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Resolution#220483Passed
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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.

Introduced: May 10, 2022
Final action: Sep 16, 2022
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How they voted

RECOMMENDED
Government Audit and Oversight Committee · Jul 7, 2022Pass
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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