5/01: San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi

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First Hour: SF Public Defender Jeff Adachi - Jeff Adachi is currently fighting budget cuts proposed by Mayor Newsom that Adachi says would destroy his office's ability to provide adequate representation to their clients. Meanwhile, the Constitution Project, a bi-partisan commission, has issued a report on the poor state of indigent defense in this country. There has been a lot of interest both nationally and locally in how the criminal justice system may be affected by budget cuts to defender offices. Jeff will be discussing these issues and will tell us all about next week's Justice Summit that his office is hosting here in SF.

Second Hour: Educators for a Democratic Union - We'll be joined by Adrienne Johnstone and Darlene Anaya, two members of the EDU, a progressive reform-minded slate of candidates running for leadership of the United Educators - San Francisco. They'll tell us all about the changes they would bring as leaders of the SF teachers' union.