José. There’s also a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nbcbayarea.com/celebrating-hispanic-heritage/new-east-san-jose-community-and-health-center-named-after-la-madrina-blanca-alvarado/2659902/\">community health center\u003c/a> named after her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvarado says she hopes younger generations of Latino activists take strength from her example. Many of the issues she fought for including health care, representation and housing are still fights today in San José. She says it’s time for the youngsters to start making their mark.\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/11957868/from-fruit-picker-to-political-trailblazer-the-92-year-old-madrina-of-east-san-jose","authors":["251"],"programs":["news_26731","news_72"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_885","news_29206","news_27626","news_33012","news_23121","news_18541","news_18188"],"featImg":"news_11957886","label":"news_72"},"news_11950886":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11950886","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11950886","score":null,"sort":[1685354410000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rightnowish-protecting-sacred-land-in-the-south-bay","title":"The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s Fight to Save Ancestral Land in the South Bay","publishDate":1685354410,"format":"audio","headTitle":"The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s Fight to Save Ancestral Land in the South Bay | KQED","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Santa Clara County, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band is fighting for one of their most sacred sites, known as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.protectjuristac.org/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juristac\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Beginning In the late 1700s, Spanish colonizers forcibly removed the tribe from Juristac, and currently, the land is owned by a private firm that has proposed a plan to develop a mine onsite. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the last 7 years, the tribal band, with support from many residents and local officials, has organized to block the project. They want the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to deny the mining permit from being approved. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this episode from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924924/rightnowish-presents-from-the-soil\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rightnowish’s “From the Soil” series\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, producer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marisolreports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marisol Medina-Cadena,\u003c/a> speaks to Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3J6DGQJ\">\u003cem>Episode transcript\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3503213778&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode originally aired on Feb. 9 \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band's most sacred sites is owned by a firm that wants to develop a mine. For 7 years they've been fighting to oppose the project.\r\n","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1700689336,"stats":{"hasAudio":true,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":8,"wordCount":137},"headData":{"title":"The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band’s Fight to Save Ancestral Land in the South Bay | KQED","description":"The Amah Mutsun Tribal Band's most sacred sites is owned by a firm that wants to develop a mine. For 7 years they've been fighting to oppose the project.\r\n","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"The Bay","sourceUrl":"https://www.kqed.org/podcasts/thebay","audioUrl":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chrt.fm/track/G6C7C3/traffic.megaphone.fm/KQINC3503213778.mp3?updated=1685124258","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11950886/rightnowish-protecting-sacred-land-in-the-south-bay","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Santa Clara County, the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band is fighting for one of their most sacred sites, known as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.protectjuristac.org/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Juristac\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Beginning In the late 1700s, Spanish colonizers forcibly removed the tribe from Juristac, and currently, the land is owned by a private firm that has proposed a plan to develop a mine onsite. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">For the last 7 years, the tribal band, with support from many residents and local officials, has organized to block the project. They want the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors to deny the mining permit from being approved. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this episode from \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13924924/rightnowish-presents-from-the-soil\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rightnowish’s “From the Soil” series\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, producer \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/marisolreports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marisol Medina-Cadena,\u003c/a> speaks to Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://bit.ly/3J6DGQJ\">\u003cem>Episode transcript\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC3503213778&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\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>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode originally aired on Feb. 9 \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/news/11950886/rightnowish-protecting-sacred-land-in-the-south-bay","authors":["8654","11802","11649","11528"],"programs":["news_28779"],"categories":["news_8","news_33520"],"tags":["news_29836","news_31097","news_30971","news_28946","news_18188","news_22598"],"featImg":"news_11951003","label":"source_news_11950886"},"news_11949797":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11949797","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11949797","score":null,"sort":[1684361675000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing","title":"San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing","publishDate":1684361675,"format":"standard","headTitle":"San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing | KQED","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>San José’s city council is weighing a controversial plan to dramatically reshape how the city spends money to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, spearheaded by Mayor Matt Mahan, would shift dedicated homelessness dollars away from building affordable apartments to, instead, constructing temporary shelters. The budget plan is the manifestation of an argument \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937410/san-joses-new-mayor-matt-mahan-seeks-allies-to-tackle-homelessness-policing\">Mahan made repeatedly during his mayoral campaign\u003c/a>: that local governments have placed too much focus on permanent supportive housing instead of what the mayor describes as low-barrier solutions to quickly provide more shelter for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets,” Mahan said at a press conference on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate centers on a pot of money created by San José voters in 2020, when they approved Measure E to address housing affordability and homelessness by taxing home sales of $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s push to reallocate the city’s Measure E funds is the most contentious proposal in this year’s budget process. The council will take a final vote in June on the spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. On Tuesday, they heard hours of public comment on the homelessness spending plan from residents who crowded City Hall into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San José Mayor Matt Mahan\"]‘We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 75% of Measure E revenue is used to pay for the development of new affordable housing at a variety of income levels, with the rest going to shelter construction and homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2023–24 fiscal year, Mahan is proposing a dramatic revision: for 80% of Measure E revenue (estimated to be $50 million) to go toward temporary housing, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">six emergency interim housing sites already open\u003c/a> across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would set aside 20% of revenue for rental and legal assistance for San José tenants. None of the new Measure E funds would be dedicated to permanent affordable housing. At the end of the 2023–24 budget year, Measure E allocations would return to their current levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Neat rows of gray shipping containers with a singular white window in each line a sidewalk with well-manicured flower beds filled with brown bark. A mountain range is seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted into transitional homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land in San José, on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the shift