Campaign to recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price begins gathering signatures

（OAKLAND) A recall Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price committee, Save Alameda for Everyone (SAFE), will begin to gather signatures later this week after the Alameda County Registrar of Voters approved their petition.

"We are finalizing the petition form for signatures and they should be ready sometime this week. We will make the announcement on where people can pick up the forms. We encourage people to visit the website SAFE," said Carl Chan, one of two principal officers of the recall committee and leader of Oakland Chinatown.

The Alameda County Registrar of Voters approved the petition to recall Price on September 28. The SAFE committee will have 160 days to submit 73,195 valid signatures of Alameda County voters to qualify the recall to be put on the ballot for election. The deadline for signature submission is March 5, 2024.

“District Attorney Pamela Price has absolutely failed the people of Alameda County. Crime is spiraling out of control. It’s time to stand up for victims of crime and their families to bring justice back to Alameda County,” said Chan who was also a victim of anti-Asian violence in 2021.

“People are being murdered, assaulted, robbed, carjacked in broad daylight. Criminals are acting with impunity,” said Brenda Grisham who is the mother of a homicide victim and serves as co-principal-officer with Chan at the SAFE committee. “The time for action is now.”

"Over the last nine months, DA Price has violated victims’ rights, ignored victim pleas and disrespected people who have been victimized by some of the worst crimes imaginable. She has told mothers that the lives of their children are worth less than the lives of the offender. DA Price has unapologetically empowered criminals in an unprecedented way by refusing to charge cases, lowering sentences, and gutting the District Attorney’s Office of experienced, competent prosecutors," the SAFE committee wrote in a press release.

Chan asked Alameda County voters to visit the SAFE website for updated information at: www.recallpamelasprice.org.

Price defended her record in a previous interview with KRON4 and said, “Every community has the experience of people making mistakes. If it’s your child, do you want me to throw your child away because your child made a mistake… forever?”

Price, who was a civil rights attorney, won 53% of the votes in an election held at Alameda County in November 2022.