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they reached out to investigative reporter hilda gutierrez. hilda, the residents at a south bay community say they've been fined by their homeowners association as a desperate measure of last resort. they reached out to our investigative unit for help. life was good at garden park village. at least that's what long term renters and homeowners tell us. and i love my neighborhood. i love about my house. the neighborhood is really nice. but they say things started to change about a year ago. yeah. the cameras, they started being installed, i believe it was in 2024. liliana alvarez purchased her unit in 2009, but she says most are renters. she says soon after the hoa board that's been there for 12 years installed surveillance cameras. residents were hit with hundred and thousand dollar fines that came without warning. here. this is something that they would find you for. they consider this a violation. they want the wood part to be clear. plexiglas and the fee. fine. sorry for this violation is $240. liliana herself has been hit with ten fines over

here's nbc's investigative reporter hilda gutierrez. a, the immigration court system is already overwhelmed with a backlog of millions of pending cases. ironically, president trump's aggressive immigration mandate could add so many new cases that it ends up slowing deportations rather than expediting them. according to immigration and customs enforcement, better known as ice, their agents have detained more than 10,000 migrants so far, and i will launch the largest during president trump's first two weeks in office. many were immediately deported, flown out on military transports. the rest joined the backlog of 3.7 million cases already in immigration courts nationwide. cases like maria's and her son's that have been sitting in immigration court for years, you know, just nada. there were nights when i didn't sleep at all, because the truth was that the emotional impact was so great that i preferred to save my son's life. and that's why we came here. maria has a work permit and a driver's license, but without asylum protection, she fears

hilda gutierrez joins us now with these new developments. hilda. hi. review by federal monitors found that santa clara county office of education misused head start funds, delayed actions to correct the problem, and rejected oversight, among other things. what it's really providing is the foundation for learning allegations of the misuse of funds intended for the head start program, which helps at-risk and low income children, have been brewing since last spring. finding a misuse of funds for staff that wasn't even a part of the head start program. they were being paid, triggered by a whistleblower complaint. our investigative unit broke the story and was there when federal auditors arrived at the santa clara county office of education. the result of their visit are detailed in a report by the administration for children and families. it highlights five areas of noncompliance in the office of education's head start program in the program's management. eligibility and selection criteria. there's a lot of relief, i think, to finally see it in black and w

i'm hilda gutierrez. we investigate also in san francisco. the city is trying to clean up its politics. democratic leaders have been increasingly concerned over what they see as a lack of accountability when it comes to sexual harassment and abuse within political campaigns and even government offices. now, some in the democratic party are preparing to unveil a new plan to hold powerful politicians accountable. here's senior investigator bigad siobhan. ruth ferguson has always been drawn to politics. she started volunteering in city government as a young teen, but by her mid-twenties, she says, working in the political arena nearly destroyed her molaa. there was a point where i thought my life was over, and i felt like all that i was and had worked towar, and the whole like core of who i was was just like, decimated. it was your life. it was my life. ferguson was working as a staffer for a california state lawmaker, where she says she experienced sexual harassment by one of her male supervisors, including regular requests for her to rate othe

here's investigative reporter hilda gutierrez. the immigration court system is already overwhelmed with a backlog of millions of pending cases. ironically, president trump's aggressive immigration mandate could add so many new cases that it ends up slowing deportations rather than expediting them. according to immigration and customs enforcement, better known as ice, their agents have detained more than 10,000 migrants so far, and i wl launch the largest during president trump's first two weeks in office. many were immediately depeported, flown ot on military transports. the rest joined the backlog of 3.7 million cases already in immigration courts nationwide. cases like maria's and her son's that have been sitting in immigration court for years. you know, there were nights when i didn't sleep at all because the truth was that the emotional impact was so great that i preferred to save my son's life. and that's why we came here. maria has a work permit and a driver's license, but without asylum protection, she fears being deported

they shared their story with investigative reporter hilda gutierrez.outh bay community say they've been fined by their homeowners association as a desperate measure of last resort. they reached out to our investigative unit for help. life was good at gordon park village. at least that's what long term renters and homeowners tell us. and i love my neighborhood. i love about my house. the neighborhood is really nice. but they say things started to change about a year ago. yeah. the cameras, they started being installed, i believe it was in 2024. liliana alvarez purchased her unit in 2009, but she says most are renters. she says soon after the hoa board that's been there for 12 years installed surveillance cameras. residents were hit with 100 and thousand dollar fines that came without warning. here. this is something that they would find y you for. ey consider this a violation. they want the wood part to be clear. plexiglass and the fee. fine. sorry for this violation is $240. liliana herself has been hit with ten fines over the last year, and she owes o

investigative reporter hilda gutierrez has that story. taylor lee says her 20 year career in the hospitality industry slowly came to an end. the day she notified her employer she was pregnant with twins. lee says she was discriminated against during her pregnancy and never reinstated after returning from maternity leave. taylor lee worked her way up the corporate ladder of various marriott affiliated hotels from the spa desk at 17 years old to becoming a sales director. i was a multi-year presidents club winner, always hit all my goals, achieved a lot for the company, generated hundreds of millions of dollars for the company, and saw a lot of success. in late 2022, she was working remototelyrom her home in marin county and managing the high end leisure and business travel accounts for the westin maui resort and spa. when she became pregnant for a second time. right when i found out that i was having twins, my doctor let me know because of the twin type that they were that it was extremely high risk. about two months into her pregnancy, le

