(Sept. 18, 2021, 7:20 p.m. updated 9:20 p.m.) -- An impassioned grassroots effort to recall L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón has failed. Leaders of the effort acknowledged on Sept. 16 that they won't have sufficient signatures collected by an October deadline. They also swiftly indicated they plan to restart a new recall effort with new signature gathering.

The group's leaders said in a Sept. 16 release that they have formed a new committee, titled Recall District Attorney George Gascon and say they will "gather necessaary financial resources prior to starting the 160 day signature gathering process "rather than play catch-up." The new group says it will "double-down on recalling Gascón."

The group has a new website: RecallDAGeorgeGascon.com

Supporters of the initial recall cited Gascón's change in a number of DA office policies that Gascón's called "reforms" that critics said protected offenders instead of crime victims. Among other things, Gascón announced he would decline to seek some sentencing "enhancements" that could significantly extend a convicted defendant's sentence, would urge courts to resentence some sentenced defendants and refused to charge juvenile offenders as adults.

On November 8, 2020 (five days after the election) DA-elect Gascón unveiled a series of policy papers detailing his plans (reported by LBREPORT.com in detail here) and on Dec. 7, 2020 on taking office, Gascon implemented those policies in a series of Special Directives to prosecutors, linked below. They drew swift and strongly worded pushback from a number of current and former prosecutors as well as crime victim groups.