Michael Barba
Accountability and Public Safety Reporter at San Francisco Chronicle
@sfchronicle reporter. Beats: accountability & public safety. Find me on Signal: michaelbarba.42
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sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba |J.D. Morris
Phillip Hua sits on the steps he designed at Goettingen and Dwight streets in San Francisco on Wednesday. Neighbors who organized the project do not have the money to pay the contractor who built the steps due to the financial crisis that caused the Parks Alliance to close. Santiago Mejia/S.F. ChronicleLakeside Village banners on Tuesday. Santiago Mejia/S.F. ChronicleKath Tsakalakis wipes the tables at Lakeside Landing on Tuesday.
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sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba
Supervisor Shamann Walton is seeking to subpoena the former leaders of the collapsed San Francisco Parks Alliance. Benjamin Fanjoy/The ChronicleA city supervisor is seeking to subpoena the former leaders of the collapsed San Francisco Parks Alliance, compelling them to testify about the demise of a prominent and politically connected nonprofit that is the subject of multiple investigations.
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sfchronicle.com | Megan Cassidy |Matthias Gafni |Michael Barba
The former home of murder victims Richard and Rita Zajko in Chester Heights, Pa., photographed in 2025. Matt Rourke/Associated PressThe fallout from the “Zizians” saga has been extensive. Seven young people with links to the cultlike band of devout vegans and math whizzes — centered around former Bay Area resident Ziz LaSota — are now jailed in California, Maryland and Vermont.
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sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba
Phil Ginsburg, general manager of the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, saw signs of financial problems with the San Francisco Parks Alliance nearly a year ago, but didn’t cut ties with the nonprofit for an additional 10 months. Benjamin Fanjoy/For the S.F. ChronicleNearly a year ago, the city’s top parks official received an ominous message.
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sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba |Tara Duggan
Melinda Dunn, left, the chair of the board of the San Francisco Zoological Society, and Tanya Peterson, its CEO and executive director, speak at a Board of Supervisors committee meeting on Dec. 5, 2024; the image is a composite of two screen captures of the live feed from that meeting. Sfgov.orgA top San Francisco Zoo official who backed a plan to remove the zoo’s controversial CEO resigned Tuesday, capping off a weekslong power struggle over the future of the city-owned institution.
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