Where do you live?
San Diego
  • Alameda
  • Imperial
  • San Diego
What do you care about?
Ending Over-criminalization and Mass incarceration
  • All Issue Areas
  • Advancing Youth Justice
  • Combatting Racial and Other Disparities
  • Death Penalty
  • Ending Excessive Sentences and Promoting Second Chances
  • Ending Over-criminalization and Mass incarceration
  • Ending the Use of Money Bail
  • Ensuring Accessibility Transparency Integrity and Accountability
  • Protecting Immigrant Communities
  • Protecting Workers and Consumers
  • Standing Up to Police Misconduct
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San Diego

DA Candidates

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Do you agree that prosecutors’ practices have contributed significantly to mass incarceration? Please select “Yes” or “No” and provide an explanation.

Will you commit to implementing practices that will reduce the jail population in your county and reduce state prison commitments by 25% by the end of your first term? Please select “Yes” or “No” and provide explanation. If “Yes”, please identify your goal and what specific changes you will make to DA policies and practices in order to achieve this goal.

Will you presumptively decline to prosecute misdemeanor offenses, such as sex-work related offenses, and others including sit-sleep-lie laws, public urination violations, and other quality-of-life offenses that are often a byproduct of a person experiencing poverty or homelessness?

Will you grant admission to diversion programs pre-plea (before plea bargaining in all cases), rather than making participation contingent on first entering a guilty plea?

Will you implement a policy to support mental health diversion for all or most individuals diagnosed with a mental health issue? What will your policy be on this issue?

Will you commit to oppose efforts in your county to construct new jails or reopen previously closed jails? Please select “Yes” or “No” and provide explanation.

Will you install a complete open file policy that provides defense counsel with access to all non-privileged information from the moment the charges are filed?

Criminal legal system involvement often drives people without access to means further into poverty. Will you instruct DAs that they should not (1) oppose requests for waiver/reduction of fines or fees on the basis of indigency; (2) should not agree with probation/parole that failure to pay is a violation; and (3) should not deny access to diversion on basis of ability to pay fines or fees. Please explain.

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Ending the Use of Money Bail

This site is a resource to help us understand the district attorney candidates' stances on key criminal justice issues. We sent every DA candidate a set of questions about their platform. Their responses, or lack thereof, can help us be more informed voters on November 8, 2022.

Why it matters

District Attorneys (DAs) have tremendous power to impact the lives of millions of people, their families, and entire communities. If someone is accused of a crime, it is the DA–not the police–who has the sole power to decide if criminal charges are filed and the severity of those charges. They alone decide who is deserving of a jail or prison sentence and who will instead be routed into a diversion program to help rebuild their life, or have charges dismissed.

In California, we have 58 elected DAs each representing one of our 58 counties. Our job is to elect a DA who is committed to seeking justice in criminal cases, working to prevent crime, and serving as a leader in the diverse communities they represent.

Learn more at MeetYourDA.org

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