Article 1: Community Justice Center update
You may have heard or read that the new Community “Justice” Center (CJC) opened last week. Based on Brooklyn’s Red Hook Community Justice Center, the CJC is supposed to solve neighborhood problems...
View ArticleCrime of the Week – Shoplifting at Sephora
The second week of the new court has been more of the same. Each day, about five or six cases are scheduled to be heard in court, and most of the cases end up being discharged simply because they...
View ArticleNew Sheriff at the CJC
“There’s a new Sheriff at the CJC.” Well, actually, not really. Our regular judge is out of town on vacation, and we have a substitute judge at the CJC for a few weeks. At our first morning meeting...
View ArticleCJC as a Microcosm of SF’s Criminal Justice and Social Service Systems
It is hard to believe that a month has gone by since I started working at the CJC. My decision to staff the court myself was a product of necessity, since I just don’t have the staffing for this court....
View ArticleInjustice Watch: If It’s Broke, Who’s Responsible for Fixing it?
By Jeff Adachi The fact that the criminal justice system is, at times, unjust in its outcomes is rarely questioned. Only in the extreme cases, where a person is wrongfully imprisoned for a serious...
View ArticleThe CJC: Stand and Deliver
by Jeff Adachi There hasn’t been a lot happening at the Community Justice Center, so I haven’t blogged for a couple of weeks. There is no surge of cases to report. The caseload flow is still very...
View ArticleCrime, Coercion and the CJC
By Jeff Adachi One of the ongoing debates of late surrounding the Community Justice Court concerns the question of how to force a person to change their behavior. The CJC might be viewed as a social...
View ArticleAn Evidence-Based Report on the Community Justice Center
by Jeff Adachi Now that it has been operational for three months, the Community Justice Center (CJC) should be evaluated based upon a factual and empirical analysis of objective data from the cases...
View ArticleWhy the Public Defender Is Withdrawing from Providing Representation at the CJC
On Monday, August 3, the Public Defender’s office began refusing new cases at the Community Justice Center. This decision was made because our office does not have sufficient attorney staff to handle...
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