say a change of approach is needed in the face of a problem that seems intractable. San José’s unhoused population grew to 6,650 people last year, and while the ratio of households exiting and entering homelessness has narrowed in Santa Clara County, 1.7 households are still becoming homeless for every one household housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see homeless that [are] sleeping right in front of our businesses,” said June Tran, owner of Crema Coffee, who spoke at Mahan’s press conference. “I can see that our current strategy right now is not working, so we really need change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to critics, the plan is a short-sighted maneuver designed to mollify concerns about visible street homelessness without providing permanent shelter for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only people that call for this kind of an approach has usually been politicians,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of the housing nonprofit Destination: Home. “But there’s no evidence, there’s no research, there’s no subject matter experts that would tell you diverting money from creating the deepest level of affordable housing in perpetuity and moving it to do shelter is a winning strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stare at a computer screen within a gray cubicle. A single green plant is seen in the corner of the foreground. This is a neat office setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados (left) and Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Loving of Destination: Home work at the organization’s San José office on Jan. 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, unspent Measure E revenue from the current and previous budget years would continue to fund affordable housing, to the tune of $52.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will largely go to projects already in the city’s pipeline. But affordable housing advocates say the falloff in funding in the next budget could lead to some projects dying on the vine — losing out on not only city money but also the matching funds from other levels of government that could accompany it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents,” said Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents District 5, which includes East San José.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Councilmember Peter Ortiz, District 5\"]‘We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents.’[/pullquote]Backers of affordable housing funding waved paper fans with pictures of houses and a broken heart during Tuesday’s meeting and used the public comment period to decry the Measure E change as a betrayal of the ballot measure’s promises around building affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This comes down to a matter of trust,” said RJ Ramsey, a resident of an affordable housing project in San José, who said he helped campaign for the passage of Measure E. “Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Gonzalez, a real estate broker, applauded the proposal, arguing that money spent on interim housing would still serve the goal of helping residents exit homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been no taking away from Measure E,” he said. “We’re talking about homeless shelters, you guys, we need this for our homeless folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg\" alt='Outside of a tan and gray government building, a large metal sign reads, \"San Jose City Hall.\" An art sculpture in the background depicts the large letters, \"XO.\" A California State flag with a brown bear is waving from a flagpole in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Hall, March 20, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Mahan is that while Santa Clara County has picked up the tab for services at permanent affordable housing sites, the city is on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948329/residents-fear-crime-and-drugs-near-temporary-housing-sites-in-san-jose-but-the-evidence-shows-otherwise\">the operation of interim housing\u003c/a> into the future.[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"RJ Ramsey, resident of an affordable housing project\"]‘This comes down to a matter of trust. Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.’[/pullquote]Mahan said he is hopeful for an infusion of funds from the state government or a regional housing bond but that, for now, rerouting Measure E dollars is the most realistic avenue to bankroll his vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To change Measure E funding, San José’s council is required to hold a second hearing, which is set for June 12. A final vote on the plan, which requires a two-thirds majority, is expected to take place the following day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Led by San José Mayor Matt Mahan, the proposal would shift dedicated homelessness funds away from building affordable apartments to prioritizing construction of temporary shelters.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1684872332,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":23,"wordCount":1172},"headData":{"title":"San José Mayor Pushes to Use Homelessness Dollars to Build More Temporary Shelters Instead of Permanent Housing | KQED","description":"Led by San José Mayor Matt Mahan, the proposal would shift dedicated homelessness funds away from building affordable apartments to prioritizing construction of temporary shelters.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>San José’s city council is weighing a controversial plan to dramatically reshape how the city spends money to reduce homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, spearheaded by Mayor Matt Mahan, would shift dedicated homelessness dollars away from building affordable apartments to, instead, constructing temporary shelters. The budget plan is the manifestation of an argument \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11937410/san-joses-new-mayor-matt-mahan-seeks-allies-to-tackle-homelessness-policing\">Mahan made repeatedly during his mayoral campaign\u003c/a>: that local governments have placed too much focus on permanent supportive housing instead of what the mayor describes as low-barrier solutions to quickly provide more shelter for unhoused residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets,” Mahan said at a press conference on Monday.\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 debate centers on a pot of money created by San José voters in 2020, when they approved Measure E to address housing affordability and homelessness by taxing home sales of $2 million or more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mahan’s push to reallocate the city’s Measure E funds is the most contentious proposal in this year’s budget process. The council will take a final vote in June on the spending plan for the fiscal year that begins on July 1. On Tuesday, they heard hours of public comment on the homelessness spending plan from residents who crowded City Hall into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We do not need to put all of the dollars into building brand-new buildings right now when we have thousands of people suffering on our streets.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"San José Mayor Matt Mahan","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Currently, 75% of Measure E revenue is used to pay for the development of new affordable housing at a variety of income levels, with the rest going to shelter construction and homelessness prevention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the 2023–24 fiscal year, Mahan is proposing a dramatic revision: for 80% of Measure E revenue (estimated to be $50 million) to go toward temporary housing, like the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11942734/emergency-calls-complaints-are-down-near-san-joses-temporary-housing-sites-so-why-are-they-still-so-politically-risky\">six emergency interim housing sites already open\u003c/a> across the city.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plan would set aside 20% of revenue for rental and legal assistance for San José tenants. None of the new Measure E funds would be dedicated to permanent affordable housing. At the end of the 2023–24 budget year, Measure E allocations would return to their current levels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949855\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949855\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Neat rows of gray shipping containers with a singular white window in each line a sidewalk with well-manicured flower beds filled with brown bark. A mountain range is seen in the background.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS62438_006_KQED_SanJoseInterimHousing_01302023-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shipping containers converted into transitional homes line the perimeter of Evans Lane, an interim housing facility located on city-owned land in San José, on Jan. 30, 2023. