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"content": "\u003cp>Updated election returns released Friday showed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ursula-jones-dickson\">Ursula Jones Dickson\u003c/a>, who was appointed after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price’s\u003c/a> 2024 recall, holding a sizable lead in the race for Alameda County district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson had 66.06% of the vote, while Price, who is seeking to reclaim the office, had 23.49%. Gopal Krishan had 10.45%.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a candidate receives a majority of the vote, they win outright. If no candidate receives a majority, the top two vote-getters advance to a runoff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At an election night watch party in downtown Oakland Tuesday, Jones Dickson told a crowd of supporters:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not over till it’s over, so I don’t celebrate before the eggs hatch. But what I see here is very encouraging,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson’s campaign reserved the top deck of Mad Oak for its election night party, attended by staff members, attorneys and supporters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066179\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066179\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-03-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-03-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-03-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-03-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Price speaks at a press event announcing her candidacy for the Alameda County District Attorney in Hayward on Dec. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wearing a bubblegum-pink blazer, Jones Dickson delivered brief remarks to staff members and supporters before the event got underway. Attendees in business attire, suits and button-down shirts mingled with cocktails and catered food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supporters who were not affiliated with the campaign said they backed Jones Dickson because of her focus on crime victims. Some said they had noticed improvements in public safety in Oakland.\u003cbr>\nAs election returns rolled in, supporters applauded and cheered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Under a 2022 law that shifted Alameda County district attorney elections to presidential election years, the winner of the 2026 race \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">will serve a two-year term\u003c/a> instead of the customary four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The office will then be on the ballot again in 2028 for a full four-year term. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">selected\u003c/a> Jones Dickson in February 2025 from a pool of mostly current and former Bay Area prosecutors after nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">63% of voters voted to recall Price\u003c/a> in the 2024 general election.[aside label=\"Live 2026 Election Results\" link1='https://www.kqed.org/elections/results/alameda,Alameda County: Stay informed with the latest results for elected leaders and measures passed' hero=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/80/2026/05/Aside-Results-2026-Local-Elections-Alameda-County-1200x1200@2x.png]Prior to being appointed, Jones Dickson was an Alameda County Superior Court judge for 11 years. She had also previously worked as a prosecutor with the Alameda County district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a progressive DA who ran on a platform of restorative justice, faced opposition from critics who accused her of being too lenient on crime and of mismanaging the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon assuming office, Jones Dickson reversed many of Price’s policies and decisions, a move that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">Price publicly rebuked.\u003c/a> She also said her office had inherited a substantial backlog of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At press conferences and during debates, Jones Dickson said she viewed the role of the district attorney as one that does not take political or ideological positions and talked frequently about centering the needs of victims of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nic Allen, a Jones Dickson supporter, pointed to fairness as a defining trait of her approach to the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think her fairness being a part of the justice system, at times it can be unjust, especially to Black and brown people, and her fairness has been all of her strength from the time she became a prosecutor to a judge, and now as the DA… she doesn’t waver from that at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Price announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066093/recalled-alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price-says-shes-running-again-in-2026\">she was running\u003c/a> to get her old job back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come here today because I stand in the gap for vulnerable communities,” Price said at a campaign launch event in Hayward. “Alameda County wants real justice that does not bend for wealth, status or political connections. I will be the district attorney who puts people first. I will go after corporate criminals, and I will hold law enforcement officers accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Price said her critics had been fixated on removing her from office before she started the job and there was more work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061282\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson at KQED on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Activist and UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis supported Price’s bid for reelection, as did civil rights attorney John Burris and Elaine Brown, the former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishan, a political newcomer who ran on a campaign of bringing renewed energy to the office and fighting for the county’s immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson was endorsed by the Alameda County Democratic Party and a wide selection of current and former Democratic elected officials, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley and Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbernal\">Maria Fernanda Bernal\u003c/a> contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Prior to being appointed, Jones Dickson was an Alameda County Superior Court judge for 11 years. She had also previously worked as a prosecutor with the Alameda County district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, a progressive DA who ran on a platform of restorative justice, faced opposition from critics who accused her of being too lenient on crime and of mismanaging the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon assuming office, Jones Dickson reversed many of Price’s policies and decisions, a move that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">Price publicly rebuked.\u003c/a> She also said her office had inherited a substantial backlog of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At press conferences and during debates, Jones Dickson said she viewed the role of the district attorney as one that does not take political or ideological positions and talked frequently about centering the needs of victims of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nic Allen, a Jones Dickson supporter, pointed to fairness as a defining trait of her approach to the justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think her fairness being a part of the justice system, at times it can be unjust, especially to Black and brown people, and her fairness has been all of her strength from the time she became a prosecutor to a judge, and now as the DA… she doesn’t waver from that at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, Price announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12066093/recalled-alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price-says-shes-running-again-in-2026\">she was running\u003c/a> to get her old job back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come here today because I stand in the gap for vulnerable communities,” Price said at a campaign launch event in Hayward. “Alameda County wants real justice that does not bend for wealth, status or political connections. I will be the district attorney who puts people first. I will go after corporate criminals, and I will hold law enforcement officers accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the campaign trail, Price said her critics had been fixated on removing her from office before she started the job and there was more work to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061282\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-URSULA-JONES-DICKSON-ON-PB-MD-02-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson at KQED on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Activist and UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Angela Davis supported Price’s bid for reelection, as did civil rights attorney John Burris and Elaine Brown, the former chairwoman of the Black Panther Party.