Individual defenders' accounts of their day-to-day experiences can resonate because of their raw authenticity. [7]Similarly, the Los Angeles Public Defender's Office shared on Facebook a local editorial discussing retroactive sentencing relief for minor drug crimes. [5] Cook County Public Defender's Office, Facebook (Nov. 4, 2022, 1:23PM), https://www.facebook.com/CookCoDefender [6] See, e.g., Cook County Public Defender's Office, Facebook (Oct. 21, 2022, 10:40AM), https://www.facebook.com/CookCoDefender (publicizing an upcoming event where the Public Defender will address bail reform). [7] Cook County Public Defender's Office, Facebook (Oct. 31, 2022, 11:51AM), https://www.facebook.com/CookCoDefender [8] Los Angeles County Public Defender, Facebook (Nov. 4, 2022, 10:26PM), https://www.facebook.com/LACOUNTYPD [9] Summer Harlow, Social Media and Social Movements: Facebook and an Online Guatemalan Justice Movement that Moved Offline, 14 New Media & Soc'y 225, 239 (2011). [11] Eliza Orlins (@elizaorlins), Twitter (Jan. 21, 2018, 10:47 PM), https://twitter.com/elizaorlins/status/955300859780399109 [12] SCA (@scasca16), Twitter (June 17, 2021), https://twitter.com/scasca16/status/1405577572864385031 [13] Orleans Public Defenders (@orleanspublicdefenders), Instagram (Aug. 25, 2022), https://www.instagram.com/p/Chsta32LgmR/ [14] Orleans Public Defenders (@orleanspublicdefenders), Instagram (Aug. 26, 2022), https://www.instagram.com/p/ChvFOzcp9wK/ [15] Id.

Source: Forbes July 21, 2023 19:55 UTC