SFPD chief and head of police watchdog will receive rare “annual” reviews

San Francisco’s police chief and the head of the city’s police watchdog agency will receive annual reviews this year. That shouldn’t be news, except for the fact that it will be the first such review in nearly a decade – even though the Police Commission is required to do reviews annually. The announcement came from the relativley new head of the police commission, C. Don Clay, at the body’s Wednesday night meeting, where he chastised the inaction of past leadership. “We are going to begin the process to evaluate both the chief of police and the director of DPA annually,” Clay told The Standard, referring to the Department of Police Accountability. At the meeting, Clay said that the lack of reviews was unacceptable. “I quite frankly thought this happens yearly and normally the chair would do that,” he said. Clay said that the process is just beginning, but should include community input and a criteria for measuring success. “We have to do what we are charged to do. We have been informed there has not been a review of employment of our chief of police or our department of police accountability except for a couple of cases where there is going to be a firing,” said Clay. The city charter stipulates that the head of the DPA and the police chief should be reviewed annually. In actual fact, however, the last review for the police chief was in 2016. The last review for the head of Department of Police Accountability was in 2017. Both reviews came on the heels of controversy. Former police chief Greg Suhr was reviewed in 2016, and resigned after a police officers killed a woman following a series of fatal killings. The next year Joyce Hicks was ousted from her role as the city’s police watchdog after her performance was reviewed, which was sparked after she lost the backing of her staff. Clay’s announcement comes on the heels of a brewing scandal inside the DPA, which is tasked with investigating police misconduct and recommending new policies. The agency’s internal culture has been criticized amid resignations, firings, and claims of wrongdoing. In a recent lawsuit against the city, former employee Janelle Caywood describes an environment of favoritism, retaliation, and off-color jokes that often veered into harassment. After the lawsuit was made public, a video of DPA executive director Paul Henderson at a drag show in his office emerged. In a closed session at the last police commission meeting, the body was briefed on the issues at the DPA, but the closed door meeting did not result in any action. Henderson has led the DPA since 2017. Newly appointed police chief Derrick Lew will also be reviewed annually. Police chiefs serve at the pleasure of the mayor, who typically make the final decision regarding whether or not they are fulfilling their job duties. It’s unclear how the political nature of the job could be impacted by commission’s annual reviews. The commission is part of the selection process for both positions. In the chief’s case, the commission led the search and forwarded three candidates for the mayor to choose from. The commission can also fire the chief, although that has not occurred in recent history. It’s unclear if either of the reviews would be made public, although Clay suggested he would share details with the public.

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A dildo pic, a strip show, and misused funds: Lawsuit details toxic police watchdog agency

A former employee of the Department of Police Accountability is suing the agency, accusing its chief of misappropriating funds, failing to address racist text messages, and crossing professional boundaries by holding a strip show at work and showing a picture of a sex toy. In the lawsuit , filed Tuesday in San Francisco Superior Court, Janelle Caywood claims she was fired from the watchdog agency by Executive Director Paul Henderson as retaliation for raising the issues with the city. Caywood was employed by the agency from December 2018 to August 2025 as an attorney and policy director. The civilian-staffed agency is tasked with investigating police misconduct and officer-involved shooting incidents, reviewing police policies, and auditing the SFPD. But the DPA’s own internal culture has been called into question amid resignations, firings, and claims of wrongdoing. Caywood’s complaint describes an environment of favoritism, retaliation, and off-color jokes that often veered into harassment. Soon after starting at the agency, Caywood claims, her boss, Henderson, gave hemorrhoid medication to his receptionist as a joke during an office holiday party. A few months later, Henderson told Caywood about a sex party his ex-partner took part in and punctuated the anecdote by showing her an image of a dildo, the suit says. In 2023, Caywood claims, Henderson organized a drag