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It's Official: David Chiu Is SF's New City Attorney

As has been widely expected for months, SF Mayor London Breed announced Wednesday that Assemblymember and former SF Supervisor David Chiu is her pick to be the next city attorney.

David Chiu Likely to Be SF's Next City Attorney, Setting Up Race For His Assembly Seat

The winds of San Francisco politics are going to strengthen in the coming weeks, with potential shakeups that will likely bring us a new assemblymember in Sacramento, and potentially a shift in power on the Board of Supervisors.

SF Still Determined to Buy Local PG&E Grid, Demands an Appraisal

PG&E rebuffed SF’s $2.5 billion offer for the city’s grid in 2019, but now the city is power-playing for an appraisal and gaming to force the utility to sell.

Permit Expeditor Walter Wong to Repay $1.45 Million to San Francisco to Settle Corruption Lawsuit

A longtime contractor with the city of San Francisco and a well-known consultant known to be able to grease the wheels of city departments to get notoriously slow permit processes to magically speed up is going to be repaying over $1 million in contract awards to the city.

Supervisors Prepare for City Attorney Election to Coincide With Gavin Recall; Herrera Explains Why He's Leaving

The palace intrigue continues over Monday's announcement that SF Mayor London Breed had tapped longtime City Attorney Dennis Herrera to head up the Public Utilities Commission.

SF Mayor London Breed Names City Attorney Dennis Herrera to Lead Public Utilities Commission

After a scandal-plagued year at City Hall, San Francisco Mayor London Breed is going with a familiar name and face for her nomination for the next general manager of the SF Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC): City Attorney Dennis Herrera.

SF City Attorney Suspends Four Contractors With Links to Nuru From Doing Future Business With the City

As part of the ongoing corruption scandal that upended business as usual at San Francisco City Hall last year, City Attorney Dennis Herrera has officially suspended five executives representing four companies that previously had city contracts.

San Francisco Is Suing Its Own School District In Escalating War Over Reopening

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is filing a lawsuit Wednesday against the city's school district, arguing that the district is now out of compliance with a state law directing districts to adopt a plan for reopening for in-person classes.

SF Catholic Churches Have Been Holding Illegal Gatherings; City Attorney Threatens Restraining Order

In a seven-page cease-and-desist letter dated June 29, City Attorney Dennis Herrera said the church was "putting its parishioners and the larger community at risk of serious illness and death."

City Attorney Vows Thorough, Independent Investigation Of City Contracts Linked To Nuru

Dennis Herrera, in conjunction with the city's Controller, said today that an independent investigation — beholden to no one at City Hall — is already underway into any potential improprieties in contracts linked to the DPW and its recently federally charged director.

San Francisco Is The First City To Sue Equifax

San Francisco became the first city to sue Equifax on behalf of 15 million Californians affected by their much reported data breach. City Attorney Dennis Herrera wrote in a statement, "Equifax’s incompetence

SF And California File Coordinated Lawsuits Against Federal Government Over Trump's Sanctuary City Threats

In a second attempt to thwart the Trump Administration's efforts to punish so-called sanctuary jurisdictions and force them to comply with federal immigration enforcement efforts, the City of San Francisco and the State

Arts & Entertainment

[Update] DeYoung Museum Apologizes For Illegal Sidewalk Stencil Ads

The marketing team at the deYoung Museum clearly missed the memo that San Francisco does not allow spray-stencil advertising of any kind on its sidewalks, because a tipster alerted us to some new

Mad Dad In New Ad Blames Sanctuary City Policy For Son's Death

Business is booming for TV ads that blame San Francisco for America's ills, as another such spot is hitting the statewide airwaves this week. Don Rosenberg, seen above, lost his son Drew in

San Francisco Sues Uber To Get Local Driver Information

We first heard about it last week, and now City Attorney Dennis Herrera makes it official, filing a lawsuit to compel Uber to hand over the names and addresses of all its local

Bad Landlord Anne Kihagi Fined $2.4 Million By SF Court

Housing rights activists gather to protest landlord Anne Kihagi #protest #housing #eviction https://t.co/fYG1EdMi8S pic.twitter.com/uPN7u8noG2— Onpublico (@onpublico) January 31, 2015 It's a bad week for notoriously bad landlord

Chronicle Publishes Op-Ed By Jeff Sessions Saying Sanctuary Cities Killed Kate Steinle

In the spirit of discourse and hearing both sides, the Chronicle published opposing voices on the subject of sanctuary cities today, two for, and two against the system of non-cooperation with federal customs

To Shut Down Alleged FiDi Brothel, City Attorney Uses Red Light Abatement Law For 'First Time In Recent History'

California's Red Light Abatement Law, a classic early 1900s vice law, has been used as recently as 2015 to shut down illegal gambling dens, but it's been a long time since the City

San Francisco Becomes First City To Sue Over Sanctuary City Order As California May Become Sanctuary State

SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Trump's executive order that threatens to withhold federal funds from so-called Sanctuary Cities, becoming the first city the nation to do so.

Academy Of Art, Longtime Zoning Scofflaw, Agrees To $60 Million Settlement With SF

In a City Hall news conference announced yesterday and held Monday morning, City Attorney Dennis Herrera delivered the news, leaked early to the Chronicle's Matier and Ross, that Academy of Art University, one

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

City Attorney Files Civil Suit Against Millennium Tower Developer

The City Attorney's office is suing Millennium Partners, the developer of the Millennium Tower, alleging that they neglected to disclose to buyers their knowledge of the building's excessive settling — the tower now tilts

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

City Attorney: HUD Was Wrong To Reject SF Anti-Gentrification Plan

City Attorney Dennis Herrera is laying into federal housing officials who rejected a San Francisco policy this month, the Affirmative Fair Housing Marketing Plan, that would have set aside 40 percent of all

Judge Rules Warriors Arena Can Go Forward

A Superior Court judge ruled today against a coalition of UCSF benefactors and former officials who questioned the sufficiency of an environmental review of the Chase Center, a.k.a. the Warriors Arena.