City administrator resigns after crass texts about female employees

City Administrator Jestin Johnson has resigned, Mayor Barbara Lee announced Sunday morning.

Assistant City Administrator Betsy Lake will temporarily take over the role.

Text messages reviewed by The Oaklandside, which were released on the city’s public records portal last week, reveal that Johnson and his high-ranking lieutenant Harold Duffey discussed female employees and colleagues in crass and inappropriate terms in recent years…

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