{"id":321787,"date":"2026-05-18T21:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321787\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T21:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T21:41:15","slug":"east-bay-official-accused-of-making-degrading-comments-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/321787\/","title":{"rendered":"East Bay Official Accused Of Making &#8216;Degrading&#8217; Comments Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND, CA \u2014 An Oakland city official accused of making &#8220;degrading and unprofessional&#8221; comments has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayorbarbaralee.com\/press-releases\/statement-on-resignation-of-city-administrator\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">resigned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>City Administrator Jestin Johnson resigned over the weekend, according to Oakland city officials. <\/p>\n<p>The resignation came after Oakland&#8217;s Mayor, Barbara Lee, launched an investigation into the communications involving Johnson, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We promptly conducted our own investigation and verified these communications, which are wholly incompatible with the values of this administration and those of the people of Oakland,&#8221; Mayor Lee said in a statement on Sunday. &#8220;Under my watch, I will not tolerate transgressions of this nature.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The nature of the comments made by Johnson remains unclear. <\/p>\n<p>Lee has since appointed Assistant City Administrator Elizabeth &#8220;Betsy&#8221; Lake to Johnson&#8217;s former position. Lake has worked within the city administration for eight years and has 30 years of practice as an attorney, Lee said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to reassure Oakland residents that government services and operations will not be affected during this time of transition,&#8221; Lee said. &#8220;I was elected to represent the values of the Oakland community and that work and commitment continues.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND, CA \u2014 An Oakland city official accused of making &#8220;degrading and unprofessional&#8221; comments has resigned. City Administrator&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-321787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321787","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=321787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}