SF News Welcome To Legal Weed Boom Town, Where Even Former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi Is Cashing In These are heady times for San Francisco's existing marijuana industry, a loose affiliation of medical dispensaries, cultivators, and consultants who are still tending to their existing clientele of patients with doctors' recommendations while
SF News Sheriff's Department Kept Internal Affairs Investigations In Paper Bag, Nearly Allowed Statute Of Limitations To Run Out The SF Sheriff's Department, already in the news for allegations that its deputies forced inmates to fight for entertainment, is this week on the receiving end of yet another public relations black eye.
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 Tourist Fights For Life After Knife Attack A British tourist walking with his niece near Post Street and Franklin was robbed at knifepoint and then stabbed in the head. His condition is described as "grave." The 44-year old tourist and
SF News SF's First Female Sheriff Says She Won't Be An Activist Like Mirkarimi Perhaps we should have made more of a big deal about this yesterday, but San Francisco just elected its first ever female sheriff, Vicki Hennessy which is more of a big deal to
SF News 2015 Election Wrap-up: Peskin In, Mirkarimi Out, Props F And I Go Down Congratulations to my new colleague @AaronPeskin! https://t.co/vihBWT3lNF— Jane Kim (@SupeJaneKim) November 4, 2015 Last night was a rollercoaster for political wonks and hardcore progressives in San Francisco, and for everyone
SF News San Francisco's Bail System Is Unconstitutional, Says Class-Action Suit A federal class-action lawsuit claims that San Francisco's bail system is unconstitutional, and it's a charge top cop Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi agrees with. Equal Justice Under Law, a non-profit civil rights organization, has
SF News Family of Kathryn Steinle To File Legal Claims Against SF And Federal Officials Kathryn Steinle's parents to file legal claims against S.F., feds in Pier 14 slaying: http://t.co/2qXGMUSpBF pic.twitter.com/HcqFuC0osT— SFGate (@SFGate) September 1, 2015 by BJ Kraska The parents
SF News Mirkarimi's Sheriff's Deputies To Patrol Streets Like Beat Cops San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has always been a fan of foot patrols, which during his time as a Supervisor made him many enemies in the San Francisco Police Department. And, true to
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi: Driver's License Scandal About 'Mayor Ed Lee Consolidating Power' Last week was a whirlwind one for San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi: on Monday he learned via reporter inquiry that his driver's license had been suspended, on Tuesday we learned that he's had
SF News Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi's Suspended Driver's License Nightmare Is Over, But Big Questions Remain According to a statement from the San Francisco Sheriff's Department, the Ross-Mirkarimi's-suspended-driver's-license saga has ended, not with a bang but with a whimper (and a call to California's Department of Motor Vehicles). Still,
SF News Sheriff Mirkarimi Says No One Told Him His Driver's License Was Suspended The odd story broke late Monday: embattled first-term San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has been driving on an expired license since February, after an October collision, and didn't even realize it until a
SF News Mirkarimi Had His License Suspended For Failing To Report Crash Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has apparently been driving on a suspended license since February, as the Chronicle is reporting, all because he failed to submit an accident report to the DMV relating to an
SF News Inmate Found Dead Tuesday Is SF County Jail's Third Fatality Of 2015 A inmate of San Francisco's County Jail was found dead Tuesday night, in what the Sheriff's Department is describing as an "apparent suicide." 50-year-old Alberto Carlos Petrolino was being held in County Jail
SF News Does San Francisco Need A New Jail? The Board of Supervisors will vote today on whether to go after $80 million in state funding for the construction of a new county jail facility to replace the seismically unsound one we
Arts & Entertainment Eliana Lopez Comedy Opens This Week, Looks As Embarrassing As Expected Sherriff Ross Mirkarimi's actress wife Eliana Lopez will be debuting her all-in-Spanish one-woman comedy this coming weekend, chronicling the year-long 2012 domestic violence scandal that nearly cost Mirkarimi his job. Lopez maintained throughout
SF News Ross Mirkarimi Got His Domestic Violence Conviction Expunged In a symbolic and expected turn of legal events, Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi has gotten his 2012 misdemeanor conviction on a false imprisonment charge involving his wife, expunged from his permanent record. He did
Arts & Entertainment Not A Joke: Eliana Lopez Is Doing A Comedic Play, In Spanish, About The Mirkarimi Domestic Abuse Scandal Well, who saw this coming? Venezuelan-born actress Eliana Lopez, who remains married to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and is the mother of his child, is now putting on a play, in Spanish, titled "Cuál
SF News Attorney For Sheriff's Deputy Involved In SF General Brutality Case Calls Charges 'Political' In a somewhat curious statement, the attorney representing San Francisco sheriff's deputy Michael Lewelling who was arrested on December 19 in connection with some apparent brutality against a man with a cane in
SF News Mirkarimi Will Face Challenge By One-Time Acting Sheriff Vicki Hennessy in 2015 It looks like Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi will once again have to defend himself against some three-year-old allegations of domestic violence as he attempts a re-election bid next year. And challenging him in the
SF News Can San Carlos Succeed Where SF Failed, And End Delivery Of Unwanted SF Examiners? The San Mateo County city of San Carlos has a big problem, and it's coming from San Francisco. The issue? Unwanted copies of the SF Examiner that are being dumped in San Carlos
SF News The SF Sheriff's Department's Overtime Issues, By The Numbers According to a civil grand jury report released Monday, the San Francisco Sheriff's Department is caught in a vicious cycle. It's spending a jaw-dropping amount of money compensating workers who are unlikely to
SF News San Francisco's Elected Officials Get Raises In July, Here's What They'll Be Making This summer, several of San Francisco's elected officials will get a 2.6 percent raise! Here's what some of the folks you see in the news will be making starting July 1, in
SF News Supe Chiu Calls Campos Out On Record Against Domestic Violence When the difficult topic of domestic violence victims came up last year in a vote, I stood with the victims while David Campos did not. [David Chiu, 2/13/14] As the battle
SF News Sheriff's Deputy In Lynne Spalding Case: 'No, I Didn't Smell Her...' The case of a San Francisco woman who went missing during a stay at S.F. General only to be found dead, weeks later, in a hospital stairwell, just keeps getting worse as
