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Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gasc\u00f3n has resigned from the California District Attorneys Association, saying the group\u2019s all-White board indicates the group has failed to keep pace with changing times.<\/p>\n
“The absence of a single person of color on CDAA\u2019s 17-member board is blinding,” Gasc\u00f3n wrote Tuesday, in a letter to the group\u2019s president.<\/p>\n
“This is the leadership that sets the direction for an organization of elected prosecutors, all of whom disproportionately prosecute communities of color at a time when the nation is facing a reckoning over systemic racisim, and in a state with a plurality of minorities no less,” Gasc\u00f3n continued.<\/p>\n
He later accused the DAs group of having “lost touch with the public.”<\/p>\n
Earlier in the letter, Gasc\u00f3n accused the group of accommodating only “those willing to toe the \u2018tough on crime\u2019 line.”<\/p>\n
“For the rest of us,” he adds, “it is a place that fails to support us, our communities, or the pursuit of justice.”<\/p>\n
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\n Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon takes the oath of office in downtown Los Angeles on Dec. 7, 2020. (Associated Press)\n <\/p>\n
In January, Gasc\u00f3n became the target of a lawsuit filed by his own deputy DAs in Los Angeles County, who alleged that Gasc\u00f3n\u2019s order for them to forgo sentencing enhancements was a violation of state law, The Appeal reported.<\/p>\n
The Association of Deputy District Attorneys of Los Angeles County (ADDA) has a history of opposing reform efforts, the report said.<\/p>\n
In his letter, Gasc\u00f3n also denounced the state DAs group for supporting the county deputy DA group\u2019s lawsuit against him, calling the decision “disappointing,” though “it was not a surprise given the politics of the organization.”<\/p>\n
On Jan. 26, the state DA group announced it had filed an amicus brief in support of the lawsuit that the county deputy DAs filed against Gasc\u00f3n.<\/p>\n
“No constitutional provision and no statute vests any district attorney with veto power over the law,” CDAA Chief Executive Officer Greg Totten said in the state group\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n
Last week a Superior Court judge in Los Angeles temporarily blocked Gasc\u00f3n\u2019s efforts to do away with some sentencing enhancements, including prosecutors\u2019 option for seeking longer sentences for offenders under the state\u2019s Three Strikes law.<\/p>\n
Gasc\u00f3n has argued that sentencing enhancements help increase recidivism.<\/p>\n
Gasc\u00f3n, 66, a native of Cuba, became DA of Los Angeles County in December 2020 after defeating incumbent DA Jackie Lacey. He previously served as district attorney for San Francisco, being appointed to that position in 2011 by then-San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, after San Francisco\u2019s previous DA, Kamala Harris, became California\u2019s attorney general.<\/p>\n
With his withdrawal from the state DA group, Gasc\u00f3n joins only one other California district attorney in not participating as a member. The other is San Joaquin County District Attorney Tori Salazar, who left the group last summer, according to LAist.com.<\/p>\n