queen strip show at the office and told interns to bring dollar bills. Caywood, who says she suffers from PTSD, claims Henderson and another manager, Nicole Armstrong, joked about her disability by saying she had hidden in a bathroom during a fire alarm. After an all-hands meeting at which employees were encouraged to express their concerns in a “safe space,” Caywood says, she was fired for alleged insubordination and being argumentative and disrespectful. Soon after her firing, Caywood claims, staff at the agency lost confidence in Henderson’s leadership. Members of an SFPD working group wrote to the head of the Police Commission to ask that she be reinstated. Some Department of Police Accountability employees have defended Henderson. In a letter from August, nearly a dozen staffers wrote to Mayor Daniel Lurie and Paul Yep, who was serving as interim police chief, describing Henderson as exhibiting “exemplary leadership” and claiming that a “small minority of employees” were seeking to undermine the executive director. Henderson, who has led the agency since 2018, denied wrongdoing. “I categorically deny the allegations made against me and find them offensive to my reputation and proven work history. The city will respond vigorously to this lawsuit in court,” he said in a statement. Attorneys for Caywood declined to comment. A spokesperson for the city attorney’s office, Jen Kwart, said only, “Once we are served, we will review the complaint and respond in court.” In the lawsuit, Caywood claims her issues with management began after she was promoted to policy director. She repeatedly reported to the Police Commission that the department was regularly late in updating SFPD policies and had failed to alert the commission after creating new rules on covert social media accounts. Her actions, the suit alleges, led to Henderson demoting her in retaliation. While working in a new role as a team attorney for a group of investigators, Caywood faced harassment from her supervisor, Diana Rosenstein, the suit claims. Caywood claimed Rosenstein unfairly targeted her team of mostly minority employees with biased criticism. She said that her complaints were ignored and that Rosenstein told coworkers she hoped Caywood would quit. When confronted, Rosenstein allegedly said, “Don’t bother going to [Henderson] — he doesn’t care, and I’m not going anywhere.” In October 2023, Rosenstein allegedly submitted under Caywood’s name a disciplinary report about an SFPD officer. Caywood claimed she had nothing to do with the report and notified Chief of Staff Sharon Woo and Chief Assistant Attorney Marshall Khine, but no action was taken. Woo denied the allegations,” which she described as “really salacious.” Khine, Armstrong, and Rosenstein did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Following a November 2024 settlement conference at which Police Commission President Judge Clay disagreed with Rosenstein about an allegation made against an officer, Caywood received racist text messages from Rosenstein about Clay, the suit claims. Caywood alleges that Rosenstein wrote that the commissioner was an “Uncle Tom,” and “He and Clarence Thomas can go to hell.” Rosenstein’s text also said that it was “disappointing to see a black man act like this. He should be ashamed,” according to the suit. Caywood reported the text messages, and the city’s Department of Human Resources opened an investigation. Caywood claims that when Rosenstein resigned in December 2024 amid these scandals, agency leadership blamed her. At one point, Caywood felt Woo was intimidating her and asked to be moved to reduce contact with her boss. Soon after, Caywood wrote to the mayor and the head of the city’s HR department to inform them about the toxic work environment at the DPA. The suit says Caywood filed a whistleblower complaint with the city in February 2025, alleging a toxic workplace and claiming that Henderson misappropriated funds. She accused Henderson of diverting funds intended for other purposes to his friends in the department through raises. One of the people who allegedly received the funds was his chief of staff, Woo. Caywood gave a city investigator billing records backing up her claim, the lawsuit says. The suit is the latest example of tumult at the DPA. In July 2024, an anonymous staff survey obtained by The Standard described a hostile, cutthroat agency akin to the TV show “Game of Thrones.” According to a survey conducted by the department’s union, SEIU 1021, nine of the 13 investigators reported that the agency’s workplace was hostile. Survey respondents also accused department leaders of stalling investigations, micromanaging, and, in some cases, ignoring relevant evidence to suit biased conclusions. The DPA was established in 1982 as the Office of Citizen Complaints. The agency has 36 employees, and its budget this year is $8.9 million.

