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Public Defenders Push Biden Administration to Reverse Trump Era Immigration Policies

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 13, 2021
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Public Defenders Push Biden Administration to Reverse Trump Era Immigration Policies

Public Defenders representing immigrants in criminal and immigration deportation proceedings are calling ...

Public Defenders representing immigrants in criminal and immigration deportation proceedings are calling on the Biden Administration and the new Democratic majority in Congress to take immediate and b ...

January 13, 2021
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Amid Explosion of COVID Cases, Judge Grants Emergency Order for ICE Detainees at Yuba County Jail

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: December 26, 2020
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Amid Explosion of COVID Cases, Judge Grants Emergency Order for ICE Detainees at Yuba County Jail

by David M. Greenwald A federal Judge on Wednesday partially granted a temporary restraining order filed ...

by David M. Greenwald A federal Judge on Wednesday partially granted a temporary restraining order filed by a host of attorneys including the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and the ACLU of Nor ...

December 26, 2020
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U.S. District Court Shocker: ICE Had No Plan to Deal with COVID-19 Outbreak at Mesa Verde Detention Center

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: November 19, 2020
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U.S. District Court Shocker: ICE Had No Plan to Deal with COVID-19 Outbreak at Mesa Verde Detention Center

By Kianna Anvari SAN FRANCISCO – The Mesa Verde ICE detention center—where more than half of detainees an ...

By Kianna Anvari SAN FRANCISCO – The Mesa Verde ICE detention center—where more than half of detainees and at least one-quarter of staff were infected with COVID-19—had no contingency plan for an outb ...

November 19, 2020
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SF Public Defender Makes Public ‘CopWatch SF’ Database of Misconduct of SF Police and Sheriff Deputies

Posted by David Greenwald
|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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ICE Questioned in SF District Court over COVID-19 Outbreak at Mesa Verde Detention Center

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: November 18, 2020
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ICE Questioned in SF District Court over COVID-19 Outbreak at Mesa Verde Detention Center

By Layla Mustafa SAN FRANCISCO – Hearings began here this week in U.S. District Court to decide if the co ...

By Layla Mustafa SAN FRANCISCO – Hearings began here this week in U.S. District Court to decide if the court should continue to oversee the embattled Mesa Verde ICE detention facility in Bakersfield, ...

November 18, 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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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: August 13, 2020
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Press Conference Held to Discuss the San Quentin COVID-19 Outbreak, 26 Deaths to Date

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San ...

By Dominique Kato After months of warning about the potential health consequences of COVID in prison, San Quentin and CDCR as a whole has emerged with a public health crisis—critics charge largely of ...

August 13, 2020
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Emails Reveal ICE’s Refusal to Test People in Their Care – Judge Orders ICE to Provide Testing

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: August 07, 2020
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Emails Reveal ICE’s Refusal to Test People in Their Care – Judge Orders ICE to Provide Testing

After ICE had failed to provide COVID testing to immigrant detainees, on Thursday, a federal judge grante ...

After ICE had failed to provide COVID testing to immigrant detainees, on Thursday, a federal judge granted extraordinary relief -- weekly rapid testing, no new intakes, and a dorm for COVID-positive d ...

August 07, 2020
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SF Mayor London Breed Announces Young Defenders Internship Program

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: August 04, 2020
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SF Mayor London Breed Announces Young Defenders Internship Program

By Nick Gardner SAN FRANCISCO-- San Francisco Mayor London Breed has teamed up with Public Defender Manu ...

By Nick Gardner SAN FRANCISCO-- San Francisco Mayor London Breed has teamed up with Public Defender Manu Raju to create the San Francisco Young Defenders Program, a “paid educational internship progra ...

August 04, 2020
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44 Years Later, Redd Comes Home – An Inside Account

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: July 08, 2020
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44 Years Later, Redd Comes Home – An Inside Account

By Ruby Wilks At age 63 and during a pandemic, Paul Redd begins to build his life outside of prison after ...

By Ruby Wilks At age 63 and during a pandemic, Paul Redd begins to build his life outside of prison after 44 years of incarceration. A succinct but impassioned summary of Redd’s experience in the syst ...

July 08, 2020
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ICE Confirms Medical Provider at Mesa Verde Detention Center Tests Positive for COVID-19

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 22, 2020
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ICE Confirms Medical Provider at Mesa Verde Detention Center Tests Positive for COVID-19

Earlier this month, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to lawyers challenging conditions of ...

