Protecting and Serving Victims
Providing steadfast victim advocacy for crime victims. Created specialty units focused on Cold Cases and Human Trafficking. The unanimous choice for District Attorney by law enforcement associations and crime victims’ advocacy organizations.
Treatment Instead of Jailing – Mental Illness & Addiction
Mental Health Court and Addiction Intervention Court: Providing treatment instead of incarceration, with proven results, for those committing crimes due to their serious mental illness and/or substance use disorder. Learn more about our innovative programs.
Empathy for the Homeless
Developing law enforcement’s empathy for the homeless, by partnering with Glide Church in the San Francisco Tenderloin District. Prosecutors brought face-to-face with homelessness.
Transparency
Building Public Trust and Confidence. Launched a first-of-its-kind interactive webpage, created with Measures for Justice, for the public to explore the data and examine issues of racial and sentence disparity in the criminal justice system.
Engaging Diverse Stakeholders & Building Community Trust
Developed The DA’s Multi-Cultural Community Council: An advisory body of racially, religiously and culturally diverse residents. Also developed an annual Citizens Academy –an 8-week program to educate the public about our local criminal justice system.
Protecting All People
Enacting policies to protect communities and “all affected by crime” by always treating victims, witnesses, and defendants with respect and ensuring that truth, justice and fairness drive every decision today and moving forward.
Restorative Justice
Neighborhood Court – Using restorative justice, rather than the traditional courtroom, to resolve incidents that occur in the community. Treating those living with mental illness and substance use disorders by diverting them out of court.
Conviction and Sentencing Review
Reviewing cases to both find and correct wrongful convictions and to consider reducing lengthy prison sentences where a Second Chance is justified. Conviction and Sentencing Review.
Immigration Consequences
Always considering the immigration impacts of deportation and family separation that the criminal justice system can have upon non-citizens, to ensure that the collateral consequences of convictions are fair.
Protecting the Environment
Dedicated unit which holds businesses and corporations accountable for unfair practices and damage they cause to the environment.
Addressing Bias and Disparity
First DA’s office in CA to put Race-Blind Charging into case management system.
Innovation
Eco-Friendly. First DA’s office in CA to become paperless. No paper files, all electronic files; easy access to data. Increasing efficiency to focus on public safety. Repurposed file room as Restorative Justice Partnership.
Schools to Prison Pipeline
Yolo DA Developed and Sponsors an Annual Youth Leadership Academy to attack the school to prison pipeline. Collaboration with law enforcement, judges, and local defense attorneys to educate at risk high school students about the criminal justice system and encourage leadership within the community.
Adverse Childhood Experiences
District Attorney Initiated FOCUS Program. Focusing On Helping Children Exposed to Trauma – District Attorney helped create a notification system linking first responders to school district to reduce impact of trauma suffered by children.