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SF Public Defender Makes Public ‘CopWatch SF’ Database of Misconduct of SF Police and Sheriff Deputies

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|Date: November 18, 2020
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SF Public Defender Makes Public ‘CopWatch SF’ Database of Misconduct of SF Police and Sheriff Deputies

SAN FRANCISCO – Hundreds of public records about wrongdoings by law enforcement officers are now being ma ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Hundreds of public records about wrongdoings by law enforcement officers are now being made available to everyone as of Wednesday through the San Francisco Public Defender’s “CopWatch ...

November 18, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Episode 84: San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju

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|Date: November 16, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Episode 84: San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju

In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the ...

In February of 2019, longtime legendary public defender Jeff Adachi died. Taking over the position as the only elected public defender in California was Mano Raju. His first 18 months has seen not onl ...

November 16, 2020
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Gov. Signs Measure to Eliminate Criminal Legal Fees that Target Poor Californians – Modeled After SF Program

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|Date: September 30, 2020
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Gov. Signs Measure to Eliminate Criminal Legal Fees that Target Poor Californians – Modeled After SF Program

by Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO – Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed the “Families Over Fees Act,” AB 186 ...

by Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO – Gov. Gavin Newsom this week signed the “Families Over Fees Act,” AB 1869, which would end 23 administrative fees imposed on low income Californians, driving them deep ...

September 30, 2020
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SF Public Defender Criticizes Civil Injunctions Aimed at Drug Dealers – Argues They Don’t Solve ‘Actual’ Problem

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 25, 2020
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SF Public Defender Criticizes Civil Injunctions Aimed at Drug Dealers – Argues They Don’t Solve ‘Actual’ Problem

By Pavan Potti SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Attorney Dennis Herrera recently took a big step in the city ...

By Pavan Potti SAN FRANCISCO – San Francisco Attorney Dennis Herrera recently took a big step in the city’s ongoing battle with drug dealing in the neighborhood of Tenderloin by filing civil injunctio ...

September 25, 2020
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SF Board of Supervisors Urge Governor Newsom to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Facing Deportation

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 24, 2020
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SF Board of Supervisors Urge Governor Newsom to Pardon Immigrant Rights Leader Facing Deportation

By Linh Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a resoluti ...

By Linh Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO – The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has unanimously approved a resolution urging Governor Newsom to pardon prominent immigrant rights leader Charles Joseph, who is fa ...

September 24, 2020
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SF Medical Examiner Lab Analyst Arrested with Evidence Bag of Meth

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: September 12, 2020
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SF Medical Examiner Lab Analyst Arrested with Evidence Bag of Meth

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN FRANCISCO - A forensic laboratory analyst for the San Francisco Medical Exam ...

By Julietta Bisharyan SAN FRANCISCO - A forensic laboratory analyst for the San Francisco Medical Examiner Office has been arrested and charged after he was allegedly caught driving in Utah with me ...

September 12, 2020
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San Francisco Supporters of Proposition D: Sheriff Oversight Measure Begins Campaign

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|Date: September 12, 2020
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San Francisco Supporters of Proposition D: Sheriff Oversight Measure Begins Campaign

By Nick Domenici SAN FRANCISCO – Since the uproar over racial inequality and systematic injustices attrib ...

By Nick Domenici SAN FRANCISCO – Since the uproar over racial inequality and systematic injustices attributed to the unjust killings of Michael Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner and many others acros ...

September 12, 2020
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San Francisco Public Defender Frees Man Facing Life in Prison

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|Date: August 12, 2020
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San Francisco Public Defender Frees Man Facing Life in Prison

The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO – Although not completely pleased with the outcome, and confident they c ...

The Vanguard Staff SAN FRANCISCO – Although not completely pleased with the outcome, and confident they could have won at trial, the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Monday pulled a defendant ou ...

August 12, 2020
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Efforts to Release Incarcerated from San Quentin Move Forward in Marin County Superior Court

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|Date: July 29, 2020
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Efforts to Release Incarcerated from San Quentin Move Forward in Marin County Superior Court

Habeas petitions allege that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation actions constitute “ ...

Habeas petitions allege that California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation actions constitute “cruel and unusual punishment” as decisions led to an explosive and deadly Covid-19 outbreak at ...

July 29, 2020
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Legislation Introduced That Would End Mandatory Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenders

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 21, 2020
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Legislation Introduced That Would End Mandatory Incarceration for Nonviolent Drug Offenders

Under current law, certain drug offenses in California carry with them mandatory jail and prison sentence ...

Under current law, certain drug offenses in California carry with them mandatory jail and prison sentences. On Monday, Senator Scott Wiener along with co-sponsor Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo announc ...

