San Francisco's impending $522 million budget deficit may come with a silver lining: It may finally force San Francisco city leaders and the electorate to make the tough decisions needed to turn things around.Read More

Ben Trefny of KALW's Crosscurrents sits down with Jeff Adachi to ask him what's going on with his work at the Community Justice Center.Read More

"Public Defender Jeff Adachi says the Community Justice Center is a duplication of the longtime efforts of The City’s two other specialty courts: the drug court and the behavioral health court."Read More

Add justice to the list of California's budget victims. The Alameda County public defender's office is telling judges that it can't represent about 10,200 clients over the next year.Read More

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi is facing a $1.9 million dollar cut from his budget. The cut comprises nearly 10 percent of his operating budget, which is primarily used to pay for lawyers who provide services to the City’s poor. No other big city department in San Francisco is facing cuts of this magnitude...Read More

"In my earlier submission, I predicted that the budget battle between the Mayor and the Public Defender’s office would end badly. What I didn’t predict is what actually happened."Read More

According to the co-chairs of the Constitution Project’s National Right to Counsel Committee, proposed budget cuts to the Public Defender’s Office threaten to exact a toll on San Francisco that would greatly outweigh their modest fiscal benefits.Read More

SF Chronicle: The proposed cut is seriously shortsighted and dishonest. If a defendant can't get a public defender, the job goes to a pool of private lawyers where one will take the case - and bill the city. Total savings: just about zero.Read More

The Public Defender's Office has marched in the pride parade for over 25 years. "We'll have 100 in our contingent with several banners. You'll know us because we'll be blasting 'Fight the Power' and John Lennon's 'Power to the People.'"Read More

The mayor's plan to slice $1.9 million off the Public Defender's budget would result in the city paying up to $1.4 million more per year as the public defender would be forced to farm out 2,600 cases to private attorneys.Read More