Brendon Woods

ABA honors 2025 public service award recipients The ABA Journal is read by half of the nation's 1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Honored to receive the Dorsey Award. Any award I receive is because of my amazing colleagues at the Alameda County Public Defender's Office & the clients we are fortunate enough to serve. Thank you @americanbar.org‬ "ABA honors 2025 public service award recipients" www.abajournal.com/web/article/...

Thank you @ktvu2.bsky.social for having me on this morning to talk about our Annual Public Defender Community Block Party happening Saturday, May 31 from 12-4 at DeFremery Park in West Oakland. Food, 50 community partners, DJ Rack-12, kids fun zone, immigration know your rights and more! Come thru!

A program paying California jurors $100 a day would end abruptly due to Newsom’s new budget In summary California’s experiment with increasing pay for jury duty would come to an early end under the new budget Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking lawmakers to approve.

A program paying California jurors $100 a day would end abruptly due to Newsom’s new budget. We spend $14 billion to incarcerate mostly Black and Brown people and we can't spend $27 million to make sure our juries are more diverse! www.newsfromthestates.com/article/prog...

We’re hiring three new full-time immigration defense attorneys to join our immigration unit as a direct response to the federal government’s attack on our community members. Join us in fighting detention, deportation, & separation! #NoHumanIsIlegal #DefendImmigrants

US Justice Department cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims The U.S. Justice Department has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from services for mental health care for police officers to support programs for victims of crime and sexual assault, according to internal records and four people familiar with the matter.

Is this your "law and order" president? Can you imagine the outcry we would hear from the right if a democrat did this? But instead, all we get is silence....

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U.S. says it is now monitoring immigrants' social media for antisemitism Effective immediately, the government says it will begin screening immigrant social media for activity that officials think indicates support for antisemitism.

How about we monitor this administration’s social media accounts for anti-blackness! And deport them. There will not be a single one left. www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g...

As Deportation Fears Rise, Alameda County Invests in Immigrant Legal Defense | KQED The Alameda County Board of Supervisors allocated $1.3 million to the Alameda Public Defender’s immigration unit.

We will be staffing up to protect our immigrant community members from the attacks of this current administration. Thank you to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors for providing much needed funding for Immigration Defense. #HereToStay #NoHumanIsIllegal www.kqed.org/news/1203400...

Had a great time teaching LYRIC - Learn Your Rights In California - last week at Oakland High. It was one of our largest LYRICS ever. Over 120 students in attendance. Knowing your rights now is more important than ever. Thank you for having us. #KnowYourRights #LYRIC #Defender

Thank you Alameda County Board of Supervisors & CAO! Special Thank You to Supervisor Marquez and Supervisor Bas, the Chairs of the Alameda County Together For All Ad-hoc Committee for making sure that the residents of Alameda County are protected during these times. #HereToStay #NoHumanIsIllegal

New year, new shirt. No matter what this administration throws at us, we’re ready. We will fight for our clients. We will fight for your rights. We will fight to protect our immigrant community members. Paid by the government, to fight the government, we fight for you! #WeFightForYou #Defenders

Opinion: What California's response to Trump's threatened mass deportations is missing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and lawmakers have overlooked the first and most important line of defense for vulnerable immigrants: public defenders.

The state’s leaders are overlooking our legal system’s single most important means of preventing mass deportations: public defenders. This is a must read and we've been saying it for years #FundPublicDefense www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

California’s jail population will rise thanks to Prop. 36. So will inmate deaths, advocates say California jails saw historic numbers of in-custody deaths as inmate populations shrank. Now, they are expected to grow again as Proposition 36 takes effect.

Another article about how terrible Prop 36 will be. Yes - we will be sending people to jails & prison for petty theft & drug possession. People will die - instead of getting the false promise of treatment offered by the proponents of Prop 36 #CareNotCages calmatters.org/justice/2024...

Private prison CEOs are thrilled about Trump — and California’s Prop 36 Private prison executives are celebrating November’s election results, with one pointing to the passage of California's Proposition 36 as a possible boon.

For those that believed the lies told by prosecutors & law enforcement about Prop 36 – please read this article. Private Prison CEO’s are thrilled. Prop 36 will not provide treatment it will lead to more people being incarcerated & more being deported. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

After pandemic explosion, California drug overdose deaths are falling fast Drug fatalities have been on a extended decline for the first time in at least a decade.

Remember this article. Remember this when law enforcement & prosecutors say that Prop 36 and other harsh sentencing laws were responsible for turning this crisis around. Expanded treatment & intervention is what has worked not laws that send more people to prison www.eastbaytimes.com/2024/12/15/d...

We need public defenders more than ever. We need people to defend our clients against the harms of the criminal punishment system. We need people to fight mass incarceration, to fight systemic racism, to fight for our communities. Join us! Apply by 12/9 acgov.org/hrs

We need public defenders more than ever. We need people to defend our clients against the harms of the criminal punishment system. We need people to fight mass incarceration, to fight systemic racism, to fight for our communities. Join us! Apply by 12/9 acgov.org/hrs

Prosecutors have nearly $1 billion more than public defenders. That’s not a fair fight With a nearly $1 billion funding disparity, it’s no wonder California’s prisons are overcrowded with low-income Black and brown people.

New platform, same message – if you really care about mass incarceration and addressing the harms caused by this broken criminal legal system then #FundPublicDefense #EndMassIncarceration #CareNotCages
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How do you want to use your law degree? If you want to fight mass incarceration, fight racism, fight poverty, fight for liberation, fight for your communities – Then Join Us! Apply by 12/9 #Defender #EndMassIncarceration acgov.org/hrs

How do you want to use your law degree? If you want to fight mass incarceration, fight racism, fight poverty, fight for liberation, fight for your communities – Then Join Us! Apply by 12/9 #Defender #EndMassIncarceration acgov.org/hrs

Today as we gather with family and friends – we are also sending love to the 1.9 million people incarcerated in jails & prisons in the US. We see you. #EndMassIncarceration #CareNotCages

yeah...today I am thankful to be moving to @bsky.app