The fallout from Cesar Chavez bombshell. Plus: Wiener’s China views lost in translation

This article is from Power Play, a twice-weekly newsletter rounding up the latest City Hall and local politics gossip. To sign up, visit The Standard’s newsletter page . In a city where 95-year-old labor legend Dolores Huerta isn’t just an inspirational figure who appears in children’s books and sidewalk murals but an active force of nature who regularly walks arm-in-arm with striking workers — Wednesday’s report in The New York Times of her allegations of rape at the hands of the late Cesar Chavez shook the labor movement to its core. Already, Chavez’s alleged sexual abuse of girls and women connected to the farmworkers movement is spurring whispers of a reckoning for other labor leaders who have long been suspected of exploiting their power over members. As several organizers told Power Play, difficult discussions are already taking place. Olga Miranda , president of SEIU Local 87, said the movement needs time to heal before any discussion of next steps — but in the end, abusers will be outed. “Is there any other motherfucker who hasn’t been named?” she said. “I’m sure there are many jumping at an opportunity [to accuse abusers]. But I’m saying, give us time to process this.” Miranda called women a “force” who have long powered the labor movement. “I have the privilege of having chosen the kind of job where the strength of my personality and the veracity of my voice carries to make company supervisors, business owners, regret the moment they fuck with any of our janitors in this industry,” she said. “Not a lot of people get to say they get to fight back.” While it’s too early to tell if there will be a “me too”-style reckoning within the labor movement, the reverberations are being felt, especially considering Chavez’s local ties. Rudy Gonzalez , secretary-treasurer of the San Francisco Building & Construction Trades Council, said he remains proud of his Mexican American family’s legacy in the agricultural industry — but he worries about the darker story that Chavez now represents. “We’ve found inspiration in a small number of very significant Mexican American leaders,” he said. “But that’s harder right now. I want young Mexican American leaders, I want my son, to have people to look up to. It was never Cesar’s union; it was a workers’ union. That doesn’t erase the legacy, or the ongoing struggle, of the people who literally feed us every day.” In addition to Chavez’s name being plastered across San Francisco institutions, his son-in-law, Richard Ybarra , is CEO of a Mission-based community organization, MNC Inspiring Success. The Times’ reporting states that Ybarra, who married Chavez’s daughter, was one of the labor leader’s bodyguards in the 1970s after federal authorities discovered an assassination plot. The Times reported that a different bodyguard drove Chavez and one of his underage victims, Debra Rojas , to a motel, where the 15-year-old was allegedly raped. Ybarra declined to comment for the Times article. Power Play emailed Ybarra and was referred to a comment from the Chavez family that said, “This is deeply painful for our family.” As for Huerta’s legacy, it’s still being forged in real time. Her name is on a school and a parade in San Francisco. In January, she stood with LiUNA! Local 261 street cleaning workers on the steps of City Hall to fight for fair wages. Last year, she advocated for Proposition 50, Gov. Gavin Newsom ’s redistricting measure. For that reason and many others, the local labor movement is coalescing around Huerta as the new icon of the 60-year fight for farmworkers’ and immigrants’ rights. As one labor insider told Power Play, “My hot take: Soon everything with Cesar Chavez’s name on it in San Francisco will have Huerta’s instead.” — Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez and Gabriel Greschler Got tips? Send to us at powerplay@sfstandard.com . DON’T GET ME WRONG : State Sen. Scott Wiener , who you may have heard is running for Congress, obviously does not want to get caught in any geopolitical snafu after his viral Gaza genocide moment from a candidate forum in January. But Saturday’s Chinatown congressional forum appeared to briefly send him into panic mode — this time over Taiwan. The moderator of the forum, hosted by Asian community groups and conducted in Chinese and English, asked whether the candidates agree with Rep. Nancy Pelosi ’s high-profile and controversial 2022 trip to the democratic island, a region claimed by China as part of its territory. Wiener voiced his support while carefully avoiding overreach. “I do not think Taiwan should be conquered,” Wiener said. “But we also have to make sure we don’t get to the point where there is any kind of war.” However, the interpreter hired by the organizers to provide live translation twice misstated Wiener’s position, saying the candidate supported Taiwan’s independence. Wiener, who does not speak Chinese, was unaware of the gaffe, which would fly in the face of his and other Democrats’ longtime endorsement of a “One China” policy. But soon, Wiener was seen looking at his phone and becoming upset, glancing around, then grabbing the microphone. “Apparently, I was misinterpreted saying that I support Taiwanese independence,” Wiener said. “I did not say that.” The event’s organizer, Ed Lee Democratic Club president Thomas Li , immediately apologized and had a member of Wiener’s team correct the interpretation. Li said organizers had hired a professional interpreter and regretted the slip-up. Wiener’s campaign told Power Play that a Chinese campaign staffer alerted Wiener that his answer was inaccurately interpreted, and Wiener immediately corrected the record. “He supports Taiwan’s democracy, not Taiwanese independence,” Wiener’s spokesperson Joe Arellano said. “We appreciate the organizers allowing for the correction. It’s not easy to translate an entire debate, and it was an honest mistake.” Taiwan remains a sensitive geopolitical topic and could be a vote-decider for some in the Chinese community. Among the candidates, Wiener struck the most hawkish tone on China, expressing support for Tibet and Uyghurs. According to Mission Local, Wiener got booed when he stated that he supported Pelosi’s trip. Saikat Chakrabarti , a former tech founder, said he opposed Pelosi’s visit. Supervisor Connie Chan , a Chinese immigrant who grew up in Taiwan, is arguably the most qualified to weigh in but chose to sidestep the question — an apparent move to avoid triggering controversy or inflaming partisans. The fourth candidate on the dais, political activist Marie Hurabiell, said she supported Pelosi’s trip but remains largely neutral on the issue. — Han Li CHOPPING COMMISSIONS : After a year of endless deliberations, the effort to streamline San Francisco’s complex board and commission system has reached the part of the process when things get really feisty: Yes, it’s the Board of Supervisors’ turn to weigh in. The Commission Streamlining Task Force, mandated by 2024’s Proposition E, has presented its final report to the board. The plan would reduce the city’s 152 advisory bodies to 87 by eliminating some and merging others. At the meeting Tuesday, a nearly three-hour discussion over the task force’s recommendations turned contentious. While many of the report’s diagnoses for eliminating repetitive or inactive bodies are considered noncontroversial, some speakers still voiced opposition, warning of weakened public oversight. At least one supervisor expressed strong dissatisfaction. “You exceeded the mandate and inserted opinions and politics into the process,” Supervisor Shamann Walton told task force chair Ed Harrington . Walton is especially concerned that changes to the Police Commission would strip some of its authority . Walton also criticized the task force for a lack of diversity. “The task force was about as diverse as a stack of $1 bills,” he quipped. Harrington said he understands the criticisms and expects the board to modify the recommendations. He noted that some of the loudest opposition is not about eliminating commissions but about proposals to move them from the city charter to the administrative code — a shift that critics believe to be a downgrade and would give the mayor and supervisors more power to remove the boards. Those include the Status of Women, Human Rights, Environment, and Youth commissions. There is also opposition to proposals involving the merging or elimination of advisory bodies focused on homelessness, aging and disability, and children and families. If the process moves forward, charter-related changes must go before voters, with a final version potentially appearing on the November ballot. Expect plenty more fireworks before Election Day. — H.L.

