{"id":216938,"date":"2026-03-12T20:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216938\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T20:27:09","slug":"district-attorney-and-sacramento-agree-to-conditional-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/216938\/","title":{"rendered":"District attorney and Sacramento agree to conditional deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office notified a judge Thursday of a conditional settlement in its lawsuit accusing the city of Sacramento of violating laws as it failed to adequately address the homeless crisis, according to a notice of a settlement agreement filed in Sacramento Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p>Ho, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/homeless\/article279071054.html\">in a unique lawsuit filed in 2023<\/a>, accused city officials for allowing \u201cchaos\u201d and a \u201cdescent into decay\u201d as the number of homeless people grew. The lawsuit accused Sacramento of creating a public nuisance and violating a Fish and Game Code section prohibiting polluting California\u2019s waters.<\/p>\n<p>The terms of any tentative agreement between the city and the District Attorney\u2019s Office has not yet been filed in court and are unclear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe settlement agreement conditions dismissal of this matter on the satisfactory completion of specified terms that are not to be performed within 45 days of the date of the settlement,\u201d the court filing said.<\/p>\n<p>The case is not complete, and a settlement has not been reached between the city and the District Attorney\u2019s Office. The settlement must first be approved by the City Council in closed session before the agreement is official.<\/p>\n<p>A request for a judge to dismiss the case will be filed by May 1, according to the court filing.<\/p>\n<p>The original lawsuit included testimony from \u201cvictims\u201d of 14 encampments in which residents called 911, 311 and elected officials but received no help, according to The Bee\u2019s previous reporting.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit did not name any leader, but cited a seven-year timeframe when the city was lead by former Mayor Darrell Steinberg and former City Manager Howard Chan.<\/p>\n<p>When the lawsuit was announced, Steinberg called Ho\u2019s lawsuit a \u201cperformative distraction\u201d that would not clear sidewalks or help house unhoused people. The former mayor also added no local government had done more than the city of Sacramento to address homelessness, though residents\u2019 frustration is absolutely justified.<\/p>\n<p>Former City Attorney Susan Alcala Wood at the time accused Ho of suing the city because he planned to run for attorney general. Ho denied the accusation. <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/politics-government\/capitol-alert\/article312956608.html\">He announced his candidacy in November<\/a> for the newly redistricted 6th Congressional seat.<\/p>\n<p>Spokespeople for the District Attorney\u2019s Office and the city did not immediately have comment.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/279278099\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ISHANI-DESAI-HEADSHOT.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Ishani Desai\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/279278099\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ishani Desai<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Ishani Desai is a government watchdog reporter for The Sacramento Bee. She previously covered crime and courts for The Bakersfield Californian.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office notified a judge Thursday of a conditional settlement in its lawsuit accusing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[99519,17835,99518,121,99517,123,122],"class_list":["post-216938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-city-settlement","tag-homeless-encampments","tag-public-nuisance-claim","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-da-lawsuit","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}