SAN JOSE — Santa Clara County District Legal professional Jeff Rosen was sworn in for his fourth time period Thursday as he pledged to construct a “home of justice” for the South Bay by way of sturdy prosecution and a mind for “pragmatic” reforms.
Rosen renewed his submit at a ceremony on the Board of Supervisors chambers in San Jose, which was attended by elected officers and law-enforcement leaders from all through the Bay Space. Campbell-based Assemblymember Evan Low emceed the occasion, whereas longtime South Bay Rep. Zoe Lofgren formally launched Rosen as he took his fourth oath of workplace.
“I do know that he’ll uphold our Structure; he’ll serve our residents with nice distinction,” Lofgren stated.
In a 15-minute speech after the swearing in, Rosen described his imaginative and prescient for the following 4 years with an analogy of setting up and fortifying a house.
“I imagine that the DA’s workplace actually a home of justice. Our process is constructing a home the place justice lives, works and shines,” Rosen stated. “The inspiration is integrity.”
Rosen won re-election outright within the June 2022 main by garnering about 56% of the vote in his first contested race as an incumbent. He squared off towards deputy public defender Sajid Khan and Daniel Chung, a one-time line prosecutor embroiled in a political and authorized conflict with Rosen and whose standing with the workplace is in limbo after his termination then reinstatement after arbitration.
Rosen bought his most public problem from Khan, who alongside together with his supporters pushed a reform-heavy platform pushed by the nationwide dialogue on police abuses galvanized by the 2020 demise of George Floyd and progressive actions to finish mass incarceration.
In previous remarks resulting in as much as his re-election final 12 months, Rosen stated he supported “pragmatic reforms” for the criminal-justice system, and asserted that not each change portrayed as a reform is so, in explaining his selective assist for legislative modifications over the previous few years. He returned to that theme Thursday.
“Public security and equity don’t stand alone, however should be certain collectively,” he stated. “With out each, we get nothing.”
He added: “We shield our neighborhood from severe, violent and repeat offenders by holding these criminals absolutely accountable and sending them to jail and offering assist and providers to assist crime victims … Whereas in jail, these convicted of harmful crimes ought to have a chance to replicate on their dangerous actions and alter their unfavorable methods, and rehabilitate themselves to turn out to be productive and law-abiding people.”
Rosen nodded to the opposite stakeholders within the criminal-justice system by his increasing his home analogy, with the arrogance that comes with a cushty re-election.
“Our neighborhood of justice wants protection attorneys who strongly symbolize their purchasers. Passionate, clever and sincere protection attorneys are our neighbors. They’re worthy adversaries, not enemies,” Rosen stated.
The inauguration ceremony concluded with Rosen swearing in 20 new prosecutors into his workplace, rounding the home theme of his remarks by referring to them as “builders.”
