San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris laid off at least five staffers and two attorneys last week.
Harris blamed the City by the Bay’s $500 million budget deficit.
The staff laid off include three paralegals and two investigators.
The office had 253 total employees, including 123 lawyers, before the layoffs.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Public Defender Jeff Adachi have said that they have not had to lay anyone off for budget reasons. But they, like Harris, have cut vacant positions.
Kamala Devi Harris is the first female District Attorney to be elected in San Francisco, the first African American elected as District Attorney in California, and the first Indian American elected to the position in the US. She was cited by the New York Times to be among the seventeen most likely women to become the first female President of the United States.
Posted by Erik Even
on March 2, 2009. Filed under Home,Layoffs,Legal News.
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Michael
March 2, 2009 at 11:30 am
Please do not call the city “Frisco”. The only ones who do are the ones who do not or have not lived there.
Erik Even
March 2, 2009 at 2:08 pm
And I do not and have not lived there.
I also call fraternities “frats,” even though this pisses off everyone who ever belonged to a frat.