Improving Juvenile Defense in California and Hawaii

Pacific Juvenile
Defender Center

 

Pacific Juvenile Defender Center
1254 Market Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102
(415) 863-3762 x 314
Fax (415) 863-7708


Staff

Patricia Lee
San Francisco Public Defender's Office - Juvenile Division
PJDC Co-Director

Abigail Trillin
Legal Services for Children
PJDC Co-Director

Dan Macallair
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
PJDC Policy Director

Brian Lambert
Legal Services for Children
PJDC Program Coordinator

Advisory Panel

Edmund Acoba, Hawaii Public Defender's Office (Hawaii)
Carolyn Brown, Hawaii Public Defender's Office (Oahu)
JoKamae Byrne, Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii
Elizabeth Calvin, Consultant, Founder and Former Director of Team Child
Roger Chan, Alameda County Public Defender's Office
Julie Croghan, Los Angeles Public Defender's Office
Sharon Meadows, University of San Francisco School of Law
Matthew Perantoni, Riverside Public Defender's Office
Winston Peters, Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office

Collaborative Agencies

Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice

CJCJ is a private non-profit organization whose mission is to reduce society's reliance on the use of incarceration as a solution to social problems. This is done through the provision of programs to persons facing imprisonment, education efforts, about imprisonment and its effect on people, and technical assistance to entities wishing to establish and/or evaluate programs working with those facing imprisonment.

Legal Services for Children

LSC provides free direct legal services to poor children and youth in the San Francisco Bay Area. Using an attorney-social worker team approach, LSC represents youth in the Juvenile, Probate, and Family Courts, and provides advocacy in guardianships, emancipations, conflict resolution mediation, and in hearings arising out of school discipline, special education entitlements, and others.

San Francisco Public Defender - Juvenile Division

SFPD Juvenile Division provides direct representation in delinquency matters to over 900 juveniles a year. The office seeks to address clients' behavioral, educational, and emotional needs and to help clients gain access to services that can substitute for or negate the perceived need for preventative detention and post-disposition incarceration.