SF News Staffer Fired By DA Brooke Jenkins Over Reply-All ‘Panties’ Email Sues City Over His Firing An SF District Attorney’s Office employee who was fired for a reply-all email to his colleagues saying “what color panties you have on” is now suing, claiming the city and the DA’s office defamed him.
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 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 Politics Chesa Boudin Declares He’s ‘Not Running for Office in 2024,’ Takes Job at UC Berkeley Think Tank It looks like the political equivalent of riding off into the sunset for former DA Chesa Boudin, as he’s starting up a UC Berkeley department called the Criminal Law & Justice Center.
SF News Alameda County DA’s New Accountability Unit Files Criminal Charges Against Three Law Enforcement Officers The separate charges range from falsifying records in relation with a suicide at Santa Rita Jail to oral copulation with a minor.
SF Politics SF DA Drops Charges Against Officer In Jamaica Hampton Shooting, Says Grand Jury Was Shown Biased Evidence A 2020 indictment by a grand jury in the December 2019 officer-involved shooting of then-25-year-old Jamaica Hampton was the result of political motivation from former DA Chesa Boudin, and a grand jury that was shown incomplete evidence, says SF District Attorney Brooke Jenkins.
SF News Brooke Jenkins’s Tenure at Eight Months: More Arrests and Convictions, Yet Still More Murders and OD Deaths Crime and conviction rates under District Attorney Brooke Jenkins’s first eight months are being seen as a glass half-full for both her supporters and critics, as more people are being arrested and convicted, though more people are being murdered and dying of drug overdoses.
SF News Tesla Cliff Plunge, Oakland Baker’s Death Spark Debate Over Charging Suspects Against Family Wishes Two Bay Area cases that have made headlines have a common thread that the victims’ families may not want suspects charged, though that’s still unlikely to change a DA’s decision on whether to pursue charges.
SF Politics Civil Rights Attorney Pamela Price Claims Victory as Alameda County's First Black District Attorney Pamela Price has all but certainly been elected to the District Attorney's Office in Alameda County, becoming the first Black person to hold the job — beating out opponent Terry Wiley to take over from retiring DA Nancy O'Malley.
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 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 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 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 News Breed to Name Brooke Jenkins, Face of the Recall Ads, as Boudin’s Replacement In DA's Office It’s a win for diversity in the DA’s office, but certainly raises quid quo pro questions, as Mayor London Breed will reportedly appoint the star of many anti-Boudin ads Brooke Jenkins as the new district attorney.
SF Politics Mayor Breed Makes First Post-Recall Remarks, Carefully Avoids Spiking Football In the wake of Tuesday’s recall of District Attorney Chesa Boudin, London Breed struck a conciliatory “Now is a time for healing” note, and served word salad designed to appeal to both sides.
SF Politics San Francisco Voters Recall DA Chesa Boudin and Everyone Including Ann Coulter Has Something to Say About It SF voters who were convinced that recalling progressive District Attorney Chesa Boudin would solve the city's crime troubles may not all appreciate being cheered on by Dinesh D'Souza and Ann Coulter, but that is what's happening.
SF Politics Boudin’s Former Prosecutor Continues Fuming Over Case Where DA Didn't Fight Insanity Plea One of the prosecutors who left the DA’s office, and made a big stink to the press about doing so, continues to air complaints about a homicide case she prosecuted where Boudin ended up relenting to an insanity plea from the suspect.
SF Politics The New Yorker Makes the Case That Chesa Boudin Needs Savvy, Not Stats, to Win Over Critics San Francisco's progressive prosecutor Chesa Boudin is again garnering a national spotlight in a piece in The New Yorker that tries to parse our current moment with criminal justice reform, and the polarizing position he has landed in.
SF Politics Recall Chesa Effort Has Split Into Two Battling Factions, Both Lagging In Contributions The effort to recall DA Chesa Boudin splits into two enemy groups that are taking public potshots at each other, while recall opponents have raised more than twice as much money as the recallers.
SF Politics '60 Minutes+' Asks SF District Attorney Chesa Boudin About Crime, and Releasing Repeat Offenders CBS News isn't doing any favors for San Francisco's national image with the piece that just went live on "60 Minutes+" on the Paramount+ app, which is ostensibly a profile of District Attorney Chesa Boudin.
SF Politics SF District Attorney Files Manslaughter Charges Against Cop In 2017 Shooting For what's believed to be the first time, a San Francisco district attorney has filed a homicide charge against a police officer for shooting a citizen while in the line of duty.
SF News Chesa Boudin Lets Go Of At Least Six Prosecutors, Two Days After Being Sworn In Fresh off the heels of his packed swearing-in ceremony, San Francisco's newest district attorney is already shaking things up — or, rather, sweeping them away — firing at least six prosecutors yesterday afternoon.
SF Politics Chesa Boudin Swearing-In Draws Progressive Icons, Video Address From Justice Sonia Sotomayor Danny Glover, Angela Davis, and the ‘Last Black Man in San Francisco’ Jimmy Fails were on hand, with Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor beamed in, as Chesa Boudin took the oath as San Francisco’s 30th district attorney.
SF Politics Get Ready for the Chesa Boudin Administration — He’s Sworn in as DA Wednesday The Democratic Socialist and son of incarcerated radical activists hopes to change the face of San Francisco law enforcement, starting at his 5:30 p.m. swearing-in Wednesday.
