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Reporter @sfstandard, also undergrad @uscannenberg // [email protected] // Signal tomo.415
Joined February 2019
In July, we reported that the Oakland Police Department was illegally sharing surveillance data with federal agencies. Now a new lawsuit is taking the city to task over our findings.
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The Oakland Police Department illegally shared surveillance data with federal agencies, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
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Update: I have received all the complaints that residents have made against the new D4 Supervisor Beya Alcaraz's pet store. One of them, from 2023, shows a customer who bought a toy for their bird, only to discover a mouse trapped inside. Read more in Power Play tonight.
EXCLUSIVE: Last week, Mayor Daniel Lurie appointed Beya Alcaraz, a 29yo former pet store owner, to be supervisor of the Sunset. @ggreschler reports the store she owned had hundreds of dead mice, feces, trash & a freezer filled w/ dozens of dead pets. https://t.co/vrZWeUf5bi
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Scoop: Dead critters, filthy cages: New Sunset Supervisor Isabella "Beya" Alcaraz left pet store in squalor, owner says https://t.co/Po9bplL1WI
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Mayor Daniel Lurie’s pick for Sunset supervisor, Isabella “Beya” Alcaraz, is under scrutiny after the new owner of her former pet store says she found dead mice, filth, and trash left behind.
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Great news for USC: Softies, a smash burger joint near campus, has filed for a beer & wine license. There are, like, two places where you can get a drink in the neighborhood, so this is huge. The owners didn't respond when I asked what drinks they plan to serve.
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A high-ranking USC professor is accused of having an affair with a student — then later having children with her.
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It's unclear if the affair violated university policy. The professor now has children with the former student.
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Just in: The planned surge of federal immigration agents has been canceled across the Bay Area, according to a statement from Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee. 📝: @kevinbtruong, @tomoki_chien, and @McLaughlinnews
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A day after President Trump said San Francisco would not be targeted, officials said the entire Bay Area would be spared.
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NEW: San Francisco is infamous for its slow, expensive & corrupt permitting system. So, when Mayor Daniel Lurie announced a multi-million $ software contract to fix it with OpenGov, many rejoiced. But behind the scenes, city staff raised red flags 🚩 about the contract.
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New: Top Lurie chief steered contract to tech firm with ties to the mayor / ✍️ @ggreschler & @Josh_Koehn
https://t.co/gVmpkWnSe1
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Records show the mayor’s office chose the software company OpenGov over a cheaper vendor that a majority of city staff preferred.
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USC faculty groups plan to protest Friday against the Trump administration's compact.
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The family of four discovered dead in their San Francisco home this week were facing financial struggles. Our investigation reveals that the couple leveraged their house multiple times to finance businesses throughout the Bay Area. Tragic. https://t.co/gq1upzp6Pb
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Public records and accounts from associates have unveiled a string of failed businesses and a growing tally of unpaid debts.
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USC's president says it'll "take time" to decide whether to accept the Trump administration's offer of preferential funding in exchange for sweeping conservative policy reforms.
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Lol. My cheeky story about San Francisco’s naked samaritans made it to Crime Ink’s 2025 “Best True Crime” anthology. https://t.co/Cd3uenZuZz
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USC has no comment on the Trump administration’s offer of preferential funding, except for: “We are reviewing the Administration’s letter.”
Exclusive: The White House is calling it the “Compact,” a sweeping set of operating principles it wants universities to adopt in exchange for federal funding preference
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Some personal news: I’ve moved (internally) to the enterprise team at the @sfstandard, where I’ll report investigations using public records, data analysis, AI tools, and internet sleuthing. As always, you can reach me at tchien@sfstandard.com or tomo.415 on Signal.
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USC's Turning Point USA chapter will hold a vigil for Charlie Kirk on campus Thursday night. Looks like security will be far more strict than at typical club events.
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BREAKING: USC and UCLA received violent threats against their Black students Thursday morning that police later deemed hoaxes. The threats referenced Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian woman killed on a North Carolina train. https://t.co/YtvHnof0zX
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USC and UCLA received violent threats against their Black students Thursday morning that police later deemed hoaxes.
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Charlie Kirk had college students hooked. Here's what they're saying about him in their group chats.
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Some jeered. Others mourned. All were anxious about the future of their country.
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I’m a college senior and have never received so many texts from friends about a news event — not even when Donald Trump was shot. Charlie Kirk clearly matters to college students in a way that few other politicians or commentators do. (Whether they agree or disagree with him)
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SCOOP: San Francisco police let out-of-state cops run more than 1.6 million illegal searches of the city’s license-plate reader database At least 19 were marked as related to ICE.
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Out-of-state cops made over 1.6 million illegal searches of San Francisco's license-plate reader data.
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Liquid nitrogen leak at USC prompts fire department response today. 🎥: Anish Nehete
Liquid nitrogen leak at USC prompts not one, but two news choppers to hover over campus and disturb my afternoon nap. Unbelievable.
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