SF Public Defender’s Office to add 4 positions for immigration cases after $3.4M donation

SAN FRANCISCO HAS FORMALLY accepted a $3.4 million grant from the nonprofit Crankstart Foundation to bolster the city’s legal resources for immigrants. 

The grant will fund three additional immigration attorneys and a paralegal to work in the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office Immigration Defense Unit through February 2029. The grant was awarded earlier this year and was retroactively accepted under legislation signed last week by Mayor Daniel Lurie authorizing the Public Defender’s Office to receive and spend the money.