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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:50 p.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> A federal judge warned Friday that she is considering issuing an order that would eliminate the use of cash bail in San Francisco, and with no alternative system in place, that could result in more arrestees waiting in jail for days before appearing in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what the city’s sheriff is arguing should happen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I adopt the position proposed by the sheriff, then everybody waits on the court, rich and poor,” Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in her Oakland courtroom Friday. “Everybody waits because they chose to do nothing for five months.”[aside tag=\"bail\" label=\"California's Bail System\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Rogers found in March, as other courts have, that reliance on cash bail creates an unconstitutional inequality between affluent and poor arrestees. Those who can afford to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to guarantee they’ll show up in court are released within 12 hours on average in San Francisco, according to court filings, but those who can’t afford to pay may end up waiting in jail for several days before a judge decides whether they can be released pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit initiating the case was brought in late 2015 by two women arrested separately in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riana Buffin spent almost two full days in jail on a charge of grand theft because she couldn’t afford bail and lost her $10.25 an hour job at Oakland’s airport as a result. Crystal Patterson was jailed for more than 24 hours on charges of assault, then promised to pay $15,000 plus interest to a bail agent so she could be released. Prosecutors dropped charges against both women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their attorneys are asking Gonzalez Rogers to keep the option to pay bail in place and order San Francisco to create alternatives for arrestees who can’t afford to pay that would still result in release within 12 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re saying it can be speedy. The Superior Court said it can be speedy. Make it speedy,” plaintiffs’ attorney Sadik Huseny argued Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Rogers said San Francisco Superior Court had “stuck its head in the sand” on the issue. Huseny said the local court “torpedoed” a plan to replace cash bail that the sheriff had tentatively agreed to. He declined to elaborate after the hearing on that now-abandoned proposal, which was part of confidential settlement negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco opposes the plaintiffs’ plan to keep the option for bail and ensure that pretrial release decisions are made within 12 hours of booking, an attorney representing the city and sheriff said there is still the potential for a compromise. The parties were ordered to another settlement conference on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 6:30 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Five months after a federal judge ruled that San Francisco’s bail system deprives low-income defendants of their constitutional right to freedom before appearing in court, the same judge is expected to rule Friday on how the city should replace prearraignment cash bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal case is one of several legal and political challenges to California’s cash bail system, which often requires defendants to pay bail agents hundreds or thousands of dollars to secure their release before an early court appearance at which they are formally charged, called an arraignment, or pending trial. The debate pits public safety concerns over defendants who could flee or commit more crimes against the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislation to eliminate bail entirely — and replace it with a system that gives judges far more discretion — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed last year by then-Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> but hasn’t yet taken effect. That’s because the bail industry collected enough signatures to place a referendum on the November 2020 ballot, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707702/referendum-to-block-bail-law-appears-headed-for-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking voters to overturn the law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case in court Friday was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10738577/class-action-suit-against-san-francisco-seeks-to-end-use-of-cash-bail-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brought\u003c/a> by two women who were arrested in San Francisco but couldn’t afford to post bail before their arraignment and had to stay in jail for more than 24 hours. The suit challenged the city’s pre-arraignment bail system, arguing that it discriminated against poor people because they ended up staying in jail longer than people who could immediately pay to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/bail-ruling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruling\u003c/a>, Oakland-based federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-upholds-challenge-to-money-bail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed\u003c/a>, writing that plaintiff Riana Buffin spent 46 hours in jail and lost her job because she couldn’t afford bail; and plaintiff Crystal Patterson spent 29 hours in jail and had to promise to pay $15,000 to a bail agent to secure her release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers wrote that people arrested in San Francisco who are able to post bail get out of jail more quickly than people who cannot, that the sheriff’s use of bail “significantly deprives plaintiffs of their fundamental right to liberty,” and that alternatives exist that will still protect public safety and ensure that offenders show up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she didn’t rule then on what the city should do to replace cash bail. Instead, she asked the parties to brief her on what they believe San Francisco should do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s not a lot of agreement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs, led by Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Equal Justice Under Law, are asking the court to create a sort of menu of options, which will allow people who can afford bail to still post it — something that usually occurs within 12 hours. Those who cannot afford bail would also be required to be released within 12 hours — either on their own recognizance (in which a person simply signs a paper promising to appear in court later), or agreeing to an unsecured bond (in which a defendant promises to pay the full bail amount if they do not appear in court later).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The plaintiffs’ proposal calls for arrestees to be held longer than 12 hours only if police file a declaration with the court arguing that releasing the person would pose a public safety risk. That declaration would be due within eight hours, and judges would have to rule within 24 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This mechanism will serve to equalize treatment between those who can and cannot afford bail, while providing important public safety safeguards in particular circumstances,” the plaintiffs wrote in their brief to the court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their proposal also calls on the court to monitor the process to ensure that police aren’t simply objecting to releasing every single person.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Sheriff’s Department — which previously refused to defend the city’s cash bail system — is calling for a much more sweeping change, one that would sideline money bail entirely for the period before someone arrested is arraigned.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a brief written on behalf of San Francisco Sheriff Vicki Hennessey, lawyers for the city argue that the entire pre-arraignment bail system should be thrown out, in favor of one system that assesses flight and public safety risk for all arrestees, regardless of their ability to pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city also argued that a federal judge shouldn’t decide what that system is — the relevant public entities should, such as the sheriff and the local court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco argues that any alternative would run afoul of state law and likely maintain inequalities among defendants based on how much money they have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, the California Bail Agents Association — which intervened in the case when the sheriff refused to defend the bail system — is arguing for a more narrow judgment. In a brief, the association wrote that the judge’s final decision should apply only to the class represented by the plaintiffs: Those who cannot pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, lawyers for the bail association argued, the judge’s order cannot create a system that requires funding from parties that aren’t a party to the lawsuit — the sheriff and the courts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those, of course, are the very same parties that the Sheriff’s Department believes should be in charge of coming up with an alternative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hearing will take place at 10 a.m. Friday in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Rogers found in March, as other courts have, that reliance on cash bail creates an unconstitutional inequality between affluent and poor arrestees. Those who can