Lurie launches City Hall clean-up campaign. Plus: Wiener’s spicy video

This article is from Power Play, a twice-weekly newsletter rounding up the latest City Hall and local politics gossip. To sign up, visit The Standard’s newsletter page . It’s spring cleaning time in City Hall. Mayor Daniel Lurie filed paperwork with the Department of Elections on Wednesday to launch three signature-gathering drives aimed at placing charter amendments on the November ballot. The mayor’s calling it the “Clean Up City Hall” campaign. “This system works for the insiders,” Lurie told reporters. “It does not work for everyday San Franciscans.” Of the three proposed amendments, two are expected to be noncontroversial. One would streamline and centralize the contracting process , giving more flexibility to the city administrator; the other would expand the mayor’s power to hire and fire commissioners and department heads, and allow the mayor to restructure departments. The third proposal will likely spark a battle, as it would raise the threshold for future ballot measures to qualify. Currently, proposals backed by signatures from 2% of registered voters can qualify; Lurie wants to raise that to 8%. He also proposes increasing the number of supervisors required to place a measure on the ballot from four to six — a simple majority of the board. The plan would also remove the mayor’s own authority to place measures directly on the ballot. The change would apply only to ballot measures that are ordinances, and the process for charter amendments would remain unchanged. Some labor leaders have spoken out against that proposal. Beyond political opposition, the biggest challenge may be gathering signatures. Lurie and his allies must collect about 53,000 — roughly 10% of local registered voters — to qualify the measures for the November ballot, a process likely to cost millions of dollars. “[We] haven’t figured out how much that will cost,” Lurie said. “But anyone who wants to join us, we would love their support.” There’s a notable exception to the mayor’s expanded authority. While Lurie wants broader power to hire and fire most department heads, he keeps the existing process for selecting the police chief. Under that system, the Police Commission provides the mayor with a shortlist of candidates to choose from. “We’re always going to work with a commission on that front,” Lurie said. “And I think that process is working well.” If all that isn’t confusing enough, the mayor’s proposals come alongside a separate effort to streamline the city’s commissions that stems from Proposition E in 2024. That effort is expected to advance through the Board of Supervisors. Lurie has also launched a separate signature-gathering campaign for a tax measure to fund the city’s transit system. — Han Li Got tips? Send to us at powerplay@sfstandard.com . VIDEO FIGHT: The race to replace Rep. Nancy Pelosi is heating up as state Sen. Scott Wiener , a leading candidate, posted a spicy video Tuesday targeting Saikat Chakrabarti , a former tech founder who has been flooding local airwaves with expensive TV ads. “Being hyper-rich can buy you a lot of things, but it shouldn’t be able to buy you an election,” Wiener wrote in the social media post. In the video, Wiener accuses Chakrabarti of not living in San Francisco, suggesting he resided in Maryland or Los Angeles. The Maryland accusation stems from reporting by The Standard showing that Chakrabarti bought a $1.6 million house in the city of Gaithersburg in 2018 and signed a deed promising to make it his principal residence. The candidate chalked it up to a paperwork error, calling it “an honest mistake.” Wiener also claims his opponent “deleted 13 years of his social media posts.” Chakrabarti previously served as chief of staff to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , and his past posts — including provocative tweets criticizing Pelosi — were widely documented in press coverage at the time. The exchange quickly triggered a firestorm on X, with allies on both sides rushing to join the battle. Chakrabarti and his supporters quickly pushed back, blasting Wiener’s message as a “nativist dog-whistle attack.” His campaign admitted to deleting tweets but also accused Wiener of recycling an old campaign tactic. “If you run against him, he’s going to call you a carpetbagger. It’s his thing. He did it to [ Jackie Fielder ] , and now Saikat,” campaign communications director Tiffaney Bradley said in a statement. “It’s ironic coming from someone who moved here from New Jersey and now thinks he gets to decide who qualifies as a real San Franciscan.” Meanwhile, the moderate political group GrowSF released TV ads backing supervisors Stephen Sherrill and Alan Wong , both of whom face reelection in June. GrowSF said it expects to spend about $250,000 on each race. — H.L. BIG ETHICS FINE : A Municipal Transportation Agency staffer who engaged in a yearslong scheme to score sports tickets and other free stuff by faking a job title has been handed a big fine by the Ethics Commission. Charlie Chiem has agreed to fork over $42,611 in response to 19 violations of city laws, according to a stipulation agreement made public Monday. Chiem was found to have broken a slew of rules: use of city resources for personal gain, misuse of city email/impersonating an official, falsely representing oneself as a department representative, accepting gifts from businesses seeking contracts, and accepting gifts from restricted sources. Investigators say Chiem, an IT administrator for the transit agency, pretended to be a manager and attended 14 sporting events, some in luxury suites, with companies that were expected to do business with the city. Monday’s filing states that the value of his attendance at those events totaled nearly $9,000 between 2021 and 2023. Chiem also found time between 2021 and 2024 to attend more than 600 webinars, in which he received thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, including Uber credits, headphones, and gift cards. The pace of Chiem’s attendance of the webinars — which were hosted by Microsoft, Proofpoint, Nutanix and other companies — is eye-opening: He would join more than one per day; he attended eight over the course of three days in 2023. He would also create fake email accounts to attend events multiple times. “Respondent’s use of significant amounts of City time and resources, including creating unauthorized City email accounts are severe and demonstrate a blatant abuse of City resources for private gain,” the commission stated. Attempts to reach Chiem were unsuccessful. — Gabe Greschler PROP. ASSIGNMENTS : The proposition letters for the June primary election are here. Prop. A, a bond, would bring $535 million in funding toward earthquake safety and emergency preparedness. Prop. B, a charter amendment, would establish lifetime term limits for the mayor and Board of Supervisors. Props. C and D are in battle with one another: C is the business community’s tax on top executive pay, while D, the “Overpaid CEO Tax,” is the union version, which would more aggressively tax businesses based on C-suite salaries. — G.G. Clarification: Wednesday’s newsletter’s description of the “Overpaid CEO Tax” has been updated for this article.