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Krishan, a political newcomer who ran on a campaign of bringing renewed energy to the office and fighting for the county’s immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson was endorsed by the Alameda County Democratic Party and a wide selection of current and former Democratic elected officials, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee, former District Attorney Nancy O’Malley and Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mbernal\">Maria Fernanda Bernal\u003c/a> contributed to this story\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Recalled Alameda County District Attorney \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> announced Thursday that she will run for the position again in 2026, just over a year after she was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">ousted from the office\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The progressive civil rights prosecutor was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11931436/alameda-county-da\">elected in 2022\u003c/a> after campaigning on promises to take on racial inequity in the criminal justice system. Her administration opposed cash bail and charging youths as adults, and promised to seek alternatives to incarceration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come here today because I stand in the gap for vulnerable communities,” Price said, launching her campaign in Hayward. “Alameda County wants real justice that does not bend for wealth status or political connections. I will be the district attorney who puts people first. I will go after corporate criminals, and I will hold law enforcement officers accountable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price was recalled by nearly 63% of voters in November 2024, amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012651/alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price\">frustration over rising crime in Oakland \u003c/a>and other cities, and criticism from families of crime victims in the county who said her office issued overly lenient sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall supporters alleged that she engaged in anti-Asian discrimination and extortion and raised concerns about hundreds of misdemeanor cases Price’s office failed to prosecute. Last October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">charges were dismissed\u003c/a> against two former Alameda officers who were charged in connection with the 2021 death of a man who was pinned to the ground during an attempted arrest after Price’s office missed the filing deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pamela Price abandoned victims and betrayed families,” recall leader Brenda Grisham said in a statement Thursday. Grisham added that crime rates in the county had gone down since Price’s removal, though that \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2025-update/\">reflects\u003c/a> national trends in the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham, victim’s advocate and leader of the recall campaign, speaks during a press conference outside of Hayward City Hall in Hayward on Oct. 2, 2024, announcing Congressman Eric Swalwell’s support for the recall of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community will never allow her back in power,” Grisham said. “My commitment has never changed, my priority has always been, and will always be, to protect the victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to remove Price from office launched just seven months after she was sworn in, and was primarily funded by wealthy donors with connections to real estate and the tech industry. In particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966518/pamela-price-recall-alameda-potential#pamelapricerecallbackers\">Philip Dreyfuss, a hedge fund partner\u003c/a> at Farallon Capital Management, LLC, funded a group called “Reviving the Bay Area,” which donated $300,000 to the recall effort. Dreyfuss also funded the successful effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">oust Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> in the same election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall garnered support from the county’s 13 law enforcement unions, the prosecutor’s association and East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell. Price’s recall was also endorsed by the editorial boards of the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the effort and since her ouster, Price has called the recall a ploy by a small, wealthy group who opposed her 2022 victory.[aside postID=news_12042693 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/01/RS62298_IMG_4732-qut-1020x640.jpg']“In 2025, we see the carnage to our federal government caused by the billionaire class at the federal level,” Price said. “In 2024 in Alameda County, we saw that same carnage, the destabilization of our justice system by a billionaire — a single billionaire — and his wannabe wealthy friends, who spent millions of dollars on a recall campaign to destabilize our justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Price was replaced by a more moderate DA, Ursula Jones Dickson, a former Alameda County deputy district attorney and superior court judge. Since taking office, she has undone some of Price’s more progressive reforms, including reinstating mandatory minimum sentences for illegal gun possession, restructuring Price’s landmark Police Accountability Unit, formed to review police misconduct cases and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">withdrawing\u003c/a> death row resentencing efforts for people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price launched investigations into 35 cases after her office revealed evidence suggesting prior district attorneys had covered up a decades-long practice of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her announcement Thursday, Price accused Jones-Dickson of refusing to stand up to President Donald Trump and called out her decision to withdraw some of the death row resentencing motions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While adamant in June that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">she wasn’t contemplating a 2026 run\u003c/a>, Price said Thursday that she felt compelled, given the current national landscape and dissatisfaction with Alameda County’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066181\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Price speaks at a press event announcing her candidacy for the Alameda County District Attorney in Hayward on Dec. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a DA now who’s an appointed district attorney who stands with the billionaires, with corporate polluters, with insurance companies who cheat, with rogue police who kill, and with prosecutors motivated by their own political agenda and ambitions and not the law,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid threats of escalated immigration enforcement activity in the Bay Area last month, Jones Dickson told KQED that the DA’s office would protect the rights of crime victims regardless of immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said local law enforcement could not stop federal officials from coming into Alameda County or exercising a legal warrant, and when asked on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061157/how-alameda-countys-da-would-handle-federal-troops-in-oakland\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a> whether she would prosecute federal agents who broke the law amid immigration raids, Jones Dickson sidestepped the question, saying, “I need to know what that looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, we move in silence,” she continued. “There are things we can do to prepare and protect our citizens without screaming it out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said if reelected, she would “not hesitate to enforce the laws to protect our residents, to protect our immigrant communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066182\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Price takes photos with a supporter following a press event announcing her campaign for the Alameda County District Attorney in Hayward on Dec. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The former DA also vowed to refocus on her administration’s progressive reforms and work on transforming the culture of the office, which she said had been in disrepair without “real leadership” for more than 50 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we came into the office, we came in with a desire to build bridges, to create a cohesive unit,” Price said, acknowledging that her team faced opposition from many of the DA’s Office prosecutors. “We will bring in a new team, we will work with those who remain in the office. We will once again try to bring the prosecutors association into line with the modern vision of justice in this community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Price’s ouster was seen as a part of a referendum on progressive prosecutors across California, following the recall of Chesa Boudin in San Francisco in 2022 and progressive DA George Gascón’s failed re-election bid in Los Angeles, she said the pendulum has swung again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Progressive prosecutors in the November 2025 election were elected across this country,” she said. “People recognize that the value of the policies that we espouse are for the needs of the people. What people have recognized now is that the billionaires are subverting our government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price was recalled by nearly 63% of voters in November 2024, amid \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012651/alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price\">frustration over rising crime in Oakland \u003c/a>and other cities, and criticism from families of crime victims in the county who said her office issued overly lenient sentences.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recall supporters alleged that she engaged in anti-Asian discrimination and extortion and raised concerns about hundreds of misdemeanor cases Price’s office failed to prosecute. Last October, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008407/2-of-3-alameda-officers-charged-in-mario-gonzalez-death-have-their-case-dismissed\">charges were dismissed\u003c/a> against two former Alameda officers who were charged in connection with the 2021 death of a man who was pinned to the ground during an attempted arrest after Price’s office missed the filing deadline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pamela Price abandoned victims and betrayed families,” recall leader Brenda Grisham said in a statement Thursday. Grisham added that crime rates in the county had gone down since Price’s removal, though that \u003ca href=\"https://counciloncj.org/crime-trends-in-u-s-cities-mid-year-2025-update/\">reflects\u003c/a> national trends in the last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12007624\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12007624\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241002-SWALWELL-PRICE-RECALL-BL-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham, victim’s advocate and leader of the recall campaign, speaks during a press conference outside of Hayward City Hall in Hayward on Oct. 2, 2024, announcing Congressman Eric Swalwell’s support for the recall of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The community will never allow her back in power,” Grisham said. “My commitment has never changed, my priority has always been, and will always be, to protect the victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The campaign to remove Price from office launched just seven months after she was sworn in, and was primarily funded by wealthy donors with connections to real estate and the tech industry. In particular, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966518/pamela-price-recall-alameda-potential#pamelapricerecallbackers\">Philip Dreyfuss, a hedge fund partner\u003c/a> at Farallon Capital Management, LLC, funded a group called “Reviving the Bay Area,” which donated $300,000 to the recall effort. Dreyfuss also funded the successful effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11998651/a-hedge-fund-manager-is-funding-bid-to-oust-oaklands-mayor-and-its-not-his-first-recall\">oust Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao\u003c/a> in the same election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The recall garnered support from the county’s 13 law enforcement unions, the prosecutor’s association and East Bay Rep. Eric Swalwell. Price’s recall was also endorsed by the editorial boards of the \u003cem>East Bay Times\u003c/em> and \u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the effort and since her ouster, Price has called the recall a ploy by a small, wealthy group who opposed her 2022 victory.