The recall group submitted 74,757 valid signatures, just barely more than the 73,195 required to get the question on a ballot, according to Alameda County’s registrar of voters.
Save Alameda For Everyone supporters take part in a rally to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price on the steps of the René C. Davidson Courthouse on Monday, March 4, 2024, in Oakland, Calif. SAFE members delivered over 110,000 signatures to be verified by the county Registrar of Voters on Monday, in hopes of triggering a recall election.
With a recall election all but set to become a reality, they vowed to make good on their bid to boot Price from office. Price has faced a vocal opposition since the earliest months of her tenure, with opponents first holding a rally in April 2023 calling for her removal from office on the same courthouse steps where Monday’s gathering was held. It filed formal paperwork to create a recall committee over the summer and worked from September through early March
Price, however, has framed lengthy prison sentences as a vestige of the country’s racist overreaction to crime — one that has devastated communities of color and led to unnecessary mass incarceration of criminals. A vocal critic of law enforcement, she also has taken steps to re-open misconduct cases against police and sheriff’s deputies.
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