This is an excellent summary of the candidates' viewpoints on a variety of important topics.

Agree with PA reader--to an extent. Nice summaries/interviews that gave me information.

But !

I would never vote for Bob Jensen--he was a lousy Police Chief--opposed transparency, bad eventd under his command, etc.--and the Weekly "conviently" omits the fact that a woman in Barron Park suffered a stroke--and suffered from PAPD's ill-advised "response" once Jensen was Chief.
But I guess no one should care about his lousy handling of anything if he "presents" well.

Given the budgets cuts "Jonsen said he worked hard during the pandemic to retain a dedicated public information officer to address media inquiries, but budget cuts eliminated the position.

Instead, he implemented an online system by which members of the media and the public submit a form and wait for a callback rather than talk immediately to a watch commander."

then WHY is PAPD wasting time recycling/ redistributing the City Manager's Uplift newsletter that I now get at least 3 times.

Also, if he's such a big fan of integrity and accountability, why did he and Shikada move to limit accountability and why did it take "public outcry" for him to "comply" rather than right against that move??

"However, in 2019, Jonsen and City Manager Ed Shikada pushed to remove "complaints and investigations of internal personnel or human resources matters" from review by the city's Independent Police Auditor. The change meant that disputes that involve two officers — including an incident in which a police captain was accused of using a racial slur — would be privately investigated by the Human Resources Department and screened from the public.

In 2021, after outcry from the public about the council's approval of the change, Jonsen complied with the council's reversal of the prior decision. "

@ Lynne Henderson--

There's 'Jonsen' and 'Jensen' running for sheriff, and I think you mean Bob Jonsen, the Palo Alto police chief.

The name recognition campaign tactic is going to be very important this time around. Tomato, tomahto. Jonsen, Jensen. Read carefully before marking your ballot so that you don't inadvertently give a vote to the candidate who doesn't support transparency.