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The San Francisco Public Works corruption scandal is an ongoing investigation by federal, state and local prosecutors and investigators into bribery and fraud involving employees and contractors working for San Francisco Public Works (SFPW), and particularly, the Department of Building Inspection (DBI).
The department designs, builds, resurfaces and cleans streets; plants and maintains trees; designs, constructs and maintains city-owned facilities; designs combined sewers owned by San Francisco Public Utilities Commission; designs drainage facilities; conducts sidewalk and roadway inspections, constructs curb ramps, provides mechanical and ...
Writing for the Court, Justice White wrote that, “having concluded that Frank v. State of Maryland, [1] to the extent that it sanctioned such warrantless inspections, must be overruled, we reverse.” [2] He first reviewed principles of the Fourth Amendment, noting that “the basic purpose of this Amendment...is to safeguard the privacy and security of individuals against arbitrary ...
City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency is a pending United States Supreme Court case about whether the Clean Water Act allows the Environmental Protection Agency (or an authorized state) to impose generic prohibitions in National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits that subject permit-holders to enforcement for violating water quality standards without ...
Despite years of claims from city officials that adding new home inventory is a public policy goal, San Francisco has granted just 16 new home construction permits in 2024. This comes against a ...
Property developers are hoping to tap into positive trends in the San Francisco rental market, where vacancies declined to 7% in November, compared with a pandemic high of 12% in 2020, per CoStar.
Joseph Emmanuel Tinney (April 24, 1910 – May 13, 2006) [1] was an American attorney and politician from San Francisco.A Republican, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and then San Francisco city assessor, "Tinney's integrity was so unquestioned that mayors from both parties -- Republican George Christopher and Democrat John Shelley-- appointed him to the city posts, and ...
As Assessor-Recorder, Ting cleared a five-year assessment backlog, which resulted in the collection of more than $200 million in unpaid property taxes. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In February 2012, Ting commissioned the country’s first real study of mortgage fraud that spurred national action, [ 5 ] uncovering "widespread mortgage industry irregularity" in ...