On June 27, 2022, the SF Examiner published this Op Ed – What happens when San Francisco and other cities drastically underfund public defender offices – by San Francisco Public Defender Mano Raju. Click through to read the full Opinion. Excerpt: As trusted advocates for our clients, public defenders are the best positioned out of...Read More

Read the SF Public Defender's op-ed in the San Francisco Examiner.Read More

Read Deputy Public Defender Vilaska Nguyen's op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.Read More

SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi pens an op-ed on recent, racially-charged incidents in San Francisco's high schools.Read More

It's been nearly three weeks and the officers names have not been released. The incident report remains a secret.Read More

If the Police Commission makes the wrong decision today, we will lose the ability to require officers to write down their independent recollection as to what happened... It will destroy one of the main reasons to have the body cameras in the first place: to provide a check and balance between the police perception and...Read More

Welcome to the plea agreement. It can be a Faustian bargain, but it’s also a constant presence in our criminal justice system.Read More

Why courts deserve the same public scrutiny as cops--an article by Felony Manager Manohar Raju.Read More

While citizens demand answers for the police killings of unarmed men of color nationally, an everyday injustice continues unabated in San Francisco: the profiling of African American women.Read More

Deputy Public Defender Peter Santina pens an op-ed on why San Francisco is not immune to institutionalized racism.Read More