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Next speakers. Im providing [speaker not understood]. Sorry, if you could speak into one microphone. We can only have one im providing assistance from the overhead. Sfgovtv . Thank you. Go a hid. My uncle [speaker not understood] who was hit by the [speaker not understood] truck on december 20th. Im really hoping that the city of San Francisco will take it and improve their Pedestrian Safety. The man in the picture wasnt just a uncle to me. He played a really big part in my life. He was more lik...

Fun in recovery, was very vitally important for me to maintain my recovery. So, there would be an alternative way without drugs or alcohol . Yes. To really enjoy oneself . Absolutely. Very good. Vanna, in terms of your program, you know, we have to be realistic. What are some of the challenges in providing these types of support groups for people, for example, that may receive services from a Youth Service provider . Some of the challenges for young adults compared to adults is young people kind...

The beginning. Even my families, my loved wupz ones that lost. That made me fight more. I never gate gave up my fate. My hope is restored. With that i would like to thank all of our panelist. Thank you. [ applause ] and we are now going to move to our second panel. While they take their seats, this idea of forced treatment versus Constitutional Rights has always been a tension that weve had in our criminal justice system. There is an issue that came up earlier this year that you may have read ab...

Recovery, or that are in treatment, to have a place to go. Was it important for you, ben . Yeah, it was absolutely, it was very, very important for me to have a place to go. Now, upon leaving treatment, the last time i was able to get into a closure recovery program, and i think for me, i know that many of the triggers for using were social, and so to have a group of friends who were also in recovery, where we could talk about what we were going through, and we could just have fun in recovery, w...

In my youth that someone would come along and reform the immigration status. I may not see it myself the way its going. Just moving to the next question for maurice. Did you feel discouraged in your fight for innocence when you were incarcerated and did you feel like it was you against the system . Yes. I felt that, you know from day one. Because its like, even going through trial, it was like i felt that i had no way, story, even if my story was true, there was no way. My character, from where ...

Recovery, or that are in treatment, to have a place to go. Was it important for you, ben . Yeah, it was absolutely, it was very, very important for me to have a place to go. Now, upon leaving treatment, the last time i was able to get into a closure recovery program, and i think for me, i know that many of the triggers for using were social, and so to have a group of friends who were also in recovery, where we could talk about what we were going through, and we could just have fun in recovery, w...

Reflected in the contract approved by the board of supervisors, sha is here today to discuss this finding. Good morning, chairman breed, supervisors, dave corto, director of contracts for human services. Though we agree with the findings that our contract was silent about the closure on holid holidays, we did negotiate with the contractor early on that we would account for these hours by assigning straight time for those times. The holiday time was clearly not in the rate negotiated. We purposel...

Francisco chief of police. Gary is a psychiatrist and lauras law advocate and eduardo vega the Mental Health association of San Francisco. Let me start by opposing a question to karen chen from the public defenders office. Karen, can you how about if you start by giving us an overview of how the city handles this conflict between treatment and Civil Liberties. An involuntary hold starts in San Francisco when a peace officer or a clinician makes the determination that the person is due to a menta...

Because im talking about lives. I dont think, im just, you know, its very hard and we knew nothing about Mental Illness about this, but i will not stop fighting for my son, i wont stop fighting for others and i am going to scream and shout and share until somebody hears. Thats all. [ applause ] thank you. Lets get another perspective on this from eduardo very big vega. You have been forthright to discussions about treatment and in your chronicle about lauras law that you think the need to help t...

Still alive if hes still alive. Why city men say only city fools rush in but i can help San Francisco fall in city love with you sail, can you afford this day we will let you in if we cant help falling in city love with you like the hetch hetchy flows surely to the ocean sea city how it goes merrily, some things are meant to be take my city hand take my city, whole city life, too for we, president chiu, can can [speaker not understood] cant help fall in city love with you thank you. Next speaker...