afford to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars to guarantee they’ll show up in court are released within 12 hours on average in San Francisco, according to court filings, but those who can’t afford to pay may end up waiting in jail for several days before a judge decides whether they can be released pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit initiating the case was brought in late 2015 by two women arrested separately in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Riana Buffin spent almost two full days in jail on a charge of grand theft because she couldn’t afford bail and lost her $10.25 an hour job at Oakland’s airport as a result. Crystal Patterson was jailed for more than 24 hours on charges of assault, then promised to pay $15,000 plus interest to a bail agent so she could be released. Prosecutors dropped charges against both women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their attorneys are asking Gonzalez Rogers to keep the option to pay bail in place and order San Francisco to create alternatives for arrestees who can’t afford to pay that would still result in release within 12 hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re saying it can be speedy. The Superior Court said it can be speedy. Make it speedy,” plaintiffs’ attorney Sadik Huseny argued Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gonzalez Rogers said San Francisco Superior Court had “stuck its head in the sand” on the issue. Huseny said the local court “torpedoed” a plan to replace cash bail that the sheriff had tentatively agreed to. He declined to elaborate after the hearing on that now-abandoned proposal, which was part of confidential settlement negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco opposes the plaintiffs’ plan to keep the option for bail and ensure that pretrial release decisions are made within 12 hours of booking, an attorney representing the city and sheriff said there is still the potential for a compromise. The parties were ordered to another settlement conference on Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, 6:30 a.m. Friday:\u003c/strong> Five months after a federal judge ruled that San Francisco’s bail system deprives low-income defendants of their constitutional right to freedom before appearing in court, the same judge is expected to rule Friday on how the city should replace prearraignment cash bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal case is one of several legal and political challenges to California’s cash bail system, which often requires defendants to pay bail agents hundreds or thousands of dollars to secure their release before an early court appearance at which they are formally charged, called an arraignment, or pending trial. The debate pits public safety concerns over defendants who could flee or commit more crimes against the presumption of innocence until proven guilty.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State legislation to eliminate bail entirely — and replace it with a system that gives judges far more discretion — was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11689184/gov-brown-signs-bill-ending-cash-bail-in-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signed last year by then-Gov. Jerry Brown\u003c/a> but hasn’t yet taken effect. That’s because the bail industry collected enough signatures to place a referendum on the November 2020 ballot, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11707702/referendum-to-block-bail-law-appears-headed-for-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asking voters to overturn the law\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The case in court Friday was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/10738577/class-action-suit-against-san-francisco-seeks-to-end-use-of-cash-bail-system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">brought\u003c/a> by two women who were arrested in San Francisco but couldn’t afford to post bail before their arraignment and had to stay in jail for more than 24 hours. The suit challenged the city’s pre-arraignment bail system, arguing that it discriminated against poor people because they ended up staying in jail longer than people who could immediately pay to be released.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a March \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/bail-ruling.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ruling\u003c/a>, Oakland-based federal Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers \u003ca href=\"https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-judge-upholds-challenge-to-money-bail/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">agreed\u003c/a>, writing that plaintiff Riana Buffin spent 46 hours in jail and lost her job because she couldn’t afford bail; and plaintiff Crystal Patterson spent 29 hours in jail and had to promise to pay $15,000 to a bail agent to secure her release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rogers wrote that people arrested in San Francisco who are able to post bail get out of jail more quickly than people who cannot, that the sheriff’s use of bail “significantly deprives plaintiffs of their fundamental right to liberty,” and that alternatives exist that will still protect public safety and ensure that offenders show up in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she didn’t rule then on what the city should do to replace cash bail. 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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco will stop charging jail inmates for phone calls and stop marking up the cost of items in the jail store, Mayor London Breed and Sheriff Vicki Hennessy told KQED, a change that will save inmates and their families about $1.7 million a year and, city officials hope, make it easier for them to keep in touch with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State law allows counties to charge inmates premiums for both calls and jail commissary items — money that’s used to support rehabilitation and re-entry services in jails. In San Francisco, the money is spent on staff members who coordinate nonprofit services and prisoner legal services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" citation=\"Anne Stuhldreher, director of financial justice for the San Francisco Treasurer\"]\"It’s a huge economic burden, that disproportionately impacts low-income women of color.\"[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Breed said that the practice is hurting families of inmates and the inmates themselves, by presenting a financial burden to staying in touch — which makes offenders less likely to succeed once they are released from jail. An analysis conducted by San Francisco Treasurer Jose Cisneros found that 90% of phone calls and jail store costs are paid by the support networks of incarcerated people — mostly low-income women of color.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Mayor Says This Is Personal\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Breed, who grew up in public housing and whose brother is serving a 44-year prison sentence for involuntary manslaughter and armed robbery, said the issue is personal for her. Her office said the change will make San Francisco the first city in the nation to stop generating any revenue from incarcerated people and their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s something that has never sat well with me, from personal experience of the collect calls, and the amount of money that my grandma had to spend on our phone bill, and at times our phone getting cut off because we couldn't pay the bill,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not being able to provide support to family members who were behind bars — it can be quite depressing and frustrating … this was something I thought was an important issue, to address equity and fairness in our criminal justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Hear more on The Bay\" link1=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/the-bay/,Why S.F. 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She said in San Francisco, which already has lower call costs than most of the state, a 15-minute call works out to around $2.10, or a total of $300 for someone during the average jail stay of 70 days, if they call family and friends twice a day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That cost can push low-income families into debt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I hear over and over again is that if your son or daughter calls collect from jail, you are not going to say no, and $300 over 70 days ... it’s a huge economic burden, that disproportionately impacts low-income women of color,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The thing is, said Stuhldreher, daily contact is something the city wants inmates to have.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lots of research shows that the more someone in jail stays in touch with their support network, the better they do in jail and during re-entry -- people who stay in touch are much less likely to recidivate, to go right back to jail,” she said, noting that if inmates can’t use the phone, they can’t arrange for a place to stay, or look for jobs, before their release.