SF News Oakland’s Top Cop Says Lenient Bail is To Blame for Oakland Crime Spike Oakland Police Chief LeRonne Armstrong is pleading with the Alameda County Superior Court to end the pandemic-era loosening of bail fees, saying this is responsible for an alleged Oakland crime spike.
SF News Kamala Harris Reverses Position For Second Time, Will Not Support Challenge To San Francisco's Cash-Bail System Marking the second reversal on the matter in under a week, outgoing California Attorney General (and Senator-elect) Kamala Harris said yesterday that she will not, in fact, support a challenge to San Francisco's
SF News Kamala Harris Will Step In To Defend SF Cash Bail System After City Attorney, Sheriff Refuse City Attorney Dennis Herrera has refused to fight a class-action lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of San Francisco's bail system because he agrees it unfairly punishes the poor, but whether she agrees with Herrera
SF News City Attorney Won't Fight Class-Action Suit Calling SF Bail System 'Unconstitutional' Because He Agrees A lawsuit filed by Washington, DC-based civil rights nonprofit Equal Justice Under Law almost exactly a year ago has a pretty good point about San Francisco's bail system - which many feel is
SF News A Year And A Half After His Arrest In Child Porn Case, SF Politico Enrique Pearce Remains Free On Bail The wheels of justice grind slowly, assuming that they do indeed grind. That, at least, appears to be true in the case of a former high-profile San Francisco politico who was arrested on
SF News Algorithm Could Set New Standard For SF Bail System To reform a bail system that critics say disproportionately punishes poor people, District Attorney George Gascón is touting a new approach: An algorithm that recommends how to set bail by factoring in a
SF News Garrido's Bail Set at $30 Million Although both Philip Garrido and his robot wife, Nancy Garrido, have pleaded not guilty to all 29 charges of kidnapping, rape, and false imprisonment charges, Philip's bail was set today at $30 million.
SF News Johannes Mehserle Released fom Jail Johannes Mehserle, the BART officer who shot and killed Oscar Grant on New Year's Day, was released from jail late this afternoon on bond. He had been at the Santa Rita Jail in
