Important Update from Occupy Legal
Please check out this important update regarding the future of the Occupy Legal hotline.Update for 1/28 Oakland Arrestees
If you were arrested on Saturday, January 28th in Oakland, please check out this update. Also, please come to one of our arrestee meetings:- Thursday, February 16th at 6:00pm and Sunday February 19th at 12:00pm
- at the California Nurses Association
- 2000 Franklin Street
- Oakland (map: http://g.co/maps/r4sx8).
Legal Hotline
415-285-1011
After four months of nearly 24/7 hotline coverage, we are now only running the hotline for large planned actions and for emergency management. We will check the messages on that number 7 days a week, between the hours of 4-8 pm, and will return calls for people with questions regarding arrests, court, attorneys etc. within 24 hours. The hotline number is still available to use as a legal support hotline for large actions. We do need prior notice and help in recruiting volunteers to run the hotline. We want to continue to connect activists with attorneys and legal workers who can help with arrests and other legal issues. Also, want to help you set up your own hotline where appropriate and help facilitate legal support for your own actions.Note: We only have resources to support folks in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you live elsewhere, please visit this page to find local legal support.
Donate!
It costs money to accept collect calls from jail, print out know your rights materials, send out bright green hats to legal observers, and brew coffee for our overnight hotline shifts! Consider sending a few bucks our way via this paypal link or you can also send checks to the National Lawyers Guild SF, 558 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 with the memo "Occupy Legal".About Occupy Legal
Occupy Legal is a collective of activists, lawyers, and legal workers dedicated to supporting economic justice occupation encampments in the San Francisco Bay Area. Occupy Legal works to transform the demoralizing experience of arrest and incarceration into an empowering one. We are working in collaboration with the Bay Area chapter of the National Lawyers Guild.What we will do:
- Provide "Know Your Rights" information and trainings
- Provide materials on documenting injuries and police misconduct
- Staff a hotline - 415.285.1011
- Organize and dispatch legal observers when needed
- Track people in jail to make sure everyone gets out
- Provide emergency support to people who are having a crisis in jail
- Help people who are not released from jail
- Find lawyers to meet with and defend arrestees on criminal charges. We can often find lawyers willing to work for free
- Organize a meeting for arrestees (if needed)
- Maintain a website - http://occupylegal.info
What we can't do:
- Handle bail/bond - we can't raise funds, arrange bail, or otherwise deal with money
- Provide logistical support for people as they are released from jail (rides, food, medical/emotional support)
- Guarantee free representation for the duration of your criminal case
- We may not have resources to represent people who are being held in jail due to prior unrelated charges
- Make legal decisions for you - we will give information, but in the end, your actions are your own