An Unrelenting Campaign of Harassment
Among the roughly 2,100 private individuals who have filed sworn FPPC complaints, public figure Adina Flores has filed more than five times as many as anyone else. Her filings only rarely draw any form of enforcement. Adina Flores is a prolific users of social media, posting many conspiratorial and bigoted attacks over years, often against the same people she accuses in FPPC filings.
It is concerning to see an important mechanism for public transparency used for fueling false, hateful and bigoted attacks.
FPPC Complaints filed & how many were rejected
Source: FPPC Complaint & Case Search.3,940 complaints reviewed from ~2,100 filers.
For each individual filer, the upper bar is the total sworn complaints filed; the lower bar is how many of those were rejected at intake. Both bars share the same scale, so the rejected bar is literally the rejected slice of the bar above it.
The vast majority of Adina Flores's complaints are dismissed.
all 415 sworn complaints,stage by stage
Because of the substantial FPPC backlog, many of the complaints and cases require considerable time to be resolved, mostly dismissed in the case of Adina's filings. This gives Adina Flores ample runway to repeatedly post unsubstantiated attacks in her various online accounts.
The chart follows Adina Flores's own complaints from filing to outcome. Each bar is a share of the 415 she has filed, showing how few survive each stage.
The top ten individual FPPC filers
| Individual filer | Complaints | Latest filed | Rej % | Cases | Closed | Pending | Warn | Stip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adina Flores | 415 | May 2026 | 77.1% | 80 | 60 | 20 | 16 | 5 |
| Stephen Petzold | 78 | Feb 2025 | 28.2% | 41 | 40 | 1 | 21 | 7 |
| James Rowen | 37 | Apr 2026 | 75.7% | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Jeffrey Howerton | 33 | May 2022 | 100% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Julie Tacker | 31 | Jan 2024 | 45.2% | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Dolores Lucero | 25 | May 2026 | 88% | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Lee Charley | 25 | Jan 2026 | 64% | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Mark Bixby | 24 | Feb 2026 | 12.5% | 18 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 4 |
| Jason Bezis | 18 | Dec 2025 | 50% | 11 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 |
| Ryan Williams | 18 | Feb 2025 | 55.6% | 10 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
| All individual filers (pool) | 3,949 | — | 58.9% | 2,623 | 2,350 | 273 | — | — |
Press About Adina Flores
Reporting by mainstream & independent media.Adina Flores' ongoing harassment campaign has been the subject of independent press coverage and legal challenge. Adina Flores has herself posted a lengthy library of false attacks, conspiracy, and bigoted attacks.
Sonoma County Board of Supervisors approves resolution backing access to gender-affirming care
Investigators or ‘stalkers’? When Sonoma County citizen-activists push the boundaries on public access
Sonoma County secures restraining order against man who threatened Supervisor James Gore
Second rally against Healdsburg vaccine mandate arrives at empty City Hall
Adina Flores Facts
A selection of Adina Flores' false personal attacks and bigotry from a few years back.
Adina Flores And Shelby Pryor And Anger And Threats To Sonoma County
Independent coverage of Adina Flores and then fiancee Shelby Pryor, and the "counterproductve" reputation both have earned. The article comments go into further detail.
Why is a Sonoma County activist interested in Humboldt and targeting the same Councilmembers as recently failed candidate Roy Gomez?
Independent Journalist John Chiv describes Adina Flores' attacks against people in Humboldt County. After his initial article, Adina posted various attacks against the journalist, prompting a rebuttal article here. He outlines several resources that describe the behavior of Adina Flores. He argues Humboldt County should be wary of her before she "wastes" its time and money the way she has done in Sonoma County.
Adina Flores Bigotry & Harassment
Reporting by mainstream & independent media.Legal challenges and FPPC opinions filed.
Adina Flores' ongoing harassment campaign has been the subject of independent press coverage and legal challenge. Adina Flores has herself posted a lengthy library of false attacks, conspiracy, and bigotry - a few example screenshots/videos are provided below.
📹 Adina Flores shares why she supports Hitler
"Hitler was really cool he understood that Israel was the enemy." - Adina Flores
📷 Adina Flores's misogynistic attack against a reporter
A screenshot from a video posted by Adina Flores calling a Press Democrat reporter a "white liberal cunt" in an angry tirade against her reporting of the Sonoma County resolution backing access to gender-affirming care.
📹 Adina Flores denigrates LGBTQ using a mental health slur
"Sonoma County ... wants to reduce the population of brown and black people therefore they want to keep them all gay and fucking retarded." - Adina Flores. This is another of many examples of Adina Flores expressing hatred of LGBTQ, published by her on her own social media accounts.
📷 Adina Flores LGBTQ bigotry
A screenshot of a post by a far right wing podcaster sharing Adina Flores'' LGBTQ bigotry "rainbow indoctrination", seen both in the video thumbnail and comments. This is another of many examples of Adina Flores expressing hatred of LGBTQ, published by her on her own social media accounts.
📷 Adina Flores was booted from social media for harassment
This is one of several reports by a social media site officially blocking Adina Flores for repeated harassment via personal attacks.
📷 Adina Flores promoting MAGA
"Make America Great Again" is written on her hoodie, she is meeting CA candidate for Governor Steve Hilton. This article covers a small sample of the sexual abusive people MAGAs have promoted.
📹 Adina Flores verbal hate attack against a father and child
Several virulently homophobic attacks & false accusations. "A faggot-ass Sonoma County Liberal" - Adina Flores
📹 Adina Flores delivers a misogynist rant
"Is this bitch fucking retarded?" - Adina Flores
📹 Adina Flores conspiratorial rant against Unitarian Universalists and LGBTQ
"I think this is the church of the fucking pedophiles." - Adina Flores
📹 Adina Flores gives a lengthy antisemitic and misogynist rant
"They are Soros funded" & "He was a Rabbi in the highest court in Jerusalem - that is very satanic to me." & "That looks like her, the big one, chunkers." - Quotes by Adina Flores
Lawsuits against Adina Flores
Harassment and other cases against Adina FloresSome targeted by Adina Flores have fought back in court. Below are a few examples:
Restraining order filed against Adina Flores
Darius Anderson v. Adina Flores
Restraining order filed against Adina Flores & others
Snowden v. Ainsworth
Public comments
- Individual FPPC filers only. Includes only complaints of type "Sworn Complaint" (3,949 of 33,871 records), which are filed by members of the public. Excluded: "Staff/Filing Officer Referral," "Commission-initiated," and "AdWATCH" records. Nine of the original top-ten "complainants" were FPPC or county filing officers, not members of the public. (Anyone may file an FPPC complaint; there is no citizenship or residency requirement, so "individual" here means a private filer as distinct from agency or staff filers.)
- FPPC Penalty counts, not rates. The table shows raw penalty counts (warnings and stipulations) rather than a penalty rate, because most individual filers have very few closed cases — with fewer than about 10, a single case swings any rate by more than 10 points, so cross-filer rate comparisons are unreliable. Only three filers (Flores, Petzold, Bixby) have enough closed cases for a stable rate.
- FPPC Enforcement penalty = warning letter or Commission stipulation. Administrative terminations and "violation found — no action" closures are excluded. Penalty rate is of closed cases.
- Sources: FPPC public Complaint Search & Case Search exports, deduplicated to 33,871 complaints and 29,703 cases, then filtered to sworn complaints filed by individuals. Figures current through the June 18, 2026 data pull. Other sources include press articles and posts to Adina Flores's social media accounts.
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