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuhldreher predicted that the change could lead to a safer community and save the city money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we cut people off from their support networks, and ask them to pay high prices that they cannot afford, to stay in touch with their support networks, we end up paying the price,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Budgeting for the Change\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The change was included in Breed’s budget proposal for the fiscal year that begins July 1 and will occur sometime in the coming months, after the city issues a request for proposals for a new telephone contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stuhldreher said that phone calls currently generate $1 million a year, money that’s split between the Sheriff’s Department and the phone company. Items in the jail store — like hygiene products and food — are marked up 43%, and generate another $650,000 in revenue for the Sheriff’s Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"jail\" label=\"California Jails\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff Vicki Hennessy, who has already worked to lower jail phone call fees to less than half of the state average, said the sheriff's department is now working to figure out logistics, including a new telephone contract.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The harder thing for us is capacity issues — how many free phone call minutes do they get? How do we manage those in a safe manner?\" she said. \"It's a heavy lift to get it going in a way that is safe.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal is part of a growing trend in San Francisco and other jurisdictions to try to reduce the prohibitive fees that disproportionately affect low-income people of color. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hennessy said that in 2016 ICE issued 133 requests. In 2017, that number jumped to 519. San Francisco hasn’t complied with any of those requests, she said, because no one has met the limited criteria allowed under state and local sanctuary laws. Those laws prohibit the sheriff from holding someone past their release date — or sharing information with ICE about an inmate — unless the person has a violent criminal history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office — which has had a \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-jails-ice-audit-20171009-story.html\">closer and more cooperative relationship with ICE\u003c/a> — saw the number of ICE requests jump between 2016 and the first 10 months of 2017, from 1,603 to 2,540.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the number of inmates handed over to ICE stayed about the same, around 1,000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles, and all California counties, are now barred from detaining any inmates past their release date for ICE \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2017/10/05/governor-jerry-brown-signs-sanctuary-state-bill-setting-up-standoff-with-trump-adminstration/\">under Senate Bill 54, which took effect in January\u003c/a>. Under the law, sheriffs can cooperate with ICE if an inmate has a violent criminal history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICE opposes the law — when California Gov. Jerry Brown signed it last year, ICE acting director Thomas Homan said it would undermine public safety and force ICE enforcement out of jails and into the community, where more people might be swept up in what’s known as collateral arrests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week, ICE launched a wide sweep in the Los Angeles area, \u003ca href=\"http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ice-raids-20180213-story.html\">arresting more than 100 people\u003c/a>. In a statement acknowledging this week’s enforcement push, an ICE spokeswoman echoed earlier criticisms of sanctuary policies and laws, indicating that they are to blame for the agency’s actions this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“ICE focuses its enforcement resources on individuals who pose a threat to national security, public safety and border security. This means that, ideally, we are working with local police and county jails to identify public safety threats in their custody, who are also in the country illegally, for deportation,” spokeswoman Danielle Bennett said in a written statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the vast majority of cities in America do cooperate with ICE, others force ICE to focus additional resources to conduct at-large arrests in the community, putting officers, the general public and the aliens at greater risk and increasing the incidents of collateral arrests. That is what ICE is now doing in Los Angeles, and what ICE will continue to do in uncooperative jurisdictions. Sanctuary cities are not immune from federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This post contains a \u003ca href=\"#clarification\">clarification\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors will soon consider $90,000 settlement in a lawsuit over forced inmate fights in one of the city's jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposed settlement will likely mark the end of the lawsuit alleging that four sheriff's deputies threatened, demeaned and otherwise coerced three former inmates to fight and gamble for food and other privileges in what plaintiffs' attorneys called a \"human cockfighting ring.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The settlement will be split among the three plaintiffs, according to the city attorney's office. It includes no remedies other than the $90,000 payment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys for former inmates Ricardo Palikiko-Garcia, Stanley Harris and Keith Richardson did not respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their \u003ca href=\"https://www.scribd.com/doc/316894526/Palikiko-Garcia-et-al-v-City-and-County-of-San-Francisco-et-al\" target=\"_blank\">complaint\u003c/a>, however, describes a series of staged fights that a group of deputies planned and carried out, forcing inmates to brawl with the promise of hamburger rewards and beatings as punishments if they refused to fight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t want to speculate as to the reasons, but it certainly would seem like a rather low settlement, given the gravity of what happened,\" said San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">revealed inmates' claims of abuse\u003c/a> last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Former Deputy Scott Neu and current Deputies Clifford Chiba and Eugene Jones face separate \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/17-counts-for-accused-leader-of-San-Francisco-6863736.php\" target=\"_blank\">criminal charges\u003c/a> from the forced fight allegations. All three are due back in court next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Eileen Hirst said that although Chiba and Jones are still employed, they have \"non-public, non-prisoner-contact\" assignments. Deputy Evan Staehely was named by Adachi and was a defendant in the civil suit, but he was never criminally charged. Hirst said he is \"on full duty.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neu \"separated from the department\" as of July 25 of last year, Hirst said, three months after former Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi served him with a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/04/10/fbi-investigating-s-f-sheriffs-department-over-forced-inmate-fights\" target=\"_blank\">pink slip\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The jail fight allegations ended a career for Neu that included previous lawsuits alleging sexual assault and excessive force. He was also the subject of 11 internal affairs investigations into alleged excessive force, according to the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfexaminer.com/sf-deputy-charged-staging-jail-fights-subject-11-investigations-recent-years/\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Examiner\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When you’re locked up behind bars and somebody is abusing you, there’s very little you can do,\" Adachi said. \"These cases are hard to prove because it’s the word of the jailer versus you.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The deputies union did not respond to requests for comment, but its president previously told KQED that inmates often fabricate complaints against jail guards.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Neu's attorney, Harry Stern, told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deputy-in-inmate-fights-faced-2006-complaints-6164193.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> last year that a $97,500 payment ending a lawsuit stemming from inmates' sexual assault allegations against Neu was \"settled for a nuisance value, pennies on the dollar.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said that lawsuit should have ended Neu's career.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"From what I saw, the evidence was pretty strong, and yet he was allowed to continue on the job,\" he said. \"We have to look at the discipline that’s meted out by the Sheriff’s Department and ask why this kind of misconduct is continuing.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hirst said the forced fight allegations didn't lead to any changes in Sheriff's Department policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is reinforcing what is permissible and what is not permissible, but the problem was not the policy,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said the department is asking the city to fund body cameras for at least some deputies.\u003cbr>\n\u003ca name=\"clarification\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\"Is this all because of one incident? I don’t think it’s fair to say that,\" Hirst said. \"But I think it would be a very useful tool in preventing occurrences like this.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This post originally reported that San Francisco supervisors would consider the settlement on Tuesday, June 28, which was incorrect. Approval of the settlement was assigned to a board committee on June 28.