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Budget committee backs Public Defender plan to expand Clean Slate unit with $285,000 in foundation grants
Summary
The Budget & Finance Committee voted to send to the full Board an ordinance allowing the Public Defender’s Office to accept $285,000 in grants to expand its Clean Slate program by about 50% and add two grant-funded positions.
Chair Matt Haney and the Budget & Finance Committee on April 14 recommended that the full Board approve a retroactive ordinance authorizing the Public Defender’s Office to accept $285,000 in foundation funding and expand its Clean Slate unit.
Public Defender Mano Raju told the committee the funding — $250,000 from the Crank Start Foundation and $35,000 from the Kelson/Kelsen Foundation — would…
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