Pamela Price
Pamela Price | |
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| 30th District Attorney of Alameda County | |
| In office January 3, 2023 – December 5, 2024 | |
| Preceded by | Nancy O'Malley |
| Succeeded by | Ursula Jones Dickson |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pamela Yvette Price 1957 (age 67–68) Dayton, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education | Yale University (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MA, JD) |
Pamela Yvette Price (born 1957) is an American attorney and civil rights activist who served as the 30th district attorney of Alameda County from 2023 to 2024.
Price was elected in November 2022 with 53% of the vote. She was the first Black woman to serve as Alameda County District Attorney, and the first person to be elected Alameda County District Attorney without prior appointment to the office by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors since 1938. She ran on a criminal justice reform-oriented platform and pledged to bolster rehabilitation and address police misconduct.[13] She campaigned on ending the death penalty, ending the practice of charging minors as adults, establishing a unit dedicated to ensuring the integrity of criminal convictions, and enhancing services for gun violence victims.[14]
Price was recalled in 2024 with 62.9% of voters supporting the recall.[1][2] A barrage of negative media started within months of her election and continued throughout and after her tenure.
Early life and education
[edit]An Ohio native, Price was born in Dayton in 1956 and raised in Cincinnati.[1] She was inspired to pursue civil rights activism after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and was arrested during a civil rights demonstration at age 13, after which she spent one year in juvenile detention. She then spent her teenage years in the Ohio foster care system and lived between Cincinnati and New Haven, Connecticut.[2]She was accepted to Yale on a full scholarship as an emancipated minor. While at Yale, Price spent her junior year studying abroad at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa.
She earned a bachelor of arts in political science from Yale University in 1978 and later moved to California to attend the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a Juris Doctor and a master of arts in jurisprudence and social policy in 1982. She was admitted to the California bar the following year.[3]
Legal career
[edit]While a student at Yale in 1977, she joined Alexander v. Yale as a plaintiff, where she described being offered an A by a professor in exchange for sexual favors. Price served as the lead Plaintiff and was the only plaintiff permitted to present her case at trial. The case established that sexual harassment of female university students is illegal under Title IX.[6] Today, as a result of the Alexander case, grievance procedures are common from universities to junior high schools. The students were advised by Catharine MacKinnon, who had just graduated from Yale Law School. MacKinnon was working on her groundbreaking book, Sexual Harassment of Working Women. Alexander v. Yale was an early test of MacKinnon’s theory that sexual harassment constituted sex discrimination.
In 1986, the Supreme Court ruled, in Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, that a hostile work environment constituted sexual discrimination, vindicating another argument made by the plaintiffs in Alexander v. Yale. Three of the five plaintiffs, Ann Olivarius, Pamela Price and Ronni Alexander, have gone on to be prominent attorneys or law professors.
In 2012, all of the plaintiffs were honored by the ACLU in its list of “The Nine” most influential actors in the history of Title IX. Price’s significant role in the case is chronicled in the book “37 Words” by author Sherry Boschert, and Part IV of the ESPN Special 37 Words released in 2022.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_v._Yale
https://thenewpress.org/books/37-words/
Kuersten, Ashlyn K. (2003). Women and the law : leaders, cases, and documents. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-700-4. OCLC 53948731
"Title IX - The Nine". American Civil Liberties Union.
"Alexander v. Yale University: An Informal History," Directions in Sexual Harassment Law, Catherine A. MacKinnon and Reva B. Siegel, eds, 2007, Yale University Press, pp. 51-59.
Alexander v. Yale | Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse". www.clearinghouse.net: https://clearinghouse.net/case/12614/
Price co-founded the Bay Area Defense Committee for Battered Women in 1979 while attending law school.[7] She also clerked for the California Supreme Court as an extern to the Hon. Justice Frank Newman.
The case established that sexual harassment of female university students is illegal under Title IX.[4] She co-founded the Bay Area Defense Committee for Battered Women in 1979 while attending law school.[5] Price is a survivor of domestic violence; in 1981, custody of her infant child was given to her abusive ex-boyfriend. She went to trial, where she was acquitted.
