Signature gathering for recall Alameda District Attorney Price kicks off on October 15

(Oakland) The signature gathering for the recall Alameda County District Attorney (DA) Pamela Price petition officially began on October 15. The committee which started the recall campaign will organize petition drives in the near future in Oakland Chinatown, Fremont and Tri-Valley neighborhoods to welcome Asian voters to participate in the recall movement.

Save Alameda for Everyone (SAFE), a committee which was formed to recall DA Price, announced the launch of the official petition signature collections on October 15 after their petition was approved by the Alameda County Registrar of Voters.

Carl Chan, Oakland Chinatown community leader and a victim of the anti-Asian hate attack, and Brenda Grisham, a mother of a homicide victim, are two co-principal-officers at the SAFE committee making their effort to put the recall DA Price petition on the ballot for voters in Alameda County.

Grisham and Chan called for a press conference on October 12 at the Christopher LaVell Jones Foundation Resource Office, which is located at 1711 International Blvd Suite 103 in Oakland, to announce more details of the signature collections.

The Foundation Resource Office served as the first signature collections site for the recall petition and opens for voters to sign the petition at any day.

Volunteers began to gather signatures at the resources office on October 15, Sunday.

"We are making history. It is the first time in Alameda county to organize a recall petition. Thank you for all the volunteers. Now our volunteers have increased to 1900, more than 900 as reported a few days ago," said Chan in the press conference.

"The recall is not about politics, it is about public safety," Chan added. "When we are around different cities, everyone is talking about public safety. We are making sure that there is a legal system providing justice to the victims and families and making our communities safer."

"We are looking for fairness," said Grisham, speaking to reporters before the official launch of the signature collections.

“The system is failing tremendously under the new administration and we are left with no other choice. We must stand up for the families and all the victims who are being ignored and re-traumatized. Families need justice for their loved one and the

communities need to feel safe. Public Safety is a priority so we must act now ", Grisham and organizers said in a statement.

Price, who was a civil rights attorney, won 53% of the votes in the November election of 2022 to be elected as the Alameda County District Attorney. Since Price took office in January 2023, she has been criticized for being too lenient for defendants during the criminal proceedings in courts.

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.

On the day of launching the signature collections, a number of violent crime victims and families showed up in support, including Barbara Nguyen who is the sister of late Alameda County Sheriff Department recruit David Van Nguyen.

28-year-old David Nguyen and his parents immigrated from Vietnam to the United States when he was 2 years old. He was shot and killed on January 4, 2022 when he was driving on freeway from the academy in Dublin where he was training as a recruit for the Alameda County's Sheriff's Department to his home in San Francisco.

Barbara Nguyen said she and her brother were raised and grew up in the Tenderloin and Bayview neighborhoods in San Francisco. She encouraged voters in Alameda County to sign up and support the recall petition for safer neighborhoods.

Chan has received requests from the Chinese and Asian communities to set up signature collection sites at the Asian neighborhoods throughout Alameda County including Oakland Chinatown, Fremont and Tri-Valley cities.

Chan will announce more details of those locations at a later time.

Alameda County voters can find more updated information of the recall campaign by visiting the SAFE website at: www.recallpamelasprice.org.