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Bay Area political events: Swing Left, campus policing April 19, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: MONDAY Pandemic economic recovery: How California government and private efforts will affect the economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic. Participants include Angela Glover Blackwell, founder in residence of PolicyLink; Julian Canete, president and CEO of the California Hispanic Chambers of Commerce; and Till Von Wachter, economics professor at UCLA. Hosted by KQED. 6 p.m. More information is here. Earth ...

New documentary released by public defender's office Bay City News Service FacebookTwitterEmail SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) A new documentary made with help from the San Francisco Public Defender's Office aims to shed light on the conditions of a halfway house in the city's Tenderloin neighborhood amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The 11-minute film, "One Eleven Taylor," documents what the public defender's office says are dangerous conditions at the re-entry center located at 111 Taylor St. The film documents residents' experiences as they struggle with what they say is a lack of COVID-19 protocols at the...

Sam Whiting February 3, 2021Updated: February 4, 2021, 2:44 pm Along Jeff Adachi Way near the San Francisco Hall of Justice, public defender Mano Raju holds a photo carried in the vigil for the late public defender. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle Santhosh Daniel was running the Global Film Initiative when he got a call out of the blue from San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi, who was a documentary filmmaker on the side. Adachi wanted to talk about his idea to create a series of films that broke down the whole process of legal defense for people who cannot afford any o...