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Quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will in...

Quite literally take their own lives as a result of Cyber Bullying and that is why i did a Remarkable Partnership in south florida with local Law Enforcement who had gone into schools talking about bullying, including Cyber Bullying and giving people concrete examples of things of situations they saw, it was remarkable. And that is why we will continue to do that work. So i hope today as we move forward you will understand that we are in this together with you at the department of justice. This is an all hands on deck enterprise. There is so much to do. I hope at the end of this day we will in...

Got to empower School Districts, weve got to empower parents, weve got to empower bystanders. When my daughter was bullied in 7th grade, her friends saw it, but they were paralyzed. They didnt know what to do and they did nothing. I dont begrudge thipl for that, they are wonderful kids, but they didnt have the tools to do anything about it. So we work on those issues and we work on those and our local School District was remarkable in their reaction. But in the work that we have done, ruslyn and i across the country, we have seen too many School Districts, quite frankly, that have been slow to...

The partnerships that have been out here. Im so impressed that we recognize that bullying is no longer simply the bullying of your fists but its the bullying that can come through the use of twitter, through the use of other social media. We did a case, again a hate crimes case involving an individual who called himself devilfish who over the internet was sending Death Threats to the heads of the National Council of irasa to other organizations that had the audacity to october on behalf of immigrants. And we prosecuted him. You described one just now, that is not an isolated incident. You know...

My name is patty and organizing director [inaudible] and oversee the program and i am here just to ask for additional funding to support the program to expand it. I have been working in the tenderloin and south of market for the last four years and seen increasing number of families moving into the neighborhood and we want to basically use the extra funding to support and outreach more families in the neighborhood. I am also a member of seiu 1021 and i am asking for your support for getting cost of doing business for raises for all nonprofit workers in the city. Thank you. Thank you very much....