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Good afternoon, chairman, council, all the councilmembers, my name is latonia dixon, i am the president of the San Francisco Veterans Alliance club and im also disabled veteran. I have pts with anxiety and my rating was pretty high as well, but i wanted to speak about the jobs and i guess mostly actually housing in the medical benefit. Housing, i was told by many veterans that there is difficulty in getting housing if they have pet or their service dogs, so i guess i was trying to find out if there is anyway, especially now like there are a lot of apartments they are not allowing pets or servi...

Where we discuss our programs and other Community Based organizations that support veterans in the local area. We recommend how they can recruit and outreach to veterans besides the current avenues their conducting by obtaining job fares by partnering with transition service, with Service Academies and utilizing social networks and creating web pages that show the desirable skills they are looking for any employee and we recommend they partner with Veterans Service providers in the area like swords. With that, when you partner with us, we can review their materials and show to recommend best p...

Latonia, i wanted to touch upon a comment that you made earlier regarding Service Animals and some of your clients experienced barriers to housing with animals. I want to say that is against the law under the housing amendments act. There are resources out there from our office. If a client is trying to get housing through a city program or city housing, they can file a complaint with our office and there is another city office to help mediate issues with disabilities at the human rights commission. Im not sure if you have already worked with them or referred clients to them, but there is anot...

Understand. Its an accumulation of. Correct. So somebody would commit a petty theft and they had certain prior theft convictions, those theft convictions would then kick up that petty theft to a felony theft, which would be a bookable offense. Right. Now, without that option, everything under 950 would be a petty theft, that takes the option for booking solely on that theft, booking meaning taking them to the station and making that arrest and then transferring them down to county jail, that takes that option off the table. Basically we go back to the misdemeanor citation requirement where we ...

Complete our investigation, but we wouldnt be removing the person on a custodial arrest and taking them to the station and taking them to county jail. Whats a custodial arrest . We are taking custody of the person. We do an investigate, we determine this theft is a prop 47 misdemeanor theft, at the completion of that investigation and we have good identification of the person, we know who they are, they dont have any warrants for their arrest or no other reason why we would be taking them to a Police Facility we would issue them a citation with a court date and we would send them on their way ...