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Director of Communications & Media Relations: Jen Kwart +1 (415) 554-4662

City Attorney sues Tenderloin landlord who left tenants without heat

July 16, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Landlord neglected property and profited off of renting units with illegal and unsafe conditions

Categories Code Enforcement, News

San Francisco and Santa Clara County expand lawsuit challenging illegal federal grant conditions to include health grants

July 11, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Unlawful Health and Human Services grant conditions threaten millions in critical funding used to support early childhood development, disease prevention, and mental health services

Categories News

Lawsuit protecting sanctuary jurisdictions from illegal federal overreach grows to 50 local governments

July 10, 2025July 9, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
More cities and counties across the US join San Francisco and Santa Clara County in legal challenge to stop Trump Administration’s unconstitutional actions

Categories News, Sanctuary Cities

San Francisco wins case to protect access to critical public health data

July 10, 2025July 3, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Trump Administration’s illegal attempt to remove access to vital public health information endangered the health of all Americans

Categories News

San Francisco joins class action lawsuit against Trump Administration for terminating EPA grant programs

July 3, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Terminating these programs leaves communities more vulnerable to pollution and disasters

Categories Environment, News

San Francisco receives long-delayed counterterrorism funding after filing lawsuit

July 2, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
The federal government finally reimburses cities for funds used to help detect and prevent terrorism and nuclear attacks while lawsuit continues

Categories News

City Attorney Chiu statement on SCOTUS ruling in universal injunction case

June 27, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney Chiu and advocates will hold a press conference at 10:00 a.m. today in Chinatown

Categories News

City Attorney Chiu and Supervisor Dorsey urge Blue Shield to keep UCSF in network

June 27, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
By dropping UC Health in the middle of a coverage cycle, Blue Shield will disrupt medical care for tens of thousands of patients across the Bay Area and California

Categories News

Federal court halts Trump Administration’s illegal conditions on AmeriCorps funding

June 23, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order stops unlawful defunding threat that would have forced local governments and schools to relinquish funds for essential programs or submit to Trump ideology

Categories News

City Attorney doubles down on legal action against predatory immigration consulting business

June 20, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Lacayo & Associates continues to violate court orders and provide immigration services it is not legally allowed to provide

Categories News

San Francisco joins lawsuit challenging Trump’s illegal freeze of counterterrorism funding

June 27, 2025June 17, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The Trump Administration has illegally paused funding to help detect and prevent terrorism and nuclear attacks

Categories News

San Francisco leads amicus brief urging Ninth Circuit to stop federalization of the National Guard

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Trump’s unnecessary deployment of the National Guard and military troops in Los Angeles has inflamed tensions and undermined local law enforcement

Categories News

City Attorney Chiu statement on handcuffing of Senator Alex Padilla

June 16, 2025June 12, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu issued the following statement in response to federal agents accosting and handcuffing California Senator Alex Padilla at a press conference held by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in Los Angeles.

Categories News

City Attorney introduces legislation to modernize municipal code with technology

June 16, 2025June 5, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
Partnership with Stanford RegLab results in legislation streamlining San Francisco’s numerous reporting requirements 

Categories News

Federal court halts Trump Administration’s illegal conditions on housing and transportation grants

June 16, 2025June 4, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order blocks HUD and DOT from attempting to force local governments to submit to Trump ideology or else relinquish billions in funding for housing and transportation

Categories Housing & Tenant Rights, News, Transportation

City Attorney shuts down 10 websites that create nonconsensual deepfake pornography

June 16, 2025June 2, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The City also secures first judgment preventing website owner from operating sites that use AI-generated nonconsensual explicit images of real adults and minors

Categories News

Federal court blocks Trump Administration’s unconstitutional reorganization of the federal government

May 23, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order prevents the Trump Administration from moving forward with massive federal workforce reductions

Categories News

City Attorney David Chiu and Controller Greg Wagner launch public integrity review of Parks Alliance

May 23, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
The City Attorney and Controller will take immediate action to investigate misuse of money donated for San Francisco public parks

Categories News, Public Integrity

San Francisco AAPI leaders highlight importance of birthright citizenship in advance of SCOTUS oral argument

May 14, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The century-old legal precedent confirming that those born in the United States are citizens has deep ties to San Francisco’s Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities

Categories News

City Attorney and OLSE secure $2.2 million settlement benefitting last-mile delivery drivers

May 12, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Agreements require 15 Amazon Delivery Service Partners to pay back workers for violating local health care requirements

Categories Healthy San Francisco, News, Wage Theft
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