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Resolution#220483Passed
In plain English
This resolution allows the District Attorney's Office to accept and use $250,000 worth of free legal services from the University of San Francisco's Racial Justice Clinic to aid in their work on sentencing reviews and wrongful convictions. The support is retroactively authorized for the period from November 2021 to November 2022.
Resolution retroactively authorizing the Office of the District Attorney to accept and expend an in-kind gift of pro bono legal services, with a value estimated at $250,000 provided by the University of San Francisco School of Law’s Racial Justice Clinic (RJC), and funded by the Vital Projects Fund and Elizabeth Zitrin, to support the RJC’s work assisting the Office of the District Attorney’s Sentencing Review Unit and Wrongful Conviction Unit and Innocence Commission, for the grant term of November 2021 through November 2022.
How it got here
How they voted
ADOPTED
Board of Supervisors · Sep 6, 2022Pass
5-0
RECOMMENDED
Government Audit and Oversight Committee · Jul 7, 2022Pass
2-0
Legislative journey
Clerk of the BoardApr 26, 2022
·RECEIVED FROM DEPARTMENT
PresidentMay 10, 2022 – Jun 29, 2022
→RECEIVED AND ASSIGNED
·TRANSFERRED
Government Audit and Oversight CommitteeJul 7, 2022
✓RECOMMENDEDPass
Board of SupervisorsSep 6, 2022
✓ADOPTEDPass
MayorSep 16, 2022
✓APPROVED