News and Press Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 8, 2021 CONTACT: SF Public Defender’s Office – Valerie.Ibarra@sfgov.org – (628)249-7946 **PRESS RELEASE** SF Jury Acquits Graffiti Artist of Assault Charges Stemming from Vigilante Incident Public Defender presented case of self-defense SAN FRANCISCO – Today, a San Francisco jury acquitted Anthony Portillo, 29, of charges stemming from a 2017 incident in which Mr. Portillo fought off...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 7, 2021 CONTACT: SF Public Defender’s Office – Valerie.Ibarra@sfgov.org – (628)249-7946 **PRESS RELEASE** SF Jury Acquits Young Woman of Child Endangerment and Reckless Driving SAN FRANCISCO – Deputy Public Defender Latisha McCray won an acquittal for her 20-year-old client who was pulled over for speeding on the Bay Bridge last August. Rather than ticketing her, CHP...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  June 30, 2021 MEDIA CONTACTS: Valerie Ibarra – SF Public Defender’s Office – (628) 249-7946 – Valerie.Ibarra@sfgov.org; Anne Stuhldreher – SF Financial Justice Project – (415) 596-6138 – Anne.Stuhldreher@sfgov.org; Rachel Marshall – SF District Attorney’s Office – (415) 416-4468 – Rachel.Marshall@sfgov.org; Nannette Miranda – Assemblymember Ting’s Office – (415) 557-2312 – Nannette.Miranda@asm.ca.gov   **PRESS RELEASE** New CA...

KQED Arts writer Nastia Voynovskaya interviewed members of the Adachi Project as well as our SF Public Defender client, Paul Redd, whose release from prison after 44 years was one of the first films to be made. Under the art and editorial umbrella of DEFENDER-Vol.00, the Adachi Project has released three films – “Forty Four Years Later” featuring Paul Redd,...

The San Francisco Examiner published this Op Ed by San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju on June 17, 2021. “We spend exponentially more on the departments that arrest, confine, incarcerate, and monitor than we do on the one department that fights for the most marginalized.”