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San Joaquin County Dist. Atty. Tori Salazar discusses her support of a proposal to seal past arrest records and convictions for lower-level felonies and misdemeanors during a news conference in Sacramento on Feb. 24. This is the second in a series of articles about the Los Angeles County district attorney’s race.
Five minutes into my meeting with the district attorney of San Joaquin County , I found myself asking a question to which I already knew the answer. But I couldn’t help myself. “But wait,” I said. “You’re a Republican, right?” I had gone to Stockton , in the Central Valley about an hour and a half’s drive east of San Francisco) to speak with Dist. Atty. Tori Verber Salazar in an effort to figure out what a “progressive prosecutor” is.
That overused term has become a feature of the current Los Angeles County contest between incumbent Jackie Lacey and George Gascón, and although the Los Angeles Times has since endorsed Gascón, this trip to the Central Valley took place a year ago, when I and my Times editorial board colleagues back in L.A. were still trying to navigate the meaning of this race. It was pre-COVID-19 and pre-George […]