jeff adachi, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> would i would just like to specifically address the questions that you raised after the last hearing. if we can go to the first slide. >> overhead, please. >> one question that the board had was of the cases of detained immigrants in the san francisco court, how that would be distributed amongst other agencies, who are doing detained work? in our original proposal, i understand where we're at now and we originally requested 10 attorneys and 7 support staff and i understand from speaking to miss white-hours house the mayor's office is proposing two and supervisor fewer's proposal would strike somewhat of a balance, but we would want at least one more support staff to balance the ratio of attorneys to support staff. being that as it is, that would reduce the number of cases that we were able to handle to about 200-250. the nonprofits with the funding provided by the mayor's office would be at about 80 cases, and again, there are three nonprofits fun

jeff adachi, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> would i would just like to specifically address the questions that you raised after the last hearing. if we can go to the first slide. >> overhead, please. >> one question that the board had was of the cases of detained immigrants in the san francisco court, how that would be distributed amongst other agencies, who are doing detained work? in our original proposal, i understand where we're at now and we originally requested 10 attorneys and 7 support staff and i understand from speaking to miss white-hours house the mayor's office is proposing two and supervisor fewer's proposal would strike somewhat of a balance, but we would want at least one more support staff to balance the ratio of attorneys to support staff. being that as it is, that would reduce the number of cases that we were able to handle to about 200-250. the nonprofits with the funding provided by the mayor's office would be at about 80 cases, and again, there are three nonprofits fun

jeff adachi, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> would i would just like to specifically address the questions that you raised after the last hearing. if we can go to the first slide. >> overhead, please. >> one question that the board had was of the cases of detained immigrants in the san francisco court, how that would be distributed amongst other agencies, who are doing detained work? in our original proposal, i understand where we're at now and we originally requested 10 attorneys and 7 support staff and i understand from speaking to miss white-hours house the mayor's office is proposing two and supervisor fewer's proposal would strike somewhat of a balance, but we would want at least one more support staff to balance the ratio of attorneys to support staff. being that as it is, that would reduce the number of cases that we were able to handle to about 200-250. the nonprofits with the funding provided by the mayor's office would be at about 80 cases, and again, there are three nonprofits fun

jeff adachi, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> would i would just like to specifically address the questions that you raised after the last hearing. if we can go to the first slide. >> overhead, please. >> one question that the board had was of the cases of detained immigrants in the san francisco court, how that would be distributed amongst other agencies, who are doing detained work? in our original proposal, i understand where we're at now and we originally requested 10 attorneys and 7 support staff and i understand from speaking to miss white-hours house the mayor's office is proposing two and supervisor fewer's proposal would strike somewhat of a balance, but we would want at least one more support staff to balance the ratio of attorneys to support staff. being that as it is, that would reduce the number of cases that we were able to handle to about 200-250. the nonprofits with the funding provided by the mayor's office would be at about 80 cases, and again, there are three nonprofits fun

jeff adachi, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> would i would just like to specifically address the questions that you raised after the last hearing. if we can go to the first slide. >> overhead, please. >> one question that the board had was of the cases of detained immigrants in the san francisco court, how that would be distributed amongst other agencies, who are doing detained work? in our original proposal, i understand where we're at now and we originally requested 10 attorneys and 7 support staff and i understand from speaking to miss white-hours house the mayor's office is proposing two and supervisor fewer's proposal would strike somewhat of a balance, but we would want at least one more support staff to balance the ratio of attorneys to support staff. being that as it is, that would reduce the number of cases that we were able to handle to about 200-250. the nonprofits with the funding provided by the mayor's office would be at about 80 cases, and again, there are three nonprofits fun

jeff adachi, welcome. >> thank you. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> would i would just like to specifically address the questions that you raised after the last hearing. if we can go to the first slide. >> overhead, please. >> one question that the board had was of the cases of detained immigrants in the san francisco court, how that would be distributed amongst other agencies, who are doing detained work? in our original proposal, i understand where we're at now and we originally requested 10 attorneys and 7 support staff and i understand from speaking to miss white-hours house the mayor's office is proposing two and supervisor fewer's proposal would strike somewhat of a balance, but we would want at least one more support staff to balance the ratio of attorneys to support staff. being that as it is, that would reduce the number of cases that we were able to handle to about 200-250. the nonprofits with the funding provided by the mayor's office would be at about 80 cases, and again, there are three nonprofits fun