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:07 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco sheriff's deputies arrested five protesters who chained themselves together in the city's Board of Supervisors chambers in an attempt to delay a committee vote on legislation to fund a new jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Budget and Finance Committee chair Mark Farrell said the vote scheduled for Wednesday would go forward in the afternoon. He said the package of two ordinances and two resolutions tied to funding the proposed facility must pass committee today for the city to receive an $80 million grant from the state, which would pay for about one-third of the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/672183781617360896\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's outrageous that they're trying to steamroll the process before the hearing on alternatives tomorrow,\" said Tash Nguyen, an activist with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, as she sat on the floor of the board chambers chained to other protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters separated Nguyen, Katie Loncke and Alicia Bell. They were arrested under suspicion of trespassing in a public building, along with Brooke Anderson and Andrew Szeto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we saw before was the first time that I've seen ... PVC pipes in the chambers, which raises a new level of public safety concerns,\" Farrell said, as the meeting resumed at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:50 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA few dozen protesters opposed to San Francisco building a new jail have filled the city Board of Supervisors chambers and have disrupted a committee meeting where supervisors were about to consider legislation that would fund the proposed facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has been chanting loudly since shortly before noon, demanding a continuance. A line of sheriff's deputies is separating the crowd from the supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SFNewsReporter/status/672142792651501568\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, 10:15 a.m. Wednesday Dec. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFast-track legislation that would approve funding for a new $240 million \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1818\" target=\"_blank\">jail facility\u003c/a> heads to a Board of Supervisors committee Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Votes on the project in the coming weeks promise to test the power of the board's new progressive majority, as opponents of the new jail scurry to head off a project that's been eight years in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate comes to a head amid broad changes to San Francisco and California's criminal justice system. When the city started planning a facility to replace two outdated and unsafe jails in the Hall of Justice, it was housing close to twice the number of inmates it's currently holding. That was before \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/realignment\" target=\"_blank\">\"realignment,\"\u003c/a> an ambitious program to cut the population of California prisons by redirecting inmates formerly incarcerated at the state level to county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The message San Francisco is sending to its residents is: If you’re poor, we will help you out if you are locked up.'\u003ccite>Lizzie Buchen,\u003cbr>\nCalifornians United for a Responsible Budget\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>James Austin, president of the JFA Institute, a corrections research group, says realignment presented counties with a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could either continue to put the people in the jail who used to be in state prison, or they could do things with them by giving them split sentences and getting them released on probation for supervision, and that’s what San Francisco has done,\" he said at a Tuesday press conference \u003ca href=\"http://www.jfa-associates.com/publications/reduce/Reforming%20San%20Franciscos%20Criminal%20Justice%20System-JA4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">releasing a study\u003c/a> on the city's criminal justice policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco is doing something about mass incarceration, and it’s doing it in a very safe manner,\" Austin said. \"If you look at the crime rate, it has dropped significantly as it has implemented these reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why would the city, widely lauded for reducing incarceration and with a jail system that's nowhere near capacity, need a new lockup?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents, including Mayor Ed Lee and the Sheriff's Department, contend that some level of replacement is needed for the 828 beds at County Jails 3 and 4 on the upper floors of the Hall of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re talking about replacing a facility that has close to 900 beds with 384 beds, and those 384 beds will be dedicated to people with mental health issues, co-occurring substance abuse issues,\" Sheriff-elect Vicki Hennessy said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of a \"mental health jail\" roils opponents, including District Attorney George Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mental health experts are telling us that incarceration is not a solution nor a place to treat mental health,\" he said at the Tuesday press conference with James Austin. \"What San Francisco needs today is mental health facilities and not a new jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This isn’t about mass incarceration -- industrial jail complex. This is about a more holistic approach to criminal justice, to the treatment of mentally ill offenders.'\u003ccite>Matt Freeman,\u003cbr>\nChief deputy sheriff\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing on the new jail proposal comes sooner than anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed waived a required 30-day waiting period for a committee to hear new legislation at Mayor Lee's request. The timing gave rise to speculation that the mayor and his allies on the board were trying to push the legislation through before progressive Aaron Peskin takes office, establishing a left-leaning majority that might block the jail plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lee told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mayor-to-OK-Peskin-taking-office-in-time-for-jail-6668549.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> Tuesday that he would certify Peskin's election, along with the rest of voters' decisions, in time for the new supervisor to take office next Tuesday, when the jail legislation is likely to be heard by the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents still say the project is being rushed. They say that anticipated changes to San Francisco's bail system could further cut the city's inmate population -- and reduce the need for a new jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón is pushing a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/turning-the-granting-of-bail-into-a-science.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">new predictive tool\u003c/a> that could inform judges about the likelihood any given arrestee would reoffend, hurt someone or fail to show up for his or her court date, reducing the number of inmates held simply because they can't afford to post bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's cash bail system is also being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/29/class-action-suit-against-san-francisco-seeks-to-end-use-of-cash-bail-system\" target=\"_blank\">challenged in federal court\u003c/a>. That lawsuit is headed for an injunction hearing Dec. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this lawsuit is successful, if San Francisco settles this lawsuit the way that other municipalities have, then that would dramatically reduce the jail population,\" said Lizzie Buchen, an advocacy coordinator with \u003ca href=\"http://curbprisonspending.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Californians United for a Responsible Budget\u003c/a>. The organization is part of a coalition that opposes San Francisco's new jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jane Kim said the project also seems rushed. She and Breed are holding a hearing Thursday on \"alternatives to incarceration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public defender and our district attorney have really been pushing this issue,\" Kim said, referring to an unlikely alliance against the new jail. \"They get to see it because they’re on the front lines, but I don’t think that we as a city have adequately answered these questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another reason to rush the project approval, according to the pro-jail camp -- $80 million in state grant funding \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/news.php?id=83\" target=\"_blank\">awarded to San Francisco Nov. 12\u003c/a>. The grant requires the city to purchase land for the proposed project within 90 days of the award, and San Francisco's grant application promised the approval of nearly $14 million within 30 days. If you're counting, that's a deadline that looms over the Dec. 8 Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Buchen, the state funding represents a corruption of realignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said in an interview that while realignment was driven in part by the need to reduce prison overcrowding after a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision, the initiative was also meant to move the state away from failed prison and jail policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s not how it played out in most places in California,\" Buchen said. \"And part of the reason that it’s not playing out that way is because the state has also been funding jail expansion -- more than $2.2 billion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Gascón, she rejects the concept of a \"mental health jail\" and wants the city to spend more on services for people before they're incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean it’s shocking. It seems cruel to me,\" she said. \"The message San Francisco is sending to its residents is: If you're poor, we will help you out if you are locked up. We’ll give you programs, we’ll give you mental health services if you’re in our jail. But if you’re in the community, then those programs just keep getting cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff-elect Hennessy said she understands the opposition to building a new jail instead of funding affordable housing and community mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I don’t think it’s an either/or proposition,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Deputy Sheriff Matt Freeman agrees. He said in an interview that building a new jail facility \"isn’t about mass incarceration -- industrial jail complex. This is about a more holistic approach to criminal justice, to the treatment of mentally ill offenders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researcher Austin is on both sides of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His \u003ca href=\"http://sfcontroller.