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District Attorney seeks staff and federal earmarks to launch organized retail theft effort; cites race-blind charging workload
Summary
District Attorney Diana Becton told supervisors the office needs roughly $3 million in budget changes for support staff and is using federal earmarks to stand up an organized retail theft unit; chief assistant Simon O'Connell warned that California's race-blind charging mandate has doubled case-review time and required nine prosecutors be moved into filing work.
District Attorney Diana Becton told the Board of Supervisors on April 28 that the DA's office will seek modest net county cost changes for FY26-27 to add support staff and backfill roles required by new state mandates.
Becton said the office operates with about 250 staff and that the recommended budget includes a roughly $3 million adjustment to add necessary support positions. She highlighted several performance items, including…
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