After law school, Price worked as a community defense attorney in San Francisco, handling hundreds of felony and misdemeanor cases and often representing youth clients. She founded Price and Associates, an Oakland-based civil litigation firm, in 1991 and specialized in employment law, representing victims of retaliation, wrongful termination, sexual assaults, and discrimination.[6] In 2002, she successfully argued Morgan v. Abner before the United States Supreme Court.[7]She successfully argued precedent-setting cases in the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals and the California Supreme Court. She also served as the Court-appointed monitor for equal employment opportunity in Contra Costa County under the Croskrey Consent Decree for fourteen years.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-cand-3_03-cv-03723/pdf/USCOURTS-cand-3_03-cv-03723-25.pdf
Between 1999 and 2005, Price purchased two office buildings in downtown Oakland to house her law firm, becoming one of a handful of Black women to own commercial property in downtown Oakland.
In 2002, Price successfully argued a racial harassment case against Amtrak before the United States Supreme Court.[10], becoming one of very few African American women to argue before the Supreme Court.
http://www.denverpost.com/2013/05/12/diversity-lacking-among-lawyers-who-argue-cases-to-supreme-court/
https://supreme.findlaw.com/legal-commentary/the-supreme-court-considers-the-continuing-violations-doctrine-in-a-decision-sure-to-affect-many-parties-to-harassment-cases.html
The case established the continuing violation doctrine applies to claims of harassment based on race and other forms of discrimination. (National Railroad Passenger Corporation v. Morgan, 536 U.S. 101 (2002).) The Court held that while Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits recovery for discrete acts of discrimination or retaliation that occur outside of the statutory time period, a plaintiff is entitled to introduce evidence of injury or harm that goes back to the beginning of the harassment and can recover damages for a continuing violation.
In May 2004, after ten years of litigation and two trials, Price’s team obtained a jury verdict for $500,000 on behalf of Plaintiff Abner Morgan.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/oakland-amtrak-ordered-to-pay-500-000-in-2771719.php
https://ble-t.org/news/former-amtrak-electrician-wins-hostile-environment-case/
Price’s significant cases on behalf of female correctional officers from 1991 to 2016 also transformed the California Dept. of Corrections’ approach to protecting female employees working in state prisons, including injunctive relief ordered in the Freitag case in 2010.
https://clearinghouse.net/case/9495/
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/03-16702/0316702-2011-02-25.html
https://www.pypesq.com/attorney/pulido-v-cdcr/
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/court-upholds-female-guard-s-harassment-award-3287634.php
https://www.prisonlegalnews.org/news/2009/oct/15/california-prison-guards-first-amendment-rights-upheld-in-job-related-retaliation-complaint/
https://www.pypesq.com/attorney/sanchez-v-cdcr/
In 2014, Price unsuccessfully ran for the California State Assembly in the 15th district, placing third in the primary. She unsuccessfully ran for Alameda County district attorney in 2018, losing to incumbent Nancy O'Malley in the nonpartisan primary. Later that year, she ran for mayor of Oakland, placing third and losing to incumbent Libby Schaaf.[8] She was elected to the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee in 2016 and re-elected in 2020.[9] In 2023, after an exhaustive investigation, the Alameda County Grand Jury found that O’Malley and employees in the DA’s office violated numerous County policies during the 2018 election, including using County resources and colluding with police unions to campaign against Price.
https://www.courthousenews.com/grand-jury-says-former-california-district-attorney-violated-county-policies-in-2018-election/
https://www.postnewsgroup.com/alameda-county-grand-jury-says-former-d-a-omalley-violated-state-county-regulations-to-win-2018-reelection/
Later that year, Price ran for mayor of Oakland, placing third and losing to incumbent Libby Schaaf.[11] She was elected to the Alameda County Democratic Central Committee in 2016 and re-elected in 2020 and 2024.[12]
Alameda County District Attorney
[edit]Elections
[edit]2022
[edit]O'Malley opted not to run for re-election in 2022. Price ran for district attorney in 2022, defeating Terry Wiley with 53.1% of the vote.
Price was sworn in on January 3, 2023. She was the first Alameda County district attorney to lack prior experience in the Alameda County District Attorney's Office.[6][10] She was the first foster child, first survivor of domestic violence and first-ever attorney with civil litigation experience elected to serve as District Attorney.