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=6963\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a>, published through the San Francisco Controller's Office, casts doubt on whether an existing closed jail in San Bruno could satisfy the city's needs if it decides not to build a new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My personal opinion on all of this is that San Francisco has a great deal to be proud of in terms of what it has done,\" Austin said. \"It’s got some pretty big issues ahead in terms of what to do with the residual population. Can you lower the population? 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 3:07 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco sheriff's deputies arrested five protesters who chained themselves together in the city's Board of Supervisors chambers in an attempt to delay a committee vote on legislation to fund a new jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Budget and Finance Committee chair Mark Farrell said the vote scheduled for Wednesday would go forward in the afternoon. He said the package of two ordinances and two resolutions tied to funding the proposed facility must pass committee today for the city to receive an $80 million grant from the state, which would pay for about one-third of the project.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\"I think it's outrageous that they're trying to steamroll the process before the hearing on alternatives tomorrow,\" said Tash Nguyen, an activist with the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, as she sat on the floor of the board chambers chained to other protesters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Firefighters separated Nguyen, Katie Loncke and Alicia Bell. They were arrested under suspicion of trespassing in a public building, along with Brooke Anderson and Andrew Szeto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"What we saw before was the first time that I've seen ... PVC pipes in the chambers, which raises a new level of public safety concerns,\" Farrell said, as the meeting resumed at 3 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 12:50 p.m. Wednesday Dec. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nA few dozen protesters opposed to San Francisco building a new jail have filled the city Board of Supervisors chambers and have disrupted a committee meeting where supervisors were about to consider legislation that would fund the proposed facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group has been chanting loudly since shortly before noon, demanding a continuance. A line of sheriff's deputies is separating the crowd from the supervisors.\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original Post, 10:15 a.m. Wednesday Dec. 2:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nFast-track legislation that would approve funding for a new $240 million \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfdpw.org/index.aspx?page=1818\" target=\"_blank\">jail facility\u003c/a> heads to a Board of Supervisors committee Wednesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Votes on the project in the coming weeks promise to test the power of the board's new progressive majority, as opponents of the new jail scurry to head off a project that's been eight years in the making.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The debate comes to a head amid broad changes to San Francisco and California's criminal justice system. When the city started planning a facility to replace two outdated and unsafe jails in the Hall of Justice, it was housing close to twice the number of inmates it's currently holding. That was before \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/tag/realignment\" target=\"_blank\">\"realignment,\"\u003c/a> an ambitious program to cut the population of California prisons by redirecting inmates formerly incarcerated at the state level to county jails.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'The message San Francisco is sending to its residents is: If you’re poor, we will help you out if you are locked up.'\u003ccite>Lizzie Buchen,\u003cbr>\nCalifornians United for a Responsible Budget\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>James Austin, president of the JFA Institute, a corrections research group, says realignment presented counties with a choice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They could either continue to put the people in the jail who used to be in state prison, or they could do things with them by giving them split sentences and getting them released on probation for supervision, and that’s what San Francisco has done,\" he said at a Tuesday press conference \u003ca href=\"http://www.jfa-associates.com/publications/reduce/Reforming%20San%20Franciscos%20Criminal%20Justice%20System-JA4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">releasing a study\u003c/a> on the city's criminal justice policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"San Francisco is doing something about mass incarceration, and it’s doing it in a very safe manner,\" Austin said. \"If you look at the crime rate, it has dropped significantly as it has implemented these reforms.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why would the city, widely lauded for reducing incarceration and with a jail system that's nowhere near capacity, need a new lockup?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proponents, including Mayor Ed Lee and the Sheriff's Department, contend that some level of replacement is needed for the 828 beds at County Jails 3 and 4 on the upper floors of the Hall of Justice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We’re talking about replacing a facility that has close to 900 beds with 384 beds, and those 384 beds will be dedicated to people with mental health issues, co-occurring substance abuse issues,\" Sheriff-elect Vicki Hennessy said Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of a \"mental health jail\" roils opponents, including District Attorney George Gascón.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Mental health experts are telling us that incarceration is not a solution nor a place to treat mental health,\" he said at the Tuesday press conference with James Austin. \"What San Francisco needs today is mental health facilities and not a new jail.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'This isn’t about mass incarceration -- industrial jail complex. This is about a more holistic approach to criminal justice, to the treatment of mentally ill offenders.'\u003ccite>Matt Freeman,\u003cbr>\nChief deputy sheriff\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Wednesday's hearing on the new jail proposal comes sooner than anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Board of Supervisors President London Breed waived a required 30-day waiting period for a committee to hear new legislation at Mayor Lee's request. The timing gave rise to speculation that the mayor and his allies on the board were trying to push the legislation through before progressive Aaron Peskin takes office, establishing a left-leaning majority that might block the jail plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Lee told the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mayor-to-OK-Peskin-taking-office-in-time-for-jail-6668549.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a> Tuesday that he would certify Peskin's election, along with the rest of voters' decisions, in time for the new supervisor to take office next Tuesday, when the jail legislation is likely to be heard by the full board.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Opponents still say the project is being rushed. They say that anticipated changes to San Francisco's bail system could further cut the city's inmate population -- and reduce the need for a new jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón is pushing a \u003ca href=\"http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/27/us/turning-the-granting-of-bail-into-a-science.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">new predictive tool\u003c/a> that could inform judges about the likelihood any given arrestee would reoffend, hurt someone or fail to show up for his or her court date, reducing the number of inmates held simply because they can't afford to post bail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city's cash bail system is also being \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/10/29/class-action-suit-against-san-francisco-seeks-to-end-use-of-cash-bail-system\" target=\"_blank\">challenged in federal court\u003c/a>. That lawsuit is headed for an injunction hearing Dec. 16.