Sonoma County District Attorney Jill Ravitch will be facing a recall election later this year, the registrar of voters confirmed May 11. "Proponents of the recall have gathered more than the required 30,056 valid signatures of registered voters to trigger a recall election," Deva Marie Proto, the Sonoma County clerk-recorder-assessor-registrar of voters, stated in a news release May 12. "As a result, the recall question will be heading to voters in a special election on a date later this year.
The Board of Supervisors has to set the election date within 14 days of the petition being certified to them. That matter will be brought before them at the May 25 board meeting.