San Francisco Green Party District Attorney Candidate Questionnaire 2024 Due Date: Friday, August 23, 11:59 pm Candidate Name: Phone Number: Web site: E-mail: Name of Campaign Manager: Signed voluntary spending limit? Major Endorsements: 1) Who else have you endorsed in other contests this November? 2) What do you think of the Death Penalty? 3) How would you support the work of the Innocence Commission? 4) Under what circumstances, if any, would you request cash bail? 5) Under what circumstances, if any, would you try a juvenile offender as an adult? 6) We understand the District Attorney's office has a limited budget and staff. How would you address the current backlog of open criminal cases in San Francisco? 7) How should the Sheriff's Office address the extreme staffing shortage? 8) Would you prosecute the possession and/or sale of more than 5 grams of fentanyl as a misdemeanor or a felony? 9) How would you use community justice courts? 10) What do you think of closing 850 Bryant? 11) What do you think of SF closing our Juvenile Hall? 12) What do you think of current police staffing levels? 13) Do you believe body cameras are working to prevent police misconduct in San Francisco? 14) How would you address local government corruption? 15) How would you enforce laws regulating powerful local tech companies such as Airbnb, Uber, Lyft and Doordash? 16) Please state how you intend to serve victims of crime, be they property crime victims or the families of murder victims. 17) What do you think of the concept of restorative justice? What specific plans do you have to implement your ideas? 18) What standards do you support for police use of force? Are there any "less-lethal" weapons that you support arming the police with? 19) DA Gascon had a policy of only charging cases that he thought he'd easily win. What standard will you apply? 20) In 2005 an 'Environmental Justice Unit' was created within the DA's office but was rarely used and no longer exists. If elected will you create an independent Environmental Justice Division, and if so, how would you use that division to force a cleanup of the toxic and radioactive waste sites on Treasure Island and in the Bayview Hunters Point? Your positions (at the time) on selected current and past Propositions (skip any for which you didn't live or vote in SF, or didn't take a position at the time): + - ? [ ] [ ] [ ] March 2024 Prop E (More Police Chases) [ ] [ ] [ ] March 2024 Prop F (Drug Test Poor People) [ ] [ ] [ ] June 2022 Prop C (Recall Reform) [ ] [ ] [ ] June 2022 Prop H (Boudin Recall) [ ] [ ] [ ] Nov 2020 Prop G (16-17 y.o. voting, local elections) [ ] [ ] [ ] Nov 2020 Prop I (Real Estate Transfer Tax) [ ] [ ] [ ] June 2018 Prop F (Eviction Defense) [ ] [ ] [ ] June 2018 Prop H (Tasers for SFPD) [ ] [ ] [ ] Nov 2016 Prop D (Vacancy appointments) [ ] [ ] [ ] Nov 2016 Prop N (Non-citizen voting, school board) [ ] [ ] [ ] Nov 2016 Prop Q (Prohibiting tents on public sidewalks) [ ] [ ] [ ] Nov 2016 Prop 62 (Ending Death Penalty) Due Date: Friday, August 23, 11:59 pm Please submit by email to cc@sfgreens.org. For more information, call Barry Hermanson at 415-255-9494. Please return your answers in plain text (not HTML, PDF, or Word format), so that we can post all candidates' answers in the same format. The SF Green Party will invite selected candidates who return completed questionnaires on time to speak and answer questions at our candidate forum and endorsement meeting. To be given time on our agenda, each candidate needs at least two active Green Party members to request their invitation. This will be a hybrid meeting, so invited candidates may also speak with us via Zoom. Our endorsement meeting is scheduled for Wed, August 28 from 6:30-9:30 pm at our office, 2973 16th St, #300, SF - note that this is across the street from our old office in the Redstone Building. The first two hours will be for interviews of selected candidates, and the last hour will be for decision making. Completed questionnaires will be posted on our website, https://sfgreenparty.org.