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Narcotic on the market. And weve seen an increase in use just by the statistics that were presented by some of the panelists today. But are you adapting the department of transportation regulations or advisories to where we see the most risk . Weve got faa, federal railroad administration. National highway safety. Tell me if there have been any changes in directives in the last 24 months. There have not been any changes to our random testing rates but many of our employees are interstate. So if ...

Have you changed any of those requirements . No, sir, we have not. Weve maintained under the regulations the the same old, same old. But see, thats my point. I think were you have to go to risk base when you are doing most of these approaches to try to ensure safety. And preemployment is one. Weve done that in the past. Were doing that. Now we have a new situation with much more of this available narcotic on the market. And weve seen an increase in use just by the statistics that were presented ...

Government that theyre unfamiliar with and, you know, i think its great that the high number of latino members of your force that you have. How do you make sure that theyre really truly grounded and what it is that these people may be trying to or want to communicate but maybe afraid to communicate to operate under the corridor of law. Yes, we are familiar with the various communities in mexico. At the individual agent level, i cannot speak to that. What i can say is that they are trained to be ...

Translation question and answer system, do you have that in place . And how do you assure that the answers that youre getting are real. I can tell you, from my own experience dealing with Asylum Seekers in other countries sometimes you need to ask. There are cultural issues about can you really ask them about rape, can you ask them about other family members . Are they afraid that any answer that they give to you is going to then be communicated back to their home country. So they tend not to be...

Respond also to some of the questions and issues that have has arisen. The aba is the largest voluntary Bar Association in the United States and one of the largest voluntary professional organizations in the world. The commission on immigration, and ill try to be clear which Commission Im speaking of when i use that term. The immigration coordinates abas efforts to ensure fair treatment and Due Process Rights for all immigrants and refugees in the u. S. That work takes the form of policy advocac...

Win. Iran Nuclear Talks are extended after a self imposed deadline expired. Plus palestine becomes a member of the International Criminal court. Hello we begin with deepening crisis in yemen and all week since the start of the saudiled air offensive targeting rebels ten Nation Coalition is made up of gulf states and jordan morocco and pakistan and continues to hit rebel positions and secured yemens air space and saudi arabia is deploying more vessels for a full maritime blockade but no plans for...

And we begin with the u. S. Navy beefing up its presence in the waters off of yemen. The Aircraft Carrier is on its way there. There are reports those vessels may be getting ready to intercept ships that may be carrying weapons to yemen. Jamie what more do we know . Reporter the pentagon is saying that the dispatch of the uss Theodore Roosevelt is meant to send a statement to iran. The ship was moved from its routine position and is heading now to the waters off of yemen. Officials tell me it is...

City and sales force ceo mark [inaudible] is going to get some additional ones and that is 40. The recruits that are full time students age 18 and over with an interest in Law Enforcement and hold them close until theyre old enough to test to come to the Police Department. What about the Current Academy classes or the ones in formation . One current class is 12 africanamerican and the next class that will start in april starts off at 14 . What about latinos and Pacific Islanders . I believe that...

Do we make change . I can tell you how horrified we were and the reaction in my home but if we dont change it we will experience the same problems. The issues that were facing in San Francisco we have insufficient oversight over the Law Enforcement agencies and dont have a culture of transparency around disciplinary actions and problems that maybe brewing in the multiple agencies that we work with. Number two we dont really have meaningful mechanisms to force reporting of misconduct other than o...

San francisco and tetd the judge was i believe kevin ryan and we did different iterations of serious fire over time and went to a zone strategy in 2005 under chief heather fong with the deputy chief and john murphy and that was the low year matched last year in San Francisco where we had 45 homicides. I am happy to look at that again. So from what i am hearing there is a ground swell of support growing for desire to see the model that is implemented in boston serious fire here in San Francisco. ...