SFPD Commander Greg McEachern offered a formal apology to Jeff Adachi’s family during yesterday’s hearing where it was revealed that there is an investigation into a “stringer” - a freelance reporter not on a news outlet's staff - that was allegedly copies of the police report to news outlets for $2,500 each.  

Little was shared by the SFPD about the ongoing investigation outside of the letter from Hadi Razzaq, head of investigations in the public defender’s office, who learned of the “stringer” through a KRON-TV reporter, and it is unclear when the investigation will be complete and how much information will be made public once it is.

None of this came as much comfort to Jeff Adachi’s widow, Mutsuko Adachi, who gave this tearful statement,“It’s despicable what the SPFD did to myself and my daughter by releasing this report.  It was like 12 hours. It was an ongoing investigation. To say it affects the family is an understatement. It is incredibly painful to have the police department do this to you.”

Senator Scott Wiener and Mayor London Breed are speaking out against a mailer and tv ad using a James Baldwin quote to equate Wiener’s transit-housing bill with San Francisco’s urban renewal policies of the 1960s that displaced African Americans from their homes in the Fillmore.  Mayor Breed said of the ads, “It has nothing to do with urban renewal, and suggesting it does is deeply offensive to communities like mine that are still living with the consequences.”

The mailer and ad was paid for by a wealthy LA activist and president of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Michael Weinstein, who Senator Wiener has clashed with before on separate issues.  In a statement Thursday, Wiener said Weinstein is “a mean bully obsessed with using HIV healthcare funds to engage in politics, settle political scores, and increasingly, oppose new housing in California and fund anti-housing NIMBY organizations.”

Presidential candidates and Senator Kamala Harris has said she regrets the truancy policy she implemented first as San Francisco’s District Attorney, and later as Attorney General, because once she took the policy statewide it led to “unintended consequences” in some jurisdictions who took it further than intended and sent some parents, whose kids were chronically absent from school, to jail.

Harris told Pod Save America host Jon Favreau, “My regret is that I have now heard stories where, in some jurisdictions, DAs have criminalized the parents. The thought that anything I did could have led to that…that certainly was not the intention. Never was the intention.”

Bay Area Legal Aid is threatening to sue the SFPD over its failure to comply with state law that requires domestic violence police reports be made available to victims in a timely manner as these reports are critical for victims to obtain restraining orders against their attackers.  State law requires police to turn over reports within five days of a request from a victim or victim’s attorney, which is extended to 10 days if there is a viable reason why the reports are unavailable.

BayLegal says their office has seen delays from 40 to 128 days and in some cases the SFPD has denied victims access to their records.  Despite the organization's several attempts to work directly with the SFPD to get them in compliance, lengthy delays persist.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2019, with a glowing writeup from Hillary Rodham Clinton.  HRC says of the Speaker, "Under her leadership, Democrats passed the first major gun-­safety bill in a generation and desperately needed voting-­rights legislation. As Democrats continue fighting to protect reproductive rights, pass paid family leave, protect Americans’ right to affordable health care and hold this Administration to account, Nancy is leading the charge."