Oakland has been publishing misleading crime data for years. Elected officials have used this data to tout their administrations and claim crime is down. Important accountability story from Rachel Swan and Dan Kopf sfchronicle.com/crime/article/…

NEW: Eight friends and family members of San Francisco Zoo leaders have received benefits from the zoo, including $1.4 million in contracts that the nonprofit appears to have paid to the son and brother of its facilities director. Tara Duggan and I dig in: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/zoo…

NEW: Kyra Worthy, the ousted director of SFPD-funded SF SAFE, was arrested today on suspicion of dozens of felonies, including the misappropriation of public funds, Megan Cassidy reports sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-…

NEW: Mark Farrell said he took an unpaid leave from his venture capital firm when he was SF mayor. but then he disclosed getting $100K+. he says he coincidentally got a distribution payment hours before he was appointed. my story on his VC background: sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mar…

"Farrell told the Chronicle this month that Thayer gave him a distribution payment — essentially a periodic salary payment — on the morning of Jan. 23, 2018, hours before he was made mayor. The timing was coincidental, Farrell said."

Silicon Valley school district spent big on ‘energy healer’ for top brass sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via San Francisco Chronicle

NEW: "That doesn't make sense": San Francisco taxpayers funded a plan aiming to put Black male teachers in city schools. Many ended up in another city instead By Michael Barba and St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bla… via San Francisco Chronicle

NEW: SF funded a plan to place Black male teachers in city public schools. Many got jobs in Oakland instead. My latest on a nonprofit founded by Dwayne Jones and funded under Mayor Breed’s Dream Keeper Initiative, with St. John Barned-Smith ⚔️ sfchronicle.com/sf/article/bla…

Sex work has gotten so rampant again in S.F.’s Mission District, residents are suing the city sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sho…

NEW: The saga of a Martha’s Vineyard rental raises questions about S.F. department’s spending sfchronicle.com/sf/article/mar…

NEW INVESTIGATION: As a San Francisco supervisor, Mark Farrell wanted to fund a pet cause: a program to open schoolyards on weekends. Over and over, he turned to companies with business at City Hall By Matthias Gafni and Michael Barba sfchronicle.com/bayarea/articl… via San Francisco Chronicle

This is a stunning investigation by Katey Rusch. Read this today. Someone finally pierced the veil of police clean-record agreements. Secret pacts allowing troubled cops to get jobs at different departments. sfchronicle.com/projects/2024/…

JUST IN: Mayor Breed 'appalled' by reports of mismanagement surrounding her signature Dream Keeper Initiative and the department head leading it, Sheryl Davis. “As Mayor, I take full responsibility because the buck stops with me" sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…