Mayor Lurie meets Eileen Gu. Plus: Concerns after Tenderloin bodyguard fight

It was a busy Saturday night in Chinatown, as massive crowds turned out for the Chinese New Year parade. Numerous elected luminaries and political hopefuls shook hands and posed for photos – but they all paled in comparison to Olympic star Eileen Gu , who served as grand marshal for the event. At 8:45 p.m., Gu and Mayor Daniel Lurie, who had finished the parade separately, appeared together to light the firecrackers, marking the end of the procession. While Lurie has largely tried to avoid partisan rock fights during his time as mayor, Gu remains a geopolitical Rorschach test . The Olympian, who was born in San Francisco, recently took home multiple medals for China, her mother’s home country, inflaming some U.S. conservatives. On the mayor’s Instagram , he and Gu kept things positive and focused on their hometown, though the comments section was more mixed. But the night wasn’t done yet. After the firecrackers, partygoers headed to the after-party banquet. Only a handful of elected officials who still had energy left showed up: Lurie, District Attorney Brooke Jenkins , Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman and Supervisor Chyanne Chen . And none are even on the ballot this year. As Lurie poured Treasure I sland-made Gold Bar Whiskey for guests, newly appointed Police Chief Derrick Lew had another duty: carrying on the annual tradition of delivering an exaggerated estimate of the parade crowd. “I know we broke a million, I think,” Lew said. “I’m told 1.28 million.” Cheers erupted, as the figure equals the entire population of San Francisco and Oakland, combined. And who else was partying hard? Crypto billionaire Chris Larsen , who wore a shiny gold suit and sunglasses, and rolled in on a cuttlefish-themed float with dancers and music. “The weather was phenomenal,” Larsen told Power Play at the after-party. “Everybody looked happy, relaxed, celebratory.” As reporters left the event, a familiar figure was spotted walking alone in blinking red shoes: former mayor Willie Brown, 91, who was heading home for the night. — Han Li Got tips? Send to us at powerplay@sfstandard.com . MAN-ON-THE-STREET : Everyone’s seen the video by now. Lurie, hands in his pockets, walks away from his police security detail, which was in a physical brawl with a man in the Tenderloin. The now-viral clip has spiraled across the interwebs, with San Francisco’s ideological opponents using it to portray the city as out of control. The incident has raised some important questions. Why did the mayor exit his vehicle in the first place? And will he continue to step out onto the city’s streets, as he’s been known to do over the past year, having candid moments with the city’s homeless residents? The mayor’s office has declined to comment on these questions. At City Hall on Friday, Lurie told reporters, “I feel like the people who are on our streets are part of my business,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle. “I was worried about them, and I was worried about [the] safety of pedestrians and cars coming.” Three security experts who spoke with The Standard said the mayor’s exiting of the vehicle on Thursday violated protocol. “It was a failure of basic protective methodologies,” said Don Mihalek , a former senior Secret Service agent and former Presidio park police officer. “He should have never gotten out of the car.” Caleb Gilbert , a Silicon Valley-based executive protection expert, concurred. “I’ve never seen a protocol where that is appropriate,” he said. Retired San Francisco Police officer Paul Lozada , who runs Exodus Protection Group, said, “I understand that Mayor Lurie is a very public figure and wants to be out in the open and wants to hold babies. But when you are dealing with the homeless community and very crime-ridden areas of the city, you have to treat him like he is the president.” Thursday’s dust-up, which happened the same day as a shocking daylight stabbing in Chinatown , is also challenging the mayor’s public relations strategy for the city. Lurie has been relentless with his message that San Francisco is back, and has even thrown roughly $1 million of his own money into that project. While Thursday’s events may not be a representation of the city as a whole, tell that to your uncle in the Midwest who’s watching the videos on his Facebook account. — Gabe Greschler UPZONING LOVE: Remember Lurie’s family zoning fight? The plan, approved in December after a bruising political battle , aims to bring denser housing to the city’s western and northern neighborhoods. The issue has become a talking point for some candidates to run against incumbent supervisors, District 2’s Stephen Sherrill and District 4’s Alan Wong , both of whom backed the family zoning plan. But a new poll suggests the policy may be more popular than critics claim. The survey, conducted by the moderate political group GrowSF, which supports both Sherrill and Wong, found that zoning changes in their districts are broadly well-received. The poll surveyed 400 likely voters in each district and found that 84% of District 2 voters support upzoning. Even the controversial Marina Safeway project received 58% support. In District 4, 65% of voters back the zoning plan. “We’re proud to support candidates who understand what’s necessary to address the city’s affordability crisis,” said Steven Bacio , GrowSF’s co-founder. “Those opponents running on an anti-housing, anti-affordability platform are placing a bad bet in a city with some of the highest rents and home prices in the nation.” Jamie Hughes , a consultant for Lori Brooke and Albert Chow — who are running against Sherrill and Wong, respectively, and oppose the upzoning plan — said the polling is misleading. “This is an outside interest group with their own agenda. I don’t think their polls can be trusted any more than the tech billionaires and gun industry-aligned Republicans who fund them.” — H.L. HORSE LAWSUIT : Nearly two years ago, The Standard broke a big investigation into years of alleged horse and employee mistreatment at Golden Gate Park, a story that ended up kicking out the riding company that had a contract there with the parks department. Now, the owners of Chaparral Corp. are facing yet another lawsuit on top of the multiple legal challenges uncovered in The Standard’s 2024 article. The previously unreported suit, filed in Monterey County on Feb. 20 against Chaparral and the city of Marina, alleges that sexual harassment, animal welfare issues, and discrimination occurred at one of the company’s ranches south of San Francisco. Filed by former employees Katrina Brehm and Colleen Knopf , the suit claims that higher-ups took no action after a ranch hand was accused of sexual harassment. The two also say the ranch’s horses were not cared for — allegations similar to those The Standard uncovered in its own investigation. Additionally, the lawsuit claims that a former employee who had been abusing drugs continued to live on the property after his employment ended. They also allege that a parolee with an attempted murder conviction was hired as a contractor to avoid a background check, and that the individual worked around children. The city of Marina and the co-owner of Chaparral, Sue Pennell , did not respond to requests for comment. — G.G. ‘HART’-LESS: This week, San Francisco Police Department brass quietly demoted a veteran commander who was nearly named its new chief. Former Commander Cmdr. Jack Hart was one of three finalists for the chief position that was eventually given to Derrick Lew . While Hart and newly appointed Assistant Chief Nicole Jones were both unanimously endorsed by the Police Commission, which chooses the finalists, Mayor Daniel Lurie ultimately chose Lew, who barely made it to his desk with only four of seven votes. Now, in the first major reshuffling of department leadership under Lew, Hart has been demoted from commander of risk management back to the rank of captain in the Strategic Investigations Unit, multiple sources say. Anyone with the rank of captain can be elevated by the chief and, conversely, demoted back to captain. Cap. Stephen Jonas , who now heads the unit, is Hart’s new boss. Hart, who changed his LinkedIn profile to reflect his new role, could not be reached for comment. Department spokesperson Evan Sernoffsky said the transfer was part of the command staff restructuring. — Jonah Owen Lamb

