Chesa Boudin Takes New Job, Declines 2024 Run for Office

Former San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin will not run for office in 2024 and will instead take a position at UC Berkeley as the executive director of the newly founded Criminal Law & Justice Center. Boudin criticized his successor, Brooke Jenkins, for prematurely announcing that her office would not be pressing charges against a private security guard who shot and killed someone at a Walgreens store in downtown San Francisco last month. Jenkins ultimately decided not to charge the guard, but state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced last week that his office would be reviewing Jenkins’ decision.