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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1 week ago |
sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie has informed a San Francisco city worker who filed a whistleblower complaint against a department head that his job is being eliminated. The employee has filed a complaint alleging retaliation, but the mayor's office says the layoff is a result of budget cuts.
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba
Acting Police Chief Paul Yep speaks at a press briefing about recent protests against ICE detentions in San Francisco on Monday. Manuel Orbegozo/For the S.F. ChronicleThe future of San Francisco’s police leadership in an era without longtime Police Chief Bill Scott began taking shape Friday, when his interim successor announced a series of command staff changes that included the promotion of the police union president.
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2 weeks ago |
sfchronicle.com | Michael Barba |David Hernandez |Aldo Toledo
Outrage over immigration raids in Los Angeles sparked a second day of protests in San Francisco on Monday. Protesters gathered at City Hall Monday afternoon where local officials spoke, before a protest in the Mission District.
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3 weeks ago |
sanluisobispo.com | Michael Barba |J.D. Morris
After years spent transforming a San Francisco hillside once littered with trash into a lush community garden, a group of Portola neighbors hired a contractor this spring to turn the drab concrete steps cutting through the landscape into a colorful tiled stairway. The Steps to Wisdom project reimagined the public path leading up Goettingen Street as one reminiscent of the beloved Moraga Steps, a tourist destination on the other side of town.
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3 weeks ago |
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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NEW: Supervisor Walton is seeking to subpoena several former Parks Alliance leaders to testify at an upcoming hearing on the collapse of the nonprofit. "I have nothing to hide," says Robert Ogilvie, the org's last CEO. https://t.co/LDSYpGG9uq
NEW: SF's top parks official, Phil Ginsburg, learned nearly a year ago his longtime nonprofit partner, the Parks Alliance, was cash poor. But it wasn't until 10 months later he paused their relationship https://t.co/jCz2hA4ccK
NEW: Mayor Lurie orders citywide pause on grants to and from the financially troubled Parks Alliance after the nonprofit admitted to misusing $3.8 million in restricted funds. Criminal/city probes ensue. https://t.co/xJlh8UG4ik