More power to Lurie? New ballot measure could give SF mayors bigger say in hiring

Amid a push to overhaul San Francisco’s Kafkaesque city charter , officials are considering granting even more power to the mayor. Sources say measures proposed for the November election that would overhaul the city’s governing document are designed to increase mayoral authority and control. The changes would include granting the mayor the ability to hire many city department heads. For example, the selection of the police chief is an authority that is now shared with the Police Commission. The proposal follows a monthslong process launched by Mayor Daniel Lurie and Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman, who assembled a task force to examine reforms to the city’s 500-plus-page governing document. The effort incorporated several recommendations from a November report by the nonprofit think tank SPUR. The mayor’s office declined to comment. Mandelman said many of the ideas have been discussed for years, and the timing is right to act. “I think we should make [the changes] happen,” Mandelman said. “It makes sense to do this in this cycle. This is the right year to do it.” The SPUR report laid out 10 recommendations, including shifting more hiring power to the mayor. “The charter should be amended to allow the mayor to directly hire and remove executive-branch department heads,” the report said. “This change would align accountability with public expectations, ensuring that voters can hold the mayor responsible for results.” Other proposed changes, sources say, would allow most commissioners to be removed at will by their appointing authority – either the mayor or the Board of Supervisors. The measure would also restore “deputy mayors” to oversee city departments, a structure eliminated by voters in the early 1990s . It would give the mayor greater flexibility to reorganize city agencies, including potentially facilitating a merger of the Department of Building Inspection and the Planning Department. Sources say that Lurie believes greater authority would bring greater accountability, and that he cannot fully deliver on his promise to revitalize San Francisco without stronger executive tools. Other proposals under discussion include changes to the city’s contracting process and raising the threshold for citizen-led initiatives and Board of Supervisors proposals to qualify for the ballot. A separate effort is underway to reduce the number of city commissions. Failed effort in 2024 This is not the first recent attempt to restructure City Hall’s balance of power. In 2023, the now-defunct political group TogetherSF launched a similar campaign . After multiple revisions to its proposal , the group qualified Proposition D for the 2024 ballot. The measure focused on cutting commissions but also empowered the mayor to hire and fire department heads and remove certain appointees. Prop. D became entangled in a contentious mayoral race as Mark Farrell, a candidate and former supervisor, developed close ties to the measure and to TogetherSF. Prop. D failed , as did Farrell’s quest for mayor, and TogetherSF disbanded shortly afterward, merging into Neighbors for a Better San Francisco. Jay Cheng, executive director of Neighbors for a Better San Francisco, said the group strongly supports Lurie’s charter reform effort. “It’s reminiscent of and reflective of our ideas at TogetherSF,” Cheng said. “We’re glad to see this moving forward as part of Lurie’s charter reform measure.” Former Supervisor Aaron Peskin, a critic of Prop. D who helped defeat the measure, said he supports increasing mayoral power but urged Lurie to engage in broader discussions before moving forward. “While I support that recommendation, I think it would benefit from being done in consultation with existing commissions that often know more about their departments than a new mayor,” Peskin said. A poll obtained by The Standard found that voters largely support expanding mayoral authority. The survey, conducted in late January by David Binder Research among 600 likely November voters, found that 70% support giving the mayor more power to reorganize or combine departments to improve coordination and accountability. “The high level of support for this policy reflects alignment between positive opinion of the mayor, lower opinion of the Board of Supervisors, and a desire to fix what’s seen as a broken system, prone to corruption,” the poll analysis states. Lurie and city leaders will decide how to place a measure on the ballot, either through approval by a majority of the Board of Supervisors or by gathering voter signatures.

