Oakland city administrator resigns over degrading text messages

Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee announced over the weekend that City Administrator Jestin Johnson had resigned.

Johnson’s resignation came after “inappropriate workplace communications” were discovered.

According to reporting from the Oaklandside, Johnson and his co-worker Harold Duffey exchanged crass text messages about female co-workers. Duffey left his job in Oakland in 2025 to go work in Brentwood…

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