SF News Golden Gate Bridge Protesters Released From Jail, But Still Might Face Felony Charges SF DA Brooke Jenkins released the couple dozen people who were in jail for blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in Monday's Gaza ceasefire protest, and they haven’t even been charged, though Jenkins is vowing they’ll be investigated for possible felony charges.
SF Politics SF Bar Association Says DA Brooke Jenkins Is Inflaming Controversy Over Light Sentence; Judge Now Getting Death Threats A light sentence for a high-profile stabbing suspect led to a protest outside San Francisco's Hall of Justice last week. But some legal experts and judges say that District Attorney Brooke Jenkins overstepped by criticizing the sentence.
SF News San Francisco Man Convicted of Brutal Beating and Stabbing Over $100 A verdict has been reached in a case from February 2023 involving a beating and stabbing in San Francisco's SoMa district.
SF News SF City Leaders Hold Rally, Reiterate Plan to Prosecute Fentanyl Dealers For Homicide A plan that was announced last fall to begin prosecuting fentanyl dealers for homicide in cases of fatal overdoses is moving forward, and a law enforcement task force dedicated to the project is set to launch soon.
SF Politics Wealthy Donors Funneling a Fortune to Make Prop. 1 Ads That Are Basically Just Brooke Jenkins Ads The latest political campaign money end-around is setting up a state-level committee to prop up local DA Brooke Jenkins, and slather her face and name all over ads for next month’s statewide Proposition 1.
SF News SF District Attorney Staffer Fired After Sending Offensive Email to DA Brooke Jenkins About Her ‘Panties’ A victim advocate in the San Francisco District Attorney Office’s sent District Attorney Brooke Jenkins and the entire office an email Friday morning asking what color panties she had on, leading to his immediate termination.
SF Politics DA Brooke Jenkins Has a Challenger This November, And It’s Someone Who She Once Fired Former SF Assistant DA Ryan Khojasteh was fired by Brooke Jenkins right after she was appointed in July 2022. Now he’s declared he’s running to unseat her in the November 2024 election.
SF News At Least 200 Gather at SF Hall of Justice to Protest DA's Decision to Charge Bay Bridge Gaza Protesters Pro-Palestinian protesters are, unsurprisingly, not happy about the SF district attorney's decision to charge 78 protesters with multiple misdemeanors for their participation in a disruptive demonstration last month on the Bay Bridge.
SF News SF District Attorney to Begin Filing Charges Against Bay Bridge Gaza Protesters SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that a slew of charges are going to be filed against 80 people who were arrested while participating in a protest that blocked the westbound Bay Bridge last month.
SF News 23-Year-Old Man Getting Arraigned Today For June Mass Shooting on 24th Street Nearly six months to the day of his arrest, 23-year-old Javier Campos is being arraigned in San Francisco for the June 9 shooting at 24th and Treat streets that injured nine people.
SF News Day Around the Bay: SF District Attorney Says Homeless Should Be Made 'Uncomfortable' DA Brooke Jenkins said homeless people need to be "uncomfortable" in order to get them into shelter; the ex-cop in last weekend's standoff in the East Bay has been charged; and Hi Felicia owner Imana is closing Sluts wine bar and says she is unhoused.
SF News Gavin Newsom Joins Chorus of Lawmakers Calling for Fentanyl Dealers to Be Charged With Murder For Overdoses In announcing a new joint task force between the state and the City of San Francisco, Governor Newsom and Mayor Breed vow that they’ll start having fentanyl dealers charged with murder when a user dies from an accidental overdose.
SF News Day Around the Bay: DA Jenkins Acknowledges 'Pro-Hamas March' Tweet, Doesn't Exactly Apologize A website falsely reported that Sup. Dean Preston had retired; there was an apparent murder-suicide this morning in Sunnyvale; and DA Brooke Jenkins acknowledged deleting a controversial tweet about Saturday's march supporting Palestinians.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Sued by One of Her Former Investigators, Who Claims She Lied in Dismissing Police Shooting Case Some old Chesa Boudin-era drama is rearing its head again, as DA Jenkins’s former assistant chief of investigations is hauling her to court, saying she lied when dropping the charges against a police officer who shot and killed someone.
SF News DA Jenkins’s Office Disqualified From Murder Case, and Boy Is She Upset at the Chronicle’s Coverage After the Chronicle broke a story that DA Brooke Jenkins’s office had been disqualified from a case involving her family member, Jenkins took to Twitter to excoriate the paper’s seemingly accurate reporting on the topic.
SF Politics Appeals Court Finds SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Committed Prosecutorial Misconduct A 2021 homicide case that was tried by then-Assistant District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, which she cited as a final straw in her disagreements with former boss Chesa Boudin, has come back to haunt Jenkins again.
SF News At Contentious Tenderloin Town Hall, DA Brooke Jenkins Blames Judges for Freeing Drug Dealers San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is looking to shift some blame for the city's ongoing fentanyl crisis to the county's judges, who she says are too lenient in allowing drug suspects back onto the streets.
SF News DA Jenkins Releases Castro Car-Flip Carjacking Suspects, Drops Charges Pending More Evidence Former DA Chesa Boudin probably would have been crucified for this, but DA Brooke Jenkins has dropped all charges and released the two suspects in last Saturday’s alleged carjacking gone wrong that resulted in the car flying off the Sanchez Street stairway hill.
SF News SFPD Arrests Two in Year-Old Fatal Lower Haight Shooting, DA Abruptly Releases One of Them A case that had appeared to have gone cold has heated up for San Francisco police, as they just arrested two suspects in a June 2022 Lower Haight shooting. But DA Brooke Jenkins has released one of the suspects, “pending further investigation."
SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Touts Accomplishments of Her First Year Police activity caused a major backup on 101 in SF on Tuesday evening; District Attorney Brooke Jenkins reflects on her first year in office; and South Lake Tahoe is getting a Margaritaville resort.
SF News DA Jenkins Will Drop Charges Against SFPD Officer In 2017 Shooting of Mentally Ill Man SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins has cleaned house in one regard, now having dismissed charges in all three police shooting cases brought by her predecessor Chesa Boudin.
SF Politics DA Jenkins’s Drug Treatment Effort Not Really Working, Because No One’s Showing Up For Court It’s hardly encouraging that DA Brooke Jenkins's ten-month-old push to get low-level drug arrestees into treatment has only yielded three attempts to get people into treatment. It’s even less encouraging that none of them have shown up for their court dates.
SF News Body Cam Footage Released of Fatal Police Shooting of SF Burglary Suspect District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is set to conduct an investigation into the “legality of the shooting," setting up another political fight over charging law enforcement in a fatal shooting.
SF News CA Attorney General Agrees to Look Into Banko Brown Shooting Case California State Attorney General Rob Bonta has agreed to review the evidence in the case of the shooting death of 24-year-old Banko Brown, and whether SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins made the right call in declining to press charges.
SF News Video of Banko Brown Shooting Released as DA Jenkins Announces Final Decision Not to File Charges Against Security Guard SF DA Brooke Jenkins announced Monday that her office has come to a final decision not to file charges against the Walgreens security guard accused of shooting alleged shoplifter Banko Brown, and with the decision the surveillance footage from the case has been made public.