Vicki Hennessy, the 35th sheriff of San Francisco and the first woman to be elected to the position, will be sworn into office Friday. Hennessy…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, plagued by scandals from the start of his term, appears to have been defeated by former Chief Deputy and one-time…
A class action lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court that claims San Francisco’s wealth-based pretrial detention system unfairly targets low-income inmates. San Francisco Sheriff…
A San Francisco sheriff’s sergeant helped save the life of an unconscious man suffering from a drug overdose who was found locked in a City…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi today said a problem that led to his driver’s license being suspended has been resolved. Mirkarimi said in a statement…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s driver’s license has been suspended by the Department of Motor Vehicles for failing to properly report an accident that occurred…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors rejected an appeal to have a new jail project undergo an environmental impact review and voted in favor of…
San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell railed against San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s leadership at the sheriff’s department in the lead up to a July 1…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi is urging San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee and the Board of Supervisors to hold a hearing on the city’s Sanctuary…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi today defended the release of an undocumented immigrant accused in the shooting death of a 32-year-old woman at a San…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi announced Tuesday the acquisition by the city’s sheriff’s department of a $950,000 state grant to fund programs that would benefit…
Eliana Lopez, wife of San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who found herself in the middle of a political controversy in 2012 amid allegations of domestic…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi said today that a sheriff’s deputy implicated in forcing inmates to participate in staged fights has been recommended for termination….
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi held a justice summit on race and reform in San Francisco today providing a venue for top officials as…
A San Francisco Superior Court judge agreed this morning to wipe a 2012 misdemeanor domestic violence conviction from San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s record. Mirkarimi,…
A community forum will be held this evening to allow incumbent San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi and challenger Vicki Hennessy to debate their views on…
A committee of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors endorsed a resolution today proposed by the San Francisco sheriff to lower the cost of phone…
San Francisco has stopped honoring detention requests for suspected undocumented immigrants in jail who would otherwise be eligible for release, joining most other Bay Area…
French President Francois Hollande was greeted by state and city leaders, French-American students and other guests at a San Francisco City Hall reception late this…
Federally ordered changes have been made at San Francisco’s General Hospital following the death of a patient who was found in a stairwell at the…
A Board of Supervisors’ neighborhood services and safety committee today discussed plans for a $290-million jail project to replace the decrepit jail facilities on the…
A proposal to build a new jail in San Francisco is the topic of a hearing scheduled Thursday at a Board of Supervisors committee meeting…
Family and friends of a woman found dead in a San Francisco General Hospital stairwell in October expressed outrage today over documents released that show…
A woman found dead in a San Francisco General Hospital stairwell in October after disappearing from the hospital more than two weeks earlier died of…
San Francisco’s Iranian-American sheriff said today he is hopeful that an internationally brokered agreement to halt Iran’s nuclear program will be an important step toward…
A University of California at San Francisco researcher has come forward as the witness who reported seeing someone lying in a San Francisco General Hospital…
San Francisco Sheriff’s Department staffing changes have been made following Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi’s admission of mistakes made by the department in the handling of a…
San Francisco Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi today revealed breakdowns in communication and technology that happened during the search for a woman who was found dead in…
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors today authorized the city to apply for a state grant to help build a new jail adjacent to the…
Top law enforcement officials argued Thursday over whether San Francisco should build a new jail to replace inadequate facilities at the seismically unsafe Hall of…
A production of the play “The Vagina Monologues” will include well-known local elected officials, community leaders and other dignitaries tonight in San Francisco. The benefit…
