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Public Defender awarded federal innovation grant to develop national checklist system to improve indigent defense
San Francisco Board of Supervisors Budget and Finance Subcommittee · April 30, 2014
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Summary
The Public Defender's Office announced a roughly $400,000 Bureau of Justice Assistance grant to create and pilot a checklist system to reduce errors in indigent defense, to be evaluated with the Center for Court Innovation and piloted partially in Alameda County.
The committee heard from Simeon Shamji of the Public Defender's Office that the office received a Bureau of Justice Assistance Encouraging Innovation Grant to develop a checklist…
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