SF News LA District Attorney Gascón Unveils New Evidence That May Reopen Menendez Brothers Case New evidence has come to light in the notorious Menendez brothers case, including a one-time member of the band Menudo giving sworn claims of sexual abuse by the brothers’ father, and LA District Attorney George Gascón may reopen the case.
SF News Boudin and Gascón Take Legal Action Against Serial ADA Lawsuit-Filing Firm Going after alleged “Serial Filers” of ADA lawsuits, one of whom has filed 1,700 lawsuits himself, the SF and LA district attorneys have filed a state suit against the law firm churning out lawsuits against Chinese-owned businesses.
SF Politics Fight Against Boudin’s Recall Gets $100,000 Gift From Gascón PAC Remember George Gascón? Both SF district attorney Chesa Boudin and Los Angeles DA Gascón face recall efforts, a pro-Gascón PAC has made a lavish contribution to help Boudin.
SF Politics DA Gascón Suddenly Resigns, Mayor Breed Shivs His Successor And Installs Suzy Loftus The District Attorney’s office looks like an episode of “Succession” — literally — as Gascón suddenly quits a month before the election, and Breed power-plays candidate Suzy Loftus into the job.
SF News Two More SFPD Officer-Involved Shootings Result In No Charges In a pattern familiar to anyone following the Gascón-led DA's office, officers will not be charged in a fatal 2017 shooting, and a non-fatal shooting that followed the 2018 Warriors championship celebrations.
SF News SF District Attorney George Gascon Looks To Be Running For DA In Los Angeles San Francisco's popular district attorney George Gascon unexpectedly announced last fall that he would not be seeking a third term. But now, just as unexpectedly, he's apparently been making preparations for a campaign for the DA's job in Los Angeles.
SF News Reporter Bryan Carmody Sues SFPD For Return Of His Property; DA Condemns Raid The freelance news videographer at the center of the Jeff Adachi death report scandal is filing a complaint Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court following a controversial May 10 raid at his home by the SFPD.
SF News A New Law Enforcement Algorithm Helped Free Twin Peaks Shooting Suspect 5 Days Before The Crime Can math determine who'll commit a crime while out on bail and who won't? In an experiment that's been underway since May 2016, San Francisco has adopted an algorithm designed by a Texas-based
SF News 10 More Police Shootings Await Possible Charges As SF Reacts To Perez-Lopez Decision The news that broke late Wednesday regarding the District Attorney's decision not to pursue charges against the two SFPD officers involved in the fatal February 2015 shooting of Amilcar Perez-Lopez is still reverberating
SF News Owner Of Upper Haight Vintage Store Charged With Nine Counts Of Selling Furs From Endangered Species Cicely Hansen, the longtime owner of Decades Of Fashion at the corner of Haight and Belvedere who was "flabbergasted" by a raid on her store last year by California Department of Fish and
SF News SF's District Attorney Hires Two $35,000 Labrador Retrievers The office of San Francisco's District Attorney gained two new employees — but unlike (one assumes) the rest of the staff there, these recent hires walk around without pants, eat off the floor, and
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 DA Issues Blue Ribbon Report On SFPD, Cites Racial Bias And Lack Of Oversight A year-long probe by the district attorney into the conduct of the San Francisco Police Department is now complete and its results paint a portrait of a department that disproportionately targets racial minorities
SF News Ethics Commission: Gascón Broke The Law In Soliciting Campaign Contributions From Staff San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón broke the law when he asked staff members to donate to his 2014 reelection campaign. So reports the Chronicle, which notes that the DA told the Ethics
SF News G Chahal, The Worst Bad Man In Silicon Valley, Might Finally End Up In Jail Leaving the courthouse last Friday, 33-year-old advertising technology mogul Gurbaksh "G" Chahal was surrounded by family and bodyguards, shielding his appearance from the eye of the media, as ABC 7 nonetheless reported. Also,
SF News As Uber Settles With SF & LA For $25 Million, Lyft's Class Action Settlement Is Denied On-point SF ad vandalism (what was Lyft thinking?) pic.twitter.com/SabcKYmTwf— Chad Woodford (@cjam) March 31, 2016 In terms approved by the Superior Court of California, within 60 days, Uber Technologies will
Arts & Entertainment Mirkarimi's Wife And Gascon's Wife To Star In SF Production Of 'The Vagina Monologues' What's this? It appears that the wives of two sworn enemies in SF politics, District Attorney George Gascon and former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, are going to share a stage this weekend in a
SF News DA: SFPD Officers Sent Recent Racist Texts Mocking The Racist Text Scandal According to the District Attorney's office, San Francisco police officers texted each other racist and homophobic remarks making light of the unfolding, so-called racist SFPD texting scandal that roiled the department itself. That
SF News Former Police Officers' Association President Trolls DA's Racism Panel The three-judge Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability and Fairness set up by District Attorney George Gascón to rout racism and homophobia from the ranks of the SFPD appears to have backfired a
SF News [Update] Sheriff's Deputies Who Allegedly Forced Inmates To Fight Each Other Will Face Criminal Charges Nearly a year ago, Pubic Defender Jeff Adachi alleged that San Francisco sheriff's deputies were systematically forcing county jail inmates to fight one another while they gambled on the outcomes of the brawls.
SF News DA Gascon Denounces 'Old Boys' Club' In SFPD As Department Announces New Community-Oriented Bureau In an effort to restore trust in the San Francisco Police Department in the wake of the killing of Mario Woods, Police Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor Ed Lee announced Monday that some
SF News DA Teams Up With FBI On Secretive Political Corruption Task Force Remember how an FBI agent posed undercover as an Atlanta businessman and met with former San Francisco Human Rights Commission staffer Zula Jones and ex-Human Rights Commissioner Nazly Mohajer, who promised him meetings
SF News Following Fatal Shooting Caught On Video, Department Of Justice Announces 'Comprehensive Review' Of San Francisco Police Policies A little more than a week after San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee called for a federal investigation into the San Francisco Police Department's caught-on-video shooting of Mario Woods, he has his answer: The
SF News Gascon On Mario Woods Shooting: 'This Is Not A Conversation About Tasers' As District Attorney George Gascon prepares to potentially file criminal charges against the five SFPD officers involved in the shooting of Mario Woods, he's assured protesters that the investigation into the incident will
SF News Last Night, My Uber Driver Said He Was Going To Rape And Kill Me Last night, I had dinner with my SFist colleagues. We wanted to sing karaoke after we ate, but The Mint was too busy. At around 10 p.m. we called it a night.
