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Lenore Anderson

Lenore Anderson
A former punk drummer turned prosecutor, Lenore Anderson is the founder and president of the Alliance for Safety and Justice. She is a former chief of policy at the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office, former director of public safety for the Oakland mayor, and the recipient of a James Irvine Foundation Leadership Award and a Frank Carrington Crime Victim Attorney Award. The author of In Their Names (The New Press), she lives in Oakland, California.


Prosecution Over Protection: How the Justice System Treats Entire Communities as Suspects

Lenore Anderson on the Politically Motivated Focus on Drug Convictionsr
December 5, 2022  By Lenore Anderson
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