Petitions can circulate to recall Contra Costa County District Attorney Diana Becton

MARTINEZ An effort by a local group dissatisfied by the performance of Contra Costa County s district attorney gained momentum last week when it received approval to circulate a petition calling for a recall poll A squad calling itself Recall Diana Becton stated that the Contra Costa County Elections Office approved language in their petition to recall Becton That submission came after the group served a Notice of Intent to Becton last month that they were pursuing a recall Related Articles Man stabbed near UC Berkeley campus Drive-by shooting wounds man walking to Oakland homeless camp Man charged with abducting woman and driving to an East Bay park to rape her Bay Area woman pleads guilty to defrauding AME Zion Church How an Antioch councilmember became an FBI informant driving latest corruption indictment The group has until p m on Sept to collect the signatures needed to put the recall on a ballot If the elections office certifies the petition signatures the Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors must order an voting with days of its next meeting after certification If they don t the Registrar of Voters is required to set the date with the next five days Becton has declined several requests to comment since she was served the Notice of Intent on March In a message last month she disclosed the recall efforts were an effort to undermine the will of the people of Contra Costa County She also explained she has taken bold actions to protect our communities aggressively prosecuting violent offenders addressing organized retail theft human trafficking hate crimes and eliminating backlogs of untested sexual assault kits In a separate social media post the recall group also offered yard signs advocating Becton s recall to the first people who show up to a p m Saturday gathering outside Oakley s city headquarters on Main Street Organizers reported they will discuss the approval of the petition during the Saturday event at the Alexis Gabe memorial bench Gabe was a years old when she went missing from Antioch on Jan In April a passerby discovered her remains in the city of Plymouth in Amador County Personnel shot and killed prime suspect Marshall Curtis Jones Gabe s ex-boyfriend in Washington state on June that year Becton declined to charge Jones mother with any crime tied to that shooting despite a demand from Gabe s family to file aiding and abetting charges against Alicia Coleman Clark Gabe s family along with other crime victim families who say they didn t receive justice from Becton have been certain of the voices behind the charge to recall her