SAN DIEGO—The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office announced on March 21 a strategy to prevent the homeless from being involved with crime, following the release of data showing homeless people in the county were more likely to be both crime victims and perpetrators. The District Attorney’s office says that, based on two years of…

SAN DIEGO—A former employee of the San Diego County Clerk’s Office was charged on Jan. 20 with allegedly recommending that a contractor hire his wife’s company to work on county projects, which prosecutors say may have netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit for the couple. Rolf Bishop, 73, pleaded not guilty on Thursday…

Twenty-eight district attorneys across California, including San Diego County’s, have been granted a temporary restraining order to prevent some repeat offenders with serious and violent criminal histories from being released early by the state prison officials, Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office announced on Dec. 29. The temporary restraining order granted by Sacramento Superior Court Judge…

Synchrony Bank has agreed to pay $3.5 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged the bank harassed residents throughout California with debt collection calls, it was announced Nov. 15. The case, brought by a coalition of California district attorney’s offices, including Los Angeles and San Diego counties, alleged the Utah-based company and its agents used…