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Supporters of the shift say a change of approach is needed in the face of a problem that seems intractable. San José’s unhoused population grew to 6,650 people last year, and while the ratio of households exiting and entering homelessness has narrowed in Santa Clara County, 1.7 households are still becoming homeless for every one household housed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I see homeless that [are] sleeping right in front of our businesses,” said June Tran, owner of Crema Coffee, who spoke at Mahan’s press conference. “I can see that our current strategy right now is not working, so we really need change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to critics, the plan is a short-sighted maneuver designed to mollify concerns about visible street homelessness without providing permanent shelter for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The only people that call for this kind of an approach has usually been politicians,” said Jennifer Loving, CEO of the housing nonprofit Destination: Home. “But there’s no evidence, there’s no research, there’s no subject matter experts that would tell you diverting money from creating the deepest level of affordable housing in perpetuity and moving it to do shelter is a winning strategy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949870\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949870\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two women stare at a computer screen within a gray cubicle. A single green plant is seen in the corner of the foreground. This is a neat office setting.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS46566_009_SanJose_DestinationHome_01112021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community Engagement Specialist Ingrid Granados (left) and Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Loving of Destination: Home work at the organization’s San José office on Jan. 11, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under the plan, unspent Measure E revenue from the current and previous budget years would continue to fund affordable housing, to the tune of $52.8 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That money will largely go to projects already in the city’s pipeline. But affordable housing advocates say the falloff in funding in the next budget could lead to some projects dying on the vine — losing out on not only city money but also the matching funds from other levels of government that could accompany it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents,” said Councilmember Peter Ortiz, who represents District 5, which includes East San José.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘We would be seriously hindering our city’s ability to secure funding for affordable housing during a time where we are in dire need of more homes for our most vulnerable residents.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Councilmember Peter Ortiz, District 5","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Backers of affordable housing funding waved paper fans with pictures of houses and a broken heart during Tuesday’s meeting and used the public comment period to decry the Measure E change as a betrayal of the ballot measure’s promises around building affordable units.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This comes down to a matter of trust,” said RJ Ramsey, a resident of an affordable housing project in San José, who said he helped campaign for the passage of Measure E. “Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gustavo Gonzalez, a real estate broker, applauded the proposal, arguing that money spent on interim housing would still serve the goal of helping residents exit homelessness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been no taking away from Measure E,” he said. “We’re talking about homeless shelters, you guys, we need this for our homeless folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11949857\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11949857\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg\" alt='Outside of a tan and gray government building, a large metal sign reads, \"San Jose City Hall.\" An art sculpture in the background depicts the large letters, \"XO.\" A California State flag with a brown bear is waving from a flagpole in the background.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/05/RS36032__M6A0599-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San José City Hall, March 20, 2019. \u003ccite>(Sruti Mamidanna/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The challenge facing Mahan is that while Santa Clara County has picked up the tab for services at permanent affordable housing sites, the city is on the hook for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11948329/residents-fear-crime-and-drugs-near-temporary-housing-sites-in-san-jose-but-the-evidence-shows-otherwise\">the operation of interim housing\u003c/a> into the future.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"‘This comes down to a matter of trust. Honor your promises that you made to the unhoused community.’","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"RJ Ramsey, resident of an affordable housing project","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Mahan said he is hopeful for an infusion of funds from the state government or a regional housing bond but that, for now, rerouting Measure E dollars is the most realistic avenue to bankroll his vision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To change Measure E funding, San José’s council is required to hold a second hearing, which is set for June 12. A final vote on the plan, which requires a two-thirds majority, is expected to take place the following day.\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/11949797/in-controversial-plan-san-jose-mayor-seeks-to-use-homelessness-dollars-to-build-more-temporary-shelters-instead-of-permanent-housing","authors":["227"],"categories":["news_6266","news_8"],"tags":["news_26011","news_4020","news_1775","news_31197","news_18541","news_1268","news_18188"],"featImg":"news_11949856","label":"news"},"news_11942615":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11942615","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11942615","score":null,"sort":[1678068017000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"californias-juvenile-justice-system-seeks-to-end-the-incarceration-of-young-women","title":"California's Juvenile Justice System Seeks to End the Incarceration of Young Women","publishDate":1678068017,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{},"content":"\u003cp>Four California counties will soon be offering girls and young women in youth jails more community-based alternatives to being detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative follows a pilot in Santa Clara County, established in 2018, which found that most incarcerated youth in girls’ units were in jail for lack of somewhere safe to go. Even when probation officials recommended their release, the girls stayed in county jails because of a lack of appropriate alternatives, such as safe temporary housing in a foster home or financial support to avoid returning to an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, there was no place to have them be other than juvenile hall,” said Katherine Lucero, referring to her time as a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge prior to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/a-former-judge-leads-plan-to-overhaul-californias-juvenile-justice-system/671126\">joining the new state agency overseeing the state’s juvenile justice system\u003c/a>. “That was hard for me to digest because I always thought we were only putting youth in detention facilities for public safety reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Joy Hernandez, senior program manager, National Center for Youth Law\"]'For some young people, it takes a pretty long time to go through the whole court process, and then by that time the disconnection from education just becomes compounded — they've been waiting a year or more to access services.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot resulted in a partnership among local courts, the county Probation Department, researchers and community organizations to ensure those girls would be released and any others with low-level offenses kept from being locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the program’s first two years, the detention of girls declined 58% countywide. It also averaged no more than one girl per month for a full year. This changed only after youth convicted of violent offenses, who typically were sent to state youth facilities, began staying at the county juvenile hall given that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/quick-guide-new-state-law-puts-californias-juvenile-justice-system-at-a-crossroads/661962\">state facilities are closing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of partnership is what the new state agency overseeing the juvenile justice system in California, the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, and the research nonprofit they have collaborated with, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/\">Vera Institute of Justice\u003c/a>, are looking to replicate by hosting a competitive application process after which four new counties will be chosen to mirror the initiative in Santa Clara County. There is no set time frame for statewide expansion, but that is the goal, according to Lucero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Systems are really set up not to be disrupted. … If the people at the top show an interest and make it important, and you stick with it, and then eventually the systems catch up,” said Nicholas Birchard, Santa Clara County’s chief probation officer. Birchard worked closely with Lucero to bring the initiative to the county years ago and has been part of ensuring its implementation within the Probation Department.