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Good evening and welcome to kqed newsroom. As part of our california election watch 2014 coverage we focus tonight on criminal justice at the ballot box. Voters will decide the attorney generals race. Democratic incumbent Pamela Harris faces opponent ron gold a republican and former attorney general. Proposition 47 would downgrade nonviolent crimes such as drug possessions or small property theft from a felony to a misdemeanor and thousands of state prisoners serving time for those crimes could ...

And by characteristics to your pb contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you. Thank you. The aftermath of the shooting of Michael Brown in missouri ton point out how far apart many in this country still are when it comes to acknowledging bias. Taking a deep dive into this conversation. Columbiasuxq director of psychology of implicit bias and actor nate parker, who can be seen in beyond the lights which opens november 12th. Hes also written and directed a psa that looks at how bias ca...

Thats Jason Elliott thank you jason for the work youre doing here clapping and then id like to thank you for the opportunity to invite any of our elected officials or members of podium to express their viewpoints and get ready for one minute. Good and if i speak laughter . But again, we look forward to the discussion with the voting public this is an exciting discussion something that the entire city is proud of so again, thank you very much everyone hello july 18, 2014, good afternoon, and welc...

Opportunity to create from concrete and chain link fence a brand new park in our city. These opportunities dont come very often. To me its a once in a lifetime opportunity. To me its a collaboration with a working group. Weve had numerous working community and involvement of the park. Once it was acquired hundreds of people turned up for these Community Meetings and it was incredibly inspiring at the time. Once this gets approved well have many of those to get an idea of what this park will fina...

New park. My experience in working with the families in the neighborhoods, chinatown doesnt have a lot of open space. This is whats needed and i thank you for bringing all the children to this brand new park. Thank you. Thank you very much. Are there any other members of the public who wish to speak on item no. 2 . Seeing none. Public comment is closed. Colleagues, i want to thank you for sitting through this item and as all the Public Comment and as has been mentioned this is a project thats be...

He can be accessed on site by dialing the telephone numbers located near the artwork or by visiting the commissions web site. The public art speaks volumes of San Francisco as a worldclass city with worldclass art and culture. For more information, visit hello july 18, 2014, good afternoon, and welcome to the Mayors Disability Council this friday july 18, 2014. Are we seeing captions. . Control room . Captions . Okay. Control room. Can we have captions on the large screen here in the room. We ar...

The immediate neighborhood groups that have formed this include the aquatic park neighbors, russian hill improvement association. I want to thank mayor ed lee for his support all along the way in this process and my cosponsors. First of all david chiu who i have had the opportunity to share governance over russian hill with and we share a board there and hes been a lead cosponsor along the way. Supervisors davis campos, london breed, katy tang, wiener and yee. I want to thank the members of the ...

Ballot measure when it goes before vote es. I thought long and hard about it, but im concerned about how this ballot measure attacks some of the low income communities without a clear direction of how these monies are going to be specifically used for these particular community. By distributing them through the various departments theres no clear oversight or accountability and nothing that makes it clear to me that anything is going to change so today i wont be supporting it and i will apprecia...

Oftentimes, religious music is playing on a radio and the protesters actually have a video camera facing the doors videotaping the women as they go in. In addition to the protesters women often have to walk past counter protesters usually neighbors were pedestrians in arguments with the protesters. The arguments are often out loud and he did and they happened directly in front of the clinic. Although these neighbors and pedestrians usually disagree with the protesters and believe strongly in the...

New position, the unaccompanied program coordinator, so were really happy we can do that to support the School District around coordination and outreach to the young people. With the office of civic immigration and affairs with the director we are supporting the doca work which is partnering with several Nonprofit Agency totion provide the Legal Services to ensure that young people and families that want to apply for status, for doca status they can. We also partially fund the Dreamers Program t...