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Walking people out of jail. Weve just come out of a difficult 45 years and that is budget years with a lot of social services being cut and really at the end of the day when you are talking about it and talking about housing and talking about employment, you are talking about counseling; you are talking about substance abuse. When there is not access to those services and you are trying to wrap it around. Come full circle to your question, how do you now relate to the Risk Assessment or the much...

Rifs. Just to give you an idea of the scope of what we are doing. Approximately 1100 people come out of jail from our program. This time we are targeting somewhere around 1500 cases. Prior to the last 3 or 4 years, the data that is now coming in, recidivism is around 6 or 7 percent, failure to appear rate or people to appear in court is lower. They are walking people out of jail. Weve just come out of a difficult 45 years and that is budget years with a lot of social services being cut and reall...

Because if the Constitutional Rights can find to incarcerate, they can talk about bail. I think what is so dangerous about that moment and it came to a surface in the bail reform act of 1984, the federal law, the birth of preventative detention which one thought was clearly unconstitutional and then became a public good that changed the whole view of a system. Now we live in a justice preemptive justice, but they will commit other crimes in the future. I would say if we all now agree or at least...

Services and thats really how it wraps into what we do. Before i get to miss dewint, i want to give professor simon a chance to say a few words. Im wondering professor if you can context lies this discussion historically and whether or not there has ever been a large or successful movement in this state towards the elimination of money bail . Now you are going stump me by starting off with an empirical question i cant answer. First im very honored to be here with plenty of officials. I have tenu...

Why is why which is why i would like to see what the Mayors Office and board of supervisors to look at those forms of discipline and what they look like to us. I recognize the fear and i think its a fear, not even a concern that professor simon has creating an Assessment Tool that can be manipulated for lowlevel offenses or drug offenses that can end up like the impact much like we have today with the commercial bail system. But i believe there is a way that we can create validated risk Assessme...

About is these are good ideas. First off, facebook. One billionplus people, one billionplus people check into this every day. They do it during their prime time and all day long. The upload pictures. A couple of weeks ago, a couple years ago they were not very mobile. The they were just desktop. They are connected to you. Down the road, maybe things will change. Our tastes will change. We may want more privacy. Some say five years, but others said they are okay with facebook. I think people are ...

Years now and i have always known if there is an issue i can speak to tom or dan and they have been always available to speak to the public via, the citizens or architects like myself or anyone involved in the project sponsor team and i would like to express my support. Thank you. Next speaker . Hello, gardener again, before you. And i would like to emphasize, the important of continuity in the department and not only in the Building Department, but, among the other departments. And dpw, and wat...

Have used them effectively in my life in the past and there are six words, can do, will do, and how fit. And on the ka do side, for tom hewey, he is a certified building official. And he is also registered civil and structural engineer. And he has so many other certifications and that it would take up the afternoon and i say that in one sentence but he also has the amazing experience in the private unpublic sector, and you heard something about the work with dbi. And on the will do, is more abou...

Would like to express my support. Thank you. Next speaker . Hello, gardener again, before you. And i would like to emphasize, the important of continuity in the department and not only in the Building Department, but, among the other departments. And dpw, and water departments, and you know, fire, in particular, and tom, and his team and a lot of them are here today, and we have been working with for the last few years, since we went to this process in the last time. And you know, we have made, ...

And my partners objectives are, in being able to go to someplace to get the work done which was necessary and that the code requirements of San Francisco. And the other side of it, that became interesting, was that as we did the development of the units in buildings, and other tenants who have been much longer tenants and who were under rent control they expected and we are entitled to the same thing well i am sorry but the numbers do not support that. And we cant do a new piece of appliance for...