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“In 2025, we see the carnage to our federal government caused by the billionaire class at the federal level,” Price said. “In 2024 in Alameda County, we saw that same carnage, the destabilization of our justice system by a billionaire — a single billionaire — and his wannabe wealthy friends, who spent millions of dollars on a recall campaign to destabilize our justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February, Price was replaced by a more moderate DA, Ursula Jones Dickson, a former Alameda County deputy district attorney and superior court judge. Since taking office, she has undone some of Price’s more progressive reforms, including reinstating mandatory minimum sentences for illegal gun possession, restructuring Price’s landmark Police Accountability Unit, formed to review police misconduct cases and \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2025/05/death-penalty-alameda-resentencing/\">withdrawing\u003c/a> death row resentencing efforts for people who Price’s administration determined had received unfair sentences due to prosecutorial bias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price launched investigations into 35 cases after her office revealed evidence suggesting prior district attorneys had covered up a decades-long practice of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">excluding Black and Jewish jurors from death penalty cases\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In her announcement Thursday, Price accused Jones-Dickson of refusing to stand up to President Donald Trump and called out her decision to withdraw some of the death row resentencing motions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While adamant in June that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042693/recalled-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-blasts-the-offices-new-direction\">she wasn’t contemplating a 2026 run\u003c/a>, Price said Thursday that she felt compelled, given the current national landscape and dissatisfaction with Alameda County’s response.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066181\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12066181\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/12/251204-PAMELA-PRICE-MD-05-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pamela Price speaks at a press event announcing her candidacy for the Alameda County District Attorney in Hayward on Dec. 4, 2025. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We have a DA now who’s an appointed district attorney who stands with the billionaires, with corporate polluters, with insurance companies who cheat, with rogue police who kill, and with prosecutors motivated by their own political agenda and ambitions and not the law,” Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Amid threats of escalated immigration enforcement activity in the Bay Area last month, Jones Dickson told KQED that the DA’s office would protect the rights of crime victims regardless of immigration status.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said local law enforcement could not stop federal officials from coming into Alameda County or exercising a legal warrant, and when asked on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061157/how-alameda-countys-da-would-handle-federal-troops-in-oakland\">KQED’s \u003cem>Political Breakdown\u003c/em> podcast\u003c/a> whether she would prosecute federal agents who broke the law amid immigration raids, Jones Dickson sidestepped the question, saying, “I need to know what that looks like.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes, we move in silence,” she continued. “There are things we can do to prepare and protect our citizens without screaming it out loud.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price said if reelected, she would “not hesitate to enforce the laws to protect our residents, to protect our immigrant communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12066182\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg 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Last year, Price revealed notes written by prosecutors highlighting the race and ethnicity of potential jurors in the case of Ernest Dykes, whose \u003ca href=\"http://kqed.org/news/11995937/alameda-county-da-seeks-new-sentences-for-3-people-on-death-row-amid-misconduct-record-destruction-claims\">release was reset\u003c/a> for this month under Price.[aside postID=news_12042069 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-04-1020x680.jpg']Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Price said Wednesday that Jones Dickson’s decision to drop the resentencing efforts was an attempt to cover up prosecutorial misconduct. She has alleged that her predecessor, Nancy O’Malley, also ignored evidence of such misconduct to protect the reputation of the district attorney’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As an officer of the court and someone who has sworn to uphold the Constitution, Judge Jones Dickson has an absolute duty to ensure that justice is done for those men,” Price said. “We all have a right to the rule of law and not have it compromised by corruption or nepotism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Public Accountability Unit, which Price created to review police misconduct cases and called a “reckoning” for Alameda County, has also been restructured under Jones Dickson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department has been renamed the Public Integrity Division, and its procedures will more closely resemble O’Malley’s prosecutorial practices, spokesperson Haaziq Madyun \u003ca href=\"https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/03/07/new-alameda-da-shakes-up-unit-that-pamela-price-created-to-prosecute-cops/\">told the \u003cem>Mercury News\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Notably, Price attempted to relitigate a case against three Alameda police officers in the death of 26-year-old Mario Gonzalez, an unarmed man who died after being pinned down by police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She filed charges just days after the recall campaign against her qualified for last November’s ballot, and her office took heat after the cases against two of the three officers were dismissed for missing the three-year statute of limitations to file charges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event, hosted by Protect the Win, was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price has also criticized the district attorney’s office for dropping an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12042069/alameda-county-da-defends-dismissal-of-case-tied-to-toxic-fire-in-west-oakland\">environmental justice case\u003c/a> she brought against Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, over a 2023 fire that prosecutors said spread toxic smoke throughout the East Bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office had charged the company and two leaders of its West Oakland scrap metal processing plant with recklessly managing hazardous materials, including aged vehicles and appliances, and later trying to cover it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said her office dropped the case after finding that it did not meet high evidentiary standards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“The bottom line is we can not move forward ethically on a case that we cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the case was reviewed along with others in the consumer division, some of which had been delegated out to a contracted law firm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I had not seen that before — a law firm being hired by a district attorney to do the work of DAs,” Jones Dickson said, adding that it was a concern to the department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said she could not comment on whether the office would bring a civil case against Radius Recycling.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In response to questions about her motivation for speaking out against Jones Dickson, Price confirmed she isn’t planning to mount another campaign for office or a recall effort against her successor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reason that I feel it’s important [is] that the public should understand what is truly happening,” she told reporters. “It became clear in the last few days, and certainly with the 100-day report, that there are some things that the public needs to know about.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not a new direction. [Jones Dickson] has dismantled everything we’ve done and has basically taken everything back to what Miss O’Malley had,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5:04 p.m. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates and former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price are not happy with prosecutors’ decision to drop charges against a West Oakland scrap metal processing plant that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11957894/smelly-smoke-from-oakland-metal-recycler-fire-prompts-health-concerns\">caught fire two years ago\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Radius Recycling, formerly Schnitzer Steel, had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12031593/california-falls-short-enforcing-regulations-for-metal-shredding-industry\">a history of environmental violations\u003c/a> before the 2023 blaze that Price’s office said spewed toxic smoke across the East Bay. The company and two of its managers will no longer face criminal charges and millions of dollars in fines after Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson’s office quietly dismissed the case on Friday, citing a lack of proof for criminal liability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This isn’t a question of us standing with polluters — we’re not. But we can only proceed where we can proceed,” said Casey Bates, an assistant district attorney in Jones Dickson’s office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, however, that the decision does not preclude the district attorney from seeking criminal charges against the company and its employees in the future, or from pursuing a civil case against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that comes as cold comfort to advocates who backed the high-profile prosecution that Price launched last year. Calling the action “historic,” Price in July announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996994/west-oakland-steel-recycler-charged-with-10-crimes-after-toxic-fire-last-summer\">a 10-count grand jury indictment\u003c/a> against the company for its “terrible legacy of environmental racism and poison in Alameda County that has had a deleterious impact on West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">6231 Schnitzer Steel workers use cranes to pull metal out of the smoky mound after a fire started deep in a pile of scrap on Aug. