Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley is part of a growing number of reform-minded prosecutors who have promised to reduce incarceration associated with lower-level charges through the use of diversion and alternative to incarceration programs, reform bail practices that exacerbate pretrial detention, and focus prosecutorial resources on more serious cases in the pursuit of public safety.
DA O’Malley has strengthened the response to youth who have become involved in juvenile crime, reducing detentions and implementing diversion and other programs to address issues impacting those youth.
DA O’Malley has led to the creation and implementation of innovative and sustained initiatives to serve victims of crime in a manner that provides information and access and ensures that all victims are treated with dignity and respect. Many of DA O’Malley’s programs provide empowerment, healing and hope for those impacted by crime. DA O’Malley has been in the forefront of legislation and implementation of innovative programs to empower survivors of sexual assault, domestic violence and human trafficking. She wrote the Sexual Assault Victims Bill of Rights and has written and sponsored legislation to ensure that forensic sexual assault kits are tested. She has been in the forefront of the national and statewide efforts to eliminate the backlog of untested sexual assault kits and has been instrumental in advocating for more than $175,000,000 of federal dollars to test those kits.
DA O’Malley was the key spokesperson for the enactment of Proposition 35 in 2012 that changed the laws and protections for minor victims of human trafficking as well as many of the laws enacted to enhance the protections and services for child victims of human trafficking. She created Human Trafficking And Exploitation (H.E.A.T.) Watch, a community blueprint to combat human trafficking; she created the H.E.A.T. Institute, a California Research Institute to address, combat and prevent sex trafficking of children; she created Alameda County United Against Human Trafficking (AC United) that brings abolitionists together to collaboratively and comprehensively combat human trafficking. She has a track record of being successfully innovative in her approach to combatting human trafficking and has brought communities together to fight for our children who fall prey to traffickers. She has also created the Labor Trafficking
DA O’Malley has enhanced the Consumer and Environmental Protection Units as well as the creation of Initiatives that combat Medical Fraud and Opioid Abuse.
DA O’Malley has created and implemented Youth Empowerment Programs to prevent young people from getting caught up in crime, including “Every Day Counts” to keep youth in school, the DA Justice Academy which engages Juniors and Seniors in High Schools across the County in civic and legal learning.
DA O’Malley is a strong, progressive and innovative Leader, recognized in the County, in California and across the nation. She has the ability to bring Smart Solutions for Safe Communities. In addition to managing the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, a very diverse Office of more than 400 employees who reflect the community we serve, DA O’Malley and her Team bring in more than $17 million annually to fund the initiatives and innovative programs they have created.
Alameda County deserves a strong, respected, innovative and progressive leader who can lead the District Attorney’s Office, once led by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and an Office that is considered one of the finest Prosecutors’ Offices in the Country. DA O’Malley has a proven track record of success and has led these efforts in Alameda County as well as across the country.
Her leadership includes:
Issue: Reduce incarceration associated with lower-level charges through the use of diversion and alternative to incarceration programs, reform bail practices that exacerbate pretrial detention, and focus prosecutorial resources on more serious cases in the pursuit of public safety.
DA O’Malley convened working group including the Presiding Judge, Criminal Courts Judge, Public Defender and Probation in reforming the bail system. For more the past two years, more than 80% of the pre-trial population is out of custody. The national average is 70% and the state average is 60%.
DA O’Malley is a Leader who has led the creation of several collaborative courts: Mentor Diversion, Veterans’ Court, Early Intervention Court, Drug Court, Behavioral Court, Justice Restoration Court. More than 8,000 individuals participated in since the inception. Those individuals are out of custody and being treated as individuals, addressing their specific needs to stop crime.
Introduced PES, which refers low level offenders to class rather than file charges. No charges means no record.
Founding agency in collaboration with Community Law Center, the Clean Slate Program reduces and dismisses old convictions. Those convicted of serious or violent felony crimes can participate in Crossroads which dismisses old felony convictions upon successful completion of the Program. We have completed redesignation of felony crimes to misdemeanors under Proposition 47 and expedited the dismissal of marijuana convictions under Proposition 64.
Issue: Strengthened the response to youth who have become involved in juvenile crime, reducing detentions and implementing diversion and other programs to address issues impacting those youth.
Reduced Petition Filings in the Juvenile Justice system by 2/3 since becoming DA. Increased referrals for information supervision pre-filing, diversion, incorporation of Restorative Justice participation, and Youth Courts. We have created Girls Court, SafetyNet and Young Womens Saturday Program to provide unique and individualized care for young women who have been commercially sexually exploited – children who have been human sex trafficked.
Implemented Teen Every Day Counts, a mediation program for 13-17 year olds who are chronically absent from school. Through the program, we have tracked more than 60% improvement in school attendance and have Linking youth with programs and mentors.