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If this lawsuit is successful, if San Francisco settles this lawsuit the way that other municipalities have, then that would dramatically reduce the jail population,\" said Lizzie Buchen, an advocacy coordinator with \u003ca href=\"http://curbprisonspending.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Californians United for a Responsible Budget\u003c/a>. The organization is part of a coalition that opposes San Francisco's new jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Supervisor Jane Kim said the project also seems rushed. She and Breed are holding a hearing Thursday on \"alternatives to incarceration.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The public defender and our district attorney have really been pushing this issue,\" Kim said, referring to an unlikely alliance against the new jail. \"They get to see it because they’re on the front lines, but I don’t think that we as a city have adequately answered these questions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There's another reason to rush the project approval, according to the pro-jail camp -- $80 million in state grant funding \u003ca href=\"http://www.bscc.ca.gov/news.php?id=83\" target=\"_blank\">awarded to San Francisco Nov. 12\u003c/a>. The grant requires the city to purchase land for the proposed project within 90 days of the award, and San Francisco's grant application promised the approval of nearly $14 million within 30 days. If you're counting, that's a deadline that looms over the Dec. 8 Board of Supervisors meeting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Buchen, the state funding represents a corruption of realignment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said in an interview that while realignment was driven in part by the need to reduce prison overcrowding after a 2011 U.S. Supreme Court decision, the initiative was also meant to move the state away from failed prison and jail policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That’s not how it played out in most places in California,\" Buchen said. \"And part of the reason that it’s not playing out that way is because the state has also been funding jail expansion -- more than $2.2 billion.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Gascón, she rejects the concept of a \"mental health jail\" and wants the city to spend more on services for people before they're incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I mean it’s shocking. It seems cruel to me,\" she said. \"The message San Francisco is sending to its residents is: If you're poor, we will help you out if you are locked up. We’ll give you programs, we’ll give you mental health services if you’re in our jail. But if you’re in the community, then those programs just keep getting cut.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sheriff-elect Hennessy said she understands the opposition to building a new jail instead of funding affordable housing and community mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But I don’t think it’s an either/or proposition,\" she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chief Deputy Sheriff Matt Freeman agrees. He said in an interview that building a new jail facility \"isn’t about mass incarceration -- industrial jail complex. This is about a more holistic approach to criminal justice, to the treatment of mentally ill offenders.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researcher Austin is on both sides of the debate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His \u003ca href=\"http://sfcontroller.org/Modules/ShowDocument.aspx?documentid=6963\" target=\"_blank\">report\u003c/a>, published through the San Francisco Controller's Office, casts doubt on whether an existing closed jail in San Bruno could satisfy the city's needs if it decides not to build a new facility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"My personal opinion on all of this is that San Francisco has a great deal to be proud of in terms of what it has done,\" Austin said. \"It’s got some pretty big issues ahead in terms of what to do with the residual population. Can you lower the population? Yes, it can be lowered, but it’s going to take a lot of hard work.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 4:55 p.m. Thursday, April 30\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of four sheriff's deputies under criminal investigation, after several inmates at a San Francisco jail alleged he humiliated them and forced them to brawl for entertainment and bets, is facing termination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scott Neu was taken off paid leave and issued a notice of intent to terminate on April 28, San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The evidence has arrived at a place where we can,\" Mirkarimi said, in response to questions about why he's so far requested that only one of the deputies be fired.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sheriff said the remaining three deputies -- Eugene Jones, Clifford Chiba and Evan Staehely -- would soon return to duty with assignments that don't include contact with inmates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bringing them back no longer requires us to keep them on paid time off,\" he said. \"That's why we're bringing them back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation continues, led by San Francisco's district attorney with assistance from the FBI, and none of the four deputies have been exonerated, Mirkarimi said. He said that additional deputies are being interviewed as witnesses but are not the focus of the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post April 10\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is leading an inquiry into allegations that a group of San Francisco sheriff's deputies abused inmates at one of the city's jails, forcing them to fight and gambling on the outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced the FBI investigation Friday, two weeks and a day since the city's public defender, Jeff Adachi, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">publicly revealed\u003c/a> the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had I been alerted, I would have taken immediate steps to protect the inmates and take the appropriate administrative actions involving the identified deputies,\" Mirkarimi said. \"However, Mr. Adachi’s decision was to conduct his own limited investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty.'\u003ccite>Jeff Adachi,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Defender\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The four deputies named at the center of an \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Public-Defender-Inquiry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">independent investigation\u003c/a> initiated by Adachi remain on paid leave, Mirkarimi said. Their names are Scott Neu, Eugene Jones, Clifford Chiba and Evan Staehely. The law firm representing the deputies did not return a call seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal inquiry officially started April 3. Special Agent Greg Wuthrich said the FBI investigation is at a very early stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Civil rights allegations are definitely huge for the bureau,\" Wuthrich said. \"These kind of things, we take very seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is wading into a crowded group of agencies probing the sheriff's department. That includes the city's police department and district attorney, as well as the sheriff's internal administrative and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to figure out and coordinate how all that works,\" Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"k2bfGY98IQGO7ilwnvV0SL1Yy11hYxr6\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal probe is being conducted by the same group of FBI agents who investigated the San Francisco Police Department after Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/02/public-defender-video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> of plainclothes narcotics officers illegally searching hotel rooms in 2011, Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation led to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/27/six-san-francisco-police-officers-indicted-on-civil-rights-drug-theft-charges\" target=\"_blank\">indictment of six former SFPD officers\u003c/a>, including former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was sentenced in February to three years and five months in prison. Furminger is also at the center of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that has rocked the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said in a statement that he is pleased with the FBI's involvement and commended Mirkarimi for taking the unusual step of inviting the federal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty,\" Adachi said. \"I look forward to a thorough and fair investigation that includes determining whether additional deputies were aware of the abuse and complicit in their silence. To ensure this never happens again, there must be accountability -- not only for the perpetrators, but for those who fail to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said last month that his office first learned of the allegations when then-inmate Ricardo Garcia's father contacted a deputy public defender, concerned for his son's safety. Garcia at first didn't want to speak up, Adachi said, but then more inmates started contacting his office. So the public defender enlisted an