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014858/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-concedes-recall-defeat-after-long-holdout\">recalled Price\u003c/a> several months later, and Jones Dickson was appointed in January by the county Board of Supervisors to complete her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price called her successor’s decision to dismiss the case “outrageous” and disconcerting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was grounded in the evidence and the experience of the residents of West Oakland, of the firefighters who were called to fight this very dangerous and toxic fire and who risked their lives to protect the community,” she said. ”And for the district attorney to step back from enforcing the rights of the people and holding this corporation and its corporate managers accountable is absolutely disgraceful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision is further evidence that the district attorney’s office is no longer “concerned or accountable to the community,” she noted, suggesting that Jones Dickson was beholden to corporate interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Gordon, who’s lived near the West Oakland facility for three decades and founded the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, accused Jones Dickson’s office of failing to reach out to her community about its decision to dismiss the charges against a company that she said has a long history of air quality violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have been informed that she was doing that,” Gordon said. “We should have some kind of communication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates have long called for the facility to leave Oakland, citing harmful smoke from frequent fires, including large blazes in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020.[aside postID=news_11957894 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/230809-altenberg-port-fire-3-KQED-1020x681.jpg']West Oakland residents, who live near a major highway, the port, and industrial facilities, have some of the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2018-03/capp_consultation_group_march_2018_alameda_county_health_presentation.pdf\">highest rates of asthma\u003c/a> and other respiratory diseases in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Mia Bonta, who represents West Oakland and the surrounding areas, decried the district attorney’s decision to drop the case against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Serial polluters shouldn’t be allowed to fill our lungs with hazardous waste, including lead, and get away with it with nothing more than a slap on the wrist,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that the company — which is located within a mile of 18 day care centers, 10 parks, eight schools and two hospitals — has been hit with 13 notices of violation from local air regulators since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The repeated fires from this facility threaten the well-being of the entire Bay Area, particularly the surrounding community in Oakland,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past investigations by the Alameda County district attorney’s office and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control found that the facility released particulate matter contaminated with hazardous metals such as lead, cadmium and zinc. The investigations were cited in a 2021 settlement between Schnitzer and the state Department of Justice over “the release of toxic air contaminants and hazardous particulates” in West Oakland and across the Oakland Estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s office had a long history of negotiating settlements with Schnitzer and then not enforcing the settlements,” Price said, noting that Radius was shocked when her office set out to hold the company accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. Davidson Courthouse in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The charges \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996994/west-oakland-steel-recycler-charged-with-10-crimes-after-toxic-fire-last-summer\">filed last year\u003c/a> by Price’s office alleged that Radius Steel as well as Daniel Woltman and Dane Morales, the heads of the West Oakland facility, recklessly managed hazardous materials, elevating the risk of fire, and later destroyed evidence by cleaning up the 40-ton charred “tin pile” before prosecutors could inspect it to help build their case against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company and the two men were also charged with violating local air quality regulations and state toxic substance control laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The charges, which carried a penalty of up to $33 million in criminal fines and up to three years in county jail, were the first ever filed by an Alameda County district attorney for environmental crimes allegedly committed by a corporation, Price said at a press conference in July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price’s office first announced the investigation against the Oregon-based company days after the August 2023 blaze at its Oakland facility, which burned for more than 24 hours, shrouding the region in a gray smoky haze.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fire started in a pile of scrap metal and was likely caused by a lithium battery, according to the Oakland Fire Department, whose crews were unable to reach the source of the blaze for hours due to the sheer size of the pile. County and city officials advised residents near the Port of Oakland to avoid Jack London Square and to keep their windows closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Oakland facility, which shreds cars and other large appliances, is one of at least four operated by Radius Recycling in California.[aside postID=news_12041689 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/Alameda-Fire_5-1020x765.jpg'] The company, which rebranded in 2023, bills itself as one of North America’s largest manufacturers and exporters of recycled metal products, with 100 operations centers and over 50 recycling facilities in the U.S. and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the beginning, we have been confident that a full and fair review of the facts would confirm that our actions were responsible, transparent, and fully compliant with the law,” Eric Potashner, a Radius spokesperson, said in an email to KQED. “We are proud of how our team responded in the aftermath of the 2023 fire—prioritizing safety, collaborating closely with regulators, and maintaining our commitment to environmental responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued last year after charges were filed, Aaron Dyer, an attorney for Radius, said that the company does not treat or store hazardous waste and that it did not hide or destroy any evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully confident that the company’s actions will be proven to have prioritized public safety and compliance with the law,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s attorneys at the time argued that the case was politically motivated because Price was facing a recall election and wanted to secure a high-profile win. They also denied destroying any evidence from the fire, saying that officials were allowed to inspect the debris and collect samples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Scott Patton removed four prosecutors from the case over their ongoing contention that the company had ignored orders not to clean up the burn pile in its alleged effort to destroy evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his recusal order, Patton dismissed the prosecution’s argument as negligent and “disingenuous,” insisting that they should have done more to “act immediately” to find any evidence of toxic chemicals in the wreckage. Not cleaning up the burn pile for days, he wrote, would have also “created an unacceptable public health hazard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price staunchly defended the team of prosecutors she picked to pursue the charges against Radius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are folks who were trained and experienced in prosecuting this type of case,” Price said. “And they went to the grand jury, which was a collective body of residents of Alameda County, everyday people, looked at that evidence, and they made a decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black woman in a suit jacket speaks at a podium, with a 'Alameda County District Attorney's Office banner behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks to reporters during a briefing in Oakland on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She called it dumbfounding for the district attorney’s office to argue that it could not meet the burden of proof for criminal liability, and she criticized prosecutors for dismissing the case without attempting to secure a plea deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investigation of the case and preparation of the case took many months, and then it went to the grand jury, and then the indictment was approved by a judge,” Price said. “And so why they don’t know how to use that evidence is beside me, other than these folks are not really experienced in doing this kind of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, she added, was a critical step in working to hold the company accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the danger of allowing corporate criminals to violate environmental laws with impunity is obviously something that undermines public safety for all of us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Sara Hossaini and Annelise Finney.