This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA gay man who returned to the U.S. earlier this year after being deported to Chad — only to be detained again by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as soon as he arrived back in California — will soon be released amid COVID-19 concerns, his legal team told The Chronicle.Oumar Yaide, a San Francisco resident, was ordered Thursday to be released from the Yuba County Jail in Marysville on $10,000 bond, said Edwin Carmona-Cruz, co-director at Pangea Legal Services, a San Francisco nonprofit representing Yaide.Yaide was recently...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateA gay man who returned to the U.S. earlier this year after being deported to Chad — only to be detained again by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as soon as he arrived back in California — will soon be released amid COVID-19 concerns, his legal team told The Chronicle.Oumar Yaide, a San Francisco resident, was ordered Thursday to be released from the Yuba County Jail in Marysville on $10,000 bond, said Edwin Carmona-Cruz, co-director at Pangea Legal Services, a San Francisco nonprofit representing Yaide.Yaide was recently...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateSan Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced $28.5 million in coronavirus aid for the city’s Latino residents, who remainBreed did not specify where the funds would come from, but a press release from her office said the city obtained the initial funding of $22.5 million “through a variety of solutions” and that it will leverage public and private sources to meet the remaining need.The funding will include:• $7.3 million for coronavirus testing, contact tracing and behavioral health• $8.5 million in housing subsidies and...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateSan Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced $28.5 million in coronavirus aid for the city’s Latino residents, who remainBreed did not specify where the funds would come from, but a press release from her office said the city obtained the initial funding of $22.5 million “through a variety of solutions” and that it will leverage public and private sources to meet the remaining need.The funding will include:• $7.3 million for coronavirus testing, contact tracing and behavioral health• $8.5 million in housing subsidies and...WW…

More than 40 immigrants held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego are alleging that a recent detainee death of COVID-19 was caused by reckless and inhumane conditions, according to a letter begging the governor and other California lawmakers to intervene.“This is a cry for help,” said detainee Oscar Nevarez, one of 43 immigrants at Otay Mesa who supported the letter after detainee Carlos Escobar Mejia died May 6. “Please allow us to go home on humanitarian ground and fight our cases from our homes with our families where we are safe.”Advocates from Pueblo Sin Fronteras and Otay...…More than 40 immigrants held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center near San Diego are alleging that a recent detainee death of COVID-19 was caused by reckless and inhumane conditions, according to a letter begging the governor and other California lawmakers to intervene.“This is a cry for help,” said detainee Oscar Nevarez, one of 43 immigrants at Otay Mesa who supported the letter after detainee Carlos Escobar Mejia died May 6. “Please allow us to go home on humanitarian ground and fight our cases from our homes with our families where we are safe.”Advocates from Pueblo Sin Fronteras and Otay...WW…

A federal judge ordered the immediate release of an Oakland man being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, saying the jail conditions put him at a .U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ordered the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday to release the man so that he can shelter in place with his wife in Oakland, according to the Alameda County public defender’s office.The man’s attorneys argued in a filing that the government failed to provide safe detention conditions to ICE detainees at the jail. Beeler agreed, saying the man could not...…A federal judge ordered the immediate release of an Oakland man being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Yuba County Jail in Marysville, saying the jail conditions put him at a .U.S. Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler ordered the Department of Homeland Security on Sunday to release the man so that he can shelter in place with his wife in Oakland, according to the Alameda County public defender’s office.The man’s attorneys argued in a filing that the government failed to provide safe detention conditions to ICE detainees at the jail. Beeler agreed, saying the man could not...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateTwo brothers from Haiti were detained at San Francisco International Airport Sunday for more than a day, despite having visas to enter the United States, and the youngest, a 9-year-old boy, was sent to a government shelter for unaccompanied children, their attorney said Tuesday.Christian Laporte, 19, who is enrolled at Diablo Valley College in Contra Costa County, and Vladimir Fardin, 9, were detained at the airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Sunday, their attorney, Milli Atkinson, said.Atkinson, legal director of...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateTwo brothers from Haiti were detained at San Francisco International Airport Sunday for more than a day, despite having visas to enter the United States, and the youngest, a 9-year-old boy, was sent to a government shelter for unaccompanied children, their attorney said Tuesday.Christian Laporte, 19, who is enrolled at Diablo Valley College in Contra Costa County, and Vladimir Fardin, 9, were detained at the airport by U.S. Customs and Border Protection on Sunday, their attorney, Milli Atkinson, said.Atkinson, legal director of...WW…

