My work inbox today was filled w/ colleagues going all out.
Let’s start w/ jail services—social workers who spend most days on Rikers—creating a flyer in a English/Spanish for people jailed & their family members w/ their cell phone numbers to notify immediately if any issues.
Let’s start w/ jail services—social workers who spend most days on Rikers—creating a flyer in a English/Spanish for people jailed & their family members w/ their cell phone numbers to notify immediately if any issues.
Supervising attorneys sending updates on a range of legal issues, videoconferencing how-tos, arraignment updates, adminstrative adjournment information, reassigning people in court & overseeing case coverage. And more.
Colleague after colleague offering to help out in the courtrooms that were open to minimize the number of people who had to go into court.
The IT department working overtime to ensure people working from home have access to the interoffice systems that will allow people to continue their representations.
The Chief of Trials offering ongoing consultations on any pending or upcoming hearing, trial, motion, or other legal issue all day.
There is a full thread of reply-all’s from attorneys who are not able to go to court because of the risk of exposure offering to write motions for those who are in court covering all the cases. “Send me your stuff! Tell me what I can do!”
The Attorney-in-Charge of the @BklynDefender Education and Employment Unit reminding all staff that his team is there to help navigate some parts of the desperate situations of the havoc coronavirus is wreaking in clients' lives w/ specific, rapid response information.
Our policy and advocacy team continuing behind and in-front-of scenes work on fighting back against bail rollbacks, for reform of solitary confinement, marijuana legalization, elder parole, jail conditions, family separation, ICE arrests and detention, and so many more issues.
