{"id":331976,"date":"2026-05-25T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331976\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T20:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:00:16","slug":"oakland-city-administrator-resigns-over-inappropriate-text-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/331976\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland City Administrator Resigns Over Inappropriate Text Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Oakland City Administrator Jestin Johnson has resigned after a series of inappropriate text messages became public.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The communications \u2014 described as \u201cdegrading and unprofessional\u201d by Mayor Barbara Lee \u2014 took place in 2024 between Johnson and former Department of Public Works Director G. Harold Duffey, who now serves as city manager of Brentwood. The texts reportedly included sexually suggestive comments about female colleagues and subordinates, including remarks about their bodies and appearance.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The messages were released publicly through a public records request tied to the federal corruption investigation involving former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWe 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,\u201d Mayor Barbara Lee said. \u201cUnder my watch, I will not tolerate transgressions of this nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Assistant City Administrator Elizabeth \u201cBetsy\u201d Lake has been appointed interim city administrator.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/jestin-johnson-oakland-city-administrator-resigns?utm_source=chatgpt.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KTVU<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oakland City Administrator Jestin Johnson has resigned after a series of inappropriate text messages became public. The communications&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-331976","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\/331976","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=331976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}