California Innocence Project

Jasmin has been with the Project since 2014. She began as a volunteer, but was quickly promoted to Policy and Development Coordinator and is now the Associate Director of Development and Policy. Before joining the Project, Jasmin was the owner and manager of two of the Original Pancake House restaurants in San Diego and Temecula. In her work now, Jasmin oversees all development and policy work for the Project. She is responsible for shepherding proposed bills and policy measures through the legislature, vetting proposed language, meeting with legislators and staffers, and testifying on behalf of the Project. Because of Jasmin’s work, several bills sponsored by the Project have now become law. Exonerees are now able to make requests for information regarding available evidence to prove their innocence; be given automatic compensation, and have their yearly compensatory amount increased; and ask for transitional services upon their release. Jasmin’s work in policy and legislation have also dramatically changed police practices and procedures regarding eyewitness identification.