Holding the District Attorney Accountable. Below are links to the video of a hearing in front of the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force 10/23/07. The San Francisco District Attorney, Kamala Harris was found in violation of the Sunshine Ordinance because they didn’t turn over requested documents and didn’t turn them over in a timely manner.

Oder of Determination

City Hall
1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place, Room 244
SUNSHINE ORDINANCE San Francisco 94102-4689
TASK FORCE Tel. No. (415) 554-7724
Fax No. 415) 554-7854
TDD/TTY No. (415) 554-5227
http://www.sfgov.org/sunshine/
ORDER OF DETERMINATION
October 23, 2007
October 26, 2007
Maxine Doogan
2215R Market St., #548
San Francisco, CA 94114

Sandip Patel
Office of the District Attorney
850 Bryant Street, Room 325
San Francisco, CA 94103

Re: Complaint #07068 by Maxine Doogan against the District Attorney for alleged failure to provide requested records.
Based on the information provided to the Task Force from the Complainant Maxine Doogan,Respondent Sandip Patel, and hearing public comment, the following Order of
Determination is adopted:

The Sunshine Ordinance Task Force finds the District Attorney’s Office in violation of
Sections 67.21 and 67.25 of the Sunshine Ordinance for failure to provide records
requested and failure to respond in a timely manner. The department is instructed to provide the responsive documents that have not been provided to Ms. Doogan within 5 days after the issuance of this Order of Determination.

This Order of Determination was adopted by the Sunshine Ordinance Task Force on
October 23, 2007 by the following vote: ( Williams / Pilpel )
Ayes: Craven, Knee, Cauthen, Comstock,
Pilpel, Wolfe, Chan, Goldman, Williams
Absent: Chu
Doug Comstock, Chair
Sunshine Ordinance Task Force
c: Ernie Llorente, Deputy City Attorney
Kamala Harris, District Attorney

Part 1 video of hearing

Part 2 video of hearing

Part 3 video of hearing

Part 4 video of hearing

Part 5 video of hearing

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