SF teachers’ strike is over. The real labor battle is just beginning

You’re reading Power Play, The Standard’s twice-weekly newsletter about City Hall and San Francisco politics. To receive Power Play directly in your inbox, sign up here . Got tips? Send to us at powerplay@sfstandard.com . All right, San Francisco, time to breathe. The first educators strike in nearly 50 years is over . Parents can drop their kids at school once again. Teachers can trade their picket signs for chalk. District staffers can go back to figuring out how paychecks work . Everything can return to normal, right? Don’t bet on it. Power Play’s sources believe the strike, which the United Educators of San Francisco are touting as a major win, will embolden the city’s other public-sector unions, whose members will soon confront Mayor Daniel Lurie ’s team at the bargaining table and in the political arena. As we’ve reported, the CEO tax touted by unions will be a fight with the business community. Meanwhile, the mayor’s charter reform effort, which could weaken labor’s ability to propose ballot measures, will face staunch opposition from the San Francisco Labor Council. There are even more labor flashpoints coming: Firefighters and police officers are deep in contract negotiations, and the city’s budget may bring waves of layoffs in June if Lurie’s promises of structural reforms come to pass. Even more consequentially, in 2027, for the first time in nearly 50 years, city public employees will be allowed to strike during contract negotiations, thanks to a Public Employment Relations Board decision in 2023 that struck down a “no-strike” provision in the city charter, giving public-sector unions a sharper arrow in their quivers. “I think there’s more of a hardened, militant mood now,” said John Logan , chair of labor studies at San Francisco State University. “No one wants to go out and strike, but they may feel if you don’t strike, they’re going to be taken advantage of.” We’re smelling a sequel. And with 34,800 city employees , versus roughly 6,000 in UESF, the coming labor battles could make the teachers strike look positively quaint. BLACKOUT EMAIL : The December blackout that caused mayhem across the city came roaring back into the news Thursday after The Standard was first to report that Pacific Gas & Electric’s CEO said Mayor Daniel Lurie directed the utility to provide power to the opera house — though the executive later retracted his statement. Lurie’s office has also denied that he directed any PG&E resources to the venue, which at the time was hosting his daughter’s performance of “The Nutcracker.” But a new email obtained by Power Play shows that Lurie was involved in the conversation of getting power restored to the War Memorial Opera House. An email dated Dec. 21 from Kate Sofis , the venue’s managing director, was sent roughly four hours after PG&E posted a photo on X showing its trucks outside the opera house. “The good news for later tonight/early tomorrow — and I would like to personally recognize both the Department of Emergency Management and the Mayor himself — who has been very engaged with us directly — we have succeeded in getting PGE to relocate two massive generators from another site to the Opera House,” Sofis’ email said. The generators were used to enable two Dec. 22 performances. The mayor’s office deferred to its previous comment that “of course city leaders were communicating directly with those institutions and PG&E to help scheduled performances for tens of thousands of attendees proceed.” Sofis did not respond to a request for comment. The contents of the Dec. 21 email were first reported by the California Post. — G. G. SF GOES FOR MAHAN : He may not be the mayor of San Francisco, but he’s certainly taking a lot of cash from the city’s bigwigs. San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan is on the fundraising circuit for his gubernatorial bid, seeking support from well-heeled San Franciscans hoping to propel the moderate, pro-business candidate to Sacramento. The latest campaign filings, submitted Thursday and Friday, show Mahan pulling in $5,000 from the former CEO of Weebly, David Rusenko ; $78,400 split between the primary and general elections from former BART board member Nicholas Josefowitz ; 156,8000 from real estate developer power couple Dan and Jaclyn Safier; and $78,400 from business executive Tali Rapaport . Other donations include $78,400 from Y Combinator Managing Director Jared Friedman , $39,200 from Y Combinator general partner David Lieb , $78,400 from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman , $39,200 from DoorDash cofounder Stanley Tang, and $50,000 from Mercury CEO Immad Akhund . As of Wednesday, Mahan had brought in a total of $8.5 million, according to a source close to the campaign. — G. G. ICYMI: SORDID TALE: Mickey Gerold led a seemingly charmed life of private clubs and powerful friends. But behind closed doors, his ex claims, he coerced her into sex work. POWERLESS: If you’re curious as to why the December PG&E power outage was such a mess, here’s a start : poor communication, a poorly trained AI model, and issues putting out a fire at a substation. OVERSIGHT, SHMOVERSIGHT: Critics say the “streamlining” of the SF Police Commission imperils police oversight , but a task force wants to axe its authority anyway.

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SF Police Chief Bill Scott steps down

Mayor Daniel Lurie said Wednesday that&nbsp;San Francisco Police Chief Bill Scott, one of the city&#8217;s longest-serving top lawmen, is leaving after eight years. During his tenure, Scott oversaw major reforms, sparred with a progressive DA, and dealt with a crime spike following the pandemic — all as SFPD ranks thinned.



The announcement comes a month after Scott&#8217;s second-in-command, Assistant Chief David Lazar, said he <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/lazar-police-retirement-20263448.php">plans to retire</a> at the end of May. Sources previously told The Standard that Lurie, who has replaced multiple department heads since taking office in January, had considered firing Scott.



Scott is the longest-serving chief after Thomas Cahill, who led the department from 1958 to 1970. On June 23, he will start <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/05/07/bill-scott-to-lead-los-angeles-metro-transportation-police/">his new job</a> as chief of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency&#8217;s yet-to-be-created police force.



