Recall attempt of Alameda County DA moves forward with clearance to gather signatures

by Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News October 2, 2023September 29, 2023

The home page for the Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE) website appears in a screenshot. The group spearheading the campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price has received approval from the county registrar of voters to begin collecting the 73,195 signatures it will need to qualify the recall for a June 2024 special election. (recallpamelaprice.org)

The Alameda County Registrar of Voters has approved a petition to collect signatures to recall District Attorney Pamela Price, who has faced a backlash against her progressive policies from opponents concerned about an increase in crime.

Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Y. Price. (Office of the Alameda County District Attorney via Bay City News)

The group Save Alameda for Everyone (SAFE) announced the petition’s approval. They will have 160 days to gather enough handwritten signatures to bring the question to voters in a special election June 2024, according to the group.

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Ruth Dusseault, Bay City News

Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.

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