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I would suggest that you take a look at the San Francisco Superior Courts web page Can't Afford to Pay. There are many ways to pay less, IF you plead guilty. What is omitted and I am sure not by accident is how to plead not guilty and get a trial date without first having paid the bail in full.If yo,u have a weekday free, or several weekday hours , I would suggest you become the squeaky wheel and sit down with your phone and a pad of paper and your computer and make it your project for the day to ask until you get a good answer: “How do I plead not guilty to a traffic violation if I don’t have the money to pay the bail?While cash bail was outlawed in California by Senate Bill 10, which was signed by then Governor Brown, in August 2018., the bail bond industry collected enough signature for a referendum which will be on the November 2020 ballot so it is not currently in effect.(The ACLU withdrew their support for the bill in its final form because it gave too much discretion and too much power to judges to make arbitrary decisions, so there is no certainty that it will survive the referendum.)People to contact after the General Information number for the court, could include, the office of whatever San Francisco Superior Court judge supervises the traffic court magistrates, the San Francisco Superior Court’s administrative office, The office of the San Francisco Courts presiding judge, the Judicial Council ( the policy making body of the California courts, located conveniently in San Francisco). Also, of course the San Francisco D.A.’s office which certainly knows the answer if they will tell you.You really shouldn’t have to pay a fee in order to exercise your right to have what gave you the ticket brought in and put under oath for you to examine and cross examine.However, while some citations are for legitimate reasons, traffic fines for often trivial or even imaginary offences (to meet quotas, or just because the police person is bored,) have become a huge cash cow which would be far less profitable if even a modest percentage of those cited exercised their right to a trial.You don’t have to pay to go to the arraignment which is what you agreed to do when you signed the ticket. And the magistrate there has the power to do what you want, set a trial date without you posting the full amount of the ticket as bail, or any bail but likely wouldn’t want to. So you need to find an alternative before hand.But make sure you do go to the arraignment.

I think she has gravitas and was a good choice as a VP for Biden. But I hope she never becomes president.Here are a few of the reasons:Kamala Harris: No Friend to Criminal Justice ReformDuring her time as San Francisco's district attorney, Harris oversaw the city's mismanaged crime lab. A San Francisco superior court judge ruled that the D.A.'s office ignored demands that it take responsibility for the lab's failings, and that it violated defendants' rights by hiding information about a corrupt technician who had been stealing cocaine.As attorney general of California, Harris challenged the release of a man who had been exonerated by the Innocence Project and had his conviction overturned. Harris argued that Daniel Larsen, who spent 13 years in prison for the crime of possessing a concealed knife, had not produced evidence of his innocence fast enough. A federal judge overturned his conviction after finding that Larsen had shown he was innocent, that the cops testifying at his trial weren't credible, and that his attorney, since disbarred, was constitutionally ineffective because he had failed to call any witnesses.When the Supreme Court decided that California's overcrowded prisons represented cruel and unusual punishment, Attorney General Harris fought a ruling ordering California to release some of its prisoners. Harris claims she had to fight the ruling for Gov. Jerry Brown. "I have a client, and I don't get to choose my client," she said. But the attorney general in California is an independent, elected position, not an appointee serving at the governor's pleasure.She also refused to endorse sentencing reform measures on the ballot in 2012 and 2014, saying she couldn't do so because she was responsible for producing an official explanation of the measures. John Van de Kamp, a Democrat who served as attorney general from 1983 to 1991, told The New York Times Magazine that her explanation was "baloney." No statute prohibits attorneys general from endorsing ballot measures, and de Kamp himself endorsed three separate 1990 ballot measures while he held the office.When a federal judge ruled in 2014 that California's application of the death penalty was unconstitutional, Harris fought that ruling too, almost certainly for political reasons. The first time she had run for attorney general, back in 2010, only one law enforcement group endorsed her; the rest were upset that she hadn't sought the death penalty against an alleged cop killer in San Francisco. In 2014, by contrast, nearly 50 police groups endorsed her reelection campaign.Harris has also been a staunch supporter of the drug war. As San Francisco D.A. she opposed a measure to legalize marijuana, and when she ran for attorney general she argued that legalization would encourage people to work and drive while high. As attorney general, she called for an expansion of the state's efforts to track prescription drug users. She also opposed cuts to drug enforcement programs that often targeted drug dealers for nonviolent offenses.Harris also wanted to threaten the parents of truants with jail time. Truancy in California is defined as having three unexcused absences or being late to school by 30 minutes three times in one school year. "We take this matter very seriously," she told lawmakers. "A child going without an education is tantamount to a crime."Once Again, Kamala Harris' Record as a Prosecutor Was Less Than ProgressiveHarris avoids addressing why her office did things like defend egregious prosecutorial misconduct, fight exonerations, oppose civil asset forfeiture reforms, or appeal the removal of the entire Orange County district attorney's office from a high-profile death penalty case after a bombshell report revealed an unconstitutional jailhouse snitch program.…In 2010, while Harris was still San Francisco D.A., a California superior court judge slammed her office for failing to notify defense lawyers of known misconduct by a drug lab technician that later led the San Francisco police to shut down an entire section of the lab. The judge noted "a level of indifference" from prosecutors, who were aware "at the highest levels of the district attorney's office" of the problems.I can’t forgive Harris for the duplicitous way she put her political career above the lives of women she claims to want to protect.Kamala Harris' Dishonest Campaign To Destroy Backpage.com

The most morally bankrupt ads ever, were the Joe Camel ads in the 1980s. At the time, R. J. Reynolds realized it had a big problem: All their customers were dying. In fact, in the United States alone, 1,300 people will die today from cigarettes. The solution? Target cigarette ads to children, and get them hooked.After a few years of these ads, the American Medical Association asked them to stop, and they refused. Finally they were sued. Internal documents produced to the court in Mangini v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, San Francisco County Superior Court No. 959516, demonstrated the industry's interest in targeting children as future smokers. This caused the unnecessary suffering and deaths of 1000’s of people.