[aside postID=\"news_11924009,news_11923958\" label=\"Related Posts\"]Nationally, the rate of detention has consistently declined in recent decades. In 2019, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezajcs/asp/process.asp?JCSCF_ID=qa06601&type_num=2&group_num=3&submit=Update+Table\">41,000 girls and young women in detention\u003c/a> — down by over 55% from 92,100 in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the low number of detained girls is part of what sparked the interest in eliminating the detentions altogether. In 2021, the most recent year for which this data is available, \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\">1,400 girls and young women\u003c/a> were detained across the state for low-level offenses. They were as young as 12, up to 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further research by the Vera Institute, a national advocacy and research organization that seeks to end mass incarceration, found ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\">statewide trends\u003c/a>: The majority of girls’ arrests, convictions and detentions in 2020 were for misdemeanor or status offense charges, such as chronic disobedience, truancy or violating curfew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That really tracks with what we know nationally, which is that girls and gender-expansive youth are often entering detention or being confined not because of public safety concerns, but because of concerns for their individual safety, or in an effort to connect them to treatment or services and ensure compliance or connection to those services,” said Hannah Green, a Vera Institute program associate leading research for the initiative in California. “And we know that that’s really out of step with best practice and is not what the juvenile justice system is intended to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Santa Clara County has achieved is part of the national trend, according to Green. New York City, for example, did not incarcerate any girls in 2021, and no more than two youth were in girls’ units for most of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/25/hawaii-zero-girls-youth-correctional-facility/\">Hawaii announced the girls’ units in their juvenile system were empty\u003c/a>. Instead, they developed community-based alternatives, which included a campus with a shelter and a vocational program for youth ages 15 to 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont provides a warning of what could occur without such alternatives: With no juvenile facilities in the state, a 15-year-old girl was placed in an adult women’s prison in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the high number of girls who remain incarcerated because they lack permanent, safe housing, securing that has become the Santa Clara County Probation Department’s starting point in ensuring each girl’s release — or preventing girls from entering detention at all. After all, a reduction in detention numbers will be futile if the youth remain unsupported once they are released back into the community, said Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, probation officials move on to address other factors in that girl’s life, such as access to education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joy Hernandez is one of the people who receive notice from the Probation Department when a girl needs educational support. Hernandez, senior program manager with the \u003ca href=\"https://youthlaw.org/\">National Center for Youth Law\u003c/a>, works as a liaison between the students and their schools, while also coaching and encouraging the students to remain in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her job includes making sure all students are immediately enrolled in their local school, have secured any necessary tutoring, have created a high school graduation plan and receive help applying for financial aid if they are attending college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s unique about education liaisons like Hernandez in Santa Clara County is that any young person who has come into contact with the juvenile justice system can be referred to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, students go through their court procedure and are incarcerated before receiving this type of service. But in this county, even youth who have not yet attended their initial court date can be referred to a liaison like Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some young people, it takes a pretty long time to go through the whole court process, and then by that time the disconnection from education just becomes compounded — they’ve been waiting a year or more to access services,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional Santa Clara County research in 2017 also found that the majority of girls in detention had been transferred, expelled or suspended from their school prior to their arrest or citation, with 80% having a history of multiple referrals to the child welfare system indicating potential child abuse or neglect, and 80% experiencing bouts of homelessness before entering the juvenile justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the level of information that the four additional counties chosen for the initiative can expect to help gather. They will be announced by the end of March. Each will receive up to $125,000 in funding with the potential for up to $250,000 in additional funding after the first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new counties will also receive research and programming support from the Vera Institute to analyze local juvenile justice data in support of this initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While each county’s process for reducing the number of girls they detain will be dependent on their existing infrastructure, the research and results from Santa Clara County show what might be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be able to leverage all of the knowledge that we’ve built there to help inform what’s the data that’s most important to collect. How do we make sure it’s being shared out? What does meaningful collaboration look like with the community and with directly impacted young people?” said Green, who will also be leading program management for the new counties. “What are some of the solutions that we’ve seen that have been most impactful? And then how might that need to be adjusted for the local context in these new local counties who will hopefully be excited to apply and participate and go on this journey with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the success will lie in each county’s willingness to change a deeply rooted system, said Birchard, of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In an effort to change systems, you sometimes have to look at yourself and your system and be willing and open to change,” he said. “Through that process, positive outcomes are certainly going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Four counties will receive funding and research support, following the success of an initiative in Santa Clara County that found that most incarcerated youth in girls' units were in jail for lack of somewhere safe to go.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1678139133,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":30,"wordCount":1495},"headData":{"title":"California's Juvenile Justice System Seeks to End the Incarceration of Young Women | KQED","description":"Four counties will receive funding and research support, following the success of an initiative in Santa Clara County that found that most incarcerated youth in girls' units were in jail for lack of somewhere safe to go.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"source":"EdSource","sourceUrl":"https://edsource.org","nprByline":"\u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/author/bmarquez\">Betty Márquez Rosales\u003c/a>","excludeFromSiteSearch":"Include","showOnAuthorArchivePages":"No","articleAge":"0","path":"/news/11942615/californias-juvenile-justice-system-seeks-to-end-the-incarceration-of-young-women","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Four California counties will soon be offering girls and young women in youth jails more community-based alternatives to being detained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The initiative follows a pilot in Santa Clara County, established in 2018, which found that most incarcerated youth in girls’ units were in jail for lack of somewhere safe to go. Even when probation officials recommended their release, the girls stayed in county jails because of a lack of appropriate alternatives, such as safe temporary housing in a foster home or financial support to avoid returning to an abusive relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ultimately, there was no place to have them be other than juvenile hall,” said Katherine Lucero, referring to her time as a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge prior to \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2022/a-former-judge-leads-plan-to-overhaul-californias-juvenile-justice-system/671126\">joining the new state agency overseeing the state’s juvenile justice system\u003c/a>. “That was hard for me to digest because I always thought we were only putting youth in detention facilities for public safety reasons.