Board of Directors Candidacy Questionnaire

 
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The National Lawyers Guild SF Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF) is inviting committed and passionate members to run for an at-large position on our Board of Directors. The NLGSF Board of Directors plays a crucial role in governance, fundraising, strategic planning, and supporting administrative and financial matters of the organization. This is an exciting time for NLGSF as we begin our search for a new Executive Director, further develop our internal programs, and expand our membership base. Elections will take place in April 2020.

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If N/A, why do you want to be more involved with / active in NLGSF?

Immigration Know Your Rights Presentation Requests

If you are a community group and would like to request a Know Your Rights training by members of the NLG-SF immigration committee and trained affiliates, please fill out these forms and answer questions fully and we will get back to you. Please note that we are an all volunteer group, and cannot guarantee presenters for every request made. Please therefore allow for at least 4 weeks notice to allow us adequate time to find presenters and plan the format with organizers. This information is privileged and confidential. Thank you!

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Movement Defense Clinic - Volunteer Form

We’re asking each organization to identify 1-3 people to volunteer to sign up for one shift each. Please list volunteers from your organization and their contact information for the following shifts.

If your group can offer interpretation or rides, please also provide details here.
Contact for organization
Enter the name of who will be the person to correspond with on behalf of your organization

Movement Defense Clinic - Participant Form

Register your organization for a two-day movement defense and resilience clinic for NLGSF and movement partners: one day to develop skills with which to prepare and defend against state repression and reactionary forces and one day to look at how we can build our resilience and community preparedness.
Person of contact
Enter the name of who will be the person to correspond with on behalf of your organization
Enter the full names of those you are registering to attend
The venue is a 20 minute walk from BART. We are asking organizations to arrange rides for those participating from their organizations. Please let us know if your organization CANNOT provide transportation for your members and if rides are needed.

ICOP Observation Sheet

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For Master Calendar hearings only
For Master Calendar hearings only
For Bond Hearings only
For Bond Hearings only
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Immigration Court Observation Program Volunteer Training Request

To obtain consistent, usable data, we require that volunteer groups commit to weekly 3 hour observation slots, for a period of 6-8 weeks at minimum. Observations will be at 630 Sansome St, San Francisco.
Trainings are 2 hours.

Demonstrations Volunteer Support

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Volunteer Questions - Please check "Yes" for any support you are available to offer

If you are an attorney, please answer questions below

Becoming a LOSP Mentee

Please fill out this form if you are not currently in law school and want to be matched with a Guild mentor through the Law Office Study Program (LOSP) This program is open to current legal worker or non-attorney members of NLGSF. To join as a member, visit https://nlgsf.org/members/

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Prisoner Advocacy Network Intake Form

The Prisoner Advocacy Network is a volunteer network of attorneys, legal workers, law student, activists, and family members collaborating with people in solitary confinement and similar conditions of administrative segregation, adjustment centers and gender-based segregation in California prisons on advocating for their humanity and rights.

Our focus is narrow and specific — supporting people in California’s solitary confinement and similar conditions of isolation such as security housing units (SHUs), administrative segregation, and gender-based segregation. We prioritize advocating for jailhouse lawyers and those engaged in political activity.

Volunteers will advocate for individual prisoners and their loved ones experiencing discrimination, retaliation or a lack of upholding of their rights as well as gather evidence and documentation of the conditions of torture and violations of human rights prisoners in the SHU and like-conditions face. For more information, please visit our website page here.

If you know of an incarcerated individual who falls within the scope of our services, please fill out the following form and someone from PAN will contact you. You may also print out a paper form to fill out, which can also be sent inside to California prisoners, along with this brochure.

Important Information: PAN cannot work with every person who writes to us. We prioritize people who are activists and suffering extreme conditions, solitary, or emergency issues. We train and match advocates with correspondents twice a year (usually September & February). We will do our best to recruit a qualified advocate for you if your issues fit within PAN’s scope. Please send legal mail to the address below. We will copy, scan, file, and return any original materials you send. NOTE: IT MAY TAKE UP TO 5 WEEKS FOR PAN TO PROCESS MAIL. PLEASE SEND PAN COPIES, EVEN IF HANDWRITTEN, INSTEAD OF ORIGINALS IF THE ORIGINAL IS NEEDED FOR A TIME SENSITIVE DEADLINE (e.g., due back to CDCR for as a higher level appeal within 30 days of the day you mail the letter to PAN).

Prisoner Advocacy Network
National Lawyers Guild, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
Jesse A. Stout, Esq. CASBN #284544
558 Capp St. San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 285-5067, Fax (415) 285-5066 pan@nlgsf.org

You can find this number and confirm a prisoner's address at the CDCR inmate locator: http://inmatelocator.cdcr.ca.gov/.
e.g., daughter, wife, volunteer in receipt of letter from X organization, etc.
Optionally, list any demographic information about the prisoner you believe to be relevant, e.g., gender identity, sexual orientation, race, disability, HIV status, etc.
When did issue(s) start or incident(s) occur? How long has it/have they been going on?
On September 1, 2015, the parties in the class action lawsuit Ashker v. Brown announced an intended settlement. Under the settlement’s policies, individuals can no longer be held in the SHU for indeterminate amounts of time. The policy states that time in Pelican Bay SHU is capped at five years, absent extraordinary circumstances. Additionally, the SHU placement process has changed. Now CDCR must find someone guilty of a disciplinary violation or behavior in order to be eligible for SHU placement (as opposed to accuse them of gang membership). Previously, individuals were put in the SHU indefinitely for their political affiliation, or association with a “security threat group,” as defined by CDCR policy. For those who are currently serving an indeterminate term, the proposed settlement puts a process in place to get out.
This includes class action cases, any current criminal cases, criminal appeals, or a civil suit for conditions or otherwise.
You may upload an intake letter from the prisoner here. The scanned letter must be in pdf format and no more than 2 MB.
Files must be less than 2 MB.
Allowed file types: pdf.

Prisoner Advocacy Network Volunteer Form

The Prisoner Advocacy Network

We are a volunteer network of attorneys, legal workers, law student, activists, and family members collaborating with people in solitary confinement and similar conditions of administrative segregation, adjustment centers and gender-based segregation in California prisons on advocating for their humanity and rights. Volunteers will advocate for individual prisoners and their loved ones experiencing discrimination, retaliation or a lack of upholding of their rights as well as gather evidence and documentation of the conditions of torture and violations of human rights prisoners in the SHU and like-conditions face.

Who We Support

Our focus is narrow and specific – supporting people in California’s solitary confinement and similar conditions of isolation such as security housing units (SHUs), administrative segregation, and gender-based segregation. We prioritize advocating for jailhouse lawyers and those engaged in political activity.

Responsibilities

As an outside volunteer you are agreeing to a commitment of one year until an issue is resolved, whichever is shorter. More is encouraged. You will work with one individual inside prison, or a family member to advocate for better conditions. This may take the form of gathering documentation and evidence, writing advocacy letters or calling prison officials, elected officials, and other regulators on behalf of the incarcerated person or family member.

For more information, please visit our page.

e.g. formerly incarcerated, policy work, research, letter writing, medical training, disability training
While we cannot guarantee this, we will try to match people. Some examples might include: a certain prison, custody lever, gender identity or presentation, LGBT, a family member, or juveniles.

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