Overview
- Price formally announced her campaign at a Hayward event on Thursday, pledging to restore trust, confront gun violence, and pursue equal justice.
- She was removed from office in November 2024 by nearly 63% of voters after criticism of lenient charging decisions and operational failures.
- Critics and victims' advocates, including recall leader Brenda Grisham, remain skeptical, citing poor communication with victims and missed prosecutorial deadlines that led to dismissed cases.
- Since Price’s ouster, interim District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson has reversed several reforms, reinstating mandatory minimums for illegal gun possession and restructuring the office’s police accountability work.
- Price cast the recall as driven by wealthy donors and law enforcement unions, pointing to funding that included $300,000 from Philip Dreyfuss’s Reviving the Bay Area.