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'For some young people, it takes a pretty long time to go through the whole court process, and then by that time the disconnection from education just becomes compounded — they've been waiting a year or more to access services.'","name":"pullquote","attributes":{"named":{"size":"medium","align":"right","citation":"Joy Hernandez, senior program manager, National Center for Youth Law","label":""},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The pilot resulted in a partnership among local courts, the county Probation Department, researchers and community organizations to ensure those girls would be released and any others with low-level offenses kept from being locked up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the program’s first two years, the detention of girls declined 58% countywide. It also averaged no more than one girl per month for a full year. This changed only after youth convicted of violent offenses, who typically were sent to state youth facilities, began staying at the county juvenile hall given that \u003ca href=\"https://edsource.org/2021/quick-guide-new-state-law-puts-californias-juvenile-justice-system-at-a-crossroads/661962\">state facilities are closing\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This type of partnership is what the new state agency overseeing the juvenile justice system in California, the Office of Youth and Community Restoration, and the research nonprofit they have collaborated with, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.vera.org/\">Vera Institute of Justice\u003c/a>, are looking to replicate by hosting a competitive application process after which four new counties will be chosen to mirror the initiative in Santa Clara County. There is no set time frame for statewide expansion, but that is the goal, according to Lucero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Systems are really set up not to be disrupted. … If the people at the top show an interest and make it important, and you stick with it, and then eventually the systems catch up,” said Nicholas Birchard, Santa Clara County’s chief probation officer. Birchard worked closely with Lucero to bring the initiative to the county years ago and has been part of ensuring its implementation within the Probation Department.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"aside","attributes":{"named":{"postid":"news_11924009,news_11923958","label":"Related Posts "},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nationally, the rate of detention has consistently declined in recent decades. In 2019, there were \u003ca href=\"https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/ezajcs/asp/process.asp?JCSCF_ID=qa06601&type_num=2&group_num=3&submit=Update+Table\">41,000 girls and young women in detention\u003c/a> — down by over 55% from 92,100 in 2005.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California, the low number of detained girls is part of what sparked the interest in eliminating the detentions altogether. In 2021, the most recent year for which this data is available, \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\">1,400 girls and young women\u003c/a> were detained across the state for low-level offenses. They were as young as 12, up to 21.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further research by the Vera Institute, a national advocacy and research organization that seeks to end mass incarceration, found ongoing \u003ca href=\"https://openjustice.doj.ca.gov/data\">statewide trends\u003c/a>: The majority of girls’ arrests, convictions and detentions in 2020 were for misdemeanor or status offense charges, such as chronic disobedience, truancy or violating curfew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That really tracks with what we know nationally, which is that girls and gender-expansive youth are often entering detention or being confined not because of public safety concerns, but because of concerns for their individual safety, or in an effort to connect them to treatment or services and ensure compliance or connection to those services,” said Hannah Green, a Vera Institute program associate leading research for the initiative in California. “And we know that that’s really out of step with best practice and is not what the juvenile justice system is intended to be doing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What Santa Clara County has achieved is part of the national trend, according to Green. New York City, for example, did not incarcerate any girls in 2021, and no more than two youth were in girls’ units for most of 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last year, \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07/25/hawaii-zero-girls-youth-correctional-facility/\">Hawaii announced the girls’ units in their juvenile system were empty\u003c/a>. Instead, they developed community-based alternatives, which included a campus with a shelter and a vocational program for youth ages 15 to 24.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vermont provides a warning of what could occur without such alternatives: With no juvenile facilities in the state, a 15-year-old girl was placed in an adult women’s prison in 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Due to the high number of girls who remain incarcerated because they lack permanent, safe housing, securing that has become the Santa Clara County Probation Department’s starting point in ensuring each girl’s release — or preventing girls from entering detention at all. After all, a reduction in detention numbers will be futile if the youth remain unsupported once they are released back into the community, said Green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then, probation officials move on to address other factors in that girl’s life, such as access to education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joy Hernandez is one of the people who receive notice from the Probation Department when a girl needs educational support. Hernandez, senior program manager with the \u003ca href=\"https://youthlaw.org/\">National Center for Youth Law\u003c/a>, works as a liaison between the students and their schools, while also coaching and encouraging the students to remain in school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Her job includes making sure all students are immediately enrolled in their local school, have secured any necessary tutoring, have created a high school graduation plan and receive help applying for financial aid if they are attending college.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What’s unique about education liaisons like Hernandez in Santa Clara County is that any young person who has come into contact with the juvenile justice system can be referred to work with her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Typically, students go through their court procedure and are incarcerated before receiving this type of service. But in this county, even youth who have not yet attended their initial court date can be referred to a liaison like Hernandez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For some young people, it takes a pretty long time to go through the whole court process, and then by that time the disconnection from education just becomes compounded — they’ve been waiting a year or more to access services,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Additional Santa Clara County research in 2017 also found that the majority of girls in detention had been transferred, expelled or suspended from their school prior to their arrest or citation, with 80% having a history of multiple referrals to the child welfare system indicating potential child abuse or neglect, and 80% experiencing bouts of homelessness before entering the juvenile justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is the level of information that the four additional counties chosen for the initiative can expect to help gather. They will be announced by the end of March. Each will receive up to $125,000 in funding with the potential for up to $250,000 in additional funding after the first year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new counties will also receive research and programming support from the Vera Institute to analyze local juvenile justice data in support of this initiative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While each county’s process for reducing the number of girls they detain will be dependent on their existing infrastructure, the research and results from Santa Clara County show what might be possible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ll be able to leverage all of the knowledge that we’ve built there to help inform what’s the data that’s most important to collect. How do we make sure it’s being shared out? What does meaningful collaboration look like with the community and with directly impacted young people?” said Green, who will also be leading program management for the new counties. “What are some of the solutions that we’ve seen that have been most impactful? And then how might that need to be adjusted for the local context in these new local counties who will hopefully be excited to apply and participate and go on this journey with us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the success will lie in each county’s willingness to change a deeply rooted system, said Birchard, of Santa Clara County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In an effort to change systems, you sometimes have to look at yourself and your system and be willing and open to change,” he said. “Through that process, positive outcomes are certainly going to happen.