Alex Mullaney

Nov 5, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Alex Mullaney

East Bay voters had their say Tuesday on whether to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price and Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao. They appear to have chosen to send both packing. In preliminary results, voters supported both recalls by a nearly identical margin: 64.2% to 35.8% for Thao, and 64.7% to 35.3% for Price. Both officials are progressive women of color elected in 2022. They have criticized the recall efforts against them as being waged by billionaires.

Nov 1, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Alex Mullaney

San Francisco's efforts to fight human trafficking needs a revamp, a new report reveals. The 50-page report, released Thursday by the budget and legislative analyst of the Board of Supervisors, concludes that the city isn't doing enough to address forced labor and commercial sex acts, with a troublingly low number of cases uncovered by law enforcement every year, few police officers dedicated to human trafficking, and a lack of urgency in coordination among city and regional government agencies.

Oct 21, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Jonah Owen Lamb |Alex Mullaney

"I don't know what [SF SAFE] did with the documents, but we didn't get them upon request. We didn't get any documents. I can't tell you what they did with them," Scott said. "We don't have any way to compel the former SF SAFE to give up any documents," he added later. Scott's fatalism drew a strong response from mayoral candidate Aaron Peskin.

Oct 3, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Alex Mullaney

"It's usually bullshit, but they say, 'I'm doing it so my guys can get some training,'" said Nordskog, who has studied at least 200 firefighter arson cases and worked on a dozen himself. "These guys who do this don't want to be viewed as somebody sick or twisted - that's how people perceive serial arsonists - so they'll still give that face-saving motive.

Sep 18, 2024 | sfstandard.com | Alex Mullaney

On the night of July 29, the owners of about 30 RVs, ousted from the street they'd parked on for years, drove onto a San Francisco Zoo parking lot in protest. Park rangers and police officers showed up at the site along the Great Highway Extension and told them they were trespassing. No one was cited or detained, and the caravan left the lot in the early hours of the morning. Most of the RVs ended up parking on Zoo Road.