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adopting nondiscrimination standards city and countywide that would prohibit discrimination against any people who have a past criminal history. and that would protect people in employment and housing county and state wide. just wanted to encourage the board of supervisors to support that. supervisor cohen: is this the same as the human rights commission? >> yeah. thank you. chairman mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. james patrick carroll, democratic candidate for governor. i mean, for -- my career has taken off rather quickly, but i'm the democratic cand...

goals or visions we are setting. i just read an email by the chief executive officer of naacp. [tone] who contends that in this nation we have this disproportion at number of african-americans, particularly -- reverend, let me ask a question so you can keep going, please. tell me about more of the disproportionate representation of african-americans. >> disproportion at number nationally. about 12% of the population. but at the adult level we're about 45% to 55%. of incarceration. depending on what area of the country you're in. at the juvenile level we are 60% to 70%. at juvenile ha...

and i encourage you to share those models with other counties. because we're seeing a lot of threats of other counties expanding their jail capacity instead of actually supporting people to be successful in the community and stay in the community as opposed to increasing people's times in the jails. and then curb, a lot of the work we're doing is also on the state level. and a lot of the pushback we're hearing from legislators from the governor's office and from the cdcr is that there's no political will for parole and sentencing reform. and i think that that's not true. and that if ...

discrimination standards. >> one of the conversations that's happening right now in san francisco county is around adopting nondiscrimination standards city and countywide that would prohibit discrimination against any people who have a past criminal history. and that would protect people in employment and housing county and state wide. just wanted to encourage the board of supervisors to support that. supervisor cohen: is this the same as the human rights commission? >> yeah. thank you. chairman mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. >> good afternoon. james patrick carroll, de...

districts. i believe that these are effective ways to gain traction on these issues. i also hope to see more involvement from the sheriff's department. i think that inputting the sheriff in place of the police department where we have issues with rebuilding trust is an important change. one of these places where we see that is an important shift, i anticipate, getting deputy sheriffs to do the booking rather than the police department. thank you for your time. chairman mirkarimi: thank you. next speaker, please. bithe way, all the rest of the cards that i have here and other people w...