hilda gutiérrez telemundo 48 investiga hablemos ahora de la administración trump, que avanzará con larivadas de prisiones a licitar contratos para reiniciar instalaciones de detención específicas para familias. aunque no está claro si se abrirán nuevas instalaciones o si se reabrirán las anteriores y se enfrenta a un déficit presupuestario, lo que aumentaría también los costos. el gobernador de california, gavin newsom, firmó este viernes leyes que reservan 50 millones de dólares para ayudar al estado a proteger sus políticas de los desafíos de la ministración trump y con esto también defender a los inmigrantes en medio de esos planes de deportación masiva del presidente. una de las leyes asigna 25 millones de dólares al departamento de justicia del estado para librar batallas legales contra el gobierno federal. y otra más. reserva otros 25 millones de dólares, en parte para que grupos legales defiendan a los inmigrantes que enfrentan una posible deportación. y un juez federal impidió que el departamento de eficiencia gubernamental de elon musk acceda a material confidencial de los es

ellos compartieron su historia con nuestra reportera de investigación, hilda gutiérrez.idad de investigación en busca de ayuda. garden park village era un lugar tranquilo y amigable. al menos eso es lo que cuentan algunos inquilinos y propietarios que han vivido aquí por años. cuando yo me moví allá, todo estaba tranquilo. no había problemas, no había multas. pero dicen que las cosas empezaron a cambiar hace un año aproximadamente, cuando la mesa directiva de la asociación comenzó a instalar cámaras de seguridad. they started being and still believe it was in twenty twenty four. liliana Álvarez compró su unidad en 2009, pero dice que a diferencia de alberto y ella, la mayoría de sus vecinos rentan sus viviendas. dice que poco después de que la junta directiva que ha estado allí por 12 años instaló las cámaras, los residentes comenzaron a recibir multas de cientos y miles de dólares queue llegaron sin previo aviso. something that they would find you. esto es algo por lo que te multarían. lo consideran una violación. quieren que la parte de madera sea transparente. plexigl

let's bring in our investigative reporter, hilda gutierrez, who's leading the charge for us. you've been talking to judges, attorneys and the asylum seekers. first of all, what's causing the backlog in these immigration courts? yeah, there's a few factors here. according to this immigration law experts. immigration courts have been historically understaffed, underfunded and overwhelmed. so that's one big factor to consider there. the other factor is that asylum seekers have increased in the in the last two years. as we've seen we've seen it at the border and we've seen the applications of asylum seekers increase. okay. so just more people here, why would there be more strain on the courts with the trump deportations? is he giving the deportees a legal option here? so as we've seen, we have seen those people that are deported and they are in those military planes, and then they go right to another country and they go to another country. but according to nbc news, there have been people that have been released. so those people have to go through the proper due process and proce

investigative reporter hilda gutierrez has their stories. fear, confusion and hope. some of the emotions from immigrants and attorneys outside san francisco's immigration court. it's also where we recently spent four days observing hearings and speaking with those directly affected by the president's plans. it might look like any downtown san francisco high rise, but inside this building, judges will decide the fate of thousands of immigrants here in northern california. salvadorena. i am salvadorian. i arrived almost three years ago at san francisco's immigration court. new policies from the white house have people on edge, like this single mother who asked us not to use her name. she says she fled

our own nbc bay area's hilda gutierrez will host a session, and janelle wang will speak with jane fonda will be at the san jose convention center. it starts at 845 this morning, and like every year, those tickets are sold out. all three of them. i want to go. it's a great, great conference. yeah, i hear you talking about it all the time, so i usually go to it, but it's fantastic. just, you know, to collaborate with women, build each other up. it's cool. well, also today, a major milestone for the san francisco bay ferry. at 820 this morning, the transit system was celebrating carrying more than 1 million passengers between the alameda sea plane and downtown san francisco. now that route first launched in july of 2021. last month, the ferry system announced more than 2.6 million passengers hopping aboard in 2024, a 16% increase compared to 2023. 526 for you right now and let the games begin just about one year from now. ahead, right here on today in the bay, we have a first look at the plans taking shape for the winter olympics in northern italy. plus, storm ranger is tracking the arriva

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nbc bay area's hilda gutierrez will host one session. janelle wang will interview fonda. it all starts at 845 at the san jose convention center. that event, like every year, is sold out. well, many people are congratulating jalen hurts and the philadelphia eagles on winning the super bowl. but there is another winner showing off how he is the best in show. five year old giant schnauzer monty won the top prize over at stminster dog show last night. the spirited schnauzer best best six beat out six other finalists to become the first of his breed to win best in show. monty also won the huge american kennel club champion in december, and his handler said that monty is retiring from showing and this was his last competition. wow. well, if you're going to go out, go out big. you're like, look, i'm done.e. it's pretty good, though. they call him monty because usually they have those long names like montgomery. oh, yeah. the third. exactly. very cool. what an honor to do, monty. and the handler crying there? yeah, absolutely. is like honor. yeah, it's like a beauty pageant momen