It’s been five months since U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers declared San Francisco’s bail schedule unconstitutional. But with talks on a replacement plan between the sheriff and attorneys representing pretrial detainees grinding to a halt, she’s fed up and willing to let political pressure force the local court and law enforcement to act.
Read moreA California judge on Friday quashed a fifth and final warrant that authorized police to search a journalist’s home, office and phone records, but questions remain as to why the warrants, now deemed illegal, were issued in the first place.
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After weeks of pushback over the decision to remove historic murals, San Francisco school officials voted Tuesday to cover, rather than destroy, a series of 1930s frescoes depicting George Washington, black slaves and dead Native Americans.
Read moreMore court documents unsealed Tuesday indicate a San Francisco judge signed off on a police raid of a freelance journalist’s home despite knowing the man is a member of the press.
Read moreIn a swift response to White House plans to give greater weight to an immigrant’s use of public assistance when deciding whether to approve green card applications, two Bay Area counties called the so-called “public charge rule” unconstitutional in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Vowing to tackle the city’s most vexing problems, including widespread drug addiction and property crimes, four candidates for San Francisco district attorney offered competing visions at a debate Wednesday night.
Read moreA newly unsealed warrant shows a California judge should have known he was authorizing police to search a journalist’s office in violation of state and federal laws that prohibit such intrusions, a press-freedom advocate argued Tuesday.
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Police commissioners in San Francisco Monday attempted to craft a policy that adheres to a new state law requiring the disclosure of police misconduct files while also respecting officers’ due process rights.
Read morePolice used records of a journalist’s private communications with a confidential source, obtained by a now-quashed search warrant, to secure permission to raid the reporter’s home and office, two judges revealed in court Friday.
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Nine years after she was drugged and raped by a stranger attending a city-sponsored event, a woman is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to revive her lawsuit claiming the city of San Francisco has a pattern and practice of failing to investigate sexual assaults.
Read moreA federal judge Friday found Pacific Gas and Electric liable for the clean-up of hazardous waste created over 100 years ago by former gas plants it operated in San Francisco and ordered the utility to pay $4.2 million for environmental projects meant to clean up the waters in San Francisco Bay.
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Building on a 2016 ban on city-funded travel to states with anti-LGBT laws, San Francisco officials Tuesday voted unanimously to extend that ban to states with restrictive abortion laws.
Read moreThe public will soon learn what information San Francisco police used to seize a reporter’s phone records in violation of California’s journalist shield law after an 11-page warrant was ordered unsealed Thursday.
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The San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday approved a $400,000 settlement over the 2015 police shooting death of Mario Woods, an event that prompted years of litigation and a federal review of the city’s police department.
Read moreSiding with tech giant Lyft, a California judge barred San Francisco from soliciting other vendors to operate a bike rental program in the city.
Read moreSan Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes after supervisors gave the measure its second and final vote Tuesday.
Read moreSan Francisco became the first major U.S. city to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes after supervisors gave the measure its second and final vote Tuesday.
Read moreThree nonprofits claim in court that San Francisco refused to provide a memorandum of understanding between the San Francisco Police Department and the FBI regarding the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force and its possible effects on civil rights.
Read moreSeeking to combat a recent spike in nicotine use among teens, San Francisco officials voted Tuesday to ban the sale of e-cigarettes, making it the first U.S. city to do so and prompting vows by big and small businesses to fight the ban at the ballot box.
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