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Meet Confidential Secretary Saul Vazquez

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 through October 15, we are highlighting stories from DA employees and what inspired them to pursue a career in public service. Meet Confidential Secretary Saul Vazquez. Saul was born and raised in San Diego. He graduated from San Diego State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in […]

Group Program Manager Janet Ruiz

Meet Group Program Manager Janet Ruiz

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, which runs from September 15 through October 15, we are highlighting stories from DA employees and what inspired them to pursue a career in public service. Meet Group Program Manager Janet Ruiz. Janet was born in South El Monte, CA (Los Angeles County). She studied English Literature for her undergraduate studies […]

DA Summer Stephan Red Ribbon Award

DA Receives Red Ribbon Lifetime Achievement Award

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan was honored this week at the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Red Ribbon Awards Luncheon with the Frank Goldsmith Lifetime Achievement Award for her tireless work and dedication to keeping San Diego County safer and healthier through the prevention of crime, including education about harmful and often deadly, illicit substances. […]

Prisoner handcuffed behind bars

Serial Rapist Who Terrorized Pacific Beach is Denied Parole

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced today that convicted rapist, Kenneth Bogard, 67, was denied parole. He was up for a parole hearing after serving only 30 years of a 96-year prison sentence, due to elderly parole, which is available to inmates over the age of 50, who have served at least 20 […]

Gavel & Open Law Book

Lamps Plus to Pay $4.1 Million to Settle Civil Suit

San Diego County County District Attorney Summer Stephan announced today that Lamps Plus, Inc., a California Corporation, Illumine Midco, Inc., and Illumine Finco, Inc., have entered into a stipulated judgment and will pay a total of $4.1 million dollars to settle a civil law enforcement complaint that alleges Lamps Plus engaged in false advertising and […]

Victims of domestic violence are remembered in candle-light vigil.

Domestic Violence Awareness Month Event Honors Victims and Empowers Survivors

San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan joined the San Diego Domestic Violence Council, community leaders and other social service agencies to mark the beginning of Domestic Violence Awareness Month at a ceremony in Balboa Park today. The annual event is meant to empower survivors, award those who work with victims and remember those whose lives […]