Daily Journal, March 30, 2011 by Brandon Ortiz
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)

He said it’s the district attorney’s job to set a vision for the office, and he said his time in academia, on the city’s police commission from 2008 to 2010 and as a criminal justice adviser to Newsom from 2004 to 2006 qualifies him for that. “The job isn’t to be the chief trial attorney of San Francisco,” Onek said. “If that were the case, I wouldn’t be running.”

-Beyond Chron, March 14, 2011 by Paul Hogarth
http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=8982

Onek spoke about his background at Walden House and Legal Services for Children, his work on the SF Police Commission and as Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. “For tough issues, let’s bring everyone around the table to get programmatic, common-sense reforms,” said Onek, as he described his work to help people out of prison get jobs.

-SF Weekly, The Snitch, March 14, 2011 by Matt Smith
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2011/03/george_gascon_david_onek.php

Onek added he would reverse a long-standing District Attorney’s office policy of disregarding the San Francisco Sunshine Ordinance, which requires local officials to respond forthrightly to public records requests. “The default is always to be as transparent as you possibly can be, because that’s how you build trust with the community, and trust with the community is what makes us safer,” said Onek.

Miller-McCune, March 3, 2011 by Paul Tullis
http://www.miller-mccune.com/legal-affairs/david-onek-law-enforcement-facilitator-27808/

“There’s a lot more agreement than disagreement on criminal justice issues. You would never know it because the rhetoric on both sides is very extreme and very ideological.”

The Washington Post, October 26, 2010 by David Onek
http://wapo.st/d3AQvC

As we debate how to restore fiscal sanity, we need to understand how the skyrocketing cost of our state’s criminal justice system is contributing to the downward spiral—and what we can do to reverse the fiscally unsustainable trend.

SF Weekly blog, The Snitch, June 16, 2010 by Peter Jamison
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/06/david_onek_district_attorney.php

“DA Harris is a friend and I would never run against her, but her victory in November will open up the office as early as the end of this year,” Onek said in a statement sent out via e-mail today. “This means the time to get organized is right now.”

The New York Times, April 2, 2010 by Richard C. Paddock
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/us/02sfbriefs.html

“A number of these technologies can be additional useful tools for law enforcement, but none of them is a panacea,” said David Onek, a senior fellow at the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice and a member of the San Francisco Police Commission. “We need to look at how effective each is and balance that against legitimate civil liberties concerns.”

San Francisco Examiner, March 18, 2010 by Seth Chavez
http://bit.ly/aLC1m6

“Criminal justice issues are complex, but all we usually hear are brief sound bites and simplistic slogans,” Onek says. “The podcast gets behind the sound bites to have detailed, nuanced conversations about criminal justice policy.”

San Francisco Chronicle, March 21, 2009 by John Coté
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/21/MN0O16EVCR.DTL&type=printable

“There is a problem,” Commissioner David Onek said. “And so the question is what we should do about it.”

San Francisco Bay Guardian, February 11, 2009 by Sarah Phelan
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?page=6&entry_id=8031&catid=&volume_id=398&issue_id=418&volume_num=43&issue_num=20

“Fellow commissioner David Onek described her as “a model public servant” and residents praised her outreach to the local Asian community.”

San Francisco Chronicle, January 29, 2009 by C.W.Nevius
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/29/BA8615IU2U.DTL&type=printable

“This is not a case where we say, OK, is the new chief going to buy into this or not?” said David Onek, a new appointee to the Police Commission. “We want someone who has experience in implementing these kinds of changes…. I think we need to look at a five-year term for the chief. If he serves at the will of the mayor, he will figure he will be removed as soon as the major leaves.”