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said, however, that the decision does not preclude the district attorney from seeking criminal charges against the company and its employees in the future, or from pursuing a civil case against them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that comes as cold comfort to advocates who backed the high-profile prosecution that Price launched last year. Calling the action “historic,” Price in July announced \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11996994/west-oakland-steel-recycler-charged-with-10-crimes-after-toxic-fire-last-summer\">a 10-count grand jury indictment\u003c/a> against the company for its “terrible legacy of environmental racism and poison in Alameda County that has had a deleterious impact on West Oakland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12031603\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12031603\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/03/PHW-Photo-3-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">6231 Schnitzer Steel workers use cranes to pull metal out of the smoky mound after a fire started deep in a pile of scrap on Aug. 9, 2023. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Oakland Fire Department)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Voters \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12014858/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-concedes-recall-defeat-after-long-holdout\">recalled Price\u003c/a> several months later, and Jones Dickson was appointed in January by the county Board of Supervisors to complete her term.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price called her successor’s decision to dismiss the case “outrageous” and disconcerting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was grounded in the evidence and the experience of the residents of West Oakland, of the firefighters who were called to fight this very dangerous and toxic fire and who risked their lives to protect the community,” she said. ”And for the district attorney to step back from enforcing the rights of the people and holding this corporation and its corporate managers accountable is absolutely disgraceful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The decision is further evidence that the district attorney’s office is no longer “concerned or accountable to the community,” she noted, suggesting that Jones Dickson was beholden to corporate interests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Margaret Gordon, who’s lived near the West Oakland facility for three decades and founded the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project, accused Jones Dickson’s office of failing to reach out to her community about its decision to dismiss the charges against a company that she said has a long history of air quality violations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We should have been informed that she was doing that,” Gordon said. “We should have some kind of communication.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental justice advocates have long called for the facility to leave Oakland, citing harmful smoke from frequent fires, including large blazes in 2009, 2010, 2018 and 2020.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>West Oakland residents, who live near a major highway, the port, and industrial facilities, have some of the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2018-03/capp_consultation_group_march_2018_alameda_county_health_presentation.pdf\">highest rates of asthma\u003c/a> and other respiratory diseases in the region.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State Assemblymember Mia Bonta, who represents West Oakland and the surrounding areas, decried the district attorney’s decision to drop the case against the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Serial polluters shouldn’t be allowed to fill our lungs with hazardous waste, including lead, and get away with it with nothing more than a slap on the wrist,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She noted that the company — which is located within a mile of 18 day care centers, 10 parks, eight schools and two hospitals — has been hit with 13 notices of violation from local air regulators since 2018.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The repeated fires from this facility threaten the well-being of the entire Bay Area, particularly the surrounding community in Oakland,” Bonta said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Past investigations by the Alameda County district attorney’s office and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control found that the facility released particulate matter contaminated with hazardous metals such as lead, cadmium and zinc. The investigations were cited in a 2021 settlement between Schnitzer and the state Department of Justice over “the release of toxic air contaminants and hazardous particulates” in West Oakland and across the Oakland Estuary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The DA’s office had a long history of negotiating settlements with Schnitzer and then not enforcing the settlements,” Price said, noting that Radius was shocked when her office set out to hold the company accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027613\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027613\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-07-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during a press conference at the René C. 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County and city officials advised residents near the Port of Oakland to avoid Jack London Square and to keep their windows closed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The West Oakland facility, which shreds cars and other large appliances, is one of at least four operated by Radius Recycling in California.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> The company, which rebranded in 2023, bills itself as one of North America’s largest manufacturers and exporters of recycled metal products, with 100 operations centers and over 50 recycling facilities in the U.S. and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From the beginning, we have been confident that a full and fair review of the facts would confirm that our actions were responsible, transparent, and fully compliant with the law,” Eric Potashner, a Radius spokesperson, said in an email to KQED. “We are proud of how our team responded in the aftermath of the 2023 fire—prioritizing safety, collaborating closely with regulators, and maintaining our commitment to environmental responsibility.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement issued last year after charges were filed, Aaron Dyer, an attorney for Radius, said that the company does not treat or store hazardous waste and that it did not hide or destroy any evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are fully confident that the company’s actions will be proven to have prioritized public safety and compliance with the law,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company’s attorneys at the time argued that the case was politically motivated because Price was facing a recall election and wanted to secure a high-profile win. They also denied destroying any evidence from the fire, saying that officials were allowed to inspect the debris and collect samples.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, Alameda County Superior Court Judge Scott Patton removed four prosecutors from the case over their ongoing contention that the company had ignored orders not to clean up the burn pile in its alleged effort to destroy evidence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his recusal order, Patton dismissed the prosecution’s argument as negligent and “disingenuous,” insisting that they should have done more to “act immediately” to find any evidence of toxic chemicals in the wreckage. Not cleaning up the burn pile for days, he wrote, would have also “created an unacceptable public health hazard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price staunchly defended the team of prosecutors she picked to pursue the charges against Radius.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These are folks who were trained and experienced in prosecuting this type of case,” Price said. “And they went to the grand jury, which was a collective body of residents of Alameda County, everyday people, looked at that evidence, and they made a decision.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black woman in a suit jacket speaks at a podium, with a 'Alameda County District Attorney's Office banner behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks to reporters during a briefing in Oakland on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She called it dumbfounding for the district attorney’s office to argue that it could not meet the burden of proof for criminal liability, and she criticized prosecutors for dismissing the case without attempting to secure a plea deal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The investigation of the case and preparation of the case took many months, and then it went to the grand jury, and then the indictment was approved by a judge,” Price said. “And so why they don’t know how to use that evidence is beside me, other than these folks are not really experienced in doing this kind of work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case, she added, was a critical step in working to hold the company accountable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the danger of allowing corporate criminals to violate environmental laws with impunity is obviously something that undermines public safety for all of us,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story includes reporting from KQED’s Sara Hossaini and Annelise Finney.