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\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/11942615/californias-juvenile-justice-system-seeks-to-end-the-incarceration-of-young-women","authors":["byline_news_11942615"],"categories":["news_8"],"tags":["news_25720","news_20971","news_18188","news_32485","news_32486"],"featImg":"news_11612882","label":"source_news_11942615"},"news_11938593":{"type":"posts","id":"news_11938593","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"news","id":"11938593","score":null,"sort":[1674168984000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"president-biden-visits-storm-hit-california-after-raising-federal-aid-even-higher","title":"President Biden Visits Storm-Hit California After Raising Federal Aid Even Higher","publishDate":1674168984,"format":"standard","headTitle":"KQED News","labelTerm":{"site":"news"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> President Joe Biden walked along the splintered boardwalk of the picture-postcard beach town of Capitola in Santa Cruz County on Thursday and heard from business owners struggling to repair damage to their shops after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-weather-us-news-california-climate-and-environment-b3769eb9a0643a6c2c291c4c9fd777b5\">deadly storms caused devastation\u003c/a> across the region and killed more than 20 people statewide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden toured a gutted seafood restaurant and the badly flooded Paradise Beach Grille, not far from the collapsed Capitola Pier and the brightly painted pink, orange and teal shops that are all boarded up following the storms. Walls were crumbling, with debris scattered everywhere and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6\">floors swept away\u003c/a> by raging waters.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"President Joe Biden\"]'We know some of the destruction is going to take years to rebuild. But we've got to not just rebuild, but rebuild better.'[/pullquote]Paradise Beach Grille owner Chuck Maier told Biden that water had gushed up from the floor and swamped his business on Monterey Bay. “No kidding,\" Biden exclaimed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You don’t feel it until you walk the streets,” Biden said later from nearby Seacliff State Beach, speaking about how bad the damage was and blaming climate change for the severity of the weather. “If anybody doubts the climate is changing, they must have been asleep for the last couple of years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flanked by first responders, Gov. 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He warned that climate change would create more extreme weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know some of the destruction is going to take years to rebuild,” Biden said. “But we've got to not just rebuild, but rebuild better.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newsom praised the fast federal response, but warned the threat remains high in a state that just a few years ago suffered devastating drought and is now facing record rainfall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The scale and scope of these floods is hard to understand unless you get out, and that's why I couldn't be more grateful to the president for taking the time to come out again.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 2:50 p.m. Thursday:\u003c/strong> President Joe Biden is touring damaged areas and being briefed on recovery efforts Thursday after \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/biden-weather-us-news-california-climate-and-environment-b3769eb9a0643a6c2c291c4c9fd777b5\">devastating storms\u003c/a> hit California in recent weeks, killing at least 20 people and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6\">causing destruction\u003c/a> across 41 of the state's 58 counties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president, accompanied by Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Deanne Criswell, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state and local officials, is visiting the storm-damaged Capitola Pier in Santa Cruz County, where he is meeting with business owners and affected residents.[pullquote align=“right” size=“medium” citation=\"FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell\"]'These communities have had loss of life, loss of their well-being and their livelihood, and I think it's incredibly important that they know that the president is here to support them and that the full force of the federal family is going to be behind them.'[/pullquote]Biden will also meet with first responders and deliver remarks on supporting the state's recovery at nearby Seacliff State Beach. More than 500 FEMA and other federal personnel have been deployed to California to support the emergency response operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criswell said Thursday on the trip from Washington to California that the president and staff have to be mindful of what people have been through when traveling to places devastated by storms and other natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has just been so much trauma to this community and it’s really important that we keep that in mind. ... These communities have had loss of life, loss of their well-being and their livelihood, and I think it’s incredibly important that they know that the president is here to support them and that the full force of the federal family is going to be behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has already approved a major disaster declaration for the state, freeing up additional federal resources for recovery efforts. Hours before the visit, he raised the level of federal assistance available even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938603\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Four men are seen walking across an airfield.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pres. Biden and Gov. 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Walls were crumbling, with debris scattered everywhere and \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/science-weather-landslides-and-mudslides-california-climate-environment-69b594ed7f68a6701543ae7b9560f7e6\">floors swept away\u003c/a> by raging waters.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"'We know some of the destruction is going to take years to rebuild. 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More than 500 FEMA and other federal personnel have been deployed to California to support the emergency response operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Criswell said Thursday on the trip from Washington to California that the president and staff have to be mindful of what people have been through when traveling to places devastated by storms and other natural disasters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has just been so much trauma to this community and it’s really important that we keep that in mind. ... These communities have had loss of life, loss of their well-being and their livelihood, and I think it’s incredibly important that they know that the president is here to support them and that the full force of the federal family is going to be behind them.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Biden has already approved a major disaster declaration for the state, freeing up additional federal resources for recovery efforts. Hours before the visit, he raised the level of federal assistance available even higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11938603\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11938603\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Four men are seen walking across an airfield.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-160x106.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-2048x1362.jpg 2048w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/DSC_0968-1920x1277.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pres. Biden and Gov. 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But in this election — amid a wave of scandals and an ongoing corruption trial — she will not be on the ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\">Now, two men are running to take over the office. Kevin Jensen, a retired sheriff’s captain, says he knows the department well enough to make changes that will restore public trust. Bob Jonsen, the former Palo Alto police chief, says his perspective from outside the department will lead to real reforms. 