SF News Alameda County DA Charges Three Officers Over 2021 In-Custody Death Where Previous DA Had Declined to Charge A looming recall election has not deterred Alameda County DA Pamela Price from charging three police officers with involuntary manslaughter in a 2021 case where a suspect died from what was ruled to be “restraint asphyxiation” by the officers.
SF Politics The ‘Recall Pamela Price’ Crowd Has Submitted Their Signatures for Recall Attempt Against Alameda County DA The political group trying to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price submitted what they say are 123,000 signatures to get their measure on the ballot, though 73,000 of them have to be proven to be valid.
SF News Storms Cause Highway 84 in Alameda County to Just Crack Open and Fall Into Creek There’s only one lane open on State Route 84 a.k.a. Niles Canyon Road west of Sunol, because part of the other lane has simply broken off and fallen into Alameda Creek.
SF Politics Governor Newsom Sending In Wave of State Attorneys to Prosecute Crime in Alameda County Gavin Newsom’s Oakland and East Bay anti-crime crusade continues, now with Newsom announcing he’s sending a bunch of state Department of Justice attorneys to prosecute crime in Alameda County, which may be a message to DA Pamela Price.
SF News The Race to Replace Barbara Lee in Congress Is Heating Up Longtime East Bay Congresswoman Barbara Lee is vacating her seat in her bid for Senate, and of the nine candidates running to replace her, BART director Lateefah Simon seems to be pulling ahead.
SF News Alameda County DA Pursuing Murder Charges Against Men Accused of Killing Retired Officer Kevin Nishita It’s probably not going to win Alameda County DA Pamela Price any converts in the recall campaign against her, but she’s throwing the book at the men charged with killing a retired officer who was shot while providing security for a KRON4 cameraman.
SF Politics Alameda County DA Pamela Price to Host Anti-Recall Campaign Party Thursday Embattled Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and her supporters will be having a campaign launch party Thursday evening in Oakland as they try to fend off an attempt to get Price removed from office.
SF Politics The Recall Pamela Price Campaign Kicks Off Its Signature-Gathering Effort Here we go again with another district attorney recall campaign, as paid signature gatherers made their first big official push Sunday to collect the 73,000 signatures they need to force a recall election on Alameda County DA Pamela Price.
SF News Pleasanton Man Arrested For Murder of Fiancee, Whose Dismembered Body Was Found On Alameda Shoreline In July Alameda County authorities have arrested and charged a Pleasanton man in connection with the death of a woman he called his fiancee, after her body was identified last month.
SF News ‘Pirates’ Pulling Increasingly Brazen Thefts at the Docks of Oakland’s Marinas A recent rash of thefts at the house boats and sailboats at the 13 marinas in Alameda County is overwhelming the small number of maritime law enforcement personnel there, as thieves sometimes commandeer and steal entire boats.
SF News 9 Arrested, 21 Victims Rescued In East Bay In Nationwide Human Trafficking Crackdown The district attorneys' offices of Alameda and Contra Costa c0unties held a joint press conference Wednesday with the Federal Bureau of Investigation to announce nine arrests in the last two weeks as part of a national anti-human trafficking operation.
SF News Series of Fires Along I-580 in East Alameda County Investigated As Arson Multiple fires broke out early Saturday morning along an eight-mile stretch of I-580 near the Altamont Pass, and California Highway Patrol confirmed that they were deliberately set.
SF News Accused Shooter In Three Oakland Murders Sentenced to 12 Years In High-Profile Test of DA's Policies A highly controversial case that has been the source of considerable courtroom drama in Alameda County in recent months has ended with a sentence that is unlikely to feel like justice for the families of three murder victims.
SF News As East Bay Gun Injuries Spike By 180%, the Region’s Congressional Reps Call For Federal Report It seems unlikely some blue-ribbon commission would change the trajectory of gun injuries, up 180% in the East Bay compared to pre-pandemic, but some congressional representatives say a Surgeon General report could turn the tide like it did with cigarettes.
SF News One Suspect Killed, Two Arrested After Struggle With CHP Officer Near San Leandro An incident that began with a police chase involving an allegedly stolen car on I-580 in the East Bay ended early Monday morning with one suspect fatally shot, either by a CHP officer or an Alameda County Sheriff's deputy.
SF News Alameda County Supervisors Vote to Make It Illegal to Even Watch A Sideshow It is now illegal to so much as even watch a sideshow in Alameda County, and you could get a $1,000 fine or six months in jail for being within 200 feet. But what if you just happened to be there, and weren’t watching the sideshow?
SF News Outside Judge to Rule on Whether Alameda County DA Can Disqualify Judge Who Tossed Plea Deal A judge from outside Alameda County will now step in to decide whether a judge should continue to try a murder case in which he rejected a plea deal that the defense and prosecution had agreed to, because it was too lenient.
SF News Grandmother of Tortured and Murdered Hayward Girl Sues Alameda County for 'Horrifying Inaction' The family of Sophia Mason, the eight-year-old girl whose body was found a year ago in a bathtub in Merced following months of abuse and neglect, has now formally filed suit against Alameda County over social workers' failure to identify and address that abuse.
SF News In Blow to New Alameda Co. DA, Judge Tosses Plea Deal In Murder Case Newly elected Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price appeared in a courtroom Thursday for a hearing in a plea deal that marked one of the first significant moves of her tenure. And the news was not good.
SF News New Alameda County DA Pamela Price Reopens Case Against Officers Who Conducted Fatal Arrest of Mario Gonzalez Alameda County's new progressive district attorney is using a similar playbook to SF's former DA Chesa Boudin in announcing possible prosecutions of police officers in her first weeks on the job.
SF Politics Drama In Alameda County DA's Office, As Outgoing DA Tries To Direct $20 Million To Her Own Projects Retiring Alameda County DA Nancy O’Malley tried to direct $20 million out incoming DA Pamela Price’s budget and into a set of her own pet nonprofits and projects, but she’s withdrawn that request after blowback.
SF News Alameda Co. Deputy Pleads Not Guilty In Dublin Double-Murder The 24-year-old former Alameda County sheriff's deputy who turned himself in shortly after the September 7 double murder of a Dublin couple in their home has entered a plea in the case, and it's not guilty.
SF Politics Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price Claims Victory as Alameda County's First Black District Attorney Pamela Price has all but certainly been elected to the District Attorney's Office in Alameda County, becoming the first Black person to hold the job — beating out opponent Terry Wiley to take over from retiring DA Nancy O'Malley.
SF News Former Alameda County Deputy Seen Beating Suspect In Mission District Alley Has Charges Against Him Dismissed A former Alameda County sheriff's deputy, one of two officers seen on video in San Francisco brutally beating a suspect with their batons in a widely publicized 2015 incident, saw the charges against him dismissed Thursday morning.
SF Politics California Rejected 106,000 Mail Ballots In Last Election, But Alameda County Is Under Fire for Not Rejecting Enough Nearly 2% of California voters had their mail-in ballots rejected in the June primary, which is sad, but Alameda County’s lowest rejection level statewide has anti-tax groups up in arms demanding the county reject more people’s votes.
