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City Hall transparency fight lands in Herrera’s inbox
Monday, May 4, 2026 · 2 min
A public records fight over emails and calendars in the City Attorney’s office raises a familiar San Francisco reform question: whether transparency rules have teeth when politically sensitive communications are on the line.
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A public records fight over emails and calendars in the City Attorney’s office raises a familiar San Francisco reform question: whether transparency rules have teeth when politically sensitive communications are on the line.
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- Petrelis Files — Blogspot
Petrelis Files Is SF City Attorney Herrera Hiding More Emails from NYT's Becker? Matt Dorsey is a longtime gay political animal whose day job is serving as head of San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera's public affairs division, or, as I and other commonly refer to it, his publicity department and those who work in it as publicists. On May 15, I filed an immediate disclosure request (IDR)…