SF News Richmond Police Investigated By Attorney General Over Shooting of Unarmed Man A Tuesday shooting by Richmond police that was initially described as a standoff with a domestic violence suspect is being investigated by the California Attorney General's Office.
Business & Tech California Joins 13 Other States in Suing TikTok for Alleged Harm It Causes to Teen Users A new lawsuit from 14 state attorneys general goes after TikTok for those “challenge” videos that have killed teens nationwide, and even alleges an economy of underage nude videos that have created a "virtual strip club" on the platform.
SF News AG Rob Bonta Sues Humboldt Catholic Hospital for Refusing to Provide Emergency Abortion With Mother’s Life at Risk The state attorney general has filed a lawsuit against Humboldt County's Providence St. Joseph Hospital for refusing to provide an emergency abortion on a night when the mother might have died without one.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Sues Exxon for Falsely Claiming Plastics Were Recyclable When They Were Not The oil giant ExxonMobile is also in the plastics production industry, and California Attorney General Rob Bonta says they’ve been lying to the public for decades claiming that non-recyclable plastic was actually recyclable, just in order to sell more single-use plastic containers.
SF News State Raid of Richmond Home Turns Up Tons of Guns, a Million Rounds of Ammo The California Bureau of Firearms raided a home in the East Bay city of Richmond, and arrested a man for having nearly 250 guns and a million rounds of ammunition. And for good measure, the fellow had already been prohibited from owning weapons.
SF News State AG Rob Bonta Investigating Last Week’s Fatal Police Shooting in Newark While it’s unclear whether Newark police, Fremont police, or an Alameda County officer fired the fatal shot in a suspected East Bay carjacking last week, the state attorney general took up an investigation of the police shooting the day after it happened.
SF Politics AG Bonta's Office Has 90 Days to Review SF Police Shooting Case — and Jenkins's Handling of It The California Attorney General's Office has responded to a San Francisco court proceeding involving what would have been the first-ever prosecution of an on-duty SFPD officer for a fatal shooting, asking for 90 more days to review the case.
SF News Vocal Trump Critic Xavier Becerra Formally Nominated As Next CA Attorney General With former California Attorney General Kamala Harris officially sworn in as the state's newest Senator, Governor Jerry Brown has moved to fill her vacant role by formally nominating Congressman Xavier Becerra (D-Los Angeles)
SF News Obama's 'Best-Looking Attorney General' Won't Be Taking Over Eric Holder's Gig Even before the White House officially announced that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder would be quitting his job, the woman President Obama once described as "by far, the best-looking [state] attorney general"
SF News President Obama Apologizes To Kamala Harris For Distracting A Nation Last night after returning from his trip to California, President Obama called state Attorney General Kamala Harris to apologize for "the distraction created by his comments" yesterday in which he called Harris "the
SF News Jackie Speier Decides Not to Run for Attorney General The Sacto Bee announced today that U.S. Rep. Jackie Speier will not to run for California attorney general. "She's going to remain in Congress where she can focus on issues that she
SF News LA Police Chief Gives Kamala Harris Thumbs-Up In AG Run We're biased. We love us some Kamala Harris. She's pretty. She has the loveliest hair we've seen since we last looked into a mirror. She will temporarily stop an interview to give the
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Sue Me, Sue Me, What Can You Do Me State Attorney General Jerry Edmund G. Brown gave the OK for SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera to sue Ed Jew today. A civil lawsuit like this would permanently remove Jew from office. What's
SF News SFist Blotter Huh -- remember that huge fight we all got into about whether or not to put cameras at high-crime intersections in SF? Turns out the cameras at the public housing sites are pretty
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Moonbeam In other deadline-related Ed Jew news, the other operative date to watch out for is Monday Tuesday July 10, which is the cutoff date for a special election for the seat if Ed
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Jury Duty Many were a-twitter today when Ed Jew showed up at the Hall of Justice this morning for jury duty. Apparently he received his summons at his Sunset "home" address. And apparently, he had
SF News One Mile Better Ain't Enough Truckin' For 'Moonbeam' Jerry Brown, our recenty elected State Attorney General and St. Ignatius College Prep alum, isn't afraid to take the Bush Administration to task for its weak stand on fuel efficency for SUVs, minivans
SF News Testimony In Gonzales Case Says Maybe San Francisco AG Deserved It? You've undoubted heard by now of the controversy where AG AG (That's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) fired a bunch of people for apparently less than above-board reasons. Well, maybe he had a good
Arts & Entertainment Jerry Brown Caught Swearing There was more bible holding and swearing oaths today than a Pat Robertson "300 Club" revival as Jerry Brown also got sworn in today as the new Attorney General. Like the Board of
misc State Supreme Court to Hear Gay Marriage Case How did we get here? Let's go take the Way Back Machine and see. We start in 2004 when Gavin (gaw-- that was one wife and at least three girlfriends ago) decided to
SF News Indictments in H.P. Case "using of false or fraudulent pretenses to obtain confidential information from a public utility, unauthorized access to computer data, identity theft, and conspiracy to commit each of those crimes." Each charge is a
misc Week in -Ist Phillyist is concerned that the war on Trans fats could affect it's beloved cheese steak sandwiches, something for which we should all be concerned. They also seem to be concerned about which subterranean
SF News East Bay News First, the quick and dirty: the Oakland Tribune reports: one dead, two injured, 3 alarm fire at a 6 story residential hotel in downtown Oakland early Friday morning . In the Berkeley Daily Planet,
SF News The NSA Wiretapping Scandal: Not Just For Phone Calls Anymore Well, AT&T denied the claim but this morning, Wired News posted documents given to them by Klein of inter-office documents detailing just what the NSA was up to. These documents were
