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Cameras from a Dec. 2012 news conference relating to the federal constitutional challenge to Prop 8.

The following are S.F. City Attorney news releases in reverse-chronological order.  For more information, contact the Community and Media Relations Office at +1 (415) 554-4662 or cityattorney@sfcityatty.org.

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 17, 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

Federal judge issues emergency order blocking the Trump Administration’s unconstitutional reorganization of the federal government

May 12, 2025May 9, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
A federal court issued a temporary restraining order today effectively pausing the massive workforce reductions underway at the order of President Trump

Categories News

Federal court blocks Trump Administration’s illegal conditions on HUD grants

May 8, 2025May 8, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order stops HUD attempt to force local governments to submit to Trump ideology or relinquish millions in funding used to prevent and address homelessness

Categories News

San Francisco joins lawsuit challenging illegal conditions on HUD grants

May 5, 2025May 2, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Unlawful grant conditions threaten local governments to submit to Trump ideology or relinquish millions in funding used to prevent and address homelessness

Categories News

San Francisco, Santa Clara County, and a coalition of non-profits, labor unions, and local governments file lawsuit challenging the unconstitutional reorganization of the federal government

April 29, 2025April 29, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
As DOGE and other offices reshape federal agencies, the lawsuit seeks to stop the reorganization and massive workforce reductions underway at the order of President Trump

Categories News

Federal court blocks Trump Administration from withholding funds to sanctuary jurisdictions

April 25, 2025April 24, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
Court order prevents the Trump Administration from commandeering local law enforcement and coercing cities and counties into taking on the federal government’s immigration responsibilities

Categories News, Sanctuary Cities

San Francisco and Santa Clara County issue statement in advance of hearing in sanctuary lawsuit against Trump Administration

April 22, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
The Trump Administration’s illegal overreach attempts to cut funding to sanctuary jurisdictions to coerce enforcement of federal civil immigration law

Categories News, Sanctuary Cities

City Attorney Chiu sues last mile delivery company for misclassifying drivers

April 21, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
City Attorney David Chiu
As last mile delivery industry flourishes, new lawsuit alleges GoShare violates fair chance hiring laws and exploits workers by illegally denying protections, wages, and benefits

Categories News, Wage Theft

City Attorney sues Tenderloin drug and gambling dens fronting as small businesses

April 11, 2025April 11, 2025 by S.F. City Attorney's Press Office
SFPD investigations revealed multiple Tenderloin stores operated illegal gambling dens, sold drugs, and fueled criminal activity and fencing operations

Categories Code Enforcement, News, Public Safety
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