July 21, 2020
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Legislators, Advocates and Criminal Justice Leaders Attempt to Pressure Governor to Respond to San Quentin COVID Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 10, 2020
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Legislators, Advocates and Criminal Justice Leaders Attempt to Pressure Governor to Respond to San Quentin COVID Crisis

With COVID cases at San Quentin soaring from none to over 1400 in just under a month, five Bay Area Legis ...

With COVID cases at San Quentin soaring from none to over 1400 in just under a month, five Bay Area Legislators flanked by prison advocates and criminal justice leaders urged Governor Newsom to reduce ...

July 10, 2020
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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

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|Date: July 10, 2020
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Letter: Recommendations for Reducing the Prison Population and Protecting People in California Prisons

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of ...

by Mano Raju This is an immeasurably difficult time. With 2,419 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California prisons statewide and over 1,500 people who are incarcerated or work in ...

July 10, 2020
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Push To Restore Zero Bail in San Francisco Amid Growing Number of COVID-19 Cases in SF Jails

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|Date: July 09, 2020
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Push To Restore Zero Bail in San Francisco Amid Growing Number of COVID-19 Cases in SF Jails

Up until the last month, Sa Francisco had managed its jail population better than most counties and avoid ...

Up until the last month, Sa Francisco had managed its jail population better than most counties and avoid large numbers of COVID cases in part because they managed to reduce the jail population. But ...

July 09, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Office Mobilizing to Release People from San Quentin Amid Escalating COVID-19 Outbreak

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|Date: July 02, 2020
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SF Public Defender’s Office Mobilizing to Release People from San Quentin Amid Escalating COVID-19 Outbreak

Special To the Vanguard With 2,582 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California pri ...

Special To the Vanguard With 2,582 incarcerated persons with active cases of COVID-19 in California prisons statewide, and over 1,100 people incarcerated in San Quentin testing positive, the San Fra ...

July 02, 2020
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(Updated at 5:00) California Public Defenders Issue Recommendations for Meaningful Statewide Police Reform

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|Date: June 26, 2020
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(Updated at 5:00) California Public Defenders Issue Recommendations for Meaningful Statewide Police Reform

The following is a letter to Governor Newsom signed by several of the leading public defenders in the Sta ...

The following is a letter to Governor Newsom signed by several of the leading public defenders in the State of California We write in our capacity as California Public Defenders to outline our hopes a ...

June 26, 2020
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San Quentin Cases Soaring at 344 Cases, Triggering Concern and Attention from Reformers

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 24, 2020
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San Quentin Cases Soaring at 344 Cases, Triggering Concern and Attention from Reformers

For much of the past week, the Vanguard through its Dashboard on CDCR COVID-19 cases has been tracking a ...

For much of the past week, the Vanguard through its Dashboard on CDCR COVID-19 cases has been tracking a startling and concerning rise of cases at San Quentin Prison. Yesterday, Aparna Komarla of the ...

June 24, 2020
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SF Public Defender Expresses Concern over Ongoing Public Health Crisis Measures in the SF Jails

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|Date: April 30, 2020
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SF Public Defender Expresses Concern over Ongoing Public Health Crisis Measures in the SF Jails

(The following is a letter dated April 29 from SF Public Defender Manohar Raju to Sheriff Paul Miyamoto). ...

(The following is a letter dated April 29 from SF Public Defender Manohar Raju to Sheriff Paul Miyamoto). By Manohar Raju As we near two months into this pandemic and resulting shelter-in-place orders ...

April 30, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo Sheriff Opposes Zero Bail Order – Doesn’t Explain Why

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: April 20, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Yolo Sheriff Opposes Zero Bail Order – Doesn’t Explain Why

I have been surprised for how long local Yolo County officials have stayed out of what has become a natio ...

I have been surprised for how long local Yolo County officials have stayed out of what has become a national discussion, practiced at each local level about criminal justice reform. We have still not ...

April 20, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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First Confirmed Case of COVID-19 in San Francisco County Jail Prompts Public Defender to Ask for Increased Efforts

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: April 17, 2020
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First Confirmed Case of COVID-19 in San Francisco County Jail Prompts Public Defender to Ask for Increased Efforts

By Linh Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO -- In response to the first confirmed case of coronavirus of an incarcerated ...

By Linh Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO -- In response to the first confirmed case of coronavirus of an incarcerated person in the San Francisco County Jail system, San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju calls ...

April 17, 2020
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San Francisco to Close County Jail 4

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: April 15, 2020
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San Francisco to Close County Jail 4

By Linh Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO -- Legislation introduced by Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer to the Board of Sup ...

By Linh Nguyen SAN FRANCISCO -- Legislation introduced by Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer to the Board of Supervisors will close County Jail 4, a maximum-security facility, by November 21. County Jail 4 i ...

April 15, 2020
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