2024 recall
[edit]Throughout her tenure, Price was routinely accused of being soft on crime.[16] Deputy District attorneys who had previously campaigned illegally in the office for O’Malley and supporters of the candidate she defeated mounted a public campaign of resistance within the first three months of her inauguration. Paperwork was filed in August 2023 to recall Price from office.[11] In October, a group called Save Alameda For Everyone (commonly known as SAFE) launched a campaign to collect the 73,195 valid signatures required by the county charter to put the recall on the ballot.[12] In March 2024, SAFE submitted 127,387 signatures to county officials to be verified after spending more than $2.2 million on the signature drive effort to recall her.[13]
The vast bulk of the funds to obtain the signatures came from one donor, a wealthy Piedmont billionaire, Peter Dreyfuss. The recall was primarily funded by Dreyfuss, wealthy tech executives and real estate investors and police associations displeased with Price’s reform efforts.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12009700/whos-paying-for-the-recall-of-alameda-county-da-pamela-price-these-charts-break-it-down
https://oaklandside.org/2024/02/02/recall-campaign-district-attorney-pamela-price-alameda-county-who-is-funding/
https://oaklandside.org/2024/05/08/pamela-price-recall-campaign-outraised-district-attorney-by-millions/
https://www.kqed.org/news/11991842/prosecutors-union-votes-to-recall-alameda-county-da-pamela-price
On March 5, 2024, Alameda County voters approved a change to the Alameda County charter to modify the recall procedure and align it with the California state law regarding the recall of elective officers.[14]
This change allowed the recallers to collect 20,000 fewer signatures than what was actually required by the County Charter and to use paid signature gatherers from outside the County.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/14/5-things-to-know-about-alameda-countys-proposed-recall-changes/
On April 15, the Alameda County Registrar of Voters stated that enough valid signatures has been submitted to trigger a recall election. Under the county charter, the proponents needed a minimum of 73,195 valid signatures. The number of valid signatures on the petition was 74,757, and the total number of signatures disqualified was 48,617.[15] On May 14, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors unanimously set the election date to November 5, 2024, to align with the 2024 general election.[16]
Price was recalled with 62.9% of voters voting to recall her.[17][18] According to an analysis from the San Francisco Chronicle, voters who voted to recall Price tended to live in the poorest and most heavily Black and Latino parts of Alameda County.[19] Price conceded the election nearly two weeks later. She left office on December 5, 2024.[20]
Tenure
[edit]In her first month in office, Price reopened eight cases involving law enforcement-involved death.[21] In March 2023, she distributed a preliminary version of updated sentencing guidelines within her department.[22]
In her first three months in office, Price created a community-based Mental Health Commission, a Re-entry Commission and a Victims Advisory Commission. She initiated the massive overhaul of the case management system to allow for tracking of cases, moved quickly to fill large staffing deficiencies, conducted employee surveys and authorized additional training and support for the victim advocates, and successfully submitted an annual budget for approval by the County Board of Supervisors.