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a>’s new district attorney begins to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024972/how-alameda-countys-next-district-attorney-wants-shape-office\">reshape the office\u003c/a> in her first days on the job, former lead prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> sat down with KQED to discuss the obstacles she faced during last year’s recall election and the concerns she has for the county’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017506/these-maps-show-where-pamela-price-lost-the-most-support-from-voters-in-the-recall-election\">was recalled\u003c/a> less than two years into her term, facing criticism for what some residents said was her office’s ineffectual response to rising crime rates in cities such as Oakland. As a progressive prosecutor, she was vocal about pursuing alternatives to mass incarceration and reforming the county’s justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many residents are hopeful that District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson, a former judge, will do more than her predecessor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024575/alameda-countys-new-da-says-people-are-a-little-tired-of-nothing-happening\">to improve public safety\u003c/a>, there are some who are concerned that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013987/after-voter-backlash-whats-next-for-the-criminal-justice-reform-movement\">criminal justice reform movement\u003c/a> will be set back, especially as Jones Dickson begins reversing some of Price’s directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public will have to wait and see how it works out,” Price told KQED. “We have to wait and see what the new district attorney is able to accomplish, but she certainly will have the foundation of all the things that we were able to do over the last two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the policies Price implemented was a charging directive that requires prosecutors to get supervisory approval before pursuing sentence enhancements, especially for juveniles. The policy was meant to improve accountability and transparency on the part of prosecutors, Price said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson rescinded that and several other Price directives on Wednesday, including one that established stricter guidelines for prosecutors seeking to charge minors in adult court. It was one of Jones Dickson’s first official acts after being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12027507/jones-dickson-takes-office-as-alameda-county-da-vows-to-prioritize-victims\">sworn in last week\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12027665\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12027665\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/02/250218-AlCoDASwornIn-30-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson speaks during her swearing-in ceremony at the County Administration Building in Oakland on Feb. 18, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Price argued that her policies allowed supervisors to check the validity of a particular charge or sentence request, making it less likely to be thrown out due to accusations of discrimination in a challenge under the California Racial Justice Act.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If a conviction is tainted by racial bias, it has to be overturned,” Price said. Jones Dickson “doesn’t have to take my policy, but you need to have a policy. Otherwise, public safety is definitely at risk because people can be let go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods called the policy reversal troubling, saying that it could allow a prosecutor with minimal experience to charge young people as adults without any oversight, potentially resulting in more Black and Brown children entering the adult system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022612 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00005.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the nonprofit Prosecutors Alliance Action, said she hopes that Jones Dickson will consider other measures to ensure that prosecutors are judicious with sentence enhancements. Data shows that harsher sentences do little to reduce crime rates, DeBerry said, adding that the office needs to be innovative if it wants to effectively address public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting more people in jail for longer periods of time is not the answer, she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Jones Dickson said during her campaign that she is not opposed to finding alternatives to incarceration and to pushing for reform efforts, those initiatives will not be her primary concern as district attorney. She has repeatedly emphasized that her first commitment is to support victims of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are effective ways to do both, Price countered, pushing back on the idea that her office didn’t do enough for victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of victims’ advocates in the district attorney’s office increased by 35% during her tenure, Price said. Her office also made significant headway in addressing a backlog of victim compensation applications that existed prior to her election and in reorganizing support systems for victims and witnesses, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My office certainly did a great deal of work and created tremendous advances for victims in this county,” Price said. She added that she had plans to do more before her term was cut short by the recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every district attorney needs time to adjust to the role and to figure out what problems there are in the office, Price said, calling the public outcry that she faced so soon after starting her term a disservice to her administration and to the county. When it comes to addressing a backlog of cases and figuring out how to best work with prosecutors and other agents in the system, it takes time to find the proper footing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price plans to discuss the issues facing Alameda County — including those that will need to be addressed by the new district attorney — on a new podcast she is launching Tuesday titled “Pamela Price Unfiltered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is unsure of what Alameda County’s future looks like. But whether or not it swings in a more conservative direction on crime and public safety, Price noted that Jones Dickson will need to figure out how to reconcile her approach to justice with what’s demanded of her by different groups — including the law enforcement unions that recommended her for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a>’s new district attorney begins to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024972/how-alameda-countys-next-district-attorney-wants-shape-office\">reshape the office\u003c/a> in her first days on the job, former lead prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a> sat down with KQED to discuss the obstacles she faced during last year’s recall election and the concerns she has for the county’s future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017506/these-maps-show-where-pamela-price-lost-the-most-support-from-voters-in-the-recall-election\">was recalled\u003c/a> less than two years into her term, facing criticism for what some residents said was her office’s ineffectual response to rising crime rates in cities such as Oakland. As a progressive prosecutor, she was vocal about pursuing alternatives to mass incarceration and reforming the county’s justice system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While many residents are hopeful that District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson, a former judge, will do more than her predecessor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024575/alameda-countys-new-da-says-people-are-a-little-tired-of-nothing-happening\">to improve public safety\u003c/a>, there are some who are concerned that the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013987/after-voter-backlash-whats-next-for-the-criminal-justice-reform-movement\">criminal justice reform movement\u003c/a> will be set back, especially as Jones Dickson begins reversing some of Price’s directives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The public will have to wait and see how it works out,” Price told KQED. “We have to wait and see what the new district attorney is able to accomplish, but she certainly will have the foundation of all the things that we were able to do over the last two years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cristine Soto DeBerry, executive director of the nonprofit Prosecutors Alliance Action, said she hopes that Jones Dickson will consider other measures to ensure that prosecutors are judicious with sentence enhancements. Data shows that harsher sentences do little to reduce crime rates, DeBerry said, adding that the office needs to be innovative if it wants to effectively address public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Putting more people in jail for longer periods of time is not the answer, she continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although Jones Dickson said during her campaign that she is not opposed to finding alternatives to incarceration and to pushing for reform efforts, those initiatives will not be her primary concern as district attorney. She has repeatedly emphasized that her first commitment is to support victims of crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There are effective ways to do both, Price countered, pushing back on the idea that her office didn’t do enough for victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The number of victims’ advocates in the district attorney’s office increased by 35% during her tenure, Price said. Her office also made significant headway in addressing a backlog of victim compensation applications that existed prior to her election and in reorganizing support systems for victims and witnesses, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12008946\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12008946\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/PamelaPriceAntiRecall1-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price at a press conference on Oct. 10, 2024, at Everett & Jones Barbeque in Oakland’s Jack London Square. The event was part of Price’s anti-recall campaign. \u003ccite>(Annelise Finney/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My office certainly did a great deal of work and created tremendous advances for victims in this county,” Price said. She added that she had plans to do more before her term was cut short by the recall election.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every district attorney needs time to adjust to the role and to figure out what problems there are in the office, Price said, calling the public outcry that she faced so soon after starting her term a disservice to her administration and to the county. When it comes to addressing a backlog of cases and figuring out how to best work with prosecutors and other agents in the system, it takes time to find the proper footing, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price plans to discuss the issues facing Alameda County — including those that will need to be addressed by the new district attorney — on a new podcast she is launching Tuesday titled “Pamela Price Unfiltered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she is unsure of what Alameda County’s future looks like. But whether or not it swings in a more conservative direction on crime and public safety, Price noted that Jones Dickson will need to figure out how to reconcile her approach to justice with what’s demanded of her by different groups — including the law enforcement unions that recommended her for the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The start date for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a>’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12025628/alameda-countys-new-district-attorney\">next district attorney\u003c/a>, Ursula Jones Dickson, was pushed back two weeks because of her prior commitments as a Superior Court judge, according to organizers of the recall campaign that left the office vacant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson, who previously served as an Alameda County deputy district attorney for more than a decade, was scheduled to be sworn in