There are no errors. We quoted 3 city leaders on this. $60K fines from EPA are if there's a lawsuit in egregious situations. Making it sound like a likely scenario is exaggerating & fear-mongering. brandon pho is a great journalist who got it right. We stand by his reporting.

Thank you Ramona Giwargis !! I’m stoked to be here!

A public comment session is now taking place at Valley Water in regards to a proposed ordinance that would ban encampments along the creeks and fine violators. San José Spotlight

Happening now: The Indian Health Center of Santa Clara County and activists rally at city hall to address the missing and murdered indigenous peoples (MMIP) crisis. San José Spotlight

CA has the 6th highest death rate of indigenous women in urban areas. Councilman Peter Ortiz said that San Jose has a responsibility to protect its indigenous people. San José Spotlight

People speak out the names of the indigenous people who they know are missing or murdered. San José Spotlight

Ahead of council’s vote on safe sleeping sites for the homeless, San Jose Mayor Mahan is holding a presser at the Guadalupe River Trail to show the environmental impact of the trash in the waterways.

Happening now: The Santa Clara Valley Water Board of Directors is considering a proposed policy that would prohibit homeless people from living on encampments on VW-owned land and fine them up to $500 if they don’t comply. San José Spotlight

.San José Spotlight’s Joyce Chu and Vicente Vera spoke with Silicon Valley DNC delegates to see how they are going to be voting at #DNCConvention2024 next month amid fallout from Joe Biden and the Democratic Party: sanjosespotlight.com/what-silicon-v…

NEW: With Sunday’s bombshell announcement by Joe Biden dropping out of the 2024 presidential race, Silicon Valley leaders rally in support of Kamala Harris. Joyce Chu has comments from Omar Torres, Councilmember David Cohen and ShanePatrickConnolly 🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley… via San José Spotlight

Dozens of uncashed checks. Expenditures that were not allowed. Tardiness in submitting quarterly performance reports. These are some of the issues found in an audit of local nonprofits providing housing assistance during the pandemic sanjosespotlight.com/silicon-valley…

Four years after a county behavioral health audit that suggested how the supervisors could help stop the loss of licensed board and care homes for the mentally ill, nothing has been done. Learn more from Joyce Chu San José Spotlight Silicon Valley’s most vulnerable live in filthy

Advocates gather to speak out against Gavin Newsom exec order to sweep homeless encampments. Shaunn Cartwright speaks on the number of homeless people who have died, increasingly after sweeps have been made. 136 homeless people have died this year. San José Spotlight

Raymond, formerly incarcerated and currently unhoused, says that Gov. Newsom’s executive order criminalizes those who need help. San José Spotlight

At a time when rising rents are forcing people out of their homes, this community land trust is offering an alternative solution to keep tenants from being displaced, taking them out of the hands of a private owner and into residents. sanjosespotlight.com/south-bay-comm…

Happening now: Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren helps secure $1.6 million in federal funding for farm worker housing for Santa Clara county San José Spotlight

Santa Clara County receives $1 million in federal funding to house homeless veterans, which will be used to renovate the building the county acquired on 10 Kirk Ave. San José Spotlight

Last year, a renovated San Jose hotel on The Alameda reopened with much fanfare to house homeless residents. But problems have cropped up from the start, according to people who live there. sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-hotel…

Emotions ran high at a homeless encampment near a San Jose park as the city began sweeping the streets that unhoused residents called home.sanjosespotlight.com/san-jose-sweep…