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Sitting prosecutors in Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties had strong leads over their challengers. But in San Joaquin County, the progressive DA was in a tight race with her Republican challenger. In the race for an open seat in Alameda County, a progressive and a more traditional candidate were the top two early vote-getters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorney elections in California have become increasingly heated in recent years, with progressive candidates facing off against more traditional law-and-order prosecutors, in a bid to reduce incarceration and address systemic racism and economic inequality in the criminal justice system. But some of those reformers who were elected are now facing backlash from moderate and conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most high-profile example, San Francisco’s progressive prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913102/we-are-all-more-than-our-worst-mistake-five-takeaways-from-sf-district-attorney-chesa-boudins-discussion-at-kqed\">Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> — a former public defender elected DA in 2020 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">was defeated\u003c/a> by a well-funded recall campaign that capitalized on voters’ anxiety about crime. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, opponents of progressive DA George Gascón are gathering signatures to put a recall measure on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, though, liberal Attorney General Rob Bonta, who was appointed last year by Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916206/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-easily-advances-to-november-election-to-face-republican-challenger\">was well ahead\u003c/a> of his more conservative challengers. He will face one of two closely matched Republicans in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In local district attorney races around the Bay Area and beyond, similar tensions are at play, as voters debate whether public safety is best achieved through tougher prosecutions and sentencing or an approach that favors rehabilitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Voters want solutions, and that can mean services and treatment as much as it can mean incarceration,\" said Cristine Soto DeBerry, director of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California. \"It's new for us to elect reform-minded candidates into prosecutor's offices. I’m encouraged. Many of them won, and all of them stimulated a conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some counties, notably Alameda, the results won’t be clear until November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-preference#top-two-candidates\">“top two” primary system\u003c/a>, if one candidate wins a majority of votes in this election, the race is decided. If no one gets a majority, the two candidates with the greatest number of votes, regardless of political party, will face off in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIncumbent DA Diana Becton, a former judge first elected district attorney in 2018, held on to her seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914643/contra-costas-da-sent-a-sheriffs-deputy-to-prison-now-law-enforcement-groups-are-spending-big-to-defeat-her\">in the face of a strong challenge\u003c/a> from a fellow Democrat who’s a deputy prosecutor in her office, Mary Knox. Late Tuesday evening, Becton had 57% to Knox’s 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton is considered a progressive prosecutor and made headlines last fall when she won a conviction against former Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall in the fatal shooting of Laudemer Arboleda. Becton, along with Boudin and Gascón, was a founding member of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California, established in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd murder. Knox had the backing of many law enforcement groups across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contra Costa County voters have spoken clearly to indicate that they really want a criminal justice system that is about safety, but that is always also about fairness and equality for everyone,\" said Becton. \"We've adopted new and innovative approaches that move us beyond a singular reliance on incarceration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTori Verber Salazar was running narrowly behind fellow Republican Ron Freitas, a prosecutor in her office. She is another incumbent DA who has staked out a progressive stance on fighting crime but was at risk of losing her seat. With votes still being counted, Freitas had 51% to Salazar’s 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Salazar quit the California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, saying it was resisting voter-backed criminal justice reform efforts aimed at reducing incarceration. She became another founding member of the progressive \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Prosecutors Alliance\u003c/a>. In his campaign, Freitas said he would work to lengthen prison sentences. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-freitas-san-joaquin-county-district-attorney-black-juror_n_62955ce9e4b0415d4d89068d\">Freitas came under scrutiny\u003c/a> over a federal judge’s finding in 2009 that he had wrongly excluded a Black man from a jury on the basis of his race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Krishna Abrams appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915246/solano-countys-race-for-district-attorney\">fend off a challenge\u003c/a> from her chief deputy, Sharon Henry, who has called for more independent oversight of law enforcement and an acknowledgement of racial bias in policing. Tuesday night Abrams had 61% to Henry’s 39%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams had strong backing from police groups. But she was widely criticized when she recused her office from pursuing charges in two fatal Vallejo police shootings, citing a lack of public trust. The state Attorney General’s office said she had abdicated responsibility. Henry, who claims support from liberals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/chief-deputy-to-challenge-krishna-abrams-as-solano-da/\">took Abrams to task\u003c/a> for the recusal and for the running of the office, which she complained is plagued by favoritism and a lack of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen won reelection without a runoff Tuesday, even though he\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/election-2022-the-race-for-santa-clara-county-district-attorney-da-jeff-rosen-sajid-khan-daniel-chung/\"> faced two challengers\u003c/a>: Sajid Khan, a deputy public defender running to Rosen’s left, and deputy DA Daniel Chung, who cast himself as a tougher prosecutor. Rosen had 59% of the vote to Chung's 24% and Khan’s 17%, on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen, who has held the job since 2010, describes himself as a prosecutor who takes a balanced approach, citing endorsements from both police associations and civil rights groups such as the NAACP. Khan campaigned on his opposition to cash bail and gang enhancements, and his support for diversion programs and holding police accountable for misconduct. Chung opposes some progressive voter-approved reforms, including downgrading the penalties for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Santa Clara County leads the way in technology, diversity and the smart and balanced way we strive to handle criminal justice,\" said Rosen. \"Today’s vote once again shows there is a mandate for safety and fairness — not one at the expense of the other, but both.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, voters in Alameda County are likely to choose between outspoken progressive Pamela Price, a former public defender and civil rights attorney, and veteran prosecutor Terry Wiley, who favors many progressive approaches but is perhaps the most traditional candidate. In early returns, Price and Wiley were the top two vote-getters \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/05/06/alameda-county-da-race-candidates-pimary-election-2022/\">in a four-way race\u003c/a> to succeed incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who is retiring. Price had 40% and Wiley had 31% of the vote late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, in his three decades in the DA’s office, has overseen investigations of police shootings and touts his work on restorative justice, as well as his years of experience prosecuting criminals. Price has vowed to tackle racial disparities in the enforcement of justice and to scrutinize police shootings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\"\u003c/b>I'm very grateful to the people of Alameda County for standing with us on this journey,\" said Price. \"As a community, we are appalled when people find out that African Americans are 20 times more likely to be incarcerated in this county in 2022. \u003ci>S\u003c/i>o that's what we have to begin to change.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two other candidates — Jimmie Wilson, another deputy in the DA’s office, and Seth Steward, a former prosecutor in San Francisco who is currently chief of staff to Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb — were lagging in early returns: Wilson had 21% and Steward 9% of votes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":null,"status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1664818458,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":24,"wordCount":1263},"headData":{"title":"Incumbents Have Edge in Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano District Attorney Races | KQED","description":"In a number of primary races for district attorney in counties around the Bay Area, incumbent DAs — both liberal and more conservative — were holding on to their offices. 