Airborne transmission of the coronavirus, possibly linked to an inflatable Christmas costume, is the likely cause of a 44-person outbreak — and at least one fatality — in the emergency department at Kaiser Permanente San Jose.Kaiser said over the weekend that it is still investigating why so many San Jose employees in the same department have tested positive for the coronavirus since Dec. 27. But the hospital has acknowledged the fact that a staff member “briefly” appeared in the department two days earlier wearing an “air-powered costume.”Late Sunday evening, Kaiser Permanente issued a...…Airborne transmission of the coronavirus, possibly linked to an inflatable Christmas costume, is the likely cause of a 44-person outbreak — and at least one fatality — in the emergency department at Kaiser Permanente San Jose.Kaiser said over the weekend that it is still investigating why so many San Jose employees in the same department have tested positive for the coronavirus since Dec. 27. But the hospital has acknowledged the fact that a staff member “briefly” appeared in the department two days earlier wearing an “air-powered costume.”Late Sunday evening, Kaiser Permanente issued a...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThree major police unions in California introduced a reform agenda Sunday to improve outcomes between police officers and their communities and “root out any racist individual” from their ranks.The San Jose Police Officers’ Association, the San Francisco Police Officers Association and the Los Angeles Police Protective League outlined the plan in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.The proposal comes amid sweeping calls for police reform, weeks...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateThree major police unions in California introduced a reform agenda Sunday to improve outcomes between police officers and their communities and “root out any racist individual” from their ranks.The San Jose Police Officers’ Association, the San Francisco Police Officers Association and the Los Angeles Police Protective League outlined the plan in a full-page advertisement published Sunday in The Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post.The proposal comes amid sweeping calls for police reform, weeks...WW…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally issued guidelines last week on how to reopen schools safely. But some Bay Area health experts are not sure that what the federal agency is recommending makes sense — or that it has students’ mental health in mind.The CDC on Friday its much-anticipated guidance for returning for K-12 students to in-person instruction in the coming year. It recommends handwashing, disinfection of school facilities, diagnostic testing and contact tracing to identify infections and separate infected people from others in a school.The CDC guidance is...…The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finally issued guidelines last week on how to reopen schools safely. But some Bay Area health experts are not sure that what the federal agency is recommending makes sense — or that it has students’ mental health in mind.The CDC on Friday its much-anticipated guidance for returning for K-12 students to in-person instruction in the coming year. It recommends handwashing, disinfection of school facilities, diagnostic testing and contact tracing to identify infections and separate infected people from others in a school.The CDC guidance is...WW…

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateUnions representing San Francisco Unified School District employees announced a tentative agreement with the district Sunday to safely reopen the city’s public schools — a major step in a contentious, monthslong debate that has pitted city officials against district leaders.A key component of the agreement allows a return to classrooms once the city reaches the red tier, the second most restrictive level of California’s reopening blueprint, if vaccinations against the coronavirus are made available to on-site school staff. If the...…This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateUnions representing San Francisco Unified School District employees announced a tentative agreement with the district Sunday to safely reopen the city’s public schools — a major step in a contentious, monthslong debate that has pitted city officials against district leaders.A key component of the agreement allows a return to classrooms once the city reaches the red tier, the second most restrictive level of California’s reopening blueprint, if vaccinations against the coronavirus are made available to on-site school staff. If the...WW…

A driver accused by police of killing two pedestrians in downtown San Francisco on New Year’s Eve while intoxicated and in a stolen car is a parolee who remained free despite being arrested several times in the city in recent months, according to city officials and public records.Troy Ramon McAlister, a 45-year-old city resident who was released on April 10 from a state prison sentence for robbery, was not charged with new crimes by the District Attorney’s Office after any of last year’s arrests, the most recent of which occurred on Dec. 20.District Attorney Chesa Boudin said his office...…A driver accused by police of killing two pedestrians in downtown San Francisco on New Year’s Eve while intoxicated and in a stolen car is a parolee who remained free despite being arrested several times in the city in recent months, according to city officials and public records.Troy Ramon McAlister, a 45-year-old city resident who was released on April 10 from a state prison sentence for robbery, was not charged with new crimes by the District Attorney’s Office after any of last year’s arrests, the most recent of which occurred on Dec. 20.District Attorney Chesa Boudin said his office...WW…