SF Politics DA Candidates Debate: Jenkins Still Attacking Boudin, Challengers Say She’s Worse Than Him Interim District Attorney Brooke Jenkins faced her three challengers Tuesday night in the first in-person debate before next month’s election, and all three challengers relished in pointing out that crime is up during her thus-far short tenure.
SF Politics Retired Judge Files State Bar Complaint Against SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, Citing Dishonest Conduct Ahead of the November election in which mayoral appointee to the SF DA's office Brooke Jenkins is hoping to be elected by the people, there appears to be at least one October surprise.
SF Politics In Yet Another Declared Drug Crackdown, DA Jenkins Says ‘This is a War on Fentanyl’ DA Brooke Jenkins tried to send a strong message to drug dealers, but got her message mixed with Supervisor Matt Dorsey, with him saying it’s “not the War on Drugs,” and her saying “it is a war on fentanyl.”
SF Politics San Francisco DA's Office Formally Announces Potential Murder Charges for Fentanyl Dealers SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins is taking another tough-on-drug-crime stance ahead of the November election that will determine if she keeps the job, stating that her office will pursue murder charges if and when they link a fentanyl dealer to an overdose death.
SF News DA Jenkins Rolls Out New Policy To Clamp Down on Repeat Misdemeanor Drug Offenders Call it a “five strikes” law if you will — SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s new drug misdemeanor policy hopes to tighten the screws on repeat offenders once they’ve racked up five drug possession and/or paraphernalia charges.
SF Politics DA Jenkins Defends Secretive $100,000 Payment from Anti-Boudin Group, Which Turns Out Was Actually $153,000 In her first interview on the matter of a previously unreported $100,000 payment, which we now learn was a $153,000 payment, SF DA Brooke Jenkins continues to insist that her consulting for a group bankrolling the recall was unrelated to the recall.
SF Politics We Now Have a DA Race, as Vocal Brooke Jenkins Critic John Hamasaki Is Running Against Brooke Jenkins November’s San Francisco District Attorney election will now definitely be a barnburner, as former police commissioner and fierce SFPD critic John Hamasaki files to run against Brooke Jenkins.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin and His Supporters Seize On Revelation About Brooke Jenkins's Recall Payday: 'Integrity Is Central to the Job of DA' The dirty secret about District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's paid involvement in the campaign to oust her predecessor and former boss, Chesa Boudin, was bound to come out eventually, and it's sparking a lot of chatter.
SF Politics New DA Brooke Jenkins Got $100,000 From Anti-Boudin Political Organization Nice “volunteer” work if you can get it! Brooke Jenkins claimed she was a volunteer for the recall campaign, but new campaign finance filings show she was paid a cool $100,000 as a consultant to a group that largely financed the recall.
SF Politics New DA Jenkins Announces First Actual Policy Changes, Vows Harsher Sentencing for Drug Crimes The first specific policy changes under new District Attorney Brooke Jenkins were announced Wednesday, and she vowed to revoke Boudin’s plea deals, and levy more charges on drug offenders.
SF Politics State AG Refuses DA Jenkins’s Request To Take Breed’s Brother's Case, Plus Case Involving DA's Husband's Family New DA Brooke Jenkins’s request to hand resentencing of London Breed’s brother to the state attorney general has been denied, and same goes for a case involving Jenkins’s husband’s cousin.
SF Politics New DA Jenkins’ Staff Shakeup Arrives, At Least 15 Fired, Several New Hires Announced Brooke Jenkins put her stamp on the office she was appointed to with four new women hired as top staffers, but she fired a bunch of women too, yet more importantly, may have eliminated a future rival by hiring Nancy Tung.
SF News Humpday Headlines: DA Jenkins Vows Crackdown on Tenderloin Drug Sales 229 Bay Area Tesla workers are getting laid off, new SF DA Brooke Jenkins took a walking tour of the Tenderloin and vowed a crackdown, and the Upper Haight is found to be the neighborhood with the highest concentration of Airbnbs.
SF Politics New SF DA Brooke Jenkins Meets With Boudin's Staff, Asks to Review All Unclosed Plea Offers It's the first week of District Attorney Brooke Jenkins's tenure in the SF DA's Office, and she has told the staff she wants to review all still-unclosed plea offers — and she says she may reconsider drug cases in particular, regardless of a defendant's immigration status.
SF Politics New SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins Says She'll Get Tougher on Repeat Offenders, But Still Be Progressive Newly installed SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins will have her work cut out for her managing a transitional DA's Office, being perceived as tougher on crime than her predecessor, and also sticking to progressive ideals about incarceration. But she is starting to explain how she'll do that.
