Richard Whipple is no longer serving as deputy director for the Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs.

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Ahead of San Francisco marking the fourth annual Transgender Immigrants Day Tuesday, news began to spread that a high-ranking queer city official who had handled immigrant rights issues is no longer employed by the city.   For more than a decade, Richard Whipple had been deputy director of the Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs. The East Bay resident briefly served as acting director of the city agency prior to the hiring of its gay executive director, Jorge Rivas, in 2023.   Whipple first joined the city’s workforce in 2009 as a City Hall fellow and census project coordinator, according to his LinkedIn profile. He did not respond to a request f

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