Tuesday but needed more time to reassign ongoing court cases to another judge. She was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">appointed last week\u003c/a> by the Board of Supervisors, three months after the recall of progressive prosecutor \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the delay, her swearing-in ceremony is now scheduled for Feb. 18, according to the Board of Supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson will take the lead of an office that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024972/how-alameda-countys-next-district-attorney-wants-shape-office\">faces many challenges\u003c/a> in the wake of Price’s recall. Supporters of the recall campaign applauded her appointment and said her extensive prosecutorial experience in Alameda County leaves them optimistic that she will be able to fix issues they say her predecessor left behind — namely, rising crime rates and a need to restructure the DA’s office to be more efficient and accountable to victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brenda Grisham, a principal officer of Save Alameda For Everyone, or SAFE, which led the recall campaign, said she has no concerns over the slight delay in getting Jones Dickson into office. Organizers trust her to do a good job once she does enter office, and Jones Dickson already knows what the community needs, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11989842\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11989842\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-25_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-25_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-25_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-25_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-25_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240608_PriceRecallKickoff_GC-25_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brenda Grisham, a leader of the campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price, speaks during a kickoff rally outside the René C. 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Their recommendation to county supervisors, who were tasked with selecting the next district attorney, was also signed by the county’s police officer associations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chris Moore, who worked with recall organizers to decide which district attorney candidates they would recommend, said Jones Dickson was chosen because of her ability to balance public safety concerns with reformative justice efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several groups in support of criminal justice reforms, including the Care First, Jails Last coalition, have expressed concern that a new district attorney would reverse the progressive reforms they achieved under Price. During the supervisors’ meeting on Jan. 21, many community members came forward, urging them to select a district attorney who would support holistic and non-punitive responses to crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12024972 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_00823-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said during her final speech to the supervisors last week that although she is not opposed to finding alternatives to incarceration that support offenders who are suffering from mental illness or substance addiction, her primary concern is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024575/alameda-countys-new-da-says-people-are-a-little-tired-of-nothing-happening\">supporting victims and their families\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon taking office, Jones Dickson’s first step will be to make sure that the office has what it needs to do its job of prosecuting and charging cases, Moore said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Jones Dickson is working to rebuild the team already,” said Moore, who also helped lead the recall campaign against Price. “She understands the urgency.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really just understanding who’s in what position right now,” Moore continued. “She’s coming up with a plan to reorganize the office so that the people with the most experience can help the people with less experience train to properly charge cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The district attorney’s office is facing a major backlog of cases, said Jason Quinn, president of the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association. 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I think a lot of the programs that are in place now and a lot of the things that we saw from some of the community-based organizations that they wanted from a D.A., Nancy was already engaging in,” said Jones Dickson, who county supervisors \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024575/alameda-countys-new-da-says-people-are-a-little-tired-of-nothing-happening\">selected Tuesday\u003c/a> as Alameda County’s next district attorney. “So I think we’ll continue that work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson plans to leverage her experience as she takes charge following months of controversy under Pamela Price, the office’s former leader who was recalled in November’s election. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/alameda-county\">Alameda County\u003c/a>’s next district attorney, Superior Court Judge Ursula Jones Dickson, said she will prioritize supporting crime victims and charging a backlog of cases, drawing optimism from prosecutors and victims advocates. Still, the office will present significant challenges after months of controversy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson, who was a deputy district attorney in Alameda County for nearly a decade, began to lay out her approach to leading the office after being \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12024318/alameda-countys-next-da-will-be-named-today-heres-what-to-know\">voted in by the Board of Supervisors\u003c/a> on Tuesday afternoon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What the people in the courtroom will tell you is that I lift up the community at all times,” Jones Dickson said during the meeting. “The job at the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega, is to do what’s right for the community, protect the public … and lift up the victims.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson is scheduled to be sworn in next week, three months after the recall of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\">Pamela Price\u003c/a>. Community members, some of whom were frustrated with the former district attorney’s progressive policies, identified rising crime rates and disorganization within the office as major pain points that Jones Dickson will need to address during her first few months on the job.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a lot of reparative work that needs to start immediately, Jones Dickson told KQED. Some prosecutors will need to be trained more vigorously, she said, adding that the office needs to be reorganized so that attorneys can begin charging the backlog of cases in Alameda County. Jones Dickson said she’s working to secure a strong team of prosecutors and advisers and plans on hiring Annie Esposito, a prosecutor in Contra Costa County who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12023243/alameda-county-heres-your-chance-to-hear-from-7-finalists-vacant-da-seat\">also a finalist for the top job in Alameda County\u003c/a>, as her chief assistant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12023395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12023395 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_01064.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_01064.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_01064-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_01064-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_01064-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_01064-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250121_DA-Finalists_DB_01064-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Annie Esposito, assistant district attorney in Contra Costa County and former senior assistant district attorney in Alameda County, addresses the Alameda County Board of Supervisors at the Alameda County Administration Building on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(David M. Barreda/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Esposito has not confirmed whether she’ll accept the role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ursula Dickson is the best choice,” Esposito said. “I’m thrilled for the county and for the office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said during a Board of Supervisors’ meeting last week that she’s listening to the residents who are pushing for alternatives to mass incarceration, a key part of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12015912/2-california-prosecutors-promised-a-different-kind-of-justice-voters-turned-on-them\">Price’s progressive platform\u003c/a>. Representatives with the Care First, Jails Last coalition attended the meeting on Tuesday and urged supervisors to pick a candidate who would support rehabilitation for people suffering from substance addiction or mental illness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pamela Drake, an organizer with the progressive Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, said she’s skeptical that Jones Dickson will uphold the restorative justice initiatives that advocates pushed for while Price was in office. Jones Dickson will be a polarizing figure for community activists seeking criminal justice reform, and her appointment could further divide Alameda County, Drake added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Prosecutors have generally seen it as their job to put as many usually young Black and Brown people away for as long as possible and to rarely challenge the police,” Drake said. “It has destroyed families and neighborhoods.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said she is not opposed to diverting people away from the criminal justice system when possible but added that her priority is making sure that the district attorney’s office addresses crime and supports victims and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12023560 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250122-OaklandImmigrants-28-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think people are a little tired of nothing happening, and that’s going to be a bit of a push on this DA’s office,” Jones Dickson told KQED. “We need to do things a little differently than we did before.