Earlier this month, a federal judge granted a preliminary injunction to lawyers challenging conditions of detention filed on behalf of everyone detained at the Mesa Verde Detention Facility in Bakersf ...

June 22, 2020
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Major Court Win against ICE: Yuba County and Mesa Verde Detention Centers Population Cut in Half

Posted by Cres Vellucci
|Date: June 10, 2020
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Major Court Win against ICE: Yuba County and Mesa Verde Detention Centers Population Cut in Half

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge – already not happ ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SAN FRANCISCO – A federal judge – already not happy with the government’s responses to a lawsuit critical of COVID-19 protection for immigration ...

June 10, 2020
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‘The Next Civil Rights Movement’ – San Francisco Public Defender Joins Offices around Nation

Posted by Vanguard Court Watch Interns
|Date: June 09, 2020
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‘The Next Civil Rights Movement’ – San Francisco Public Defender Joins Offices around Nation

by Ruby Wilks and Henry Stiepleman SAN FRANCISCO - “I know this is the next Civil Rights Movement,” said ...

by Ruby Wilks and Henry Stiepleman SAN FRANCISCO - “I know this is the next Civil Rights Movement,” said San Francisco Deputy Public Defender Jacque Wilson about the George Floyd protests erupting aro ...

June 09, 2020
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VANGUARD’S COVID-19 & JAILS WEBINAR: Lawyers Paint Dark Picture of the ‘Virus’ and Jails from Coast to Coast

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: May 21, 2020
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VANGUARD’S COVID-19 & JAILS WEBINAR: Lawyers Paint Dark Picture of the ‘Virus’ and Jails from Coast to Coast

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Lawyers from New York to the San Fran ...

By Crescenzo Vellucci Vanguard Sacramento Bureau Chief SACRAMENTO – Lawyers from New York to the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento weighed in on the murky but deadly subject of COVID-19 in local j ...

May 21, 2020
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City Officials Unveiled ‘Jeff Adachi Way’ – New Street to Honor the Late San Francisco Public Defender

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: February 27, 2020
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City Officials Unveiled ‘Jeff Adachi Way’ – New Street to Honor the Late San Francisco Public Defender

(From Press Release – Public Defender’s Office) – On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Public Defender Mano R ...

(From Press Release – Public Defender’s Office) – On Wednesday, February 26, 2020, Public Defender Mano Raju, Supervisor Matt Haney, the Adachi family, and community supporters of the late San Francis ...

February 27, 2020
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Immigrant Representation in Court in Doubt as Move to Van Nuys Is Planned

Posted by David Greenwald
|Date: January 22, 2020
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Immigrant Representation in Court in Doubt as Move to Van Nuys Is Planned

Last week the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office put out a press release condemning a Trump Administr ...

Last week the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office put out a press release condemning a Trump Administration decision announcing that the San Francisco Immigration Courts would stop hearing cases of ...

January 22, 2020
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Immigration Courts Move Bay Area Immigration Cases from San Francisco to Southern California

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: January 18, 2020
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Immigration Courts Move Bay Area Immigration Cases from San Francisco to Southern California

San Francisco and Alameda County Public Defenders condemn DOJ decision to remove detention cases out of S ...

San Francisco and Alameda County Public Defenders condemn DOJ decision to remove detention cases out of San Francisco as interfering with their ability to defend detainees, demand transparency and see ...

January 18, 2020
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Failed ‘War on Drugs’ Needs Innovation to Transform the Status Quo

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: November 09, 2019
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Failed ‘War on Drugs’ Needs Innovation to Transform the Status Quo

by Hadi Razzaq San Francisco has historically responded to street-level drug activity in the same way: pe ...

by Hadi Razzaq San Francisco has historically responded to street-level drug activity in the same way: periodically cracking down on low-level drug sellers by ramping up policing. But arresting and im ...

November 09, 2019
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Mental Health Crisis: Where There’s a Will, Preventative, Community-based Treatment Is the Way

Posted by Vanguard Administrator
|Date: September 18, 2019
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Guest Commentary: SF’s Mental Health Crisis: Where There’s a Will, Preventative, Community-based Treatment Is the Way

by Danielle Harris – Our mental health crisis is not a tragedy waiting to happen, as some would have it. ...

by Danielle Harris – Our mental health crisis is not a tragedy waiting to happen, as some would have it. The tragedies are happening, have happened, and continue to happen. They are stacking up one on ...

September 18, 2019
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