&#8220;This was an incredibly difficult decision, but at the end of the day, I was given an opportunity that I simply could not decline,&#8221; Scott said in an email to SFPD staff that was obtained by The Standard.



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Scott will remain with the SFPD until late June, he said in the email.



While announcing his resignation at a press conference, he became emotional.



&#8220;Never in my wildest dreams — when I told my wife in 1987, shortly after we were married, that I wanted to live in San Francisco —&nbsp;could I have imagined that we would get here by me becoming the chief of police of this great department in this great city,&#8221; Scott said. &#8220;But some things are just meant to be.&#8221;



Paul Yep, <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2025/01/02/daniel-lurie-paul-yep-chief-public-safety/">Lurie&#8217;s public safety czar</a> and a former SFPD commander, will serve as interim police chief. He said he is not a candidate for the permanent position.



Lurie praised Scott for his work reducing violent and property crime.



&#8220;I want to express my profound gratitude to the chief for his service to our city. And I wish him and his family nothing but the best,&#8221; Lurie said. &#8220;I am committed to building a leadership team in the SFPD that builds on our early progress, strengthens and deepens the ranks of our officers and command staff, and uses all the tools available to continue our comeback.&#8221;



The Police Commission will now be tasked with finding three candidates for Lurie to choose from. With a newly appointed mayoral majority, the options should be to his liking. 



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Scott, a former Los Angeles police officer, was hired in 2017 by <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/expected-shakeup-of-sfpd-leadership-leaves-most-in-place-but-expands-top-heavy-organization/article_55e12efa-23e3-52a3-b7d9-2ab4b7ef49c9.html">the late Mayor Ed Lee</a>. He led the department through <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/mayor-accepts-damning-federal-review-of-sfpd-as-painfully-accurate/article_01866fd6-8f98-51b9-9d9c-e2121d35c377.html">federal reforms</a> meant to reduce bias and shootings by police, among other initiatives. But soon after he became chief, those reforms were threatened by Donald Trump, whose first presidency led to Scott breaking with federal law enforcement and removing the <a href="https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/police-withdraw-from-controversial-fbi-anti-terrorism-task-force/article_eba58ed2-f624-596b-96c8-5066b05e44e7.html">SFPD from a joint terrorism task force.</a>



During Scott’s early years as chief, car break-ins were a hot-button crime, for which he set up a special task force. But the pandemic changed the SFPD&#8217;s focus to open-air drug dealing and retail theft, which coincided with progressive <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/elections/article/Chesa-Boudin-wins-San-Francisco-D-A-election-14823180.php">District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s</a> time in office.&nbsp;



Scott’s recent years have focused on a short-staffed department tasked with stamping out the drug dealing that has plagued city streets since the pandemic. He has also led the police through a scandal with the department-affiliated nonprofit SF SAFE, which was dissolved after financial impropriety came to light. While the nonprofit’s head was charged for misusing the organization&#8217;s funds, Scott has said the <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/10/21/sf-safe-sfpd-kyra-worthy-corruption-nonprofit/">department will never find out how</a> millions of its dollars were spent.



Former San Francisco Police Officers Association President <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2022/06/09/sf-police-union-president-steps-down-amid-claims-of-financial-impropriety/">Tony Montoya</a> criticized Scott.



&#8220;Bill Scott was never committed to San Francisco. His heart and loyalties remained in L.A.,&#8221; Montoya said. &#8220;He always had his eyes on leaving. I was in a one-on-one meeting with him when he got the call from [former L.A. Mayor Eric Garcetti] notifying him that he didn&#8217;t get the chief&#8217;s job in L.A. and it was given to Michel Moore.



&#8220;Scott isolated himself from the rank and file and never did anything to endear the cops,&#8221; Montoya added. &#8220;He was a yes man to the politicians and never stood on his own two feet or stood behind the rank and file. He was a nice man but definitely not chief material. He only had one qualification for the job and was a DEI hire.&#8221;



The departure of Scott was celebrated inside the Police Officers Association, too.



&#8220;New dawn, new way of life…time to seize the day!&#8221; wrote POA President Tracy McCray Wednesday morning in an email obtained by The Standard.



The message also contained allegations that Scott stood in the way of police officers&#8217; due process in discipline cases. 



&#8220;We have toiled over the past eight (8) years in hundreds of cases guarding the due process rights of our union members in so many instances of obstacles from an outside LAPD chief,&#8221; wrote ex-POA President Paul Chignell.



Sheriff Paul Miyamoto said that Scott served with &#8220;humility, fairness, and dedication&#8221; while facing public crises like the fentanyl epidemic.



&#8220;Chief Scott has been an unwavering champion of social reform and change in law enforcement, even amongst dissenting voices, blazing a trail many would not have dared to take,&#8221; Miyamoto said.



Until recently, Scott had suggested he wasn’t going anywhere.&nbsp;



“I have important work to complete here in San Francisco that includes continuing and sustaining our reform efforts, addressing crime, helping our city recover economically, and rebuilding our police force to ensure we have the staff to meet all the city’s challenges for years to come,” <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2024/01/16/los-angeles-police-chief-search-san-francisco-bill-scott/#">Scott said in January 2024</a> amid speculation that he would try for the chief’s job in Los Angeles.

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