https://www.postnewsgroup.com/report-pamela-prices-achievements-in-first-75-days-as-alameda-county-da/
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/controversy-over-alameda-county-das-new-policies/
https://www.postnewsgroup.com/report-pamela-prices-achievements-in-first-75-days-as-alameda-county-da/
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/controversy-over-alameda-county-das-new-policies/
In her first year Price began training the attorneys and staff on the Racial Justice Act, tackled human trafficking in collaboration with community organizations, increased prosecution rates, modernized the public website and began issuing regular newsletters to the public, participated in numerous public events and upgraded the facilities at the Family Justice Center.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11985311/alameda-county-district-attorneys-report-shows-prosecution-rates-remain-steady
https://hoodline.com/2023/10/alameda-county-da-fights-human-trafficking-with-awareness-campaign-at-oakland-international-airport/
https://www.postnewsgroup.com/alameda-county-das-office-offers-help-to-human-trafficking-victims-with-new-billboards-at-oakland-international-airport/
In her second year in office, Price exposed a decades-long scandal of prosecutorial misconduct by the DA’s office. Alameda County prosecutors had a policy of illegally removing Black and Jewish prospective jurors from death penalty cases, resulting in several death penalty convictions being overturned by the United States District Court. Working in collaboration with defense counsel, the California Attorney General’s office and U.S. District Court Judge Vincent Chhabria, Price oversaw the resentencing of 35 death row inmates from Alameda County.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/25/how-capital-case-defendants-in-california-lost-their-rights
In her second year, Price created a public dashboard to improve transparency of the office’s work, continued her efforts to combat human trafficking, published a comprehensive report on gun violence in Alameda County in collaboration with the Alameda County Public Health Department, convened a second gun violence roundtable with law enforcement, updated the office’s public website, established an Organized Retail Theft unit with a $2 million grant from the State of California, and established a Gender Justice Division.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/25/photos-alameda-county-district-attorney-pamela-price-sponsors-march-and-rally-for-national-human-trafficking-awareness-month/
https://oaklandside.org/2024/09/12/pamela-price-alameda-county-district-attorney-interview-recall/
https://da.alamedacountyca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/gv2023.pdf
https://oaklandside.org/2024/12/05/gun-violence-report-alameda-county-district-attorney/
https://hoodline.com/2024/12/alameda-county-da-pamela-price-releases-comprehensive-plan-to-combat-gun-violence-crisis/
https://www.postnewsgroup.com/alameda-county-d-a-s-office-adds-2-million-to-state-funds-for-fighting-organized-retail-crimes/
https://www.bscc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Alameda-County-District-Attorneys-Office.pdf
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/retail-theft-surge-alameda-county-da-launches-vertical-prosecution-team/
While in office, Price oversaw the successful speedy prosecution of Joseph Roberts for the murder of Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner. Ms. Buckner, a young Black woman was brutally murdered and her body was butchered and dumped into the Oakland estuary. The family had contacted police complaining of domestic violence more than 17 times before Ms. Buckner disappeared and was later found murdered.
https://www.ktvu.com/news/family-grieves-young-woman-with-bright-future-allegedly-killed-by-fiancé
https://www.ktvu.com/news/verdict-reached-in-grisly-east-bay-killing-of-law-student
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrK7QioT1hc
Price oversaw the historic criminal grand jury indictment of Radius Reliance (formerly Schnitzer Steel) and two corporate executives for environmental crimes arising out of a massive fire at Radius’ West Oakland facility.
https://oaklandside.org/2024/07/23/radius-recycling-criminal-charges-fire-west-oakland-district-attorney-pamela-price/
https://www.recyclingtoday.com/news/radius-recycling-2-company-managers-indicted-for-2023-oakland-california-fire/
Price also expanded the scope of the office’s Consumer and Environmental Protection Unit to partner with the City of Alameda’s City Attorney’s office to prosecute landlord misconduct, resulting in a $335,000 judgment for tenants in the City of Alameda.
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/05/01/alameda-briefs-legal-action-taken-against-owner-of-barnhill-marina/
https://www.alamedaca.gov/Shortcut-Content/News-Media/Court-Judgment-Against-Owners-of-Barnhill-Marina-for-Unlawful-Practices
Price’s expanded Consumer Justice Unit also brought ground-breaking insurance fraud cases against homeowners and car owners and one of the first civil actions to shut down a tobacco manufacturer and seller for violating California Senate Bill 793.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11987227/alameda-county-district-attorney-sues-farmers-insurance-alleging-unfair-practices
https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/05/14/california-da-sues-insurers-estimating-system-providers-over-alleged-lowball-total-loss-payouts/
https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/alameda-da-announces-lawsuit-against-progressive-usaa-alleging-underpaying-owners-for-totaled-vehicles/
