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Next speaker, please. Good afternoon, supervisors. Ive had the honor of serving alongside jeff adachi as a fellow public defender and under his leadership when he was chief attorney and then our head. Ive been there for 22 years. I wanted to give a little bit of a background of our presence there on gilbert location. Before we moved to the location where we are currently on 557 street, we were in the hall of justice. In the mid1980s we moved our location to where we are now, partly because we wanted to have a place that was safe. Gilbert street is our back yard. Each day our attorneys back to ...

One thing that jeff has always imprinted on my life is that we can always find better, we can always love each other and respect. This is still a city full of hope for peace, justice, and art. Thank you very much, supervisors. Next speaker, please. Thank you. Im a spokeswoman for the Public Defenders Office. On behalf of the Department Today and with respect to our neighborhoods, we support the renaming of gilbert street to jeff adachi way and we thank you for proposing this. Jeff adachi left a mark on this city and having his name outside would be a reminder of his fight for civil and human r...