Issue: Creation and implementation of innovative and sustained initiatives to serve victims of crime in a manner that provides information and access and ensures that all victims are treated with dignity and respect. Many of DA O’Malley’s programs provide empowerment, healing and hope for those impacted by crime.
In 2018, the DA’s Office through Victim-Witness and the Family Justice Center, served more than 30,000 victims of crime and their families. More than 75,000 victim services were provided for those victims involved in the criminal justice system. Through the DA VW advocacy, more than $3 million was secured to provide and pay for services for victims of crime who lack the means. More than $10 million was secured in Restitution Orders on behalf of victims of crime.
At the Family Justice Center, nearly 15,000 clients were served, including 1,700 children. 35 agencies collaborate to provide comprehensive services under one roof. Initiatives include STEP-UP and STEP-UP 2 WORK, which provides financial literacy, economic independence, life empowerment and career training. More than 350 women have graduated from STEP-UP, with many reflecting that their lives were forever changed through the Program. More than 60 women have completed the “Annie Cannons Coding Training” at the ACFJC, and are now certified code writers and we continue to reach out to employers. Through Natalie’s Nook and Kidszone, children 0-5 years old are learning, reading and engaging in healthy activity. The ACFJC is also a Trauma Recovery Center, employing therapist and other mental health professionals to help victims address and heal from their trauma.
Issue: DA O’Malley has enhanced the Consumer and Environmental Protection Units as well as the creation of Initiatives that combat Medical Fraud and Opioid Abuse.
Alameda County has led California in suing those businesses that are polluting our air and water. Since 2015, 80 settlements have been reached by the Environmental Protection Team. Several Consumer violations have been addressed and several settlements have been reached, keeping consumers free from abuse, misleading and illegal practices.
Issue: DA O’Malley has created and implemented Youth Empowerment Programs to prevent young people from getting caught up in crime, including “Every Day Counts” to keep youth in school, the DA Justice Academy which engages Juniors and Seniors in High Schools across the County in civic and legal learning.
In addition to the above, attorneys from the DA’s Office are coaches for Mock Trial, are supporting schools and school programs through “Adopt A School.” Recently, the DA Attorneys engaged in practice debates with the Debate Team from Frick Jr. High in Oakland, the only African-American team to go to the State Debate Competition. Several of her staff are Mock Trial Coaches in High Schools across the County.
The ACDAO has a robust summer employment program for youth, including those participants in the DAJA program. The DA’s Office has four paid, year-long Fellowships: 2-Earl Warren Fellowships for those who may be interested in a career in the law; 2-Mary C. Warren Fellowships for young women who may be interested in law and in Leadership Development.
DA O’Malley is a strong, progressive and innovative Leader, recognized in the County, in California and across the nation. She has the ability to bring Smart Solutions for Safe Communities. In addition to managing the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office, a very diverse Office of more than 400 employees who reflect the community we serve, and a budget of nearly $90 million, of which $59 million comes from the County General Fund and, through the efforts of DA O’Malley and her Team, an additional $17 million is raised annually to fund the initiatives and innovative programs they have created.
Public Safety is paramount to the health and well-being of those who live, work or visit Alameda County. DA O’Malley has taken on gun violence, human trafficking, opioid abuse by over-prescription or improper prescription by doctors and other significant issues that impact Alameda County. Her programs are replicated and awarded across the state and country.
Alameda County deserves a strong, respected, innovative and progressive leader who can continue to lead the District Attorney’s Office, an Office once led by U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and an Office that is considered one of the finest Prosecutors’ Offices in the Country. That leader is NANCY O’MALLEY.
DA O’Malley has been a prosecutor, in the courtroom, working with victims of crime and with those who have been involved in crime. She has a proven and track record of strong leadership that involves problem solving, innovation and success. She has been a leader in many areas of life and in law and has led these efforts in Alameda County as well as across the country.
DA O’Malley has fought for reform since serving as a Rape Crisis Counselor volunteer and witnessed first-hand, the injustices of a system that ignores those who are most impacted by crime. She is also a cancer survivor who has dedicated her life to public service and lifting up the lives of others, fighting for those without a fight left in them, raising voices and dignity of victims of crime, leading from her heart and her strength to reform a system that balances addressing serious crime with giving others a second chance.
She has wide-spread support and the endorsement of county leaders, Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, Congressmembers Eric Swalwell and Jimmy Panetta, Senators Nancy Skinner, Bob Wieckowski, Scott Weiner and Hannah-Beth Jackson, Assemblymembers Bill Quirk, Kanson Chu and Tony Thurmond, Judge Thelton Henderson, all five of the Supervisors on the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the city Mayors and many, many more.
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