Codornices Creek,2.0 miles (3.2 km) long,is one of the principal creeks which runs out of the Berkeley Hills in the East Bay area of the San Francisco Bay Area in California. In its upper stretch,it passes entirely within the city limits of Berkeley,and marks the city limit with the adjacent city of Albany in its lower section. Before European settlement,Codornices probably had no direct,permanent connection to San Francisco Bay. Like many other small creeks,it filtered through what early maps show as grassland to a large,northward-running salt marsh and slough that also carried waters from Marin Creek and Schoolhouse Creek. A channel was cut through in the 19th century,and Codornices flows directly to San Francisco Bay by way of a narrow remnant slough adjacent to Golden Gate Fields racetrack.
Wilma Chan was an American politician in California serving on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. A Democrat,she served in the California State Assembly from 2000 to 2006 before being termed out,representing the 16th District,which at the time included Oakland,Alameda,and Piedmont. She served as Assembly Majority Whip from 2001 to 2002 and from 2002 to 2004 as Assembly Majority Leader,the first woman and the first Asian American to hold the position. In 2008,Chan lost a Democratic Party primary election for the California State Senate District 9 seat.
Chesa Boudin is an American lawyer who served as the 29th District Attorney of San Francisco from January 8,2020,to July 8,2022. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
George Gascón is an American attorney and former police officer who is the district attorney of Los Angeles County. A member of the Democratic Party and a former Republican,Gascón served as the district attorney of San Francisco from 2011 to 2019. Prior to his work as a prosecutor,he was an assistant chief of police for the LAPD,and Chief of Police in Mesa,Arizona and San Francisco.
Rebecca Dawn Kaplan is a Canadian-born American attorney and politician who has served as an at-large member of the Oakland City Council since 2009. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
The Alameda County Board of Supervisors is the five member non-partisan governing board of Alameda County,California. Members of the Board of supervisors are elected from districts,based on their residence.
Crime in Oakland,California began to rise during the late 1960s after the King assassination riots,and by the end of the 1970s Oakland's per capita murder rate had risen to twice that of San Francisco or New York City. In 1983,the National Journal referred to Oakland as the "1983 crime capital" of the San Francisco Bay Area. Crime continued to escalate during the 1980s and 1990s,and during the first decade of the 21st century Oakland has consistently been listed as one of the most dangerous large cities in the United States.
The San Francisco District Attorney's Office is the legal agency charged with prosecuting crimes in the City and County of San Francisco,California. The current district attorney is Brooke Jenkins. Occupants of this office have gone on to higher elected offices,including:governor of California,United States Senator,and vice president of the United States.
Nancy O'Malley was the district attorney for Alameda County,California.
Michael Aaron Persky is an American attorney and former judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2003 to 2018.
Jesse Arreguín is an American politician serving as mayor of Berkeley,California. He served on the Berkeley Housing Commission and Rent Stabilization Board from 2004 to 2009 and represented District 4 on the Berkeley City Council from 2009 to 2016. He is the first Latino elected Berkeley's mayor and one of the youngest mayors in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mayor Arreguín is the president of the Association of Bay Area Governments,the Bay Area's regional planning agency.
Gypsy Taub is a Russian American activist in the San Francisco public nudity movement.
Geneviéve LaChelle Jones-Wright is an American attorney and activist who served as a San Diego County public defender from 2006 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she was an unsuccessful candidate for San Diego County District Attorney in 2018 and Mayor of San Diego in 2024. She gained notoriety for being falsely handcuffed and held at gunpoint by a San Diego police officer in 2016.
The 2019 San Francisco District Attorney election was held on November 5,2019,to elect the next District Attorney of San Francisco. The election,which was held alongside the 2019 mayoral election in which incumbent mayor London Breed won her first full term,was won by public defender Chesa Boudin.
The 2022 San Francisco District Attorney recall election was a successful special recall election to remove San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office. It was held on June 7,2022,concurrent with the 2022 statewide primary elections.
On June 15,2020,19-year-old University of California,Berkeley student Seth Smith was shot in the back of the head at point-blank range by Tony Lorenzo Walker.
Brooke Jenkins is an American lawyer serving as the 30th District Attorney of San Francisco. On July 8,2022,Jenkins was appointed interim district attorney by Mayor London Breed following the successful recall of Chesa Boudin,for which she actively campaigned. She was elected in her own right to fill the unexpired term the following November.
The 2024 San Francisco District Attorney election will be held on November 5,2024,concurrent with the election for San Francisco mayor and the 2024 statewide general elections.
The 2024 Alameda County District Attorney recall election is an upcoming recall election of Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
