California’s 2014 “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,” so named by then-Attorney General Kamala Harris, transformed a number of felonies into misdemeanors, including thefts of property valued at under $950. Sacramento’s city attorney has warned Target that the retail chain could face public nuisance charges due to phone calls to police to report theft from one of its stores in the California capital.
City attorney Susan Alcala Wood earned a degree in “philosophy-ethics and public policy” from UC Santa Barbara and a JD from Whittier College, School of Law. Wood began credits her work as a law clerk with “embedding her with a deep desire to serve communities.” She has served as an assistant city attorney in Stockton, city attorney in Modesto, and calls the Sacramento job her “dream work.” At this writing, Wood has declined interview requests from local media on Target’s alleged nuisance calls.
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