Provide steadfast victim advocacy for crime victims. Created specialty units focused on Cold Cases and Human Trafficking. Protecting the vulnerable with the use of the Vitals App which gives first responders access to important information, on their phones, to help them de-escalate or resolve situations.
Mental Health Court and Addiction Intervention Court: Providing treatment instead of incarceration for those committing crimes due to their serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Learn more about our innovative programs.
Developing law enforcement’s empathy for the homeless, by partnering with Glide Church in the San Francisco Tenderloin District. Prosecutors brought face-to-face with homelessness.
Building Public Trust and Confidence. An interactive webpage, created with Measures for Justice, for the public to explore our data which examines issues of racial and sentence disparity in the criminal justice system.
DA’s Multi-Cultural Community Council. An advisory body of racially, religiously and culturally diverse residents. Annual Citizens Academy – 8-week program educates the public about our local criminal justice system.
Enacting policies to protect communities and “all affected by crime” by always treating victims, witnesses, and defendants with respect and ensuring that truth, justice and fairness drive every decision today and moving forward.
Neighborhood Court – Using restorative justice, rather than the traditional courtroom, to resolve incidents that occur in the community. Reducing mass incarnation. Steps to Success program. Treating those living with mental illness and substance use disorders by diverting them out of court. Youth Restorative Justice grant to divert juveniles, reducing racial and ethnic disparities.
Reduce the use of cash bail with a bail reform policy drafted with input from The Vera Institute for those who pose a risk to public safety.
Reviewing cases to both find and correct wrongful convictions and to consider reducing lengthy prison sentences where a second chance is justified. Conviction and Sentencing Review.
Always considering the immigration impacts of deportation and family separation that the criminal justice system can have upon non-citizens, to ensure that the collateral consequences of convictions are fair.
Dedicated unit which holds businesses and corporations accountable for unfair practices and damage they cause to the environment.
First DA’s office in CA to put Race-Blind Charging into case management system and to require all Deputy DA’s to participate in full-day implicit bias training. Co-hosted with the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative groundbreaking, 6-day, collaborative presentation on race bias in prosecution (content provided by For the People, Vera, & Public Rights Project. Change Without Labels.
Eco-Friendly. First DA’s office in CA to become paperless. No paper files, all electronic files; easy access to data. Increasing efficiency to focus on public safety. Repurposed file room as restorative justice center.
Annual Youth Academy. Collaboration with law enforcement, judges, and local defense attorneys to educate at risk high school students about the criminal justice system and encourage leadership within the community. Enacted policy to reduce the use of gang enhancements. Learn More.
FOCUS Program. Focusing On Children Exposed to Trauma – District Attorney helped create a notification system linking first responders to school district to reduce impact of traumasuffered by children.