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Gunnigle Charges AZ County Attorney Allister Adel Fails to Address Lack of Diversity in Workplace

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|Date: October 26, 2020
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Gunnigle Charges AZ County Attorney Allister Adel Fails to Address Lack of Diversity in Workplace

By Alana Bleimann PHOENIX - Over the past few days Maricopa County Attorney’s office has faced backlash ...

By Alana Bleimann PHOENIX - Over the past few days Maricopa County Attorney’s office has faced backlash for Allister Adel’s decision to ignore the racial disparities in the office and in the legal sy ...

October 26, 2020
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Maricopa County AZ Attorney Debate – Prosecutors Trade Barbs As Gunnigle Makes Case For Refrom

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|Date: October 19, 2020
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Maricopa County AZ Attorney Debate – Prosecutors Trade Barbs As Gunnigle Makes Case For Refrom

By Lauren Smith MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County Attorney Republican incumbent Allister Adel and Dem ...

By Lauren Smith MARICOPA COUNTY, AZ – Maricopa County Attorney Republican incumbent Allister Adel and Democratic challenger Julie Gunnigle Friday evening traded barbs and debated criminal justice refo ...

October 19, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Smarter Approach to Measuring Prosecutorial Success

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|Date: October 09, 2020
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Guest Commentary: A Smarter Approach to Measuring Prosecutorial Success

By Anthony Thompson and Miriam Krinsky As the field of prosecution has increasingly recognized the failur ...

By Anthony Thompson and Miriam Krinsky As the field of prosecution has increasingly recognized the failure of approaches of previous decades that aim to be tough on crime, a number of reform-minded pr ...

October 09, 2020
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Councilmember/Attorney Asks Alameda County Residents to Oppose Code Change Making Juries Unfair

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|Date: October 06, 2020
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Councilmember/Attorney Asks Alameda County Residents to Oppose Code Change Making Juries Unfair

By Anika Khubchandani EMERYVILLE – Posting on his Twitter account Monday, John J. Bauters—a former trial ...

By Anika Khubchandani EMERYVILLE – Posting on his Twitter account Monday, John J. Bauters—a former trial attorney and current councilmember of the city of Emeryville—urged residents to oppose amendmen ...

October 06, 2020
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As Covid-19 Continues to Impact Criminal Legal System, Advocates Discuss Radical Alternatives

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|Date: September 26, 2020
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As Covid-19 Continues to Impact Criminal Legal System, Advocates Discuss Radical Alternatives

By Tiffany Devlin As the Covid-19 pandemic heavily impacted jails, prisons, and courts across the Unite ...

By Tiffany Devlin As the Covid-19 pandemic heavily impacted jails, prisons, and courts across the United States, advocates have pointed towards structural change in the criminal legal system. Alec K ...

September 26, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 75 – Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson

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|Date: September 22, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 75 – Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson

Everyday Injustice talks with Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson, who discusses public defense work ...

Everyday Injustice talks with Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson, who discusses public defense work, defunding the police, officer-involved shootings, racial disparities, and zero bail. Davis Va ...

September 22, 2020
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Vermont County Eliminates Cash Bail ‘Caging Black, Brown and Poor People’

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|Date: September 19, 2020
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Vermont County Eliminates Cash Bail ‘Caging Black, Brown and Poor People’

By Phoebe Glick CHITTENDEN COUNTY, VERMONT — Cash bail has been eliminated in Chittenden County, Vermont, ...

By Phoebe Glick CHITTENDEN COUNTY, VERMONT — Cash bail has been eliminated in Chittenden County, Vermont, following nearly a year of deliberation on the practice by State Attorney Sarah F. George’s of ...

September 19, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 72 – Alameda Public Defender Brendon Woods

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 10, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 72 – Alameda Public Defender Brendon Woods

Everyday Injustice speaks to Brendon Woods, the chief Public Defender in Alameda County, the only Black C ...

Everyday Injustice speaks to Brendon Woods, the chief Public Defender in Alameda County, the only Black Chief Public Defender in the state of California. He discusses mass incarceration, criminal just ...

September 10, 2020
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My View: Is Reisig Starting to Try to Shift to the Middle? We Think Not

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|Date: September 05, 2020
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My View: Is Reisig Starting to Try to Shift to the Middle? We Think Not

By David M. Greenwald A few weeks ago Jonathan Raven, the Chief Deputy DA in the Yolo County DA’s Office, ...

By David M. Greenwald A few weeks ago Jonathan Raven, the Chief Deputy DA in the Yolo County DA’s Office, wrote a piece published in the Davis and Woodland newspapers, “Progressive evolution can take ...

September 05, 2020
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Analysis: DA Responds to Supervisor Saylor’s Questions

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: September 01, 2020
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Analysis: DA Responds to Supervisor Saylor’s Questions

By David M. Greenwald In early July, Supervisor Don Saylor submitted a number of questions to DA Jeff Rei ...

