Details of Mayor Ed Lee’s city budget proposal will remain unknown until next Friday — but it apparently includes pay raises for elected officials.Members of the Board of Supervisors, the mayor and other high-ranking elected officials are receiving pay hikes next fiscal year.The 11 supervisors will receive a 2.9 percent cost-of-living adjustment, bringing their salary to $105,723 apiece.
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Seven San Francisco officials are earning a combined $318,000 more a year since voters approved a 2006 ballot measure tying their wages to those of elected officials in five neighboring counties.Now, under a readjustment calculation required every five years, four of those officials could receive additional pay raises: District Attorney George Gascón, $13,375; Public Defender Jeff Adachi, $8,333; Mayor Ed Lee, $7,751; and City Attorney Dennis Herrera, $3,729.
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A potential conflict of interest with the Public Defender’s Office delayed until today the arraignment of the man suspected of murdering five people at an Ingleside home last week.Public Defender Jeff Adachi appeared in Superior Court to justify his office’s ability to represent Binh Thai Luc in court, but prosecutors said that since Adachi’s office represented Luc’s brother, Brian Luc, in a DUI case in September, it creates a conflict.
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Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Thursday began the first of many possible challenges to driving under the influence convictions, based on the San Francisco Police Department’s failure to properly test its preliminary alcohol screening devices for the past several years.
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San Francisco police have suspended their use of devices that measure suspected drunken drivers’ blood-alcohol level in the field after it was revealed they haven’t been properly testing their accuracy, possibly for years.At a joint news conference Monday, Public Defender Jeff Adachi and District Attorney George Gascón said they are investigating police testing of Preliminary Alcohol Screening devices, which manufacturers recommend on a regular basis.
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Although San Francisco voters significantly increased the pension contributions of city employees last November, the government’s pension costs are still expected to increase by almost 20 percent over the next 17 months. In November, city voters approved a pension measure that increases city employees’ pension contribution rate whenever the city’s contribution rate increases.
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George Gascón’s unexpected rise to become San Francisco’s first Hispanic district attorney was just the latest in a lifetime of unusual career twists.
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A federal grand jury may be looking into misconduct allegations about San Francisco police officers made by Public Defender Jeff Adachi.Police union President Gary Delagnes said Monday that “some of our members have been called to testify as witnesses” about the allegations at a proceeding on Golden Gate Avenue, where the federal courthouse is located.
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San Francisco police are abandoning their long-standing protocol for police lineups and photo spreads in favor of a new policy designed to reduce misidentifications, a move supported by the district attorney and public defender.
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The votes are in and political partisans are either celebrating or mourning the election results.
The only item that hangs in the balance is one of the more controversial measures: Proposition H, a policy statement asking the school board to give all students the right to go to neighborhood schools (as opposed to a lottery in which geography is just one of several factors).
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