independent private investigator, Barry Simon, to look into the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon interviewed five inmates total. Two said they were forced to fight each other, and two others corroborated parts of their statements. The fifth inmate told investigators that Neu had sex with a civilian employee in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Adachi in a recorded interview made public in late March that he was scared for his life in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10485642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriffs' deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriff's deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when they're gonna come and, you know, try to basically attack or anything,\" he said. \"I'm kind of walking on eggshells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Harris said in a separate recorded conversation with Adachi that he was forced to fight Garcia twice, and that Neu often harassed him, forcing him to do pushups to \"train for another fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said Neu threatened to handcuff and beat them if they didn't fight. Harris said Neu threatened to rape him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's office said the San Francisco district attorney dropped charges against Garcia and he had been released from custody. Mirkarimi said the remaining inmates were all transferred to the city's jail in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One inmate told Simon that Neu had tattoos that said \"850 Mob,\" an apparent reference to San Francisco's Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street, where County Jail #4 is located. Mirkarimi initially said the alleged tattoo gave him concern that more deputies may be involved, but he downplayed questions about the tattoo Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't as it was initially said,\" he said, declining to elaborate on the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi also addressed a recent inmate escape, saying he'd seek to fire a deputy who appeared not to follow protocol. The sheriff is facing a re-election challenge from former Chief Deputy Sheriff Vicky Hennessy, who was \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Deputies-endorse-Hennessy-over-Mirkarimi-in-6181889.php\" target=\"_blank\">endorsed\u003c/a> by the deputies' union on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Bringing them back no longer requires us to keep them on paid time off,\" he said. \"That's why we're bringing them back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A criminal investigation continues, led by San Francisco's district attorney with assistance from the FBI, and none of the four deputies have been exonerated, Mirkarimi said. He said that additional deputies are being interviewed as witnesses but are not the focus of the probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post April 10\u003c/strong>:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is leading an inquiry into allegations that a group of San Francisco sheriff's deputies abused inmates at one of the city's jails, forcing them to fight and gambling on the outcomes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced the FBI investigation Friday, two weeks and a day since the city's public defender, Jeff Adachi, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">publicly revealed\u003c/a> the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Had I been alerted, I would have taken immediate steps to protect the inmates and take the appropriate administrative actions involving the identified deputies,\" Mirkarimi said. \"However, Mr. Adachi’s decision was to conduct his own limited investigation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty.'\u003ccite>Jeff Adachi,\u003cbr>\nSan Francisco Public Defender\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The four deputies named at the center of an \u003ca href=\"http://sfpublicdefender.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/Public-Defender-Inquiry.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">independent investigation\u003c/a> initiated by Adachi remain on paid leave, Mirkarimi said. Their names are Scott Neu, Eugene Jones, Clifford Chiba and Evan Staehely. The law firm representing the deputies did not return a call seeking comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal inquiry officially started April 3. Special Agent Greg Wuthrich said the FBI investigation is at a very early stage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Civil rights allegations are definitely huge for the bureau,\" Wuthrich said. \"These kind of things, we take very seriously.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FBI is wading into a crowded group of agencies probing the sheriff's department. That includes the city's police department and district attorney, as well as the sheriff's internal administrative and criminal investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're trying to figure out and coordinate how all that works,\" Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal probe is being conducted by the same group of FBI agents who investigated the San Francisco Police Department after Adachi \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2011/03/02/public-defender-video-reveals-police-misconduct-perjury\" target=\"_blank\">released surveillance video\u003c/a> of plainclothes narcotics officers illegally searching hotel rooms in 2011, Wuthrich said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That investigation led to the \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/02/27/six-san-francisco-police-officers-indicted-on-civil-rights-drug-theft-charges\" target=\"_blank\">indictment of six former SFPD officers\u003c/a>, including former Sgt. Ian Furminger, who was sentenced in February to three years and five months in prison. Furminger is also at the center of a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">racist and homophobic text messaging scandal\u003c/a> that has rocked the SFPD since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said in a statement that he is pleased with the FBI's involvement and commended Mirkarimi for taking the unusual step of inviting the federal probe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eliminating this sort of brutal and sadistic conduct starts by leading an investigation that isn't tainted by conflict of interest or misplaced loyalty,\" Adachi said. \"I look forward to a thorough and fair investigation that includes determining whether additional deputies were aware of the abuse and complicit in their silence. To ensure this never happens again, there must be accountability -- not only for the perpetrators, but for those who fail to speak up.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said last month that his office first learned of the allegations when then-inmate Ricardo Garcia's father contacted a deputy public defender, concerned for his son's safety. Garcia at first didn't want to speak up, Adachi said, but then more inmates started contacting his office. So the public defender enlisted an independent private investigator, Barry Simon, to look into the claims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Simon interviewed five inmates total. Two said they were forced to fight each other, and two others corroborated parts of their statements. The fifth inmate told investigators that Neu had sex with a civilian employee in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Garcia told Adachi in a recorded interview made public in late March that he was scared for his life in the jail.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10485642\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10485642\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriffs' deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi-320x240.jpg 320w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/04/Adachi.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi plays audio on March 26 from a phone conversation with former city jail inmate Ricardo Garcia, who said sheriff's deputies in the jail forced him to fight another inmate for entertainment and bets. \u003ccite>(Alex Emslie/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I don't know when they're gonna come and, you know, try to basically attack or anything,\" he said. \"I'm kind of walking on eggshells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stanley Harris said in a separate recorded conversation with Adachi that he was forced to fight Garcia twice, and that Neu often harassed him, forcing him to do pushups to \"train for another fight.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both said Neu threatened to handcuff and beat them if they didn't fight. Harris said Neu threatened to rape him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi's office said the San Francisco district attorney dropped charges against Garcia and he had been released from custody. Mirkarimi said the remaining inmates were all transferred to the city's jail in San Bruno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One inmate told Simon that Neu had tattoos that said \"850 Mob,\" an apparent reference to San Francisco's Hall of Justice at 850 Bryant Street, where County Jail #4 is located. Mirkarimi initially said the alleged tattoo gave him concern that more deputies may be involved, but he downplayed questions about the tattoo Friday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't as it was initially said,\" he said, declining to elaborate on the ongoing investigation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón says he is reassigning staff and looking for more funding to investigate three separate scandals involving city law enforcement agencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I find it repulsive,\" Gascón told a gathering of reporters at his office today. \"In my entire 30-year-plus career in law enforcement, these are some of the worst allegations that I have seen. And I find them extremely troubling, not only because of the incidents, but because of the potential repercussions for involving so many prosecutions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón said he's forming a task force in the district attorney's office composed of three teams -- a team for each of three scandals that broke since mid-March.