san francisco public defender jeff adachi and his staff are here to answer any questions. thank you. >> thank you very much for your passionate opening remarks. i would like to do two things. first i want to call up the mayor's office to make a brief presentation and to also recognize the public defender, jeff adachi, if you would like to make any additional remarks, so inviolate him to do . good morning, pleased to be with you this morning to share some of the engagement that the mayor's office has had with the philanthropic community about this issue supporting immigration and immigration services. beginninging in early november, obviously after the election, the mayor's office has been in contact with several philanthropic groups to seek out and understand their interest, as well as to share what the city is planning and what the city will be doing with regards to immigration support and when i say "philanthropic community" to be clear, with the mayor's office having several meetings with in december, january and february with the philanthropic community of 60 plus repr

and i want to recognize public defender jeff adachi, who went to great lengths to ensure he was heretoday. he had to leave earlier to honor another commitment. one that he committed to prior to scheduling of this item. and i want to lift up and just recognize a man that i don't know well, but you have come to well in last several year, francisco agarti, thank you for your leadership on everything, sanctuary city, immigration, just exactly what this department needs. supervisor fewer, i want to say thank you to you, being a newbie taking such an amazing effort on this item and i appreciate you not being afraid to grow in the spotlight. and i also want to recognize your hlc, who has also been just as instrumental and part of this entire conversation. also i want to recognize the aide in my office, yo-yo chan, talking to all the different stakeholders and not to be remiss, supervisor yee and supervisor tang you have incredible aides as well. there is enough aide love to go around. what i heard today from the advocates was very impassioned and thoughtful comments. and i want to -- i'm gr

and i want to recognize public defender jeff adachi, who went to great lengths to ensure he was heretoday. he had to leave earlier to honor another commitment. one that he committed to prior to scheduling of this item. and i want to lift up and just recognize a man that i don't know well, but you have come to well in last several year, francisco agarti, thank you for your leadership on everything, sanctuary city, immigration, just exactly what this department needs. supervisor fewer, i want to say thank you to you, being a newbie taking such an amazing effort on this item and i appreciate you not being afraid to grow in the spotlight. and i also want to recognize your hlc, who has also been just as instrumental and part of this entire conversation. also i want to recognize the aide in my office, yo-yo chan, talking to all the different stakeholders and not to be remiss, supervisor yee and supervisor tang you have incredible aides as well. there is enough aide love to go around. what i heard today from the advocates was very impassioned and thoughtful comments. and i want to -- i'm gr

the city gave the green light for public defender jeff adachi to hire threw new immigration attorneysparalegal. this is far short of what he wanted. the money comes from a budget surplus in his department and is only paying for the salaries through june. he actually asked for four times the number of new staff than he got. there are about 1500 immigrants who are currently detained in the city without representation. mayor ed lee has the final word on approving the new positions. >>> this morning, two strangers share a new friendship after teaming up to save a man who jumped into the bay. that heroic rescue caught on this cell phone video. a distraught man jumped into the water. these two good samaritans couldn't ignore what was happening in the water. one of them happens to be a former life guard. the other, just simply having lunch at pier 23. >> he started calling for his dad. delirious. and he started going underneath and the water going into his mouth and he really was -- looked like he was going to go under and not come up. >> all of a sudden, his head kind of dropped below the w

the city gave the green light for public defender jeff adachi to hire threw new immigration attorneysnd one paralegal. the money comes from a budget surplus and is only paying for those salaries through june. as. he wanted four times the number of new staff than he actually got. there are about 1500 immigrants who are currently detained in the city without representation. mayor ed lee has the final word on approving the new positions. >>> about to share a pretty amazing story. two strangers share a new friendship after teaming up to save a man who found himself in san francisco bay. the heroic rescue caught on cell phone video. witnesses say a distraught man jumped into the water at pier 23. these two guys, both in t-shirts at the time, couldn't ignore what was happening in the water. one of them happens to be a former life guard. the other, just a guy having lunch at pier 23. >> he started calling for his dad. delirious. and he started going underneath and the water going into his mouth and he really was -- looked like he was going to go under and not come up. >> all of a sudden, his

and i want to recognize public defender jeff adachi, who went to great lengths to ensure he was here today. he had to leave earlier to honor another commitment. one that he committed to prior to scheduling of this item. and i want to lift up and just recognize a man that i don't know well, but you have come to well in last several year, francisco agarti, thank you for your leadership on everything, sanctuary city, immigration, just exactly what this department needs. supervisor fewer, i want to say thank you to you, being a newbie taking such an amazing effort on this item and i appreciate you not being afraid to grow in the spotlight. and i also want to recognize your hlc, who has also been just as instrumental and part of this entire conversation. also i want to recognize the aide in my office, yo-yo chan, talking to all the different stakeholders and not to be remiss, supervisor yee and supervisor tang you have incredible aides as well. there is enough aide love to go around. what i heard today from the advocates was very impassioned and thoughtful comments. and i want to -- i'm g