Concerns. I support Domestic Violence services. The two issues i was asked to address by the budget analyst, the first concerned our staffing and how the Public Defenders Office staffs Domestic Violence and cases that are handled by private attorneys who are retained or attorneys who are appointed because there is a conflict of interest. I have a powerpoint. I have a handout for the supervisors. The question we were asked by the budget analysty was whether or not the Public Defenders Office had staff dedicated exclusively to handling Domestic Violence cases . Before august, 2012 our office are two dedicated attorneys who handled only Domestic Violence cases. We changed that in august, 2012. Now all of the misdemeanor Domestic Violence cases are assigned to 12 misdemeanor attorneys who handle all types of cases. You might wonder why they decided to change that . What was happening is because we only had two attorneys handling Domestic Violence cases, the trials, particularly the ones wh
The question we were asked by the budget analysty was whether or not the Public Defenders Office had staff dedicated exclusively to handling Domestic Violence cases . Before august, 2012 our office are two dedicated attorneys who handled only Domestic Violence cases. We changed that in august, 2012. Now all of the misdemeanor Domestic Violence cases are assigned to 12 misdemeanor attorneys who handle all types of cases. You might wonder why they decided to change that . What was happening is because we only had two attorneys handling Domestic Violence cases, the trials, particularly the ones where they had to be out to trial within a certain period of time were getting backed up. And people were not able to bring their cases to trial in a timely fashion and we were getting a lot of complaints from individuals who wanted their cases tried. And because we only had two attorneys handling those cases, sometimes one attorney would have 6 and 7 cases backed up. The consequence of that is tha
Reporter it was an overall peaceful march. Lasting about 2 hours, after which the majority of the protesters went there separate ways, leaving behind a few these deputies you see here behind me to watch over a few stranglers outside the Sheriffs Office. In santa rosa Haaziq Madyun kronn4ews reporter this is video from may helicopter partnership with abc news. You also see some of the deputies on the roof but it was overwrought a very peaceful march. Coming up at 6 00 you will have more for now and Sonoma County, Charles Clifford kron4 news. Reporter were learning more about the deputy who shot and killed andy lopez. 48yearold Erick Gelhaus shot lopez seven times. The 24year veteran is an iraq war veteran whos also a firearms instructor. Hes contributed to gun publications. And in 2008. He wrote an article for swat magazine. Today is the day you may need to kill someone in order to go home. Reporter somebody needs to be in charge, so make a decision. Reporter and in the same article, he
In terms of staffing, i just want to put up a visual of our Department Staffing from fiscal year 2001 to today and you will see that over time we almost had eight staff at the beginning of the 2000s and were now down to 5. 0 fste. I have six people in my office, three working parttime. Part of these reductions reflect the fact we have tried to keep cuts away from our direct services, as much as possible. In your handout you have a time line of achievements that this policy analyst helped us achieve in the time that we had that position. In 2002 we released a comprehensive report for San Franciscos response to Domestic Violence and lists hundreds of recommendations by departments and we worked very intensively and collaborative with the other agencies to make sure that those recommendations were followed. In 2006 we conducted a safety audit for looking at our different partners in the criminal justice agencies and how well we were serving victims of Domestic Violence. In 2007, we starte
We changed that in august, 2012. Now all of the misdemeanor Domestic Violence cases are assigned to 12 misdemeanor attorneys who handle all types of cases. You might wonder why they decided to change that . What was happening is because we only had two attorneys handling Domestic Violence cases, the trials, particularly the ones where they had to be out to trial within a certain period of time were getting backed up. And people were not able to bring their cases to trial in a timely fashion and we were getting a lot of complaints from individuals who wanted their cases tried. And because we only had two attorneys handling those cases, sometimes one attorney would have 6 and 7 cases backed up. The consequence of that is that you would have to wait in jail for weeks, sometimes months before your case went to trial, because your attorney was not available. And so we changed that. And instead, we spread all of the Domestic Violence cases over our entire staff that handles misdemeanor cases