The recall committee, dubbed Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE), formed last month, but Tuesday’s filing is the first concrete sign that the recall effort will proceed.
Now it will be up to the Alameda County registrar of voters to certify materials submitted Tuesday by the committee. That includes the first 100 signatures for the recall petition.
Once certification happens, the broader signature collection can begin.
“As an advocate for families who have lost loved ones, what I see now is something I have never seen before,” said Brenda Grisham, a recall committee member and the mother of Christopher LaVell Jones, who was killed in Oakland in 2010. “DA Price is destroying the safety of our community and trampling on victims. We are here to bring balance back — and that starts with recalling DA Price.”Save Alameda For Everyone (SAFE) recall committee members file their notice of intent, Aug. 15, 2023. From left: Virginia Nishita, Brenda Grisham, Carl Chan, Letifah Wilson and Lorie and Eric Mohs. SAFE
Pamela Price supporters have said she is doing what she was elected to do as a progressive prosecutor and Alameda County’s first Black district attorney.