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jason Quinn, president of the Alameda County Prosecutors’ Association, said prosecutors are excited to work with Jones Dickson, but a lot of work will need to be done to rebuild trust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many cases in the district attorney’s office have not been assigned or charged, Quinn said, adding that residents and prosecutors alike are frustrated with the disorganization and unnecessary delays. He said they need a district attorney who will improve workflow and help prosecutors do their job efficiently.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re looking forward to having a leader that’s going to get us focused and back on track doing preliminary sort of prosecutions,” Quinn said. “That’s when you get to focus on the diversionary programs to help people who have issues that don’t need to go through jails … but you can’t get to that until you take care of the business that’s really hurting a lot of people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson received recommendations from law enforcement unions across the county as well as the organization Save Alameda For Everyone, which led the recall campaign against Price.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said she’s eager to start as soon as possible and that she won’t be swayed by politics. Jones Dickson’s first commitment is to the people of Alameda County, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love being a judge. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 4:41 p.m. Tuesday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County residents had a chance to hear from the seven finalists \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021827/alameda-county-leaders-soon-pick-next-da-after-pamela-price-recall\">still in the running\u003c/a> for the vacant district attorney seat on Tuesday, two months after progressive prosecutor\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/pamela-price\"> Pamela Price\u003c/a> was recalled from office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Members of the Board of Supervisors publicly interviewed the candidates in an afternoon meeting, and will announce their selection on Jan. 28. The newly appointed district attorney is scheduled to be sworn in early next month and, according to the county charter, will serve until the next general election in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The board asked candidates about their stances on immigration, racial bias and holistic crime reduction. They were also asked about their positions on Proposition 36, a ballot measure that allows prosecutors to pursue felony charges against repeat offenders of non-violent crimes. The candidates unanimously said they voted in favor of the proposition last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The finalists who were interviewed include:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Annie Esposito\u003c/strong>, assistant district attorney in Contra Costa County and former senior assistant district attorney in Alameda County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Venus Johnson\u003c/strong>, chief deputy attorney general in the California Department of Justice and former director of public safety in Oakland.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Ursula Jones Dickson\u003c/strong>, Alameda County Superior Court judge and former deputy district attorney in Alameda County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Elgin Lowe\u003c/strong>, senior deputy district attorney in Alameda County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Jimmie Wilson\u003c/strong>, deputy district attorney in Alameda County.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Yibin Shen\u003c/strong>, city attorney in the City of Alameda.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>Latricia Louis\u003c/strong>, deputy county counsel in Alameda County and former assistant district attorney in Alameda County.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Price, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12013442/alameda-county-voters-recall-district-attorney-pamela-price\">recalled by voters\u003c/a> less than two years into her term, faced heavy criticism over rising crime rates in Alameda County and disorganization within her office. The group that led the recall campaign — Save Alameda For Everyone, or SAFE — recommended Esposito and Jones Dickson for the opening. The recommendation was also signed by law enforcement unions in Alameda County.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have to address the divisions in the office,” said Jones Dickson during the meeting on Tuesday. “We need to have a less politicized DA’s office and a more balanced DA’s Office.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Jones Dickson, she plans on making it easier for prosecutors to charge cases and also seeks to bring Alameda County up to compliance with race-blind charging policies. Jones Dickson said she also wants to work with victims’ advocates to rebuild support systems that have been neglected by the office.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones Dickson said she would continue working with Esposito, who is a prosecutor in Contra Costa County, but did not elaborate on how a collaboration would work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12011912\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12011912\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged Black woman in a suit jacket speaks at a podium, with a 'Alameda County District Attorney's Office banner behind her.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/241021-OaklandPDDrunkDriving-06-BL_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price speaks to reporters during a briefing in Oakland on Oct. 21, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“My philosophy is persevere, strive for excellence and fairness and maintain your compassion,” Esposito said during the meeting. “This is the philosophy that I will bring back to the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office. It may seem very simple but we know it’s going to be a lot more work. Restore public trust. Restore public safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson, meanwhile, received support from several high-profile leaders with East Bay roots, including California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who previously served on the Alameda City Council and represented the area in the State Assembly; San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins, who grew up in Union City and was appointed to lead her office after Chesa Boudin’s recall in 2022; and newly elected Rep. Lateefah Simon (D–Oakland).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My character and my credentials send a message of stability,” Johnson told KQED. “I’ve had over … 20 years of law enforcement experience at the local level and at the state level. I’m looking to bring all of my experience home in order to create a more safe and just Alameda County for everyone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12022900 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/20250117_Thao-Recall_BL_00001-1020x681.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson said her priority as district attorney would be to create a system of accountability for people who commit violent offenses. However, Johnson said she also recognizes the importance of non-punitive and rehabilitative methods of reducing crime and would look to foster that as district attorney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda City Attorney Shen echoed the sentiment and said he stands behind the Care First, Jails Last policy as a guideline for taking holistic approaches to crime reduction. Shen has the support of several officials in the city of Alameda, including Mayor Marilyn Ashcraft and the Alameda City Council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re not going to rely on mass incarceration alone because history has shown that that alone does not achieve community safety,” Shen said. “My vision for Alameda County is that it’s safe but through a just and equitable enforcement of the law and with an approach that’s consistent with the county’s values of accountability and restorative justice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During a special Board of Supervisors meeting last week, several attendees also spoke in favor of Senior Deputy District Attorney Lowe, praising him for his decades of experience as a prosecutor and his commitment to the role.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s received recommendations from officials in Hayward, including Mayor Mark Salinas, and said he aims to rebuild trust between the District Attorney’s Office and the community through transparency and accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Accountability means we will take a holistic approach to determine what justice means in each individual case,” Lowe said. “Justice does not mean the same thing in every case. You have to look at the facts, the law and the defendant’s criminal history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy District Attorney Wilson is another finalist currently serving as a prosecutor in Alameda County. Wilson said in his application to the Board of Supervisors that his goals are to work with local organizations to reduce crime, such as gang violence and human trafficking, while also creating a support system for victims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need a prosecutor who’s going to address crime in our community,” Wilson said. “I come from a family of community activists so I believe in reform. I believe we can do both. I believe we can keep people safe and we can give them a second chance.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson ran unsuccessfully against Price in 2022.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy County Counsel Louis, or L.D., was one of the last candidates to be selected as a finalist, in addition to Shen. She previously served on the Alameda County Mental Health Advisory Board and said she wants to address the backlog of uncharged cases and cases awaiting trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland is the canary in the coal mine and indicative of a systemic problem confronting the entire country,” Wilson said in her application. “The Office of the District Attorney must get back to basics and focus on the core mission of a professional prosecutors office, which is to prosecute public offenses.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wilson also said during the meeting that she is committed to implementing several crime reduction tactics that go beyond prosecution including mental health services and addiction recovery programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The seven finalists unanimously confirmed that they would also be running for district attorney in 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">Alex Hall\u003c/a> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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