(Subscription required) He described his job as wearing two hats. With one, he supervises courthouses in the central district, Foltz, Metropolitan, two courts in East LA and the Central Arraignment Court. The other hat is worn as supervisor of the entire criminal division in the county.

(Subscription required) The endorsements for a reversal of some of the provisions — by San Francisco Mayor London Breed and San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan — come as legislators in Sacramento have introduced bills that would allow courts to consider a criminal’s prior convictions for theft, possibly transforming misdemeanor offenses into felonies for a third offense.

(Subscription required) Accused of enacting unconstitutional ordinances restricting homeless camps, the San Francisco city attorney’s office insisted that the scope of discovery would be drastically different if the Supreme Court’s decision shot down the plaintiff’s Eighth Amendment claim in this case.

Californians can now enforce a ballot measure that seeks to protect privacy rights by allowing consumers to stop businesses from using or selling information about their location, health, race, gender or other personal details, a state appeals court ruled Friday.