By David M. Greenwald In early July, Supervisor Don Saylor submitted a number of questions to DA Jeff Reisig about their funding requests (see here). The night before the Board of Supervisors Budget ...

September 01, 2020
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Ex-LA DA Candidate Pushes to Shift Funding from Incarceration to Community Engagement

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|Date: August 05, 2020
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Ex-LA DA Candidate Pushes to Shift Funding from Incarceration to Community Engagement

by Kelsea Valerio SACRAMENTO- Former Public Defender and DA Candidate Rachal Rossi was hard hitting on Tu ...

by Kelsea Valerio SACRAMENTO- Former Public Defender and DA Candidate Rachal Rossi was hard hitting on Tuesday as she addressed racial disparities that exist within the incarceration system. “We’ve se ...

August 05, 2020
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Santa Clara DA Unveils ‘Bend the Arc’ Social Justice Reforms, Abandons Death Penalty

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|Date: July 23, 2020
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Santa Clara DA Unveils ‘Bend the Arc’ Social Justice Reforms, Abandons Death Penalty

By Linh Nguyen SANTA CLARA – Nearly two months after the killing of George Floyd, Santa Clara District At ...

By Linh Nguyen SANTA CLARA – Nearly two months after the killing of George Floyd, Santa Clara District Attorney Jeff Rosen has announced—as have other DA offices nationwide—social justice reforms that ...

July 23, 2020
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Yolo County to Pass Resolution Recognizing Racism As a Public Health Crisis

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 19, 2020
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Yolo County to Pass Resolution Recognizing Racism As a Public Health Crisis

In early June, the Yolo County Public Defenders had a march in front of the Yolo Courthouse to emphasize ...

In early June, the Yolo County Public Defenders had a march in front of the Yolo Courthouse to emphasize the unequal access to justice that Black and Brown people have in the criminal legal system. Pu ...

July 19, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig, PPIC Study, and Racial Disparity in Criminal Legal System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: July 06, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Reisig, PPIC Study, and Racial Disparity in Criminal Legal System

Part of the defense offered by Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, in face of criticism that Yolo County has abou ...

Part of the defense offered by Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig, in face of criticism that Yolo County has about 28 percent of its jail comprised of Blacks while the share of the overall population for that ...

July 06, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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My View: DA Reisig Cannot Let This One Go, Doubles Down on Attack on Public Defender

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 27, 2020
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My View: DA Reisig Cannot Let This One Go, Doubles Down on Attack on Public Defender

You would think Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig would have learned and simply let this go. He was roundly cri ...

You would think Yolo County DA Jeff Reisig would have learned and simply let this go. He was roundly criticized for making personal a comment on the news by Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olson w ...

June 27, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Commentary: The DA – He Doth Protest Too Much

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: June 17, 2020
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Commentary: The DA – He Doth Protest Too Much

Last Monday all across the state and around the nation, public defenders took to the streets marching for ...

Last Monday all across the state and around the nation, public defenders took to the streets marching for Black lives. Following that event, ABC 10 interviewed Yolo County Public Defender Tracie Olso ...

June 17, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 65 – St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: May 01, 2020
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Everyday Injustice Podcast Episode 65 – St. Louis Prosecutor Kim Gardner

Kim Gardner was elected chief prosecutor in St. Louis in 2016. Since then she has been taking on the syst ...

Kim Gardner was elected chief prosecutor in St. Louis in 2016. Since then she has been taking on the system—the first black circuit attorney in St. Louis, in January she filed a federal civil rights l ...

May 01, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Introduced in Legislature to End Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 12, 2020
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Racial Justice Act Introduced in Legislature to End Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System

Assemblymember Ash Kalra officially introduced the California Racial Justice Act, a landmark bill that ad ...

Assemblymember Ash Kalra officially introduced the California Racial Justice Act, a landmark bill that addresses racial discrimination in criminal sentencing and convictions. The action was part of t ...

March 12, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Monday Morning Thoughts: Boudin Making History

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: March 02, 2020
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Monday Morning Thoughts: Boudin Making History

Over the last few years we have talked a lot about progressive prosecution. We have seen some stunning v ...

Over the last few years we have talked a lot about progressive prosecution. We have seen some stunning victories, like the victory of Larry Krasner and more recently Chesa Boudin in San Francisco. We ...

March 02, 2020
| by David Greenwald

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Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Create Fairer, More Representative Juries

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|Date: February 16, 2020
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Senator Wiener Introduces Legislation to Create Fairer, More Representative Juries

SB 1001 would broaden jury pool to including all tax filers in order to create more representative juries ...

SB 1001 would broaden jury pool to including all tax filers in order to create more representative juries by race and income level (From Press Release – Senator Wiener) – Today, Senator Scott Wiener ...

February 16, 2020
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