Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced over the weekend that City Administrator Jestin Johnson had resigned.<\/p>\n
Johnson\u2019s resignation came after \u201cinappropriate workplace communications\u201d were discovered.<\/p>\n
According to reporting from the Oaklandside<\/a>, Johnson and his co-worker Harold Duffey exchanged crass text messages about female co-workers. Duffey left his job in Oakland in 2025 to go work in Brentwood<\/a>.<\/p>\n Assistant City Administrator Elizabeth “Betsy” Lake will take Johnson\u2019s position on an interim basis.<\/p>\n Lake has worked with the city of Oakland for the past 8 years and has 30 years of experience practicing law, according to Lee’s office.<\/p>\n Johnson was appointed by then-Mayor Sheng Thao in 2023, his salary was $340,000 a year. Mayor Lee said his resignation would not interrupt city operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced over the weekend that City Administrator Jestin Johnson had resigned. Johnson\u2019s resignation came…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-323664","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\/323664","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=323664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}