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">'Frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.'\u003ccite>George Gascón,\u003cbr>San Francisco District Attorney\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The first involved a \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/13/racist-texts-prompt-sfpd-internal-investigation\" target=\"_blank\">series of bigoted text messages\u003c/a> allegedly swapped between several San Francisco police officers. The text conversations were recovered from former SFPD Sgt. Ian Furminger's cell phone, according to federal court documents filed March 13, but implicated at least four current SFPD officers, and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/18/sfpd-racist-text-scandal-expands-public-defender-seeks-police-reform/\" target=\"_blank\">possibly more\u003c/a>. Furminger was convicted on federal fraud and conspiracy charges and \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/02/23/ex-sfpd-sergeant-sentenced-in-federal-corruption-case/\" target=\"_blank\">sentenced to three years and five months\u003c/a> in prison last month. He is appealing his conviction.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A week and a half later, Public Defender Jeff Adachi released a private investigator's preliminary findings that San Francisco sheriffs' deputies at one of the city's jails were \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/03/26/sf-public-defender-sheriffs-deputies-bet-on-forced-battles-between-inmates\" target=\"_blank\">threatening and humiliating inmates and forcing two of them to fight\u003c/a> for entertainment. Inmates told Adachi and the independent investigator that deputies were betting on the fights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four deputies were placed on administrative leave the same day the allegations were made public.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It’s unlikely that this case was limited to only four people,\" Gascón said. \"We want to know who else knew, when did they know, have there been other similar cases, are there any other issues going on over there that we should know?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then over the weekend, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DNA-lab-irregularities-may-endanger-hundreds-of-6165643.php\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle reported\u003c/a> that an analyst and supervisor in the city's crime lab had come under suspicion for submitting potentially shoddy DNA matches in criminal cases. Both the crime lab and SFPD texting scandals could impact hundreds, or thousands, of past and pending criminal prosecutions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Q7kWHlkQjEQxY2NzEeU7XvOH9cvtVsVh\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t know how long this task force is going to last,\" Gascón said. \"It may be months, it may be years. We’re talking about very complex issues, and frankly we’re only beginning to see the surface. We do not know at this point how deeply the problems run within either organization.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adachi said it appears the crime analyst, at least in one case, submitted findings that were helpful to the prosecution, and did not submit findings that would have helped the defense. He said either the state or federal department of justice, and not the district attorney, should investigate the crime lab and police department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I don’t like it,\" he said. \"I don’t think law enforcement should be investigating law enforcement. I have less of a problem investigating the problems in the sheriff’s department, but with the DNA crime lab, and the police, these witnesses are relied upon by the district attorney in seeking their convictions.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gascón gave scant details about his newly created task force, declining to state even the number of people assigned. He said he would seek funding from the city's Board of Supervisors to pay for the investigations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I invite members of the public and members of law enforcement to provide information to this office concerning any of these cases or any other allegations of misconduct involving law enforcement personnel in our county,\" Gascón said. \"San Francisco will have no tolerance for bad behavior or criminal behavior within our law enforcement community, and part of that begins with all of us standing tall and ensuring that these cases and any other cases that may be found are handled appropriately. The public deserves this and I will make sure that we do so.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update 9:38 a.m.\u003c/strong> Here's \u003ca href=\"http://soundcloud.com/kqed/san-francisco-sheriff-ross-2\">audio of Mirkarimi speaking\u003c/a> on KQED Public Radio's Forum show today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe src=\"http://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F62927052&auto_play=false&show_artwork=false&color=ff7700\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here's an edited transcript: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Michael Krasny\u003c/strong>: You must be feeling pretty exuberant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ross Mirkarimi\u003c/strong>: Exuberant, yes. My family hasn't slept any. 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We have planned a transition debriefing starting later today and over the next several days. 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But three of the first four supervisors to discuss their upcoming vote said they would not find that Mirkarimi was guilty of official misconduct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the third announced his intention, Mirkarimi smiled and appeared stunned, and his wife embraced her attorney. A throng of Mirkarimi supporters cheered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside an intense overflow board chambers mostly filled with Mirkarimi supporters, lawyers for both the mayor's office and the sheriff stated their respective cases before board members during an hours-long hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Deputy City Attorney Sherri Kaiser said that Mirkarimi simply committed an act of domestic violence and that should not be ignored.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It wasn't a mistake on December 31. It was a crime, a very serious crime,\" said Kaiser as a chorus of boos erupted from the crowd.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/10/10/reaction-to-decision-not-to-remove-sf-sheriff-mirkarimi-over-domestic-violence-case/\">Reaction to the Vote\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's attorneys, David Waggoner and Shepard Kopp said that city continues to give ambiguous interpretations of what is \"official misconduct.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The punishment doesn't fit the crime,\" Waggoner said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dramatic case has played out all year long.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In March, Mayor Ed Lee suspended Mirkarimi without pay after the sheriff pleaded guilty to misdemeanor false imprisonment related to a New Year's Eve dispute with his wife, Venezuela soap opera star Eliana Lopez, who suffered a bruised bicep. Mirkarimi was sentenced to three years of probation, fined $590 and ordered to undergo one year of counseling and parenting classes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mayor then took the unprecedented step of trying to permanently remove Mirkarimi from office. Lee testified before the city's Ethics Commission in June that he would find it \"extremely difficult\" to work with Mirkarimi again, and said he thought Mirkarimi committed domestic violence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In August, the commission decided 4-1 that Mirkarimi committed official misconduct, setting the stage for the supervisors' vote on whether to oust him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi was elected sheriff in November after serving seven years as one of the city's more liberal supervisors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez, who starred in numerous TV shows and films in Latin America, seemingly put her budding career on hold to become a mother and the wife of a rising political figure in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mirkarimi's woes began Dec. 31 when the couple got into an argument over whether she could travel to her native Venezuela with their toddler son, Theo. Authorities say Mirkarimi bruised his wife's arm during the fight with an overly firm grip.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The next day, Lopez turned to a neighbor, Ivory Madison, who later contacted police. Authorities eventually confiscated video Madison had taken, along with text messages and emails between the two women. The video shows Lopez pointing to a bruise on her right bicep where she said Mirkarimi had grabbed her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Mirkarimi appeared at his swearing in with his wife and son on Jan. 8, reporters asked him about the incident. 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