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Sitting prosecutors in Contra Costa, Santa Clara and Solano counties had strong leads over their challengers. But in San Joaquin County, the progressive DA was in a tight race with her Republican challenger. In the race for an open seat in Alameda County, a progressive and a more traditional candidate were the top two early vote-getters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District attorney elections in California have become increasingly heated in recent years, with progressive candidates facing off against more traditional law-and-order prosecutors, in a bid to reduce incarceration and address systemic racism and economic inequality in the criminal justice system. But some of those reformers who were elected are now facing backlash from moderate and conservative voters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the most high-profile example, San Francisco’s progressive prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11913102/we-are-all-more-than-our-worst-mistake-five-takeaways-from-sf-district-attorney-chesa-boudins-discussion-at-kqed\">Chesa Boudin\u003c/a> — a former public defender elected DA in 2020 — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916212/chesa-boudin-recall-sf-voters-on-track-to-oust-district-attorney\">was defeated\u003c/a> by a well-funded recall campaign that capitalized on voters’ anxiety about crime. In Los Angeles, meanwhile, opponents of progressive DA George Gascón are gathering signatures to put a recall measure on the November ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the state level, though, liberal Attorney General Rob Bonta, who was appointed last year by Gov. Gavin Newsom, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11916206/california-attorney-general-rob-bonta-easily-advances-to-november-election-to-face-republican-challenger\">was well ahead\u003c/a> of his more conservative challengers. He will face one of two closely matched Republicans in November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In local district attorney races around the Bay Area and beyond, similar tensions are at play, as voters debate whether public safety is best achieved through tougher prosecutions and sentencing or an approach that favors rehabilitation.\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>\"Voters want solutions, and that can mean services and treatment as much as it can mean incarceration,\" said Cristine Soto DeBerry, director of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California. \"It's new for us to elect reform-minded candidates into prosecutor's offices. I’m encouraged. Many of them won, and all of them stimulated a conversation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some counties, notably Alameda, the results won’t be clear until November.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under California’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/political-parties/no-party-preference#top-two-candidates\">“top two” primary system\u003c/a>, if one candidate wins a majority of votes in this election, the race is decided. If no one gets a majority, the two candidates with the greatest number of votes, regardless of political party, will face off in the November general election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Contra Costa County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIncumbent DA Diana Becton, a former judge first elected district attorney in 2018, held on to her seat \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11914643/contra-costas-da-sent-a-sheriffs-deputy-to-prison-now-law-enforcement-groups-are-spending-big-to-defeat-her\">in the face of a strong challenge\u003c/a> from a fellow Democrat who’s a deputy prosecutor in her office, Mary Knox. Late Tuesday evening, Becton had 57% to Knox’s 43%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Becton is considered a progressive prosecutor and made headlines last fall when she won a conviction against former Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Hall in the fatal shooting of Laudemer Arboleda. Becton, along with Boudin and Gascón, was a founding member of the progressive Prosecutors Alliance of California, established in 2020 in the wake of the George Floyd murder. Knox had the backing of many law enforcement groups across the county.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Contra Costa County voters have spoken clearly to indicate that they really want a criminal justice system that is about safety, but that is always also about fairness and equality for everyone,\" said Becton. \"We've adopted new and innovative approaches that move us beyond a singular reliance on incarceration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>San Joaquin County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nTori Verber Salazar was running narrowly behind fellow Republican Ron Freitas, a prosecutor in her office. She is another incumbent DA who has staked out a progressive stance on fighting crime but was at risk of losing her seat. With votes still being counted, Freitas had 51% to Salazar’s 49%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2020, \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Salazar quit the California District Attorneys Association\u003c/a>, saying it was resisting voter-backed criminal justice reform efforts aimed at reducing incarceration. She became another founding member of the progressive \u003ca href=\"https://theappeal.org/politicalreport/prosecutor-quits-california-district-attorney-association-tori-salazar/\">Prosecutors Alliance\u003c/a>. In his campaign, Freitas said he would work to lengthen prison sentences. But \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-freitas-san-joaquin-county-district-attorney-black-juror_n_62955ce9e4b0415d4d89068d\">Freitas came under scrutiny\u003c/a> over a federal judge’s finding in 2009 that he had wrongly excluded a Black man from a jury on the basis of his race.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Solano County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Krishna Abrams appeared to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11915246/solano-countys-race-for-district-attorney\">fend off a challenge\u003c/a> from her chief deputy, Sharon Henry, who has called for more independent oversight of law enforcement and an acknowledgement of racial bias in policing. Tuesday night Abrams had 61% to Henry’s 39%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abrams had strong backing from police groups. But she was widely criticized when she recused her office from pursuing charges in two fatal Vallejo police shootings, citing a lack of public trust. The state Attorney General’s office said she had abdicated responsibility. Henry, who claims support from liberals, \u003ca href=\"https://www.vallejosun.com/chief-deputy-to-challenge-krishna-abrams-as-solano-da/\">took Abrams to task\u003c/a> for the recusal and for the running of the office, which she complained is plagued by favoritism and a lack of diversity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Santa Clara County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nDistrict Attorney Jeff Rosen won reelection without a runoff Tuesday, even though he\u003ca href=\"https://sanjosespotlight.com/election-2022-the-race-for-santa-clara-county-district-attorney-da-jeff-rosen-sajid-khan-daniel-chung/\"> faced two challengers\u003c/a>: Sajid Khan, a deputy public defender running to Rosen’s left, and deputy DA Daniel Chung, who cast himself as a tougher prosecutor. Rosen had 59% of the vote to Chung's 24% and Khan’s 17%, on Tuesday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosen, who has held the job since 2010, describes himself as a prosecutor who takes a balanced approach, citing endorsements from both police associations and civil rights groups such as the NAACP. Khan campaigned on his opposition to cash bail and gang enhancements, and his support for diversion programs and holding police accountable for misconduct. Chung opposes some progressive voter-approved reforms, including downgrading the penalties for drug possession.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Santa Clara County leads the way in technology, diversity and the smart and balanced way we strive to handle criminal justice,\" said Rosen. \"Today’s vote once again shows there is a mandate for safety and fairness — not one at the expense of the other, but both.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Alameda County\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nIn November, voters in Alameda County are likely to choose between outspoken progressive Pamela Price, a former public defender and civil rights attorney, and veteran prosecutor Terry Wiley, who favors many progressive approaches but is perhaps the most traditional candidate. In early returns, Price and Wiley were the top two vote-getters \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2022/05/06/alameda-county-da-race-candidates-pimary-election-2022/\">in a four-way race\u003c/a> to succeed incumbent District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, who is retiring. Price had 40% and Wiley had 31% of the vote late Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wiley, in his three decades in the DA’s office, has overseen investigations of police shootings and touts his work on restorative justice, as well as his years of experience prosecuting criminals. 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