Soros-backed Alameda County (California) District Attorney Pamela Price, already facing a November 2024 recall election and backlash from defending a staffer who made crude remarks to family members of crime victims at a recent rally for the recall, is now faced with a lawsuit by a former employee. Price fired Patti Lee in December 2023 from her position as public information officer for the DA’s office. No one in the DA’s office provided a reason for the dismissal. In Lee’s lawsuit, she alleges the firing was in response to her opposing the destruction of documents requested by local news media personnel. These documents related to Price ordering the removal of a local reporter, Emilie Raguso of the Berkeley Scanner, which focuses on local crime stories, from a November 2023 press conference.
In the lawsuit, available in full here, Lee states the problems began when, among…
