Nathan Fletcher (partially) returns to public life at San Diego homelessness conference

Among the outreach workers, elected officials and nonprofit leaders walking through the San Diego Convention Center this week for the region’s annual homelessness conference, one name stuck out for being both familiar and surprising: Nathan Fletcher.

The former county supervisor had almost completely disappeared from public life after resigning from the board in 2023. Yet on Thursday he was scheduled to speak on two panels about veteran homelessness.

The move caps a whirlwind few years.

Fletcher stepped down as supervisor when a former San Diego Metropolitan Transit System employee, Grecia Figueroa, accused him of sexual assault and harassment. Fletcher acknowledged what he described as an inappropriate relationship between the two but strongly denied allegations of harassment or assault. In August, a judge dismissed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him, and Fletcher has sued Figueroa for alleged defamation.

Even before the dismissal, it appears that Fletcher was working for the Regional Task Force on Homelessness, which organizes the conference.

Fletcher has two contracts with the organization, according to spokesperson T...