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Affirmative Litigation

BaKari Etter, et al. v. Solano County, et al., 9/17/26 — First Amended Complaint

 Scholl – First Amended Complaint, 8/12/2025 (1)

Amicus Briefs

Amicus Brief– Roberts v. State of Oregon 2/5/26

Amicus Brief — Ayon-Urbano v. Supreme Court (Oregon), 1/13/26

Amicus Letter in Support of PFR Kjoller – Kjoller v. Superior Court, 11/21/25

Amicus Brief – of Center for Constitutional Rights, Bates v. DeSantis, 8/14/25

Amicus Curiae — from CLJC in Ricky Jay Lisby v. Contra Costa County Superior Court, 8/14/25

Amicus Brief — The People v. Superior Court (Touray), 3/10/25

Amicus Brief — Casuga v. Oregon, 2/25/2025

Amicus Brief — Snap Inc v. Superior Court of San Diego County, 2/24/25

Amicus Curiae letter brief  in support of Ms. Teran’s petition for writ of prohibition – 2/19/25

Amicus Brief — McDaniel v. Superior Court of San Mateo County, 2/11/25

Amicus Brief — Hannah v. Oregon, 6/13/24

Amicus Brief — Silicon Valley DeBug, 11/8/2023

 

Op-Ed

Alameda County should learn from San Francisco’s pretrial services mistake — San Francisco Chronicle, 9/30/26

Children Deserve the Right to Hug Their Incarcerated Parents — Current Affairs, 9/9/26

California keeps passing progressive criminal justice reforms and failing to fund them–San Francisco Chronicle, 7/15/26

A prosecutor rigged a grand jury in Chicago. In California, she’d have been caught — The San Francisco Standard, 6/11/26

Alameda Voters to Weigh Reinstating Resentencing Program Halted by DA–Davis Vanguard, 5/19/26

California’s law limiting bail is clear. Will judges keep ignoring it?– LA Times, 5/6/26

Alcatraz is a relic of cruelty. It should stay that way–Golden State, 5/5/26

The failures of Prop 36 expose the flaws in California’s ballot initiative process–San Francisco Chronicle, 5/5/26 

Lurie’s plan for drug users is neither jail nor a treatment program. That’s a problem–San Francisco Chronicle, 3/16/26

Voters want both ‘tough on crime’ and compassionate reform- Los Angeles Times, 11/4/25

La oposición a Trump busca equilibrio – EL PAÍS, 7/13/25

Trump’s hypothetical Alcatraz plan is scary. His move to end prison rape protections is scarier – San Francisco Chronicle, 5/6/25

Broken rules, broken justice: The DNA evidence problem — Daily Journal, 3/5/25

With all eyes on Trump, this crucial California criminal case has flown under the radar — San Francisco Chronicle, 1/26/25

The Supreme Court could make homelessness worse in America — Salon, 4/20/24

San Francisco is punting its failures on homelessness to Trump judges — San Francisco Standard, 3/2/24

Why I’m Not Running for Office in 2024 — San Francisco Chronicle, 5/31/23

Scholarship

Holding Justice Accountable: Intensive vs. Extensive Margins in Prosecutor Elections– Public Opinion Quarterly, Yogev, 1/18/26

How do people react to policy reform? Group cues and persuasion in criminal justice — Criminology, Yogev, 12/29/25

California Resentencing Guide For Life Without Parole Sentences (LWOP), 9/15/25

Defense Lawyers and the Separation of Powers, Wake Forest Law Review, 2/17/25

The Intersection of Climate Justice and Criminal Justice Extreme: Heat and Health Inequities in Carceral Facilities — JAMA, 1/22/25

Attribution Matters: How Causal Explanations Influence Perceptions of Dangerousness and Racial Classification — Criminal Justice and Behavior, 12/31/24

Towards Pretrial Criminal Adjudication , Boston College Law Review, 11/19/24

Establishing National Standards for Carceral Health Care — The Federal Prison Oversight Act, JAMA, 11/18/2024

California’s Mental Health Diversion Courts: Navigating Failures and Charting Solutions — IAFMHS Newsletter 2024 9 – 4 Quarter

Criminal Justice Reform is Health Care Reform — JAMA, 12/14/2023

Reports

Post Conference Report_Accountability in Action_9.1.26

Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) Case Appeal Outcomes and Processing Timelines (1920–March 2026): Exploratory Data Analysis, 8/24/26

Contracted to Fail, Part 2: How Flat-Fee Contracts Undermine the Right to Counsel in California–Wren Collective, 7/21/26

From Compliance to Prevention: Understanding and Strengthening Responses to Reports of Sexual Misconduct in California State Men’s Prisons, AMEND at UCSF, 7/15/26

Contact Is a Right: Prioritizing and Protecting Family Connection in Prisons and Jails, 6/27/26

Proposition 36: What Voters Ordered, What They Got, and Where do We Go from Here, 4/17/26

Resentencing in the U.S.: A Practice with a Net Positive Impact, 3/26

Measuring the Impact of Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing in Alameda County, 2/26

Contracted to Fail: How Flat-Fee Contracts Undermine the Right to Counsel in California — The Wren Collective, 3/19/25

Using Discretion to Achieve Prop 36 Goals

 

 

Right2Hug

BaKari Etter, et al. v. Solano County, et al., 9/17/26 — First Amended Complaint

Solano County: Lawsuit Alleges Solano Sheriff and Jail Contractor Banned Visits and Illegally Profited from Video Calls, SF Gate, 7/26/26

Lawsuit Alleges Solano County Profits from Banning In-Person Family Visits, Davis Vanguard, 7/24/26

Solano County profited from inmate video calls after banning in-person jail visits, lawsuit says, The SF Chronicle, 7/23/26

BaKari Etter, et al. v. Solano County, et al., 7/22/26

Declaration of BaKari Etter, 7/17/26

Declaration of Debbie Fernandez, 6/23/26

Declaration of Joseph Duran Jr., 6/16/26

Declaration of Kenetra Chappelle, 6/16/26