Meeting: Don't Change the Public Defender Hiring Process

Emergency Public Safety Meeting
Don't Change the Public Defender Hiring Process
Saturday, February 9
8am
Monroe County Office Building
39 West Main Street, Downtown, Rochester

The fight of the Monroe County Public Defender Coalition -- is the right fight and needs your support. Thirty four years ago young men and women who could not afford an attorney in this community were being plea bargained down the river by the Monroe County Public Defenders Office.

We fought and fixed the problem, removing politics from the process that chose the head of that office. Jesus says, “You shall know a tree by the fruit it produces”. The process that was established over thirty years ago produced one of the best Public Defender’s Office in the Nation. It insulated the office from becoming a dumping ground for political party faithfuls and political hacks.

Instead, caring, hardworking, qualified attorneys were brought in to serve. Today the Republican majority within the County Legislature want to return us to that place and time when justice was not served. We as a community can’t afford to let that happen!

If it “Ain’t Broke -- Don’t Fix It” Keep the process in place that has served this community well and brought National acclaim to Monroe County. We need your help.

Coalition for a Fair and Independent Monroe County Public Defender’s Selection Process

David Gantt, Member of Assembly, 133rd District
Bishop Mathew Clark, Diocese of Rochester
Bishop Jack McKelvey, Episcopal Diocese of Rochester
James Norman, Action for a Better Community
William Clark, Judicial Process Commission (Urban League)
Lovely Warren, Chair, RBBA Diversity Committee
Rev. James Cherry, Aenon Baptist Church
Rev. Errol Hunt, Rochester Faith Alliance
Min. Franklin Florence, Rochester Faith Alliance
Ron Thomas, Baden Street Settlement House
Calvin Lee, Montgomery Neighborhood Center
Sue Porter, Judicial Process Commission
Grace Miller, House of Mercy
Daan Braveman, President, Nazareth College
Robert Brown, Laborer’s Local 435
Joe Brown, NAACP
Sister Beth LeValley, SSJ
Dorothy Borgus, League of Women Voters
Brian Hetherington
Peter Peters, Interfaith Alliance

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Jon Greenbaum, Metro Justice Organizer

office 585.325.2560
cell 585.880.8731