https://cslea.com/2023/10/preliminary-injunction-stops-online-sales-of-flavored-tobacco-vapes-by-apollo-e-cigs/
https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/alameda-county-district-attorney-suing-livermore-vape-company/3311983/
In November 2021, gang members killed 23-month-old Jasper Wu during a highway shootout; the case was taken up by O'Malley prior to Price's election. When asked for an update on the case in March 2023, Price responded with an email which read in part: "Our office is currently working on a partnership with the Asian Law Caucus to support AAPI victims of violence in ways that open up broader possibilities for healing and non-carceral forms of accountability."[23] Price kept the murder charges with a gang enhancement in the Jasper Wu case. If convicted, the defendants face over 100 years in prison.[24]
On April 14, 2023, a "special directive" issued by the district attorney's office established a guideline whereby prosecutors are encouraged to refrain from seeking elevated sentences for serious offenses if the imposition of such sentences would lead to a disproportionate "racial impact".[25]
In January 2024, Price's office was removed from a misdemeanor case involving former prosecutor Amilcar Ford, who had become one of her major critics. Ford had been charged the previous year by her office with a little-used charged of defending after public prosecution as the prosecutor. Ford had made a declaration supporting a bid to disqualify Price from former San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher, who had fatally shot Steven Taylor inside a Walmart while on duty. The case garnered international attention and was the subject of multiple protests against police brutality.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-police-officer-captured-video-killing-black-man-walmart-charged-n1239154
https://abc7news.com/post/steven-taylor-judge-delays-trial-san-leandro-police-officer-jason-fletcher-charged-fatal-2020-shooting/16206291/
Price was later removed from the Fletcher case as well due to a judge's concern about impartial comments she had made in that case. Price filed appeals against her removal on both the Ford and Fletcher case, with her appeal on the Ford case being rejected in July 2024 due to her "repeated comments in this case against the defendant."[26]
Former prosecutor Ford filed multiple internal discrimination and retaliation complaints against Price and openly campaigned in favor of the recall while still employed in the office. The County hired an outside investigator who concluded in March 2025 that none of Ford’s complaints could be sustained.
On February 26, 2024, Patti Lee, a spokeswoman hired and fired by Price, alleged that she was fired for raising concerns about alleged California Public Records Act violations and claimed that Price has "constantly and openly" made derogatory comments against Asian Americans. She is seeking a $1.5 million settlement.[27][28]Price and her internal team denied all of Lee’s allegations.
On July 11, 2024, Governor Gavin Newsom rescinded an offer he had made in February to send two and California National Guard prosecutors to Alameda County due to what he described as "her office not being cooperative." Newsom instead quadrupled the number of California Highway Patrol officers in Oakland.[29]Price disputed the Governor’s version of the negotiations and pushed back on the allegation that her office did not cooperate.
https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1ZkKzRMqdjDKv
https://www.timesheraldonline.com/2024/07/12/gov-newsom-rescinds-offer-to-send-prosecutors-to-alameda-county-says-hes-disappointed-in-da-pamela-price/
On October 31, 2024, a veteran law enforcement officer with over two decades of service in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office filed a lawsuit alleging termination due to anti-Asian discrimination by Price. Before Price was elected, the officer was implicated in the campaign finance scandal to support the previous DA which was documented and condemned by the Alameda County Grand Jury.
The 85-page lawsuit details multiple instances of discrimination. According to the lawsuit, Price allegedly relied on racial stereotypes portraying Asian Americans as “sneaky, cunning [and] untrustworthy.”[30] This lawsuit adds to previous allegations against Price, including claims by former employees of anti-Asian bias and discriminatory practices within her office.[31] Price has denied these allegations.[30]
After being recalled, Price left office on December 5, 2024. She was temporarily replaced by her chief assistant district attorney Royl Roberts until the Alameda County Board of Supervisors appointed Ursula Jones Dickson to the vacancy.[32][33]
In February 2025, Price entered a new career in media, with the launch of her podcast, Pamela Price Unfiltered.
Awards and Honors
[edit]Over the span of Price's legal career she has received many awards. Some notable awards include the George Benjamin Daniels Award for Community Service, California Attorney of the Year in Employment (2002) from the California Lawyer Magazine, the 2009 Living the Dream Award from the San Francisco Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights, the National Bar Association’s Heman Marion Sweatt Award (2011), the California Association of Equal Professionals’ Arthur A. Fletcher Award of Achievement (2010), the African American Policy Forum’s Pauli Murray Trailblazer Award (2018) and the Champion of Justice Award by the National Lawyers Guild Bay Area Chapter (2016).
In 2017, Price was honored as the Woman of the Year for California Assembly District 18.
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